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Toughness of Neat, Rubber Modified and Filled β-nucleated Polypropylene: from Fundamentals to Applications
This review highlights several aspects of the toughness of β-nucleated polypropylene (PP). The focus is on dynamic fracture properties, a topic...
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Modeling the hydration of proteins at different pH values
The atomic coordinates of proteins, for example, of the enzyme lysozyme as a small model protein, can be used for calculating analytically the exact...
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Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes
Through functionalization of carbon nanotubes, i.e., the attachment of appropriate chemical functionalities onto their conjugated sp2 carbon...
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Morphological implications of the interphase bridging crystalline and amorphousregions in semi-crystalline polymers
In semi-crystalline polymers a range of morphologies can be obtained in which a chainmay traverse the amorphous region between the crystals or fold...
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Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of Guest Ion Intercalation into Layered Double Hydroxides Using Time-resolved, In-situ X-ray Powder Diffraction
In recent years, a tremendous increase in our understanding of intercalation reactions has been attained through the use of in-situ techniques. In...
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Microwave-Assisted Multicomponent Reactionsfor the Synthesis of Heterocycles
Multicomponent reactions offer convenient procedures for the introduction of many points of structural diversity into heterocyclic compounds...
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Transition-Metal-Based Carbon–Carbon and Carbon–Heteroatom Bond Formation for the Synthesis and Decoration of Heterocycles
A literature overview, up to the end of 2004, of the most important microwave-assisted transition-metal-mediated processes used for the decoration...
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Synthesis of Heterocycles via Microwave-Assisted Cycloadditions and Cyclocondensations
Controlled microwave heating has found many important applications in the synthesis of heterocycles. Almost all kinds of heterocycles have been...
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Preparation of Layered Double Hydroxides
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) comprise an extensive class of materials that are very easy to synthesize in the laboratory, albeit not always as...
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The Tensile Strength of Polymer Fibres
A theory of the tensile strength of oriented polymer fibres is presented. From an analysis of the observed fracture envelope it is shown that the...
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Templated Synthesis of Interlocked Molecules
Mechanically interlocked molecular compounds can be synthesized in high yields by using template-directed assistance to covalent synthesis. Catenanes...
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Fracture of Glassy Polymers Within Sliding Contacts
Cracking processes in brittle amorphous polymers within sliding contacts and their relationships with bulk fracture properties are reviewed. The...
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Simulation of Charged Colloids in Solution
Physicochemical properties of solutions of charged colloids are often dominated by the electrostatic interactions present in such systems. A full...
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Chlorins Programmed for Self-Assembly
The supramolecular chemistry of chlorins which are the most abundant photosynthetic pigments is reviewed. In chlorophyll-protein complexes,...
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Molecular Imprinting: State of the Art and Perspectives
Molecular recognition is central to how biological systems work. The molecular imprinting technique is a valuable polymerisation method for preparing...
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Bacteriophage fd: exactly how flexible?
The particles from filamentous bacteriophages are generally considered to be flexible. This assumption originally arose from the observation of...
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Synthesis and Applications of Supramolecular Porphyrinic Materials
The supramolecular chemistry of porphyrinic systems is extraordinarily diverse because the rigid macrocycles offer a variety of topologies that can...
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Supramolecular Organization of Foldable Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers
This review summarizes the supramolecular organization of foldable phenylene ethynylene (PE) oligomers and polymers. m-Phenylene ethynylenes (mPEs)...
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Macrocycles and Complex Three-Dimensional Structures Comprising Pt(II) Building Blocks
Metalla-macrocycles and complex three-dimensional structures containing Pt(II) building blocks are becoming increasingly attractive and the focus of...