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    Instantly adhesive and ultra-elastic patches for dynamic organ and wound repair

    Bioadhesive materials and patches are promising alternatives to surgical sutures and staples. However, many existing bioadhesives do not meet the functional requirements of current surgical procedures and inte...

    Parth Chansoria, Ameya Chaudhari, Emma L. Etter in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Erratum to: About the structure of cellulose: debating the Lindman hypothesis

    Wolfgang G. Glasser, Rajai H. Atalla, John Blackwell, R. Malcolm Brown Jr. in Cellulose (2012)

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    About the structure of cellulose: debating the Lindman hypothesis

    The hypothesis advanced in this issue of CELLULOSE [Springer] by Bjorn Lindman, which asserts that the solubility or insolubility characteristics of cellulose are significantly based upon amphiphilic and hydro...

    Wolfgang G. Glasser, Rajai H. Atalla, John Blackwell, R. Malcolm Brown Jr. in Cellulose (2012)

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    Summary

    Chapter 8 summarizes previous chapters, noting that drafting papers systematically can greatly ease the process and help maximize chances of publication. Key first steps include planning, performing and delimi...

    John Blackwell, Jan Martin in A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing (2011)

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    Maximizing Chances of Publication

    To maximize the chances of publishing scientific texts, such texts need to be clear and concise and provide all the necessary information, highlighting novel aspects of the studies they describe. Composing a s...

    John Blackwell, Jan Martin in A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing (2011)

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    Other Kinds of Written Scientific Communication

    This book focuses mainly on writing peer-reviewed papers, since they are key elements of the primary literature, and every scientist who wants a successful academic career needs to write such papers. However, ...

    John Blackwell, Jan Martin in A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing (2011)

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    Essential Steps Before Writing a Paper

    Having completed a study and acquired all the data required to present it, you are ready to begin preparing a paper. However, before beginning to write, you have to take several critical preliminary steps: You...

    John Blackwell, Jan Martin in A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing (2011)

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    Drafting Papers

    Writing a paper can seem an overwhelming task initially, since there are many points to include, and it may seem very difficult to arrange the information coherently and appropriately. However, scientific pape...

    John Blackwell, Jan Martin in A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing (2011)

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    Linguistic Points

    In most of this guide the authors attempt to distil experience gained in many collective years of writing, editing and reviewing papers that they hope will help readers to maximize chances of their papers bein...

    John Blackwell, Jan Martin in A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing (2011)

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    Complex Studies

    The hypothetical case studies presented in Chapter 3 are relatively straightforward, in that they could be described as single-part investigations. Writing sections of papers describing such studies is also relat...

    John Blackwell, Jan Martin in A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing (2011)

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    Covering Letters and Referees’ Objections

    Having written a paper for a peer-reviewed journal to the best of your ability, the next step is to write a covering letter. This is a key document, since the editor of the target journal will obtain his or he...

    John Blackwell, Jan Martin in A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing (2011)

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    Changes in the American Interventional Radiology Literature: Comparison over a 10-Year Time Period

    To determine the changes that occurred regarding interventional radiologic research in the major American radiology journals between 1992–1993 and 2002–2003.

    Charles E. Ray Jr, Rajan Gupta in CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (2006)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    SIDECAR ASIC - Control Electronics on a Chip

    Markus Loose, James W. Beletic, John Blackwell in Scientific detectors for astronomy 2005 (2006)

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    Effect of thermal annealing on the structure of Technora and Kevlar polyamide fibers

    This paper describes X-ray diffraction analysis for the structural changes of Technora and Kevlar polyaramid fibers as a result of thermal annealing. Technora fibers are based on the aromatic copolyamide prepa...

    Tzong-Ming Wu, John Blackwell in Journal of Polymer Research (1997)

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    NpH-MD-Simulations of the Elastic Moduli of Cellulose II at Room Temperatue

    We have used molecular dynamics modeling to investigate the stucture and mechanical properties of regenerated cellulose fibres. This work is motivated by continued interest in replacing the environmentally haz...

    Johannes Ganster, John Blackwell in Molecular modeling annual (1996)

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    X-Ray Analysis of the Structure of HM-50 Copolyamide Fibers

    X-ray analysis methods have been used to investigate the structure of the high strength HM-50 copolyamide fiber produced by Tei**, Ltd. of Japan [1,2]. The fiber is prepared of a 50/25/25 mole ratio of the mo...

    Ronald A. Cageao, Amit Biswas, John Blackwell in MRS Online Proceedings Library (1986)

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    X-ray Studies of Thermotropic Aromatic Copolyesters

    X-ray diffraction has been used to investigate the solid state structure of aromatic copolyesters that can be spun as high strength fibers from thermotropic melts. Copolymers of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA), 2,...

    John Blackwell, Genaro A. Gutierrez, Robin A. Chivers in Polymeric Liquid Crystals (1985)

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    The Macromolecular Organization of Cellulose and Chitin

    In this chapter, we will review what is currently known about the physical structures of cellulose and chitin and discuss the implications of these structures for studies of the biosynthesis of these two polym...

    John Blackwell in Cellulose and Other Natural Polymer Systems (1982)