Humans can taste and identify numerous comestibles by combining a small variety of receptor cells that exhibit broad-spectrum sensitivity with information processing based on pattern recognition. Recently, we have developed biosensing strategy called the “chemical tongue”, which mimics system employing polymeric materials containing various chemical structures labeled environment-responsive flu...

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) at the moment is considered the leading polymer for protein conjugation in view of its unique properties, as well as to its low toxicity in humans, qualities which have been confirmed by its extensive use in clinical practice. Other polymers that are safe, biodegradable and custom-designed have, nevertheless, also been investigated as potential candidates for protein c...

Carbohydrates play prominent roles in immune surveillance and response to infection. Multivalency, molecular weight control, and molecular architecture control are properties that polymer science is well suited to address. Each of these properties has been demonstrated to impact the biological interaction of carbohydrate-bearing chains with their binding partners. This viewpoint highlights synt...

Synthetic organic chemists are the most imaginative scientists as they keep developing novel molecules that have immense applications in medicinal chemistry for curing many diseases. In bioengineering area, organic semiconductors have created a major breakthrough as biosensors, organic conducting polymers or even thermally stable polymers have applications in aerospace engineering etc. All thes...

Structural analysis and the study of degradation properties are important in order to understand and improve performance characteristics of synthetic polymers and copolymers in many industrial applications. Polymers/copolymers cannot be analyzed in their normal state by traditional gas chromatography (GC) because of high molecular weight and lack of volatility. However, by heating these macromo...