This week: Researchers build a biomimetic mechanical chameleon to test a new method for achieving invisibility via real-time active camouflage, while a study shows concentrations of rare earth elements used in new high-tech applications are rapidly building up in San Francisco Bay – and more! Each and every day, ACS grants free access to a […]
This week: Researchers build a biomimetic mechanical chameleon to test a new method for achieving invisibility via real-time active camouflage, while a study shows concentrations of rare earth elements used in new high-tech applications are rapidly building up in San Francisco Bay – and more!
Each and every day, ACS grants free access to a new peer-reviewed research article from one of the Society’s journals. These articles are specially chosen by a team of scientific editors of ACS journals from around the world to highlight the transformative power of chemistry. Access to these articles will remain open to all as a public service.
Check out this week’s picks!
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From Highly Crystalline to Outer Surface-Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks—A Modulation Approach
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Combinatorial Optimization of Sequence-Defined Oligo(ethanamino)amides for Folate Receptor-Targeted pDNA and siRNA Delivery
Dongsheng He, Katharina Müller, Ana Krhac Levacic, Petra Kos, Ulrich Lächelt, and Ernst Wagner
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.5b00649
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Increases in Anthropogenic Gadolinium Anomalies and Rare Earth Element Concentrations in San Francisco Bay over a 20 Year Record
Vanessa Hatje, Kenneth W. Bruland, and A. Russell Flegal
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Ion-Directed Synthesis of Indium-Derived 2,5-Thiophenedicarboxylate Metal–Organic Frameworks: Tuning Framework Dimensionality
Joseph J. Mihaly, Matthias Zeller, and Douglas T. Genna
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The Pathogenic Mutation T182A Converts the Prion Protein into a Molten Globule-like Conformation Whose Misfolding to Oligomers but Not to Fibrils Is Drastically Accelerated
Jogender Singh and Jayant B. Udgaonkar
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b01266
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Mechanical Chameleon through Dynamic Real-Time Plasmonic Tuning
Guoping Wang, Xuechen Chen, Sheng Liu, Chingping Wong, and Sheng Chu
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Synthesis and Diels–Alder Reactivity of Substituted [4]Dendralenes
Mehmet F. Saglam, Ali R. Alborzi, Alan D. Payne, Anthony C. Willis, Michael N. Paddon-Row, and Michael S. Sherburn
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