POLYMERS　Vol.65　No.6

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COVER STORY Painless Polymers: Why so Friendly?

Pain! A proof that the body does not like it. For preventing pain, implants such as artificial organs or vessels, and delivery system for bioactive compounds or imaging agents, are covered by body friendly polymers. Nonionic hydrophilic polymers including poly(ethyleneglycol), poly(oxazoline)s, poly(sarcosine)s, and ionic betaines with opposite charges, are known as such body friendly polymers and used in our body. What are the body friendly polymers? Are any general properties involved in them? And, why so? This issue attempts to explore the reasons from a scientific perspective. Editors: OSADA, KASHIDA, SAKAI, MATSUBA, and YUSA

Digest for English Readers

284

Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ

287

Commentary

Biocompatible Materials are Inert to Interfacial Water

Hiromi KITANO

288

COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews

Mechanism of Biocompatibility on 2-Methacryloyloxyethyl Phosphorylcholine Polymer Surfaces	Kazuhiko ISHIHARA	289
Chain Conformation of PEG in Water	Seigou KAWAGUCHI	292

PolyMANGA

295

COVER STORY: Topics and Products

Application for Theranostics of Amphiphilic Polysarcosine-Block-Polylactic Acid Copolymers	Eiichi OZEKI	296
Hysteresis in the Phase Separation of Aqueous Poly(2-Isopropyl-2-Oxazoline) Solution	Yukiteru KATSUMOTO	298
Polyethylene Glycol Derivatives for DDS Market	Yuji YAMAMOTO	300

Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account

Designer

Takaya TERASHIMA

302

Messages: “Work and Life”

Aiming to Realize a Society in which Women Can Play an Active Role

Isao ANDO

303

Front-Line Polymer Science

Dynamic Morphology Conversion of Molecular Assemblies through Membrane Fusion and Fission

Shunsaku KIMURA

304

From My Bookshelf

Hitoshi MAZAKI / Nobuyoshi MIYAMOTO

310

PolySCHOLA

Hiroshi ITO

311

Messages from SPSJ

314

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