Lithium silver oxide-reinforced poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) nanocomposites exhibit enhanced tensile strength, thermal stability, improved AC conductivity, and potent antibacterial activity, emphasizing their potential for flexible electronics and antimicrobial applications.

A full functionalization of polyoctenamer using a range of PEGs is achieved. The approach is based on grafting onto a polymer chain obtained by ROMP of new monomers cyclooct-4-en-1-ylmethyl methanesulfonate and cyclooct-4-en-1-ylmethyl 4-methylbenzenesulfonate. The proposed method can be also used for other polyolefins, for example, a fully grafted polynorbornene-graft-polyethylene glycol brush is obtained.

To advance progress in the field of biomedicine, wearable bionic sensors have garnered significant attention due to their flexibility, stretchability, self-healing properties, and biocompatibility. This review focuses on the materials and bionic structures used in sensor fabrication, followed by an overview of the latest advancements and challenges in wearable bionic sensors for biomedical applications.

The aniline-p-phenylenediamine copolymer nanofibers of microscale length prepared with interfacial polymerization method are introduced into epoxy matrix, which is beneficial for constructing a continuous conduction transport pathway for charge carriers within epoxy nanocomposites and providing electrical conductivity to insulating epoxy.

This study unravels the effect of the side groups on the surface parameters and antifouling properties of a library of acrylamide-based polymers, pPAM, pEAM, pFEAM, and pHEAM synthesized by RAFT polymerization. Polymer chains of DP = 25, 50, 75, and 100 are used for coating gold surfaces employing the “grafting-to” approach. The physical properties of the resulting polymer coatings are studied and find a general increasing antifouling trend pPAM<pEAM<pFEAM<pHEAM.