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Erratum to: Designed imidazole-based supramolecular catalysts for accelerating oxidation/hydrolysis cascade reactions
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Designed imidazole-based supramolecular catalysts for accelerating oxidation/hydrolysis cascade reactions
Reconstructing enzymatic active sites presents a significant challenge due to the intricacies involved in achieving enzyme-like scaffold folding and spatial arrangement of essential functional groups. There is...
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End-tethered polyelectrolytes are widely used to modify substrate properties, particularly for lubrication or wetting. External stimuli, such as pH, salt concentration, or an electric field, can induce profoun...
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Enzymes fold into unique three-dimensional structures to distribute their reactive amino acid residues, but environmental changes can disrupt their essential folding and lead to irreversible activity loss. The...
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Designed histidine-rich peptide self-assembly for accelerating oxidase-catalyzed reactions
It is an important goal for supramolecular chemistry to develop synthetic enzyme mimics rivaling native enzymes, while de novo fabrication of such mimics remains a challenge. Alternatively, the catalytic groups f...
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Cofactor-free oxidase-mimetic nanomaterials from self-assembled histidine-rich peptides
Natural oxidases mainly rely on cofactors and well-arranged amino acid residues for catalysing electron-transfer reactions but suffer from non-recovery of their activity upon externally induced protein unfoldi...
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IgG4-related disease: association between chronic rhino-sinusitis and systemic symptoms
The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between chronic rhino-sinusitis (CRS) and systemic symptoms in patients with IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD).
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Variational Methods in Statistical Thermodynamics—A Pedagogical Introduction
This chapter presents a pedagogical introduction to the variational methods in statistical thermodynamics. We start with some general considerations of the variational nature of thermodynamics, which is rooted...
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The scaling behavior of the second virial coefficient of linear and ring polymer
The scaling behavior of the second virial coefficient of ring polymers at the theta temperature of the corresponding linear polymer (θ L) is investigated by off-lattice Monte Carlo...
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Mechanical DNA Devices
Natural molecular machines have been playing very significant roles in the world, which stimulated numerous efforts on the artificial molecular machines. DNA ambiguously is an ideal building block for the nano...
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Design, Fabrication, and Applications of DNA Nanomachines
In this chapter, we outline the shared principles of design and fabrication of DNA nanomachines that are established and newly developed. Various functional DNA nanomachines and their applications are also dis...
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Borrowing concepts from the schema theory of genetic algorithms, we have developed a computational algorithm to identify the fragments of proteins, or schemas, that can be recombined without disturbing the int...
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Thin films of organic molecules, such as Langmuir monolayers and freely suspended smectic films, can exhibit a spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry. This chiral symmetry breaking can occur through at least ...
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Fracture at Finite Temperature: a Statistical-Thermodynamic Approach
We discuss both theory and simulation of fracture of ideal and almost ideal crystals at finite temperature. We propose that a solid under stress is in a metastable state, and that the onset of fracture may be ...
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Effects of surface nonlinear interactions on the local critical behaviors are studied for an-component field in the semi-infinite space near the SB (surface-bulk) point by using renormalization group methods. The...
