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Ion Adsorption Enhances Apparent Nonelectrostatic Attraction between Monomers in Polyelectrolyte Brushes

Polyelectrolyte brushes are responsive to salt in the environment, and this has found broad applications in antifouling, biolubrication, and drug delivery. Salt primarily influences the conformation of the polyelectrolytes through ion adsorption. While ion ...

Washington2024

Soft Mechanochemistry of Disulfide-Crosslinked Polymer Networks

Zhao Meng

Mechanochemistry harnesses mechanical force to facilitate chemical reactions. Traditionally, the field of polymer mechanochemistry has used methods to activate chemical bonds, which use forces that are larger than those that are required to break a covalen ...

EPFL2024

Influence of structural dynamics on cell uptake investigated with single-chain polymeric nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Lixia Wei, Arthur Eliot Bouchez, Suiyang Liao

Most nanoparticles' parameters affect their interactions with cells. To date, all the parameters studied are basically static (e.g., size, shape, ligands, and charge). This is unfortunate, because proteins have struc-tural dynamics that most nanoparticles ...

CELL PRESS2023

Influence of the molecular weight and physical properties of a thermoplastic polymer on its dynamic wetting behavior

Valentin Rougier

The wetting dynamics of molten thermoplastic polymers, which are known to influence the force balance of the triple line, are not understood properly despite their importance in many industrial processes. In particular, the influence of the molecular weigh ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Effects of Electrode Design on the Melt Electrowriting of Sinusoidal Structures

Biranche Tandon

Melt electrowriting is a microscale manufacturing technique that uses polymer-based melts to create fibrous structures. An electric field is used to stabilize a continuous molten jet, which is then written onto a substrate as a microscale fiber. Herein, it ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

CONVERGENCE AND NONCONVERGENCE OF SCALED SELF-INTERACTING RANDOM WALKS TO BROWNIAN MOTION PERTURBED AT EXTREMA

Thomas Mountford

We use generalized Ray-Knight theorems, introduced by B. Toth in 1996, together with techniques developed for excited random walks as main tools for establishing positive and negative results concerning convergence of some classes of diffusively scaled sel ...

Cleveland2023

Time Estimation of Polymer Translocation through Nano-Membrane

Maria-Alexandra Paun

In this paper, the charged polymer escapement phenomenon, via a little hole of nano-metric dimensions arranged in a constitutive biological membrane, is studied. We will present the case of the transport process of an ideal polymer in a 3-dimensional exten ...

MDPI2022

Electron Trap Dynamics in Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes

Frank Nüesch, Roland Hany, Michael Bauer, Matthias Diethelm, Wei-Hsu Hu

Semiconducting polymers are being studied intensively for optoelectronic device applications, including solution-processed light-emitting diodes (PLEDs). Charge traps in polymers limit the charge transport and thus the PLED efficiency. It is firmly establi ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

De Novo Crystal Structure Determination from Machine Learned Chemical Shifts

David Lyndon Emsley, Albert Hofstetter, Manuel Cordova, Martins Balodis

Determination of the three-dimensional atomic-level structure of powdered solids is one of the key goals in current chemistry. Solid-state NMR chemical shifts can be used to solve this problem, but they are limited by the high computational cost associated ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Statistical potentials from the Gaussian scaling behaviour of chain fragments buried within protein globules

Stefano Zamuner

Knowledge-based approaches use the statistics collected from protein data-bank structures to estimate effective interaction potentials between amino acid pairs. Empirical relations are typically employed that are based on the crucial choice of a reference ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022

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