This title details aspects of biopolymers and hydrogels from crosslinking to the freeze-thaw method, device aplications of polymer-nanocomposites, to application of 1-Diphenylethylene chemistry in anionic synthesis of polymers with controlled structures.

Contributions by: J.Y. Chang, D.Y. Godovsky, M.J. Han, C.M. Hassan, J. Kim, B. Lee, Y. Lee, N.A. Peppas, R.P. Quirk, T. Yoo