Issue 12, 2008

Nano/micro-surface patterns, with tuneable amplitude, wavelength and topography (spinodal shown here), are readily induced by plasma oxidation and simultaneous multi-axial strain of elastomer membranes.
DOI: 10.1039/b811817e

Issue 12, 2008 (inside)

Semiconducting polymer nanospheres assemble in the trenches of a nanostructured polymeric substrate after being inkjet printed from an aqueous nanoparticle dispersion.
DOI: 10.1039/b819131j

Issue 11, 2008

Polarization microscope image of labyrinth formation in a freely suspended film of a bent-core smectic liquid crystal.
DOI: 10.1039/b817152c

Issue 11, 2008 (inside)

Experiments using colloidal crystals and optical tweezers to provide novel insights into hydrodynamic interactions in many-particle systems.
DOI: 10.1039/b817153j

Issue 10, 2008

Theoretical shapes of stacks of lipid vesicles (shown in cross-section to reveal their internal structure) may provide key insight into red blood cell aggregation.
DOI: 10.1039/b802733a

Issue 10, 2008 (inside)

Polymerization of fibronectin and its assembly into fibers, in vitro, is a two-step process, initiated by the formation of a stable FN sheet made of globular particles at the liquid-liquid interface, and followed by shear force-driven fibrillogenesis.
DOI: 10.1039/b814847n

Issue 9, 2008

Snapshot of a configuration of a liquid crystal bolaamphiphile with a weakly attractive flexible lateral chain showing its self-assembly into a columnar hexagonal fluid mesophase.
DOI: 10.1039/b802452a

Issue 9, 2008 (inside)

Giant micelles undergoing shear-banding transition generate interfacial instability leading to complex spatio-temporal dynamics.
DOI: 10.1039/b813092m

Issue 8, 2008

Multiscale visualization of amorphous food product in the glassy state from macroscopic to molecular: food powder, powder grains, pore microstructure, carbohydrate conformation and hydrogen bonding.
DOI: 10.1039/b811208h

Issue 8, 2008 (inside)

Gel fibers and ribbons with NaCl crystalline particles of sodium laurate in water.
DOI: 10.1039/b811209f

Issue 7, 2008

An aqueous droplet, suspended in oil and moving through a microfluidic channel, cascades into interfacial instabilities.
DOI: 10.1039/b715867j

Issue 6, 2008

Nanopatterns can be transferred dynamically from a mask to an electrically curable polymer resist by selectively applying an electrical potential on individual nanopatterns on the mask.
DOI: 10.1039/b801101j

Issue 6, 2008 (inside)

A transmission electron microscope image of a siloxane-based side-chain liquid-crystalline block copolymer.
DOI: 10.1039/b807281g

Issue 6, 2008 (back)

Possible pathway for fusion of two vesicles that consists of adhesion, rupture of one membrane within the contact zone, hemifusion, and formation of fusion pore.
DOI: 10.1039/b807284c

Issue 5, 2008

A charged spherical colloid is embedded in a linearly elastic compressible hydrogel. When subjected to a steady electric field, electrical and hydrodynamic forces displace the particle and deform the surrounding polymer network.
DOI: 10.1039/b805490h

Issue 5, 2008 (inside)

Light is used to trigger the self-assembly of peptide amphiphile nanofiber networks inside liposomes.
DOI: 10.1039/b805491f

Issue 5, 2008 (back)

Electrodes with a tuned multi-layer of cytochrome c, sulfite oxidase and polyaniline sulfonate, where proteins communicate via a direct heterogeneous electron transfer and generate electro-catalytic sulfite oxidation currents.
DOI: 10.1039/b805494k

Issue 4, 2008

Protein structure-controlled nanocomposite assembly: Natively folded Cyt c forms discrete adducts, whereas unfolded Cyt c or apoCyt c forms micron-scale aggregates.
DOI: 10.1039/b716386j

Issue 4, 2008 (inside)

Experimental images of cell-particle biomembranes assembled on a chip in the foreground and e-field simulation images that explain the assembly dynamics in the background.
DOI: 10.1039/b803763a

Issue 4, 2008 (back)

This work describes polymer hydrogel particles that release a protein payload when triggered by selective action of protease enzymes through peptide-based actuators. Peptide actuator design rules are described that allow for tunable protein release profiles based on (mis)-matching of charge distributions to those on the released protein.
DOI: 10.1039/b803770c

Issue 3, 2008

Air-containing poly(vinyl alcohol) based microballoons (approx. 5 micrometre in diameter) in aqueous environment imaged with a scanning-transmission X-ray microscope (STXM) below the oxygen absorption edge.
DOI: 10.1039/B715392A

Issue 3, 2008 (inside)

Formation and release of circular lipid nanotube viewed by the artist.
DOI: 10.1039/b802085j

Issue 2, 2008

Unravelling the tangled knot of protein folding by analysing spider silk molecules that are highly specific structures.
DOI: 10.1039/b713972a

Issue 2, 2008 (inside)

Amphiphilic nanocrystallo-polymers self-assemble into various nanostructures, i.e. spherical aggregates, core-shell unimolecular micelles and cylinders, where the nanocrystals are uniformly arranged.
DOI: 10.1039/b800328a

Issue 1, 2008

Formation of a filamentous network in a simple soft solid model: a two-dimensional system of elastically connected Lennard Jones particles, initially placed on a regular grid.
DOI: 10.1039/b710147c