An effective single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) covalently loaded with unsaturated terbium emissive material was designed for specific and rapid (2-3 s) detection of calcium dipicolinate (CaDPA) (detection limit 1 μM). The nanoprobe was successfully assembled onto electrodes and its sensing abilities were investigated through electrochemical measurement. Cyclic voltammetry curves were selecti...

Molecular {Fe4Co4} cubic switches can be assembled to form a responsive polymeric material, whose magnetic state allows sensing the intercalation/deintercalation of small solvent molecules.

IO N Over the last two decades, there has been extensive work on stimulus-responsive materials and structures that undergo actuation, swelling, variable permeability and wettability, and aggregation in the presence of external environmental stimulus, e.g., pH, ionic strength, temperature, and pressure. [ 1–4 ] However, the design, fabrication, characterization, and fundamental understanding of ...

Front Cover: In articule number 2000394 by Andreas Lendlein and co-workers, a multifunctional material based on rhodium-phosphine coordination polymer network is capable of stimuli-responsive fluorescence, reshapeability, selfhealing, allows modular fabrication.

We present a microscopic model of a disordered viscoelastic active solid, i.e. an active material whose long time behaviour is elastic as opposed to viscous. It is composed of filaments, passive crosslinks and molecular motors powered by stored chemical energy, e.g. actomyosin powered by ATP. Our model allows us to study the collective behaviour of contractile active elements and how their inte...