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Chemically induced actuation of a polypyrrole (Ppy) artificial muscle was controlled by biocatalytic reactions, resulting in changes in the redox state of the polymer film mediated by soluble redox species. The biocatalytic process triggered by diaphorase in the presence of NADH resulting in the reduction of the Ppy f…
We use a mesoscopic simulation technique to study the effect of short-ranged interparticle attractions on the steady-state sedimentation of colloidal suspensions. Attractions increase the average sedimentation velocity v(s) compared to the pure hard-sphere case, and for strong enough attractions, a nonmonotonic depend…
Delivery by stealth: Vesicles with porous silica shell layers and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) stealth layers have good stability, due to the silica layers, good dispersity in aqueous solution, without aggregation due to the PEG stealth layers, low cytotoxicity, and the capability to enter cells (see figure).
Application of white LEDs is extended toward high-output light sources, e.g. for automotive headlights, and better spectral matching with optical filters for LCD backlighting. To meet such new demands, phosphor materials have been investigated with focus on their luminescence spectra, temperature characteristics and r…
CONEX is a Windows application for converting series of two-dimensional X-ray powder patterns measured on flat two-dimensional detectors into one-dimensional scattering patterns. It is based on the rigorous use of scattering patterns of calibration samples to determine the three-dimensional position of the detector, w…
An organogelator (G) that contains 2-anthracenecarboxylic acid (2Ac) attached covalently to a gelator counterpart that consists of 3,4,5-tris(n-dodecan-1-yloxy)benzoic acid by means of a chiral amino alcohol linkage has been synthesized. G acts as an efficient gelator of organic solvents, including mixed solvents and…
Objective molecular dynamics combined with density-functional-based tight binding makes it possible to compute chiral nanotubes as axial-screw dislocations. This enables the surprising revelation of a large catalog of MoS2 nanotubes that lack the prescribed translational symmetry and exhibit chirality-dependent electr…
NiFe2O4 nanoparticles (<10 nm) embedded in a NiO matrix have been fabricated by calcining the corresponding NiIIFeIII-layered double hydroxide (LDH) precursors at high temperature (500 °C). Compared with the NiFe2O4/NiO nanocomposite obtained by calcination of a precursor prepared by a traditional chemical coprecipita…
Many potential applications of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) require various physicochemical modifications prior to use, suggesting that nanotubes having varied properties may pose risks in ecosystems. A means for estimating bioaccumulation potentials of variously modified CNTs for incorporation in predictive fate models wo…
Poly(allylamine)-stabilized spherical- and rod-shaped copper nanoparticles are synthesized by a simple chemical reaction. The synthesis is performed by the reduction of copper(II) salt with hydrazine in aqueous solution under atmospheric air in the presence of poly(allylamine) (PAAm) capping agent. Noteworthy of the a…
Multifunctional silica nanoparticles provide a framework for the attachment of imaging and targeting agents for applications in spectroscopy, microscopy, and biology while simultaneously serving as supports for molecular machines for the controlled release of cargo. The deliberate placing of molecules or other nanopar…
Abstract The barrier properties of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) play a key role in food packaging applications. For their optimization, the influence of crystallinity on the barrier properties of PLA and the interaction of PLA with the aroma compound ethyl acetate were investigated. PLA film samples with various crystallin…
A study of the influence of embedded circular hollow vascules on structural performance of a fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite laminate is presented. Incorporating such vascules will lead to multi-functional composites by bestowing functions such as self-healing and active thermal management. However, the prese…
This paper presents a systematic study of the growth mechanism for Pd nanobars synthesized by reducing Na2PdCl4 with L-ascorbic acid in an aqueous solution in the presence of bromide ions as a capping agent. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high-resolution TEM analyses revealed that the growth at early stage…
A systematic study of various edge modified graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been performed using a density functional theory method. Particular attention is placed on the possibility of achieving half-metallicity in the graphene nanostructures. Six chemical functional groups, namely, OH, NH 2, N(CH 3 ) 2, SO 2, NO 2,…
In this article, we report on the fabrication of 0.3‐μm average grain‐sized transparent yttria ceramics using a modified two‐step sintering approach. This process yielded full densification of the yttria ceramics with a drastically reduced grain growth. These transparent yttria ceramics exhibited a transparency equiva…
The correlated motion of electrons in the presence of strong orbital fluctuations and correlations is investigated with respect to magnetic couplings and excitations in an orbitally degenerate ferromagnet. Introduction of the orbital degree of freedom results in a class of diagrams representing spin-orbital coupling w…
Protonation-triggered conformational changes of meso-octakis(pentafluorophenyl) [36]octaphyrin and [38]octaphyrin have been investigated. The X-ray crystal structures and (1)H NMR analyses revealed that the protonation process cuts off intramolecular hydrogen bonds between aminic and iminic pyrrole units and, at the s…
A new approach to optical monitors for gases is introduced using cholesteric liquid crystals doped with reactive chiral compounds. The approach is based on cholesteric pitch length changes caused by a change in helical twisting power (HTP) of the chiral dopants upon reaction with the analyte. The concept is demonstrat…
WebCSD, a new web-based application developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, offers fast searching of the Cambridge Structural Database using only a standard internet browser. Search facilities include two-dimensional substructure, molecular similarity, text/numeric and reduced cell searching. Text, ch…