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Inside Cover: Adhesive Vesicles through Adaptive Response of a Biobased Surfactant (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49/2010)
Author(s) -
Balachandran Vijai S.,
Jadhav Swapnil R.,
Pradhan Padmanava,
De Carlo Sacha,
John George
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201005439
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , nanotechnology , vesicle , stimulus (psychology) , pulmonary surfactant , adhesive , venus , biophysics , chemistry , materials science , computer science , engineering , biology , psychology , biochemistry , astrobiology , mechanical engineering , cognitive psychology , membrane , layer (electronics)
Life is a dynamic self‐assembly process driven by response to stimuli such as touch, temperature, and light. This is fundamental to all forms of life—as exemplified by the venus flytrap ( Dionaea muscipula ), which executes a specific function in response to a short‐term stimulus—and also for tropism and homeostasis. G. John and co‐workers describe in their Communication on page 9509 ff. functional materials that are responsive to stimuli which have been synthesized by using the lessons learned from nature.