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Materials and Macromolecular Chemistry

This section publishes articles in all areas of chemistry of materials and macromolecular chemistry including properties, applications and development of materials and polymers, nanotechnology, liquid crystals, surfaces and interfaces and biomacromolecular and supramolecular chemistry.

  1. Polylactic acid (PLA) is a thermoplastic and biodegradable polyester, largely derived from renewable resources such as corn starch, cassava starch and sugarcane. However, PLA is only soluble in a narrow range ...

    Authors: H. Y. Chi, Vincent Chan, Chuan Li, J. H. Hsieh, P. H. Lin, Ya-Hui Tsai and Yun Chen

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2020 14:63

    Content type: Research article

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  4. Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging is a noninvasive technique that provides numerous advantages for the real-time in vivo monitoring of biological information in living subjects without the use of ionizi...

    Authors: Chunlong Sun, Wen Du, Baoqin Wang, Bin Dong and Baogui Wang

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2020 14:21

    Content type: Review

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  5. Current methods of removing organic pollutants from water are becoming ineffective as the world population increases. In this study, a series of biorenewable triblock copolymers with hydrophobic poly(ε-caprola...

    Authors: Katrina T. Bernhardt, Haley G. Collins and Amy M. Balija

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:122

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Natural Bombyx mori silk fibroin (SF) fibers were modified with 2-methacryloyloxyethyl isocyanate (MOI) first for the introduction of vinyl groups. Then, 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecanethiol was grafted onto the SF f...

    Authors: Xiaoning Zhang, Jianwei Liang, Zhenyu Chen, Carrie Donley, Yuling Liu and Guotao Cheng

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:114

    Content type: Research article

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  7. Bombyx mori silk fibroin-based materials have good biocompatibility and biodegradability. In order to maximize their utility while maintain appropriate features, silk fibroin (SF) films were modified with reduced...

    Authors: Xiaoning Zhang, Hong Bao, Carrie Donley, Jianwei Liang, Sha Yang and Shui Xu

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:62

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Functionalized copolymers were synthesized and are proposed as hosts of RNA. The copolymers are based on carboxymethyl cellulose and poly-(ethylene glycol)-OH. These copolymers were functionalized with two ami...

    Authors: Magali Hernández, Gerardo Leyva, Jonathan J. Magaña, Ariel Guzmán-Vargas, Carlos Felipe, Víctor Lara and Enrique Lima

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:33

    Content type: Research article

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  9. AlN films were deposited on Si substrates using a reactive RF magnetron sputtering process and then the films were annealed by using different laser powers and wavelengths (355 nm, 532 nm and 1064 nm). For all...

    Authors: H. K. Lin, Y. J. Huang, W. C. Shih, Y. C. Chen and W. T. Chang

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:30

    Content type: Research article

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  11. For the first time, the design and preparation of magnetic polyvinyl alcohol (Fe3O4@PVA) nanocomposite film as a novel nanocatalyst was accomplished by in situ precipitation method. To enhance the catalysis activ...

    Authors: Ali Maleki, Maryam Niksefat, Jamal Rahimi and Zoleikha Hajizadeh

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:19

    Content type: Research article

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  12. In recent decades, incorporating polypropylene (PP) within flame retardants has proved to be an effective method of improving the thermal stabilities of PP, but too much adversely affects the mechanical proper...

    Authors: Yi-jun Liao, Xiao-li Wu, Xin Peng, Zheng Zhou, Ju-zhen Wu, Fang Wu, Tao Jiang, Jia-xuan Chen, Lin Zhu and Tao Yi

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:9

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS™) was used to produce a compositionally graded Ti-xMo (0 ≤ x ≤ 12 wt %) specimen and nine Ti-15Mo (fixed composition) specimens at different energy densities to understand th...

    Authors: Michael. Y. Mendoza, Peyman Samimi, David. A. Brice, Iman Ghamarian, Matt Rolchigo, Richard LeSar and Peter. C. Collins

    Citation: BMC Chemistry 2019 13:5

    Content type: Research article

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