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Network covalent bonding

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Soft Mechanochemistry of Disulfide-Crosslinked Polymer Networks

Zhao Meng

Mechanochemistry harnesses mechanical force to facilitate chemical reactions. Traditionally, the field of polymer mechanochemistry has used methods to activate chemical bonds, which use forces that are larger than those that are required to break a covalen ...

EPFL2024

Controlling Single Molecule Conductance by a Locally Induced Chemical Reaction on Individual Thiophene Units

Klaus Kern, Uta Schlickum, Ivan Pentegov, Verena Katharina Schendel

Among the prerequisites for the progress of single-molecule-based electronic devices are a better understanding of the electronic properties at the individual molecular level and the development of methods to tune the charge transport through molecular jun ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Cross-linkable polymer, hydrogel, and method of preparation thereof

Dominique Pioletti, Christophe Moser, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Peyman Karami, Céline Samira Wyss

The invention relates to a cross-linkable polymer comprising a base polymer comprising functional groups at least some of which have been reacted with a first organic molecule comprising a cross-linkable unit and with a second organic molecule capable of b ...

2020

Molecular Engineering of Electrode Surfaces for Electrocatalysis

Patrick Eduard Alexa

Electrocatalysts play an important part on the route towards environmental friendly energy sources. They support modern technologies like fuel cells to move further away from the utilization of fossil fuels and the resulting CO2 emission into our atmospher ...

EPFL2020

Local photo-mechanical stiffness revealed in gold nanoparticles supracrystals by ultrafast small-angle electron diffraction

Francesco Stellacci, Fabrizio Carbone, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Francesco Pennacchio, Javier Reguera Gomez

We demonstrate that highly ordered two-dimensional crystals of ligand-capped gold nanoparticles display a local photo-mechanical stiffness as high as that of solids such as graphite. In out-of-equilibrium electron diffraction experiments, a strong temperat ...

2019

New refinement of the crystal structure of Zn(NH3)(2)Cl-2 at 100 K

Arnaud Magrez, Trpimir Ivsic

The crystal structure of [ZnCl2(NH3)(2)], diamminedichloridozinc, was reinvestigated at low temperature, revealing the positions of the hydrogen atoms and thus a deeper insight into the hydrogen-bonding scheme in the crystal packing. In comparison with pre ...

2019

Extending the Scope of the Density Overlap Region Indicator

Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay

In this thesis, original applications of the Density Overlap Region Indicator (DORI), a density dependent bonding descriptor capable of simultaneously capturing covalent and noncovalent interactions, are discussed. The use of scalar fields, such as DORI, w ...

EPFL2018

Stable anchoring chemistry for room temperature charge transport through graphite-molecule contacts

An open challenge for single-molecule electronics is to find stable contacts at room temperature with a well-defined conductance. Common coinage metal electrodes pose fabrication and operational problems due to the high mobility of the surface atoms. We de ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2017

Structured and porous materials particularly suitable as polarizing agents in dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization

David Lyndon Emsley, Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Aurélien Bornet

The present invention concerns materials consisting in a porous and structured network, this network being at least in part formed by Si atoms, or Si atoms and metal atoms, linked to each other by oxy bridges, comprising organic molecules which include at ...

2016

Thermodynamics of the Segregation of a Kinetically Trapped Two-Dimensional Amorphous Metal-Organic Network

Klaus Kern, Claudius Morchutt

Surface-confined self-assembled molecular networks are commonly described as crystalline structures with short- and long-range order. Few exceptions to this trend are found in the literature reporting on amorphous and glassy networks and, discussing the or ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Simultaneous Visualization of Covalent and Non-Covalent Interactions Using Regions of Density Overlap

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Piotr De Silva

We introduce a density-dependent bonding descriptor that enables simultaneous visualization of both covalent and noncovalent interactions. The proposed quantity is tailored to reveal the regions of space, where the total electron density results from a str ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Enumeration of 166 Billion Organic Small Molecules in the Chemical Universe Database GDB-17

Drug, molecules consist of a few tens of atoms connected by covalent bonds. Haw many such molecules are possible in total and what is their structure? This question is of pressing interest in: medicinal. chemistry to help solve the problems of drug potency ...

American Chemical Society2012

Synthesis and Properties of Molecular Nanostructures on Surfaces

One central aim of nanotechnology is the creation and exploitation of nanostructured materials with pre-programmed architecture and properties. The fabrication of functional nanostructures relies on versatile protocols of synthetic chemistry enabling the p ...

EPFL2012

Separation of the Oxide and Halide Part in the Oxohalide Fe3Te3O10Cl Due to High Lewis Acidity of the Cations

Helmuth Berger, Dong Zhang

A new iron tellurite halide Fe3Te3O10Cl has been identified that crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2(1)/c. The crystal structure comprises channels where the Cl ions and also the stereochemically active lone-pair electrons on Te4+ are located. Th ...

2009

Phase-field simulation of micropores constrained by a solid network

Alain Jacot, Hossein Meidani

A 2D phase-field model has been developed in order to describe the morphology of a pore forming within interdendritic liquid channels and the geometrical effect of mechanical contacts with neighboring solid. The distribution of the solid, liquid and gas ph ...

Springer, Springer-Verlag2009

Alginate-based microcapsules for mammalian cell culture and other biotechnological applications

Véronique Breguet

Since life began, nature has been using the envelopment of systems for their protection or for providing a particular reaction space, the enveloping wall displaying additional specific membrane functions. The abundance of examples is quite overwhelming and ...

EPFL2007