February 2016, Volume 49, issues 1,2

Anhydrous Proton Transport in Polymerized Ionic Liquid Block Copolymers: Roles of Block Length, Ionic Content, and Confinement. Christopher M. Evans, Gabriel E. Sanoja, Bhooshan C. Popere, and Rachel A. Segalman^*

Effects of Ion-Induced Cross-Linking on the Phase Behavior in Salt-Doped Polymer Blends. Chun-Lai Ren, Issei Nakamura^*, and Zhen-Gang Wang^*

Copolymerizations of Norbornene and Tetracyclododecene with α-Olefins by Half-Titanocene Catalysts: Efficient Synthesis of Highly Transparent, Thermal Resistance Polymers. Weizhen Zhao and Kotohiro Nomura*

Photo-Cross-Linked Anion Exchange Membranes with Improved Water Management and Conductivity. S. Piril Ertem, Tsung-Han Tsai, Melissa M. Donahue, Wenxu Zhang, Himanshu Sarode, Ye Liu, Soenke Seifert§, Andrew M. Herring, and E. Bryan Coughlin*

Nearly Ideal Polymer Network Ion Gel Prepared in pH-Buffering Ionic Liquid. Kei Hashimoto, Kenta Fujii, Kengo Nishi, Takamasa Sakai, and Mitsuhiro Shibayama*

Hyperbranched Polyols via Copolymerization of 1,2-Butylene Oxide and Glycidol: Comparison of Batch Synthesis and Slow Monomer Addition. Jan Seiwert, Daniel Leibig, Ulrike Kemmer-Jonas, Marius Bauer, Igor Perevyazko, Jasmin Preis, and Holger Frey^*

Catalytic One-Pot Synthesis of End-Functionalized Poly(9,9′-di-n-octylfluorenevinylene)s by Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) Polymerization Using Ruthenium–Carbene Catalysts. Tomonari Miyashita and Kotohiro Nomura*

Friction Coefficient of Well-Defined Hydrogel Networks. Midori Fujiki, Masaya Ito, Kell Mortensen, Shintaro Yashima, Masayuki Tokita, and Masahiko Annaka*

Design of Thermoresponsive Polymers with Aqueous LCST, UCST, or Both: Modification of a Reactive Poly(2-vinyl-4,4-dimethylazlactone) Scaffold. Yicheng Zhu, Rhiannon Batchelor, Andrew B. Lowe, and Peter J. Roth*

Molecular Origins of Polymer-Coupled Helical Motion of Ions in a Crystalline Polymer Electrolyte. Ramesh Cheerla and Marimuthu Krishnan*