Nanochemistry provides powerful synthetic tools allowing one to combine different materials
on a single nanostructure, thus unfolding numerous possibilities to tailor their properties …

Recent progress in surface-initiated polymerization enables the deliberate polymer
modification of nanoscopic surfaces with high levels of precision. This has given rise to the …

The Faraday effect is a magneto-optical (MO) phenomenon by which the polarization
direction of linearly polarized light is rotated when passing through a transparent material …

Interest in stimuli-responsive polymers has persisted over many decades, and a great deal
of work has been dedicated to developing environmentally sensitive macromolecules that …

Applications for advanced functional soft materials that possess precisely engineered
properties and functional groups have been expanding significantly with the development of …

Interest in thermoresponsive polymers has steadily grown over many decades, and a great
deal of work has been dedicated to developing temperature sensitive macromolecules that …

Nanostructured magnetic materials have a variety of promising applications spreading from
nano-scale electronic devices, sensors and high-density data storage media to controlled …

Surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) has become an
indispensable tool for engineering the structure and properties of polymer/inorganic and …

Hybrid nanomaterials have received voluminous interest due to the combination of unique
properties of organic and inorganic component in one material. In this class, magnetic …

Crystal phase, an intrinsic characteristic of crystalline materials, is one of the key parameters
to determine their physicochemical properties. Recently, great progress has been made in …