POLYMERS Vol.66　No.5 May 2017

POLYMERS　Vol.66　No.5

COVER STORY
Shape Control of Polymers

Remarkable progress has been made in the synthesis and structural analysis of polymers. These technologies have revealed correlations between polymers’ shapes and their physical properties and functions. Controlling polymer shapes is expected to lead to physical properties and functions that are not only precisely controlled, but also completely different from those of conventional linear polymers, despite having the same chemical composition. This special issue focuses on recent progress in the synthesis of such shape-controlled polymers, through noncovalent and covalent bonding approaches, and their physical properties and functions.

Editors: MAEDA, KANAOKA, TAKEOKA, and YAMANAKA

Digest for English Readers

206

Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ

209

Commentary

Role of Education in Fostering The Youth

Kazuo AKAGI

210

COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews

Creation of Two-Dimensional Polymers	Donglin JIANG	211
Synthesis of Architectural Polymers via Precision Polymerization	Takuya ISONO, Toshifumi SATOH	214
Polymer Topology Transformation and Property Control Produced by Movable Linking of Polymer Chains	Toshikazu TAKATA, Daisuke AOKI	217

PolyMANGA

220

COVER STORY: Topics and Products

Morphology Control of Polymer Materials by Using Crystals	Yuya OAKI	221
Molecular Grid: Pursuit of Ultimate Structure over 15 Years	Yasuhiro ISHIDA	223
Solution Properties of Helical Polysaccharide Derivatives	Ken TERAO	225

Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account

Positive Mental Attitude

Kazuhide UENO

227

Messages: “Work and Life”

No, friends, I love fictions!

Shin-ichiro NOMURA

228

Front-Line Polymer Science

Physical Properties of Ring Polymers and Their Derivatives

Yuya DOI, Atsushi TAKANO, Yoshiaki TAKAHASHI, Yushu MATSUSHITA

229

From My Bookshelf

Kuniharu IJIRO / Mahito ATOBE

233

Messages from SPSJ

234

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