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We have characterized the polymer physics of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) using atomic force microscopy. The persistence length l(p) of circular ssDNA adsorbed on a modified graphite surface was determined independently of secondary structure. At a very low ...
Two protocols of covalent attachment of proteins onto the calcite surface, viz. one using the metallochelat and second using the aminohexil, are elaborated. Single molecule force spectroscopy method has been used to test their efficiency and practical appl ...
Proteins are large and complex molecular machines. In order to perform their function, most of them need energy, e. g. either in the form of a photon, as in the case of the visual pigment rhodopsin, or through the breaking of a chemical bond, as in the pre ...
The Kohn-Sham formulation of density functional theory (DFT) has posed itself as one of the most popular and versatile methods for condensed phase studies owing to its reasonable accuracy and affordable computational cost. DFT, in principle, yields exact g ...
A divergent and regiocontrolled Pd-catalyzed domino sequence involving an intramol. N-arylation and an intermol. Heck reaction has been developed, providing rapid access to functionalized benzodiazepine-2,5-diones, e.g. I. The starting materials were synth ...
A series of lanthanide adducts with different amounts of 1,10-phenanthroline, chloride ions, and water molecules in the inner and outer coordination spheres are investigated with the aim of relating the chemical bonding pattern in the crystals to the lumin ...
Experimental characterization is facing severe difficulties in elucidating the nature of defects at interfaces between silicon and amorphous high-kappa oxides. This motivates recourse to first principle simulation approaches based on density functional the ...
In recent works, dispersion-corrected atom-centered potentials (DCACPs) were developed as a method to account for long-range dispersion forces between molecules in density functional theory calculations within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). ...
[Pd(PPh3)4]/Cul served as an efficient catalyst for the reaction of three readily available starting materials to give 3-(diarylmethylene)indolin-2-ones, e.g., I, through a sequence of intermol. Sonogashira reaction/intermol. carbopalladation/C-H activatio ...
We present a thermally activated solvent bonding technique for the formation of embedded microstructures in polymer. It is based, on the temperature dependent solubility of polymer in a liquid that is not a solvent at room temperature. With thermal activat ...
