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Computer-Aided Conformation-Dependent Design of Copolymer Sequences
A survey is given of the simulation methods as applied to the design of nontrivial sequences in synthetic copolymers aimed at achieving desired...
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Polymer Brushes by Anionic and Cationic Surface-Initiated Polymerization (SIP)
The formation of homopolymer and block copolymer brushes grafted from flat and nanoparticle surfaces via surface-initiated anionic and cationic...
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After-Action of the Ideas of I.M. Lifshitz in Polymer and Biopolymer Physics
We review the development of ideas in polymer physics initially formulated by I.M. Lifshitz. We start with general issues in polymer statistics,...
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Polypeptide and Polypeptide Hybrid Copolymer Synthesis via NCA Polymerization
This article summarizes recent developments in the synthesis of polypeptides and hybrid peptide copolymers. Traditional methods used to polymerize...
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Molecular Dynamics Modeling of the Crystal-Melt Interfaces and the Growth of Chain Folded Lamellae
The molecular mechanism of polymer crystallization is one of the most difficult problems and has defied innumerable efforts to understand the...
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Gene Delivery Using Polymer Therapeutics
The use of polymers as synthetic non-viral carriers for introducing nucleic acids into cells appears very appealing. Polymers can be generated in...
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Nanostructured Devices Based on Block Copolymer Assemblies for Drug Delivery: Designing Structures for Enhanced Drug Function
Block copolymers spontaneously assemble into nanoscaled polymeric micelles, which have significant potential as drug carriers. Following much work...
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Topological Mechanism of Polymer Nucleation and Growth – The Role of Chain Sliding Diffusion and Entanglement
Direct evidence of nucleation during the induction period of nucleation from the melt is obtained for the first time by means of small angle X-ray...
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Polymer Therapeutics: Polymers as Drugs, Drug and Protein Conjugates and Gene Delivery Systems: Past, Present and Future Opportunities
As the 21st century begins we are witnessing a paradigm shift in medical practice. Whereas the use of polymers in biomedical materials applications...
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Synthesis of Phenol Polymers Using Peroxidases
This chapter deals with the peroxidase-catalyzed polymerization of phenol and its derivatives. Such a polymerization needs an oxidation reagent,...
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Surface Rearrangement of Diblock Copolymer Brushes—Stimuli Responsive Films
This article reviews results from our group of the synthesis and characterization of diblock copolymer brushes. Results from the literature are...
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Role of Physical Factors in the Process of Obtaining Copolymers
A brief introduction into the principles of the statistical description of the chemical structure of linear heteropolymers is given....
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Solution Properties of Polypeptide-based Copolymers
The aggregation behaviour of biomimetic polypeptide hybrid copolymers and copolypeptides is here reviewed with a particular eye on the occurrence...
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Self-Association of Phosphorylase Kinase under Molecular Crowding Conditions
Self-association of phosphorylase kinase (PhK) has been studied using analytical ultracentrifugation and dynamic light scattering under the...
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Analytical Ultracentrifuge for the Characterization of Detergent in Solution
We have characterized the hydrodynamic behaviour in H 2 O and D2O of two detergents, dodecyl-β-D-maltoside...
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Oligomerization of Hydroperoxide Lyase, a Novel P450 Enzyme in Plants
The oligomeric state of fatty acid hydroperoxide lyase (HPL), of molar mass ∼55 kDa is uncertain and it has been reported as a trimer or tetramer...
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Ab initio and Constrained Modeling of Phosphorylase
The joint use of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and hydrodynamic data permits biologically useful reconstructions of protein structures to be...
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High-resolution Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering: Investigation of Micrometer Sized Structured Polymer Films
While bulk samples are routinely probed by small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and ultra-small angle X-ray scattering (USAXS), the grazing...
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Synthesis and Depositionof Water-Dispersed Prussian Blue Nanocrystals on Polymers and CNTs
Nanoparticles can be used for decoration and functionalization of single polymer molecules that have been adsorbed to a solid substrate. Initial...
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Molecular Imagingof Microstructured Polymer Surfaces
Within last decade both IR and Raman spectroscopy gained the potential of imaging the chemical heterogeneity of material surfaces. IR...