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[ASAP] Microphase Separation of Ionic Liquid-Containing Diblock Copolymers: Effects of Dielectric Inhomogeneity and Asymmetry in the Molecular Volumes and Interactions between the Cation and Anion

Macromolecules
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[ASAP] Single-Particle Tracking of Nonsticky and Sticky Nanoparticles in Polymer Melts

Macromolecules
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[ASAP] Effect of Polymer Architecture on the Phase Behavior and Structure of Polyelectrolyte/Microemulsion Complexes (PEMECs)

Macromolecules
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[ASAP] Catalyst-Free Multicomponent Tandem Polymerizations of Alkyne and Amines toward Nontraditional Intrinsic Luminescent Poly(aminomaleimide)s

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[ASAP] Quantitative Structure Analysis of a Near-Ideal Polymer Network with Deuterium Label by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

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[ASAP] Ion Conductivity and Correlations in Model Salt-Doped Polymers: Effects of Interaction Strength and Concentration

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[ASAP] Interfacial Cross-Link Inhomogeneity of a Phenolic Resin on a Silica Surface As Revealed by X-ray and Neutron Reflection Measurements

Macromolecules
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[ASAP] Tailoring the Toughness of Elastomers by Incorporating Ionic Cross-Linking

Macromolecules
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[ASAP] Dynamics Transition of Polymer Films Induced by Polymer–Obstacle Entanglements on Rough Surfaces

Macromolecules
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Hot Off Penn Press: New for February

Check out our latest slate of new titles below, spanning topics from Ancient Egypt to San Francisco's contemporary Latino art scene and beyond. Jump to: Featured Titles | American History | Anthropology | Archaeology | Literature and Culture | Medieval...




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A Silent Embrace of “The Middle Ages” Under COVID-19

Today, we have a guest post from G. Geltner, Professor of History at the University of Amsterdam and author of Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy, new from Penn Press. Geltner's book provides a critical...




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Penn Press offers free digital access during the COVID-19 pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic research is more important than ever and the large-scale shift to distance learning at colleges and universities around the world means students need new forms of access to content. In response to these new...




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Hot Off Penn Press: Get 40% off plus free shipping!

We're thrilled to announce our 2020 Spring Sale! With most academic conferences canceled, classes moved online, and retail options limited, we wanted to offer an easy and affordable way to buy our books. With Penn Press's SPRING SALE, U.S. customers...




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The evolving design of the Coronavirus

The podium placard has been the silent messenger of the daily Coronavirus briefings.




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Inside the redesign of 'Fast Company' magazine

As creative director, I find it important to continually evolve our look- it keeps us fresh and energized about design.




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A systems view of brand design

Rebranding does not happen overnight; it's a steep and long process to transform from one brand to the next.




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Wonder Blocks: on the creation of Khan Academy's Design System

When we embarked on creating our design system, we unearthed over 50 kinds of buttons and links and 100+ instances of style definitions for type.




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YouTube Sans: The Making of a Typeface

How YouTube created a tailor-made font that doubles as a brand ambassador.




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Pandemic Creativity: Edible Versions of Famous Artworks

In another example of how the constraints of the pandemic are fostering creativity, artist Claire Salvo is creating edible versions of artworks.




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A case study of complex table design

I just released a new version of Actual and a big change is a rewrite of the budget table.




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Excitement Surrounds the Launch of New Star Wars Book.

Excitement has surrounded the launch of J.W.Rinzler’s new book, The Making Of: The Empire Strikes Back. For months, fan websites and blogs have been ablaze with activity as Star Wars fans and cinephiles across the world eagerly anticipated the sequel to Rinzler’s critically acclaimed The Making Of: Star Wars. Fortunately, they have not been disappointed. With its exclusive access to the Lucasfilm archives, The Making Of: The Empire Strikes Back offers a treasure trove of never-before published photos, design sketches, paintings, production notes, interviews, anecdotes, and scripts, to offer a complete behind-the-scenes look at the production of an iconic film.

On Saturday fans celebrated the launch of The Making Of: The Empire Strikes Back at Bristol’s Forbidden Planet with an Empire Strikes Back themed extravaganza. Complete with costumes and lightsabers, fans from all generations enjoyed celebrating both the movie and the launch of this highly anticipated book. Similar celebrations have been planned at Southampton’s Forbidden Planet for this Saturday (23/10/10).




The Making of The Empire Strikes Back is available to buy online here.




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A Round-up of 2011

With New Year's Eve already a fast-fading memory, it's time for a look back at Aurum's 2011. Here are some of the books we were most excited about last year...


Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds by Chris Arnot

One of last year's biggest books for Aurum was Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds by Chris Arnot. In this sumptuously illustrated volume, Arnot takes a journey to forty of the country's former cricket grounds. In their heyday, they were cherished focal-points for their local communities, but each of them now has its own sad story of demise and abandonment. The Hastings ground has been replaced with a shopping centre; another, in Sheffield, made way for an expanding football stadium. What unites them all is that magical missing sound: the crack of leather on willow.

Following the success of Britain's Lost Cities and Lost Victorian Britain, Chris Arnot tours the length and breadth of the country, hears the reminiscences of former players and spectators and unearths what is left of their once-loved grounds. The result is a rueful and reflective exploration of our lost sporting heritage.

You can read Steve James's review of Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds for the Daily Telegraph here.

"A beautifully written volume that is rich in history and anecdote... some magnificent photos will invoke poignant memories." www.thesportsbookshelf.com

"Chris Arnot’s heady romantic hymn to a variety of once famous fields is a coffee-table classic for and of posterity. Everyone will mourn for a personal vanished favourite." The Guardian

Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds is available to buy here.


The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay

2011 also saw the release in paperback of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay. This critically acclaimed title, which was a surprise hit of 2010 in hardback, tells the story of the men and women whose code-cracking efforts were a decisive turning-point in the Second World War.

While Bletchley Park may be famous for its work in breaking the Enigma code machine, McKay also brings to life the memories of the ordinary people who found themselves stationed at this secretive Buckinghamshire country home. Through the accounts of Bletchley Park's surviving residents, the book tells tales of winters spent skating on the estate's frozen lake, high-jinks in the accommodation blocks and lives of implacable secrecy. It is the most revealing insight yet into a unique, intriguing and distinctly British episode in history.

You can read Keith Lowe's review of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park for the Daily Telegraph here.

"McKay has succeeded in honouring a genuinely remarkable group of people in a solid, often entertaining and above all warm-hearted way." Daily Mail

"A remarkably faithful account of what we did, why it mattered, and how it all felt at the time." Patricia Brown, wartime Bletchley Park worker, The Guardian

The Secret Life of Bletchley Park is available to buy here.


Fred Trueman: The Authorised Biography by Chris Waters

Throughout his cricketing career in the 50s and 60s, Fred Trueman was known for his fearsome fast bowling and fiery personality. Described by Prime Minister Harold Wilson as 'the greatest living Yorkshireman', he played with a fierce, full-blooded determination to win. Later in life, he would become known as an outspoken commentator for Test Match Special, cementing his status as a cricketing legend.

Chris Waters' perceptive new biography, however, portrays a more complex and troubled figure than anyone might have expected. Drawing on dozens of new interviews with those who knew him best, Waters tells the story of the self-doubting personality beneath Trueman's apparent bravado. This balanced, authoritative study of Fred Trueman's life will surprise - maybe even shock - his many admirers, but also confirms him as an English folk hero.

You can read Rob Bagchi's review of Fred Trueman: The Authorised Biography for the Guardian here.

"His multi-coloured life is given sharper focus by the meticulous research and unforgiving anecdotes of Chris Waters. The strengths of the book lie in the breadth of insights from those closest to Trueman, along with Waters’ own sharp conclusions." The Cricketer

"Perceptive biography… Waters has done a good job in disentangling the man from the myths, many of which were eagerly promoted by Fiery Fred himself." Indpendent on Sunday

Fred Trueman: The Authorised Biography is available to buy here.


And finally...

Sign Language: Travels in Unfortunate English from the Readers of the Telegraph

We have a feeling that Sign Language might have been tumbling out of a few Christmas stockings this year. Full of titillating translations, unintended innuendo and side-splitting spelling mistakes, it's bound to have been raising a few chuckles.

You can catch up with the Daily Telegraph's Sign Language photo galleries here.

Sign language is available to buy here.




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Fruits & Vegetables: Bengaluru airport processes 1425 MT of perishables in April

Despite numerous logistical challenges due to the lockdown, BLR Airport, backed with cutting-edge tech-assets for cargo processing, ensured that products reach their destination, while still offering the same freshness, quality and appeal.




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SpiceJet staff to get only a part of salary

Spicejet on Wednesday informed pilots that they will be paid only a small percentage of their salaries for the period that the airline has to ground services due to lockdown.




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Lifeline Udan flights delivered over 350 tonnes of air cargo across the Northeast India during the lockdown period

The airports located in North East are quick connecting links between the states and the people living here and during the nation-wide lock down, the AAI has been providing air navigational and on ground services for the- Life Line Udan flights enabling smooth and timely flow of medical goods and supporting items to the states.




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First Air India repatriation flight to take off from UK with 250 Indians

Passengers will be tested for temperature, one of the symptoms of COVID-19, before boarding and only those showing no symptoms would be able to make the journey.




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[ASAP] Three-Dimensional Coating of SF/PLGA Coaxial Nanofiber Membranes on Surfaces of Calcium Phosphate Cement for Enhanced Bone Regeneration

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Correction to “Synergistic Effects of N/Cu Dual Ions Implantation on Stimulating Antibacterial Ability and Angiogenic Activity of Titanium”

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[ASAP] Frugal Innovation for Point-of-Care Diagnostics Controlling Outbreaks and Epidemics

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01712




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[ASAP] Biomimetic Bilayer Scaffold as an Incubator to Induce Sequential Chondrogenesis and Osteogenesis of Adipose Derived Stem Cells for Construction of Osteochondral Tissue

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DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00200




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[ASAP] Understanding the Effect of Hydration on the Bio-inert Properties of 2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate Copolymers with Small Amounts of Amino- or/and Fluorine-Containing Monomers

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DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00230




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[ASAP] Rolling Circle Amplification-Based Polyvalent Molecular Beacon Probe-Assisted Signal Amplification Strategies for Sensitive Detection of B16 Cells

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DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00288




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[ASAP] MgO Nanoparticles Protect against Titanium Particle-Induced Osteolysis in a Mouse Model Because of Their Positive Immunomodulatory Effect

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01852




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[ASAP] Electro-mechanical and Polarization-Induced Antibacterial Response of 45S5 Bioglass–Sodium Potassium Niobate Piezoelectric Ceramic Composites

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[ASAP] Triple Functional AB<sub>2</sub> Unit-Modulated Facile Preparation of Bioreducible Hyperbranched Copolymers

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[ASAP] Manual Versus Microfluidic-Assisted Nanoparticle Manufacture: Impact of Silk Fibroin Stock on Nanoparticle Characteristics

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Bactericidal Characteristics of Bioinspired Nontoxic and Chemically Stable Disordered Silicon Nanopyramids

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Expansion of Ovarian Cancer Stem-like Cells in Poly(ethylene glycol)-Cross-Linked Poly(methyl vinyl ether-<italic toggle="yes">alt</italic>-maleic acid) and Alginate Double-Network Hydrogels

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01967




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[ASAP] Improving the Tensile Properties of Wet Spun Silk Fibers Using Rapid Bayesian Algorithm

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Microfluidic Silk Fibers with Aligned Hierarchical Microstructures

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Interaction with Cartilage Increases the Viscosity of Hyaluronic Acid Solutions

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Tofu-Incorporated Hydrogels for Potential Bone Regeneration

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01997




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[ASAP] Silk Fibroin-Confined Star-Shaped Decahedral Silver Nanoparticles as Fluorescent Probe for Detection of Cu<sup>2+</sup> and Pyrophosphate

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01862




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[ASAP] Facile Bacterial Cellulose Nanofibrillation for the Development of a Plasmonic Paper Sensor

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Evaluation of the Osteogenic Potential of Stem Cells in the Presence of Growth Hormone under Magnetic Field Stimulation

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00043




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[ASAP] In Situ Visualization of Ferritin Biomineralization via Graphene Liquid Cell-Transmission Electron Microscopy

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01889




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[ASAP] Three-Dimensional Printing of Hydrogel Scaffolds with Hierarchical Structure for Scalable Stem Cell Culture

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Label-Free Colorimetric Detection of Acid Phosphatase and Screening of Its Inhibitors Based on Biomimetic Oxidase Activity of MnO<sub>2</sub> Nanosheets

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Synthesis of Cross-Linked Spherical Polycationic Adsorbents for Enhanced Heparin Recovery

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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[ASAP] Amorphous Calcium Magnesium Phosphate Particles for Treatment of Dentin Hypersensitivity: A Mode of Action Study

ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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