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Well-controlled Organocatalytic Ring-opening Polymerization of Seven-membered Cyclic Carbonates with Cyclohexyl Fusion
Develo** green and well-controlled polymerization methods is of great significance for the preparation of biomedical polymer materials. In this contribution, an efficient organocatalytic ring-opening polymer...
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Functionalizable and Recyclable Aliphatic Polycarbonates Derived from Biomass Feedstocks and CO2
Two bio-based seven-membered cyclic carbonate monomers M1 and M2 were synthesized in three steps from myrcene, which could produce polycarbonates via ring-opening polymerization using metal or organic catalysts. ...
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Spiro-salen catalysts enable the chemical synthesis of stereoregular polyhydroxyalkanoates
Although bacterial stereoregular polyhydroxyalkanoates have attracted broad interest as sustainable materials, it remains a long-standing challenge to chemically synthesize stereoregular polyhydroxyalkanoates ...
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Open AccessInsights into substitution strategy towards thermodynamic and property regulation of chemically recyclable polymers
The development of chemically recyclable polymers serves as an attractive approach to address the global plastic pollution crisis. Monomer design principle is the key to achieving chemical recycling to monomer...
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A facile approach towards high-performance poly(thioether-thioester)s with full recyclability
Develo** new chemically recyclable polymers is important for a circular plastics economy. Herein, we prepared a class of 1,4-dithian-2-one (DTO) with thioether and thioester functionalities. These sulfur-sub...
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A coupled numerical method to study the local stability of jointed rock slopes under long-distance bench blasting
In this work, a submodel coupling method has been developed to tackle this problem by coupling LS-DYNA and the four-dimensional lattice spring model (4D-LSM). LS-DYNA is used to simulate the detonation process...
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Fluid injection-induced seismicity considering secondary damage and heterogeneity in the surrounding rock
Rock is a heterogeneous material with primary damage and defects, which can greatly affect the mechanical properties of the rock and the slip on a fault. Additionally, slip on a fault can generate secondary da...
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Open AccessPackaging materials with desired mechanical and barrier properties and full chemical recyclability
Plastics have become indispensable in modern life and the material of choice in packaging applications, but they have also caused increasing plastic waste accumulation in oceans and landfills. Although there h...
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A review of mechanisms of induced earthquakes: from a view of rock mechanics
The induced earthquake recently has gained an increasing public awareness of environmental and safety issue. The earthquakes associated with fluid injection and extraction, reservoir impoundment and mining/roc...
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An Experimental Investigation of the Failure Mechanisms of Jointed and Intact Marble under Compression Based on Quantitative Analysis of Acoustic Emission Waveforms
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Expression of Shewanella frigidimarina fatty acid metabolic genes in E. coli by CRISPR/cas9-coupled lambda Red recombineering
To construct a clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/cas9 system and use this system to obtain a recombinant Escherichia coli strain possessing the fatty acid metabolism genes from ...
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Cloning and characterization of a novel dehydrin gene, SiDhn2, from Saussurea involucrata Kar. et Kir.
Saussurea involucrata Kar. et Kir. is a hardy dicotyledonous plant capable of tolerating severe abiotic stress conditions. In a previous study, we created a cDNA library to determine what factors...
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Induction of a protective antibody response to FMDV in mice following oral immunization with transgenic Stylosanthes spp. as a feedstuff additive
The expression of antigens in transgenic plants has increasingly been used as an alternative to the classical methodologies for the development of experimental vaccines, and it remains one of the real challeng...
