Sensing performance polymer/organic

The characteristic of crystal lattices is a strict periodical succession of structurally identical molecular units, in the sense of an inclusion lattice also of holes, channels, layers etc. which may include guest molecules in an oriented fashion. This organizing principle makes topochemistry possible. One of the early studies in this area was the inclusion polymerization of dienes in the channels of urea, respectively thiourea, leading to stereoregular polymers (Eq. 1) Although stereodifferentiating inclusion polymerization/co-polymerization has been performed in other host lattices, too, e.g. in the channels of the perhydrotriphenylene host (6) it is still a problem of actual interest... 

Biocompatibility in its broadest sense refers to the ability of a material to perform with an appropriate host response in a specific situation. Any foreign material once implanted within an organism triggers a cascade of reactions called the immune or host response, which are part of the organism s defense mechanism. Several studies have been performed to evaluate the biocompatibility of polymers [193],... 

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