Front Cover: A versatile platform is developed for creating functional π-conjugated organic nanoparticles stabilized by amphiphilic block copolymers for green H₂ photocatalytic generation. The donor–acceptor–donor trimers nanoparticles show enhanced photocatalytic activity (≈0.6 mmol g⁻¹ h⁻¹) for H₂ production via water splitting. More details can be found in article 2400395 by Thiago R. Guimarães, Jean-Louis Bobet, Eric Cloutet, and co-workers.

Fabricating 3D-printed polymer scaffolds is a powerful approach in tissue engineering. These scaffolds are crucial for repairing bone and nerve injuries by influencing the fates and behaviors of immune cells, stem cells, and other key cells. Their structural properties promote tissue repair and regeneration, making them pivotal to efficient tissue engineering strategies.

PTFE decomposes at temperatures close to its melting point. Therefore, TFE terpolymers have emerged as desirable PTFE alternatives, where these TFE terpolymers combine PTFE's advantages with better processability. Currently, fluoropolymers have reached a new era. The present review summarizes the synthesis, detailed characterization, and structure-property correlations of the fluoropolymers and ends with a future perspective on the use of fluoropolymers.

A versatile platform is developed for creating functional π-conjugated organic nanoparticles stabilized by amphiphilic block copolymers for green H₂ photocatalytic generation. The donor–acceptor–donor trimers nanoparticles show enhanced photocatalytic activity (≈0.6 mmol g⁻¹ h⁻¹) for H₂ production via water splitting.

In this work, a minimalist method is successfully employed to accomplish fully oxygen-tolerant reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization using bis(trithiocarbonate) disulfides as iniferter agent. By high-throughput screening, we found that trithiocarbonate (TTC) is responsible for the fully oxygen-tolerant RAFT polymerization through sulfur-centered trithiocarbonate radical initiation and R radical deoxygenation.

Self-reconfigurable micro-patterned hydrogels based on Pickering emulsion droplets stabilized by magnetic particles are fabricated. These particles harness energy from external fields so that hundreds of droplets organize into field-guided patterns, which are immobilized within the hydrogels. The droplets themselves can drive pattern self-reconfigurability upon laser irradiation. Additionally, they can behave as hydrophobic, liquid-like reservoirs of nutrients for cell growth.

Double layer microwave-assisted pyrolysis (DLMP) method is a highly efficient method to pyrolyze polyethylene (PE). With the application of the DLMP method during the pyrolysis of PE, the hydrogen yield can reach 66.4 mmol g-1PE.

Poly(butylene succinate) forms imperfect crystals on crystallization at low temperature. Analysis of the evolution of unit-cell parameters, long period, and thickness of such crystals during slow heating, in combination with a quantitative evaluation of thermal events, as detected by calorimetry, identifies melting and melt-recrystallization at different length-scales, controlled by temperature, as a mechanism of crystal reorganization.

Herein, a novel AIEgen-based fluorescent hydrogel as wearable sensing electronic devices, having the capability to simultaneously track motion signals and hydrogel's water retention rate that depends on fluorescence intensity at various joints of the human body, is successfully prepared by the one-pot strategy.

Cyanomethylglycinamide-derived polymers exhibit an upper critical solution temperature-type thermal transition in water. Their cloud point can be adjusted over a large temperature range (from ≈20–85 °C), by tuning the polymer's molar mass and/or the number of amide functional groups in the monomer structure.

Hydroxy-terminated polystyrenes are reacted by grafting to reaction in melt on deglazed and not-deglazed silicon substrates. The characteristics of the resulting brushes are evaluated by ellipsometry and thermogravimetry-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis.

A simple and controllable method is established for preparing oil droplet-filled silica nanoparticle/tannic acid/zein microcapsules using a non-aqueous Pickering emulsion template. Furthermore, the encapsulation and protection of a lipophilic and active compound, β-carotene, within the filled oil droplets is demonstrated.

This work reports that stable and durable superhydrophobic cotton fabrics can be prepared using 1,4-conjugate addition reaction by a simple two-step impregnation process. The coated cotton fabric has good physical and chemical stability, self-cleaning, and anti-fouling ability. Importantly, the coated fabric shows excellent oil/water separation efficiency and ultrahigh separation flux.

Decoration of polar groups is a direct pathway toward homogeneous dielectric elastomers (DEs) with high dielectric constant (ε′). However, a high grafting degree results in high ε′ together with high dielectric loss ascribes to the interaction of polar groups. Herein, a brand-new method with completely different mechanism is proposed to achieve DEs with both high ε′ and low dielectric loss.

Poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene glycol) (PEG/PPG)- and 5,6-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)isoindoline-1,3-dione (2CZPImide)-based crosslinked rubbery polymer membranes are newly prepared. Tuning of the microstructure of the PEG/PPG chain segment of the crosslinked system with the sterically bulky NB-2CZPImide comonomer resulted in excellent CO₂/N₂ and CO₂/CH₄ selectivities along with long-term stability against physical aging and plasticization resistance.

In this study, spatially resolved Raman properties of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) thin films treated with different concentrations of H₂SO₄ are presented. The results show blueshifted and narrower Raman maps of the C_α═C_β modes, suggesting a structural transition from coiled to linear conformation and improved crystallinity of the PEDOT chains, indicative of enhanced conductivity.

High hydrophilic and antibacterial efficient UV-curable silicone-containing materials are prepared from silicone−containing Choline chloride (ChCl) functionalized hyperbranched quaternary ammonium salts (QAS) and tri−hydroxylethyl acrylate phosphate by UV curing method. The materials possess high hydrophilic performance with a water contact angle as low as 19.3° and quite high antibacterial efficiency against S. aureus over 95.6%.

The PA6/Cu₂O-GO-NH₂ composite fiber, constructed via chemical grafting of aminosilane coupling agent (AEAPTMS) and in situ strategy, exhibits enhanced fracture strength (from 3.0 cN/dtex to 4.2 cN/dtex) and high antimicrobial efficacy (98.85% against Bacillus subtilis, 99.99% against Escherichia coli) after washing 50 times. The in situ concepts and chemical modification improve antimicrobial dispersion and interface bonding, with medical, textile potential.

Robust and reprocessable poly(n-hexyl methacrylate) and poly(n-lauryl methacrylate) covalent adaptable networks (CANs) with fractions of percolated or non-percolated, static cross-links are synthesized. The stress relaxation behaviors of CANs are governed either by the dissociative cross-linker chemistry or side-chain motions depending on the amount of percolated, static cross-links.

Understanding the solvation behavior of elastin-like polypeptides is crucial in designing high-performance biomaterials for their advanced functional applications. In this work, a simple generic model is derived to investigate the effect of proline isomerization on ELP conformations in binary mixtures. The far-reaching implication of such a simplistic model might be to study the large scale self-assembly of biomolecules.

Herein, the photoluminescence properties and mechanism of the gradient aqueous solution of Sulfur ester-polyacrylamide aqueous solution have been successfully elucidated through transmission electron microscopy (TEM), small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), and molecular interaction analysis. It provides a strategy to clarify the clustering-triggered emission (CTE) mechanism of nonconventional luminogens solution more clearly.