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NMR of Polymers – recent advances and innovations
The August special issue of the Polymer Journal, titled the NMR of Polymers – recent advances and innovations, brings together a series of articles contributed by members of the Research Group on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (RGNMR) – a subsidiary group of Society of Polymer Science, Japan. With an emphasis on the usefulness and importance of NMR in recent polymer studies, the special issue presents the significance of NMR in a wide-variety of research areas within polymer science, such as semi-crystalline polymers, blends and rubbers, biopolymers and peptides, statistical investigations, permeability and dissolution of gasses in polymers, structural determination of polymers and supramolecules, as well as in methodology and new applications.
Further background information about this technique in polymer studies is available through the accompanying web focus which links to related articles from across Nature Publishing Group.
Polymer Journal
Helix–coil transformation of poly(γ-benzyl-L-glutamate) with polystyrene attached to the N or C terminus in trifluoroacetic acid–chloroform mixtures FREE
Tomomichi Itoh, Takashi Hatanaka, Eiji Ihara and Kenzo Inoue
Polymer Journal (2012) 44 189–194; doi:10.1038/pj.2011.113
Structural analysis of microbial poly(ε-L -lysine)/poly(acrylic acid) complex by FT-IR, DSC, and solid-state 13C and 15N NMR FREE
Shiro Maeda, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Chizuru Sasaki and Ko-Ki Kunimoto
Polymer Journal (2012) 44 200–203 (February 2012) | doi:10.1038/pj.2011.108
Nature
Modular and predictable assembly of porous organic molecular crystals
James T. A. Jones, Tom Hasell, Xiaofeng Wu, John Bacsa, Kim E. Jelfs, Marc Schmidtmann, Samantha Y. Chong, Dave J. Adams, Abbie Trewin, Florian Schiffman, Furio Cora, Ben Slater, Alexander Steiner, Graeme M. Day & Andrew I. Cooper
Nature 474 367–371 (16 June 2011) doi:10.1038/nature10125
Atomic-resolution dynamics on the surface of amyloid-β protofibrils probed by solution NMR
Nicolas L. Fawzi, Jinfa Ying, Rodolfo Ghirlando, Dennis A. Torchia & G. Marius Clore
Nature 480 268–272 (08 December 2011) doi:10.1038/nature10577
Nature Materials
Gas detection by structural variations of fluorescent guest molecules in a flexible porous coordination polymer
Nobuhiro Yanai, Koji Kitayama, Yuh Hijikata, Hiroshi Sato, Ryotaro Matsuda, Yoshiki Kubota, Masaki Takata, Motohiro Mizuno, Takashi Uemura & Susumu Kitagawa
Nature Materials 10 787–793 (2011) doi:10.1038/nmat3104
Nature Communications
Redox-responsive self-healing materials formed from host-guest polymers OPEN
Masaki Nakahata, Yoshinori Takashima, Hiroyasu Yamaguchi & Akira Harada
Nature Communications 2 Article number:511 doi:10.1038/ncomms1521
Metabolomic high-content nuclear magnetic resonance-based drug screening of a kinase inhibitor library
Stefano Tiziani, Yunyi Kang, Janet S. Choi, William Roberts & Giovanni Paternostro
Nature Communications 2 Article number:545 doi:10.1038/ncomms1562
Chemical structures of hydrazine-treated graphene oxide and generation of aromatic nitrogen doping
Sungjin Park, Yichen Hu, Jin Ok Hwang, Eui-Sup Lee, Leah B. Casabianca, Weiwei Cai, Jeffrey R. Potts, Hyung-Wook Ha, Shanshan Chen, Junghoon Oh, Sang Ouk Kim, Yong-Hyun Kim, Yoshitaka Ishii & Rodney S. Ruoff
Nature Communications 3 Article number:638 doi:10.1038/ncomms1643
Porous covalent electron-rich organonitridic frameworks as highly selective sorbents for methane and carbon dioxide
Paritosh Mohanty, Lilian D. Kull & Kai Landskron
Nature Communications 2 Article number:401 doi:10.1038/ncomms1405
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