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Molecular Origins of Philicity: How Atomic Interactions Determine Miscibility and Diffusivity

ChemPhysChem
Volume 27, Issue 13
June 30, 2026

Publication:
https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.70489

Artwork created by Daniel Sebastiani and co-workers

Composite hydrogels of phenylalanine dipeptides with trivalent metal cations

Materials Advances
Volume 6, Number 17
September 7, 2025

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/ma/d5ma00339c

Artwork created by Lisa Krahnefeld

Chemical Structure-Dependence of the Thermal Transition in Thermoresponsive Ethylene-Glycol-Containing Polymers as Characterized by EPR Spectroscopy

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
Volume 226, Issue 10
May 19, 2025

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/macp.202500050

Artwork created by Lisa Krahnefeld

Engineering “Meso-Atom” Bonding: Honeycomb-Network Transitions in Reticular Liquid Crystals

Aggregate
Volume 6, Number 4
April 17, 2025

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/agt2.70037

Artwork created by Carsten Tschierske & Yu Cao

Proximity Effects and Aggregation of Hamilton-Receptor Barbiturate Host–Guest Complexes Probed by Cross-Metathesis and ESI MS Analysis

Chemistry A European Journal
Volume 31, Issue 8
February 6, 2025

Publication:
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/chem.202580802

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Chenming Li

Modifying the liquid crystalline chessboard tiling – soft reticular self-assembly of side-chain fluorinated polyphiles

Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Volume 13, Number 1
January 7, 2025

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/tc/d4tc04076g

Artwork created by Carsten Tschierske & Yu Caoi

Ca²⁺-dependent lipid preferences shape synaptotagmin-1 C2A and C2B dynamics: Insights from experiments and simulations

Structure
Volume 32, Issue 10
October 3, 2024

Publication:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969212624002806?via%3Dihub

Artwork created by Julian Bender

Fluorinated Linkers Enable High-Voltage Pyrrolidinium-based Dicationic Ionic Liquid Electrolytes

Chemistry A European Journal
Volume 30, Issue 54
September 25, 2024

Publication:
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202485404

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Zviadi Katcharava

Tuning nanoparticles’ internal structure: fluorinated single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs) generated by chain collapse of random copolymers

Polymer Chemistry
Volume 15, Number 29
August 7, 2024

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/py/d4py00355a

Artwork created by Marah Alqaisi

Profound Changes in Functional Structure and Dynamics of Serum Albumin in Children with Nephrotic Syndrome: An Exploratory Research Study

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume 66, Number 17
September 14, 2023

Publication:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c00680

Artwork created by Haleh Hashemi Haeri

Understanding the Role of Trapezoids in Honeycomb Self-Assembly—Pathways between a Columnar Liquid Quasicrystal and its Liquid-Crystalline Approximants

Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Volume 63, Issue 6
April 17, 2023

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202319535

Artwork created by Carsten Tschierske & Yu Cao

Secondary Structures in Synthetic Poly(Amino Acids): Homo- and Copolymers of Poly(Aib), Poly(Glu), and Poly(Asp)

Macromolecular Bioscience
Volume 23, Issue 4
April 17, 2023

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mabi.202370015

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Matthias Rohmer

Tuning the Internal Compartmentation of Single-Chain Nanoparticles as Fluorescent Contrast Agents

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Volume 44, Issue 2
January 23, 2023

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/macp.202370004

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Justus F. Thümmler

A Mechanochemically Active Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Based on Cu-Bis-NHC-Linkers: Synthesis and Mechano-Catalytic Activation

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
Volume 224, Issue 1
January 10, 2023

Publication:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/macp.202370004

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Kshitij Sanjay Shinde

Bergman cyclization of main-chain enediyne polymers for enhanced DNA cleavage

Polymer Chemistry
Volume 13, Number 23
June 21, 2022

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/py/d2py00259k

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Yue Cai

Chiral amines as initiators for ROP and their chiral induction on poly(2-aminoisobutyric acid) chains

Polymer Chemistry
Volume 12, Number 43
November 21, 2021

Publication:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/py/d1py01021b

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Matthias Rohmer

Chiral amines as initiators for ROP and their chiral induction on poly(2-aminoisobutyric acid) chains

Chemistry A European Journal
Volume 27, Issue 43
June 16, 2021

Publication:
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202101683

Artwork created by Wolfgang H. Binder & Matthew S. Sammon