Stimuli‐responsive materials in general and pH‐responsive polymers in particular have
gained increasing interest during the last two decades. Their unique properties, which arise …

Self-assembly, which makes use of molecules rather than atomic units, offers a bottom-up
approach to the construction of new materials on multiple length scales.(1-9) By precisely …

Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is surely a topic of interest, as conventional oil
resources become more scarce and the necessity of exploiting heavy and unconventional …

This Perspective outlines recent advances concerning the formation and potential uses of
block copolymer micelles, a class of soft-matter-based nanoparticles of growing importance …

The discovery of the first “living” radical polymerization by Otsu and co-workers (1) in 1982
heralded the start of a very exciting time for polymer chemists. Since then, a plethora of living …

A versatile new class of organic photochromic molecules that offers an unprecedented
combination of physical properties including tunable photoswitching using visible light …

It is well-known that surfactants are molecules able to modify the surface properties of the
liquid in which they are introduced (usually water). The simultaneous presence of both …

A review of the state of knowledge on nanocapsules prepared from preformed polymers as
active substances carriers is presented. This entails a general review of the different …

Being responsive and adaptive to external stimuli is an intrinsic feature characteristic of all
living organisms and soft matter. Specifically, responsive polymers can exhibit reversible or …

Conventional micellar carriers disassemble into free surfactants when diluted at
concentrations below the critical micelle concentration (CMC). This limits the bioavailability …