A new family of pH-responsive microgel-colloidosomes was prepared using microgel particles as the building blocks and macro-crosslinker. Our simple and versatile method used covalent inter-linking of vinyl-functionalised microgel particles adsorbed to oil droplets to form shells of doubly crosslinked microgels (DX MGs) and was demonstrated using two different microgel types.

A novel zwitterion acting as both a functional monomer and a crosslinker with the protein-resistant ability concomitantly was synthesized for preparing water compatible diclofenac imprinted polymers. This new imprinted polymer showed high imprinting efficiency for template and strong anti-protein adsorption in aqueous medium.

Molecularly imprinted polymers bearing peptide fragment-based binding sites within the protein-imprinted cavities were prepared by copolymerization of the acrylated protein with 6-monoacryloyl-trehalose and 6,6'-diacryloyl-trehalose as a hydrophilic comonomer and a crosslinker respectively, followed by enzymatic decomposition of the grafted protein into the polymer matrix with pepsin, resulting...

During mitosis, molecular motors hydrolyze ATP to generate sliding forces between adjacent microtubules and form the bipolar mitotic spindle. Lansky et al. now show that the diffusible microtubule crosslinker Ase1p can generate sliding forces between adjacent microtubules, and it does so without ATP hydrolysis.

The current study presents an effective and simple strategy to obtain stable porous scaffolds from gelatin via a gas foaming method. The technique exploits the intrinsic foaming ability of gelatin in the presence of CO2 to obtain a porous structure stabilised with glutaraldehyde. The produced scaffolds were characterised using physical and mechanical characterisation methods. The results showed...

In this work, we synthesized a chitosan-activated carbon composite (Cs–C) using sodium tripolyphosphate (STTP) as crosslinker and it was evaluated for the adsorptive removal of RBBR dye showing excellent capacity 540.3 mg g −1 .

A novel dual-curable blocked isocyanate crosslinker was designed for the simultaneous radical and urethane crosslinking of automotive clearcoats under low-temperature conditions. Three groups on three ends hexamethylene diisocyanate-based were using two different blocking agents: a thermal initiator (TRI) dimethyl pyrazole. Clearcoats based hydroxyl-functionalized methacrylate oligomer resin hy...

Abstract In order to improve the temperature and shear resistance of fracturing fluid, a kind nano-zirconium-boron crosslinker, which is different from traditional zicral-boron prepared using 4wt% borax, 50 v/v% glycerol, 8 triethanolamine 40 v/v % acetylacetone as raw materials, its chemical structure characterized by infrared spectroscopy performance, such viscoelasticity, gel breaking proper...

Although soluble oligomers are regarded as the most toxic aggregates of Abeta, the amyloidogenic nature of Abeta certainly is not accidental and should play a role in the still unknown physiological functions of Abeta. The testable hypothesis put forward here postulates that short Abeta oligomers can crosslink the neurotrophin receptor p75 with APP and other proteins and mediate a direct cooper...