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Hydrophile

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Influence of the hydrophile-lipophile balance of perfluorinated surfactants on the emulsion stability

Esther Amstad, Gaia De Angelis

Emulsions are omnipresent in our everyday life; for example, in food, certain drug and cosmetic formulations, agriculture, and as paints. Moreover, they are frequently used to perform high-throughput screening assays with minimum sample volumes. Key to the ...

Springer Heidelberg2024

Switching the on-surface orientation of oxygen-functionalized helicene

Christian Wäckerlin

Helicenes represent an important class of chiral organic material with promising optoelectronic properties. Hence, functionalization of surfaces with helicenes is a key step toward new organic materials devices. The deposition of a heterohelicene containin ...

Wiley2024

On the effect of ligand shell heterogeneity on nanoparticle/protein binding thermodynamics

Francesco Stellacci, Ahmet Bekdemir, Suiyang Liao

Nonspecific protein adhesion to nanoparticle (NP) has been proven to have important implications in nanomedicine. However, there are only a few examples of careful studies relating protein binding thermodynamics to NP physicochemical features. In particula ...

2019

Biporous Metal-Organic Framework with Tunable CO2/CH4 Separation Performance Facilitated by Intrinsic Flexibility

Berend Smit, Kyriakos Stylianou, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Daniele Ongari, Andrzej Gladysiak, Arunraj Chidambaram, Peter George Boyd, Kathryn Suzanne Deeg

In this work, we report the synthesis of SION-8, a novel metal-organic framework (MOF) based on Ca(II) and a tetracarboxylate ligand TBAPy(4-) endowed with two chemically distinct types of pores characterized by their hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties ...

2018

Origin of the Strong Interaction between Polar Molecules and Copper(II) Paddle-Wheels in Metal Organic Frameworks

Berend Smit, Daniele Ongari, Davide Tiana

The copper paddle-wheel is the building unit of many metal organic frameworks. Because of the ability of the copper cations to attract polar molecules, copper paddle-wheels are promising for carbon dioxide adsorption and separation. They have therefore bee ...

American Chemical Society2017

Soft-Sphere Continuum Solvation in Electronic-Structure Calculations

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi

We present an implicit solvation approach where the interface-between the quantum-mechanical solute and the surrounding environment is, described by a fully continuous permittivity built up with atomic-centered "soft" spheres. This approach combines many o ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Hydrophilic Interaction Between Low-Coordinated Au and Water: H2O/Au(310) Studied with TPD and XPS

Maarten Eduard van Reijzen

In this work, we study the relatively weak H2O Au interaction on the highly stepped and anisotropic (310) surface with temperature-programmed desorption and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Compared to Au(111), we report an enhanced adsorption energy of H ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Water at Interfaces

Gabriele Tocci, Martin Hangaard Hansen

The interfaces of neat water and aqueous solutions play a prominent role in many technological processes and in the environment. Examples of aqueous interfaces are ultrathin water films that cover most hydrophilic surfaces under ambient relative humidities ...

American Chemical Society2016

Crystalline Oligo(ethylene sulfide) Domains Define Highly Stable Supramolecular Block Copolymer Assemblies

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Davide Demurtas, Edward Allen Phelps

With proper control over copolymer design and solvation conditions, self-assembled materials display impressive morphological variety that encompasses nanoscale colloids as well as bulk three-dimensional architectures. Here we take advantage of both hydrop ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Understanding Small-Molecule Interactions in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Coupling Experiment with Theory

Berend Smit, Wendy Lee Queen

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have gained much attention as next-generation porous media for various applications, especially gas separation/storage, and catalysis. New MOFs are regularly reported; however, to develop better materials in a timely manner ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Specific Ion Effects in Amphiphile Hydration and Interface Stabilization

Sylvie Roke, Yixing Chen, Rüdiger Scheu

Specific ion effects can influence many processes in aqueous solutions: protein folding, enzyme activity, self-assembly, and interface stabilization. Ionic amphiphiles are known to stabilize the oil/water interface, presumably by dipping their hydrophobic ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

The interplay between apparent viscosity and wettability in nanoconfined water

Kislon Voitchovsky

Understanding and manipulating fluids at the nanoscale is a matter of growing scientific and technological interest. Here we show that the viscous shear forces in nanoconfined water can be orders of magnitudes larger than in bulk water if the confining sur ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Wagging the Tail: Essential Role of Substrate Flexibility in FAAH Catalysis

Ursula Röthlisberger, Marilisa Neri, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Giulia Palermo, Andrea Cavalli

The serine hydrolase, fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), is responsible for the intracellular degradation of anandamide and other bioactive fatty acid ethanolamides involved in the regulation of pain, inflammation, and other pathophysiological processes. T ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Formation and Properties of Self-Assembly-Driven Fluorescent Nanoparticle Sensors

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei

Fluorescent nanoparticles (FNPs) are obtained in water by self-assembly from a polymeric ionic liquid, fluorescent carboxylate moiety, and a surfactant through two main supramolecular interactions, that is, ionic bonds and hydrophobic/hydrophilic interacti ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Characterization of Three Amino-Functionalized Surfaces and Evaluation of Antibody Immobilization for the Multiplex Detection of Tumor Markers Involved in Colorectal Cancer

Vincent Laporte, Nicolas Xanthopoulos

Antibody microarrays are powerful and high-throughput tools for screening and identifying tumor markers from small sample volumes of only a few microliters. Optimization of surface chemistry and spotting conditions are crucial parameters to enhance antibod ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

On the Nature of Interactions of Radicals with Polar Molecules

Jeremy Samuel Arey, Peter Rudolf Tentscher

Solvated radicals play an important role in many areas of chemistry, but to date, the nature of their interactions with polar solvent molecules lacks chemical interpretation. We present a computational quantum chemical analysis of the binding motives of bi ...

American Chemical Society2013

Excellent Correlation between Drug Release and Portal Size in Metalla-Cage Drug-Delivery Systems

Paul Joseph Dyson, Olivier Pierre Zava

A series of large cationic hexanuclear metalla-prisms, Ru-6(p-iPrC(6)H(4)Me)(6)(tpt)(2)(donq)(3), Ru-6(p-iPrC(6)H(4)Me)(6)(tpt)(2)(doaq)(3) and Ru-6(p-iPrC(6)H(4)Me)(6)(tpt)(2)(dotq)(3), composed of p-cymene-ruthenium building blocks brid ...

2011

Preparation of Translationally Cold Neutral Molecules

Andreas Osterwalder, Giulia Di Domenicantonio, Benjamin Bertsche

Efforts at EPFL to obtain translationally cold neutral molecules are described. Active deceleration of polar molecules is performed by confining the molecules in moving three-dimensional electrostatic traps, and by appropriately choosing the velocity of th ...

2011

X-ray-Induced Changes in Wettability

Giorgio Margaritondo

We observed that hard X-ray irradiation modifies the wettability of a variety of inorganic materials. The smooth surfaces of all tested inorganic materials (ZnO, p-Si, Al2O3, SrTiO3, TiN, ZnS, CuO, Ag2O, and Cr2O3) change during it-radiation to a state of ...

2009

Electrochemical Properties of the Supramolecular Assembly of Ruthenium(II)-bipyridine Complex with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ladislav Kavan

The supramolecular assembly of Ru-bipyridine complex, coded Z-907Na, with single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) exhibits unique redox behavior, which is applicable for the nanotube wiring of LiFePO4 (olivine). Cyclic voltammograms of thin films of Z-907Na/S ...

Electrochemical Society2009