Since the historical application by Sir Humphrey Davy of graphite electrodes for
electrochemical production of alkali metals, carbon materials have been widely used in both …

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

The use of multivalent carbohydrate compounds to block cell-surface lectin receptors is a
promising strategy to inhibit the entry of pathogens into cells and could lead to the discovery …

The surface chemistry, pendent functional entities, and ease in tunability of various materials
play a central role in properly coordinating with enzymes for immobilization purposes. Due …

During the last few decades, electrochemistry and electrode modification have seen a
tremendous fall off in creativity with the emergence of the nanoarchitectonic-based layer-by …

The modification of polymers after the successful achievement of a polymerization process
represents an important task in macromolecular science. Cycloaddition reactions, among …

In 2001, Sharpless and co‐workers introduced “click” chemistry, a new approach in organic
synthesis that involves a handful of almost perfect chemical reactions. Among these carefully …

Redox-active self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) provide an excellent platform for
investigating electron transfer kinetics. Using a well-defined bridge, a redox center can be …

In the past few decades, the enzyme immobilization technology has been exploited a lot and
thus became a matter of rational design. Immobilization is an alternative approach to bio …

The modification of surfaces with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) containing multiple
different molecules, or containing molecules with multiple different functional components, or …