Rational design of tapered multiblock copolymers for thermoplastic elastomers

M Steube, T Johann, RD Barent, AHE Mueller… - Progress in Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) combine the features of vulcanized thermoset rubbers and
thermoplastic materials in their phase-separated microdomain structure. As a consequence …

Constructing and deconstructing the bacterial cell wall

JF Fisher, S Mobashery - Protein science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The history of modern medicine cannot be written apart from the history of the antibiotics.
Antibiotics are cytotoxic secondary metabolites that are isolated from Nature. The …

LaMer's 1950 model for particle formation of instantaneous nucleation and diffusion-controlled growth: a historical look at the model's origins, assumptions, equations …

CB Whitehead, S Özkar, RG Finke - Chemistry of Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
A look back at LaMer's 1950 model of particle formation is undertaken (LaMer, VK; Dinegar,
RH Theory, Production and Mechanism of Formation of Monodispersed Hydrosols. J. Am …

Entropy-based logic explanations of neural networks

P Barbiero, G Ciravegna, F Giannini, P Lió… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Explainable artificial intelligence has rapidly emerged since lawmakers have started
requiring interpretable models for safety-critical domains. Concept-based neural networks …

Three kinds of idealization

M Weisberg - The journal of Philosophy, 2007 - JSTOR
Philosophers of science increasingly recognize the importance of idealization: the
intentional introduction of distortion into scientific theories. Yet this recognition has not …

Absolute asymmetric synthesis: A commentary

K Mislow - Collection of Czechoslovak chemical communications, 2003 - cccc.uochb.cas.cz
Absolute asymmetric synthesis, ie, the formation of enantiomerically enriched products from
achiral precursors without the intervention of chiral chemical reagents or catalysts, is in …

Tapered multiblock copolymers based on farnesene and styrene: impact of biobased polydiene architectures on material properties

C Wahlen, J Blankenburg, P Von Tiedemann… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The reactivity of the biobased monomer β-farnesene in the statistical anionic
copolymerization with styrene and the effect of the bottlebrush-like polyfarnesene structure …

Nanocluster nucleation, growth, and then agglomeration kinetic and mechanistic studies: a more general, four-step mechanism involving double autocatalysis

C Besson, EE Finney, RG Finke - Chemistry of materials, 2005 - ACS Publications
The discovery of the four-step, double autocatalytic mechanism by which transition-metal
organometallic and metal-salt precursors self-assemble into zerovalent transition-metal …

Distinct catalytic reactivity of Sn substituted in framework locations and at defect grain boundaries in Sn-zeolites

JS Bates, BC Bukowski, JW Harris, J Greeley… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Measurements of turnover rates of gas-phase bimolecular ethanol dehydration to diethyl
ether (404–438 K) on a suite of hydrophobic and hydrophilic Sn-zeolites (Sn-Beta, Sn-BEC …

Photochemistry of (fulvalene) tetracarbonyldiruthenium and its derivatives: efficient light energy storage devices

R Boese, JK Cammack, AJ Matzger… - Journal of the …, 1997 - ACS Publications
Broad-band irradiation (λmax= 350 nm) of FvRu2 (CO) 4 (1, Fv= η5: η5-bicyclopentadienyl)
resulted in rapid isomerization to colorless (μ2-η1: η5-cyclopentadienyl) 2Ru2 (CO) 4 (2) in …