Silk-based stabilization of biomacromolecules

AB Li, JA Kluge, NA Guziewicz, FG Omenetto… - Journal of Controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Silk fibroin is a high molecular weight amphiphilic protein that self-assembles into robust
biomaterials with remarkable properties including stabilization of biologicals and tunable …

Origin of the boson peak in amorphous solids

YC Hu, H Tanaka - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
It is widely known that the low-temperature physical properties, such as the heat capacity
and thermal conductivity, of a disordered amorphous solid are markedly different from those …

Antiplasticization of polymer materials: Structural aspects and effects on mechanical and diffusion-controlled properties

L Mascia, Y Kouparitsas, D Nocita, X Bao - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antiplasticization of glassy polymers, arising from the addition of small amounts of
plasticizer, was examined to highlight the developments that have taken place over the last …

[PDF][PDF] 3D‐printing of lightweight cellular composites

BG Compton, JA Lewis - Advanced materials, 2014 - picture.iczhiku.com
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201401804 shear elastic modulus, G′, and shear yield strength, τ y, to
maintain their printed filamentary shape. By carefully tailoring the ink composition and …

Assessment and optimization of the fast inertial relaxation engine (fire) for energy minimization in atomistic simulations and its implementation in lammps

J Guénolé, WG Nöhring, A Vaid, F Houllé, Z **e… - Computational Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
In atomistic simulations, pseudo-dynamical relaxation schemes often exhibit better
performance and accuracy in finding local minima than line-search-based descent …

β-Relaxation governs protein stability in sugar-glass matrices

MT Cicerone, JF Douglas - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The stabilizing effect of sugar-glass matrix materials for freeze-drying proteins or nucleic
acids has been variously ascribed to the thermodynamic effect of 'water replacement'by …

Competing effects of cohesive energy and cross-link density on the segmental dynamics and mechanical properties of cross-linked polymers

X Zheng, Y Guo, JF Douglas, W **a - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
To develop structure–property relationships for cross-linked thermosetting polymers, it is
crucial to better understand key factors that control their segmental dynamics and …

Bayesian inversion for unified ductile phase-field fracture

N Noii, A Khodadadian, J Ulloa, F Aldakheel… - Computational …, 2021 - Springer
The prediction of crack initiation and propagation in ductile failure processes are
challenging tasks for the design and fabrication of metallic materials and structures on a …

Fast dynamics in a model metallic glass-forming material

H Zhang, X Wang, HB Yu, JF Douglas - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the fast β-and Johari–Goldstein (JG) β-relaxation processes, along with the
elastic scattering response of glass-forming (GF) liquids and the boson peak, in a simulated …

Role of string-like collective atomic motion on diffusion and structural relaxation in glass forming Cu-Zr alloys

H Zhang, C Zhong, JF Douglas, X Wang… - The Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate Cu-Zr liquid alloys using molecular dynamics simulation and well-accepted
embedded atom method potentials over a wide range of chemical composition and …