Himabindu Nandivada

TL;DR: A high level of ordering of the nanoscale building blocks, combined with dense covalent and hydrogen bonding and stiffening of the polymer chains, leads to highly effective load transfer between nanosheets and the polymer.

TL;DR: The increasing need for materials with tightly controlled structures will continue to fuel the induction of synthetic organic concepts into materials science One powerful example is the embracement of click chemistry by the materials science community because of their high selectivity, near-perfect reliability, high yields, and exceptional tolerance towards a wide range of functional groups and reaction conditions as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A fully defined synthetic polymer coating is reported, poly[2-(methacryloyloysloxy)ethyl dimethyl-(3-sulfopropyl)ammonium hydroxide] (PMEDSAH), which sustains long-term human embryonic stem (hES) cell growth in several different culture media, including commercially available defined media.

TL;DR: A new type of biofunctional surface based on alkyne-containing vapordeposited polymer coatings is reported, which are applicable to a wide range of substrates and can be modified by subsequent spatially directed “click chemistry”.

TL;DR: Functional polarity due to two biologically distinct hemispheres has been achieved by synthesis of anisotropic particles via electro-hydrodynamic co-jetting of two different polymer solutions and subsequent selective surface modification.