Transition-metal coordinate bonds for bioinspired macromolecules with tunable mechanical properties

E Khare, N Holten-Andersen, MJ Buehler - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021‏ - nature.com
Transition-metal coordination complexes are emerging as a broad class of supramolecular
crosslinks that can be used to engineer the mechanical properties of advanced structural …

Hydration effects turn a highly stretched polymer from an entropic into an energetic spring

S Liese, M Gensler, S Krysiak, R Schwarzl, A Achazi… - ACS …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a structurally simple and nontoxic water-soluble polymer that is
widely used in medical and pharmaceutical applications as molecular linker and spacer. In …

Thermally Stable, Recyclable, and Luminescent Coordination Adaptable Network Base on a Tb3+ Complexes Cross-Linker

QS Huang, PC Zhao, ZH Zhao… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Covalent adaptable networks (CANs) are receiving intense attention due to the growing
demand for sustainable materials, as they show thermoset-like behavior but can also be (re) …

Aeriometallurgical extraction of rare earth elements from a NdFeB magnet utilizing supercritical fluids

J Zhang, J Anawati, Y Yao, G Azimi - ACS Sustainable Chemistry …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
There is a global need for efficient and environmentally sustainable processes to close the
life cycle loop of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) through recycling …

Force spectroscopy shows dynamic binding of influenza hemagglutinin and neuraminidase to sialic acid

V Reiter-Scherer, JL Cuellar-Camacho, S Bhatia… - Biophysical journal, 2019‏ - cell.com
The influenza A virus infects target cells through multivalent interactions of its major spike
proteins, hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA), with the cellular receptor sialic acid …

Analysis of the Acting Forces in a Theory of Catalysis and Mechanochemistry

W Quapp, JM Bofill, J Ribas-Ariño - The Journal of Physical …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
The theoretical description of a chemical process resulting from the application of
mechanical or catalytical stress to a molecule is performed by the generation of an effective …

Reaction rates in a theory of mechanochemical pathways

W Quapp, JM Bofill - Journal of computational chemistry, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
If one applies mechanical stress to a molecule in a defined direction then one generates a
new, effective potential energy surface (PES). Changes for minima and saddle points (SP) …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical stability of bivalent transition metal complexes analyzed by single-molecule force spectroscopy

M Gensler, C Eidamshaus, M Taszarek… - Beilstein Journal of …, 2015‏ - beilstein-journals.org
Multivalent biomolecular interactions allow for a balanced interplay of mechanical stability
and malleability, and nature makes widely use of it. For instance, systems of similar thermal …

Mechanochemical Understanding of Metal-Coordinated Polymers Using Simulation and Experiment

E Khare - 2023‏ - dspace.mit.edu
Metal-coordination bonds have the capacity to reform after rupture, thereby enabling
dynamic, tunable, and reversible (self-healing) mechanical properties. Several biological …

Multivalency in the interaction of biological polymers

VD Reiter-Scherer - 2020‏ - edoc.hu-berlin.de
This thesis focuses on studying multivalent interactions between influenza virus
hemagglutinin (HA) as well as neuraminidase (NA) of two viral strains (H1N1 and H3N2) …