Background As the semiconductor industry continues to make new advances in material development, the synthesis of photoreversible polymers for bond-debond applications is of particular interest. These materials typically have strong adhesive properties in the semiconductor manufacturing process, but adhesive strength can effectively be turned off using...

In normal differentiated cells, most of the genome is densely methylated, except CpG islands near promoters of actively transcribed genes. Maintaining this boundary between unmethylated promoter-associated and adjacent methylated regions is crucial as loss of segregation can lead to disease. Unfortunately, it is not clear where these boundaries are,...