The following news item may put pepper grinders in restaurants and kitchens into overdrive. A team of researchers from South Korea say they’ve found that the pungent compound found in black pepper ...

Polymeric micelles are representative self-assembly structures of block copolymers and have widely been investigated from both fundamental and applied aspects. In 1995, we discovered polyion complex ...

Block copolymers are linear macromolecules that consist of different blocks (often incompatible) of different types of monomers. The two or more distinct and incompatible moieties provide unique solid ...