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Effects of acetylation on thermodynamic properties of seaweed alginate in sodium chloride solutions
Alginates are polysaccharides consisting of mannuronate and guluronate units. While bacterial alginate is acetylated, seaweed alginate does not...
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Electrophoretic mobility of colloidal particles in salt-free media
It is shown that the electrophoretic mobility μ of dilute spherical colloidal particles of radius a, carrying charge Q in a salt-free medium...
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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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Equilibrium Structure of Dendrimers – Results and Open Questions
We review the problem of the structure of dendrimers in solution. Special emphasis is placed on recent theoretical work and computer simulations of...
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Discrete Organic Nanotubes Based on a Combination of Covalent and Non-Covalent Approaches
Tubular organic nanostructures offering precise control over inner and outer surface functionality represent attractive building blocks for the...
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Heterogeneous Polymerization of Fluoroolefins in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
In recent years, carbon dioxide has been investigated for its potential to replace the aqueous and organic solvents used in polymerization processes....
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Liquid Crystalline Polymers by Metathesis Polymerization
Liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) have gained attention as materials with interesting optical, mechanical and rheological properties. This review...
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Macrocycle Synthesis Through Templation
This review highlights the major advances over the last 5 years in the templated synthesis of carbon-based macrocycles. With selected examples, it...
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Specific Structures Enabled by Metallocene Catalysis in Polyethenes
This chapter briefly describes the history of metallocene polymerisation catalysts. The behaviour of metallocenes, particularly in copolymerisation...
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Environmental Degradation of Polyethylene
The environmental degradation of polyethylene proceeds by synergistic action of photo- and thermo-oxidative degradation and biological activity....
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Chitosan Chemistry: Relevance to the Biomedical Sciences
Chitin is well characterized in terms of analytical chemistry, is purified from accompanying compounds, and derivatized in a variety of fashions....
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Molecular Components of Physiological Stress Responses in Escherichia coli
In order to survive under and adapt to different conditions Escherichia coli has evolved elaborate systems that are able to sense and respond to...
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Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
The theoretical principles of the ESR technique and its application in the field of molecular sieve science are reviewed. The first part of this...
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Comparative modeling of giant annelid hemoglobins
The information provided by small-angle X-ray scattering, electron microscopy and hydrodynamics for the giant hemoglobins from different annelid...
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Characterization of bovine serum albumin/chlorogenic acid solution mixtures by analytical ultracentrifugation
The aim of this work was to investigate a possible interaction between bovine serum albumin (BSA) and chlorogenic acid (CGA) in KH2PO4/K2HPO4 buffer...
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A Covalent Chemistry Approach to Giant Macromolecules with Cylindrical Shape and an Engineerable Interior and Surface
This article divides the synthetic routes leading to dendronized polymers into two main categories (attach-to and macromonomer) and compares their...
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Regioselective Polymerization of 1-Alkynes and Stereoselective Cyclopolymerization of α,ω-Heptadiynes
Metathesis-based polymerizations of 1-alkynes and cyclopolymerizations of 1,6-heptadiynes using late transition metal catalysts are reviewed. Results...
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Conformation and Phase Diagrams of Flexible Polyelectrolytes
The present article addresses the dilute solution behavior of two different polyelectrolyte systems: Aqueous solutions of quaternized...