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Isolation, Characterisation and Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Diazoolefins

Examples for applications of nitrous oxide in organic synthesis remain rare up until today. First mayor contributions of our group were published in 2012, when nitrous oxide was successfully captured by N-heterocyclic carbenes. Subsequent studies investiga ...

EPFL2022

Interfacial engineering for competitive Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells production

Natalie Flores Diaz

Renewable energy deployment and implementation of a circular economy will play a crucial role in decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the target from the Paris agreement. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) can be designed in various colors and transparency for ...

EPFL2021

Increased electromechanical sensitivity of polysiloxane elastomers by chemical modification with thioacetic groups

Yee Song Ko

Chemically cross-linked polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomers have gained importance as a dielectric in elastic capacitor actuators, which elongate when electrically charged. Common PDMS elastomers have a dielectric permittivity of only about 3 and thus e ...

2020

Electrochemically polymerized poly (3, 4-phenylenedioxythiophene) as efficient and transparent counter electrode for dye sensitized solar cells

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Lin Yang, Jiahuan Zhang, Yan Hao

A new conducting polymer poly (3, 4-phenylenedioxythiophene) is synthesized by the electrochemical polymerization technique with different solvents. We find that solvents used in electrochemical polymerization play important roles for the catalytic activit ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Solar production of nylon polymers and prescursors for nylon polymer production

Sophia Haussener, Miguel Antonio Modestino

The present invention relates to process intensification, and renewable processing routes for polymer production, for example the solar production of Nylon 6,6 and precursors relevant for the Nylon 6,6 production (such as hydrogen, adiponitrile and hexaned ...

2018

Semiaromatic Polyamides and Copolyamides Comprising Kinked Repeating Units

Julien Philippe Cretenoud

The replacement of metals with polymer-based materials is considered to be key to reducing weight, cost, and cycle times in different technological applications, including the automotive and aerospace industries. Semiaromatic polyamides are particularly at ...

EPFL2018

High-temperature copolyamides obtained by the efficient transamidation of crystalline-crystalline polyamide blends

Véronique Michaud, John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Sylvain Cyril Claude Galland

High-performance thermoplastic composites based on semiaromatic polyamides are prime candidates for metal replacement in lightweight structural applications. However, the low ductility and toughness of semiaromatic polyamides remain major obstacles to thei ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

A facile synthetic strategy to polysiloxanes containing sulfonyl side groups with high dielectric permittivity

The chemical modification of polymers with lateral polar groups increases their dielectric permittivity above the glass transition temperature, making them attractive materials for dielectric elastomer actuators. Despite the large dipole moment of the sulf ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Squaric acid mediated bioconjugation expanded to polymers prepared by ATRP

Harm-Anton Klok, Frederik Roman Wurm

The squaric acid mediated bioconjugation reaction is an attractive approach for the amine-selective protein modification with side-chain functional polymers. This manuscript presents 3 squaric acid based atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) initiato ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Chain-Shattering Polymeric Therapeutics with On-Demand Drug-Release Capability

Li Tang, Liang Ma

Trigger happy: Trigger-responsive chain-shattering polymeric therapeutics (CSPTs) were prepared by condensation polymerization of a UV- or hydrogen peroxide-responsive domain and a drug as co-monomers. Drug release can be started and stopped by starting an ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

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