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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have increasingly contributed to the understanding of biomolecular processes, allowing for predictions of thermodynamic and structural properties. Unfortunately, the holy grail of protein structure prediction was soon fo ...
There is growing interest for new polymer materials and their applications in Micro Electro/Mechanical Systems (MEMS). In this work, we develop recyclable micro-moulds that can be used for microstructuring of new polymer materials, such as precursors and m ...
Long double stranded DNA (DsDNA) and single stranded DNA (ssDNA) molecules were studied by direct imaging with the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in order to determine their scaling properties, exponents, distributions and persistence length in the frame wo ...
Protein-polymer conjugates are widely used in biotechnology and medicine, and non-toxic polymers for bioconjugation would be advantageous for these applications. Herein, we reported the toxicity of polymers synthesized by two commonly employed controlled r ...
This feature article provides a compilation of tools available for preparing well-defined peptide/protein–polymer conjugates, which are defined as hybrid constructs combining (i) a defined number of peptide/protein segments with uniform chain lengths and d ...
In this study, the application of reaction calorimetry, an efficient tool to obtain kinetic and safety data, is presented on the free radical dispersion polymn. of MMA in scCO2. The effect of three major parameters with respect to the reaction evolution ar ...
The aim of this thesis was to explore the statistical physics and the mechanical properties of individual biomolecules, to study their interactions, and to develop new techniques based on atomic force microscopy (AFM). First, we exploit the high resolution ...
This thesis is devoted to the study of the dispersion polymerization of methyl methacrylate in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2), using a poly(dimethylsiloxane) macromonomer (PDMS macromonomer) as stabilizer. Supercritical fluids (SCF) and SCF mixtures ...
We consider a model of the shape of a growing polymer introduced by Durrett and Rogers (Probab. Theory Related Fields 92 (1992) 337-349). We prove their conjecture about the asymptotic behavior of the underlying continuous process X-t (corresponding to the ...
This contribution reports on the synthesis of hyperbranched polylysines via thermal polymerization of L-lysine hydrochloride. Polymerization of L-lysine hydrochloride in the presence of one equivalent KOH at 150°C resulted in polymers with a number-average ...
