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Macromolecular Journals Cover Competition 2009

14 December 2009

Front cover
Front cover
The November issue of Macromolecular Materials & Engineering, whose front cover features a a paper by Hua Deng, Rui Zhang, Chris Reynolds, Emiliano Bilotti and Ton Peijs, has been short-listed for a competition for the best cover of the year, among all Macromolecular Journals. The cover picture is now to be subjected to a public voting system.

The paper describes a new technology for the creation of multifunctional polymer nanocomposite fibres. The concept is based on a bicomponent fibre construction consisting of a highly oriented polymer core and a conductive polymer composite (CPC) skin based on carbon nanotubes and a polymer with a lower melting temperature than the core, enabling thermal annealing of these skins to improve conductivity through a dynamic percolation process.
Contact:Ton Peijs
Email:t.peijs@qmul.ac.uk