Editorial May 2015
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Andreas Greiner
Functionality and selectivity are important aspects for polymeric materials. No other material class offers more opportunities for modulation of functionality and selectivity. The May issue of e-Polymers 2015 presents very nice examples for such property modulations.
The contribution by Tay et al. reports molecularly imprinted polymer supported by magnetic nanoparticles for the selective recognition of sulphonamide drugs. The authors show with an improved method, a much higher loading capacity, which is otherwise a challenge for molecularly imprinted polymers. A related achievement but in another context is presented by Rambabu et al. who modulated the morphology of polyethersulfone (PES) ultrafiltation membranes for higher flux rate by the addition of polyethylene glycol and iron nanoparticles, without loss in selectivity compared to standard PES. The third contribution by Xu et al. also deals with improvement in selectivity. They report on novel chelating resins for the removal of heavy metal contaminations from waste water. We strongly believe that the full potential of such approaches could also be used for totally different purposes and look forward to novel developments in the near future. The contributions by Tomlal et al., and Saha et al. deal with the synthesis and properties of biobased polymeric materials. The use of biobased materials for polymers is surely one of the most demanding topics which deserves significant attention. Finally, the contribution by Guo et al. reports on an efficient method of biomass ready for further chemical reaction using ionic liquids as a solvent for corn stalk which contains plenty of cellulose as a promising biomass.
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- Synthesis, characterization, and theoretical study of an acrylamide-based magnetic molecularly imprinted polymer for the recognition of sulfonamide drugs
- Polyethylene glycol and iron oxide nanoparticles blended polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membrane for enhanced performance in dye removal studies
- Applications of chelating resin for heavy metal removal from wastewater
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- Hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of carbon spheres using citric-acid-catalyzed carbonization of starch
- Biodegradation of chemically modified lignocellulosic sisal fibers: study of the mechanism for enzymatic degradation of cellulose
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- In this Issue
- Editorial
- Editorial May 2015
- Full length articles
- Synthesis, characterization, and theoretical study of an acrylamide-based magnetic molecularly imprinted polymer for the recognition of sulfonamide drugs
- Polyethylene glycol and iron oxide nanoparticles blended polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membrane for enhanced performance in dye removal studies
- Applications of chelating resin for heavy metal removal from wastewater
- Commingled composites of polypropylene/coir-sisal yarn: effect of chemical treatments on thermal and tensile properties
- Hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of carbon spheres using citric-acid-catalyzed carbonization of starch
- Biodegradation of chemically modified lignocellulosic sisal fibers: study of the mechanism for enzymatic degradation of cellulose
- Synthesis and application of functionalized ionic liquids as solvent to corn stalk for phenolic resin modification
