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Emulsion polymerization

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Polymer or polycondensate based on peptide, linker and optionally other monomers and method for preparing the same

Li Tang, Lixia Wei, Yu Zhao

The present invention concerns a method for producing polymers suitable as carrier-free delivery system of bioactive molecules, in particular bioactive peptides. The method comprises the polycondensation of one or more different monomers, including monomer ...

2021

Mechanical Activation of Chemical Bonds at Polymer Interfaces

Julian Nicolas Bleich

Polymer brushes are a specific class of polymer thin films in which each chain is tethered to the underlying substrate via one chain end. In sufficiently densely grafted assemblies, the individual polymer chains are forced into an extended chain conformati ...

EPFL2021

Design and Development of Injectable, Tough and Intrinsically-Adhesive Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

Peyman Karami

Despite the development of hydrogels with a wide range of mechanical properties, insufficient adhesion between these materials and biological surfaces limits their use in the biomedical applications. Most recent advancements in highly adhesive hydrogel sys ...

EPFL2021

Complex polymer topologies and polymer-nanoparticle hybrid films prepared via surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization

Harm-Anton Klok, Piotr Mocny

Advances in controlled radical polymerization over the past two decades have transformed the ability to produce molecularly well-defined, chain-end tethered polymer brush films. The assets of controlled radical polymerization reactions have impacted the sy ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Degradation of plastic materials into terephthalic acid (tpa), ethylene glycol and/or other monomers that form the plastic materials

Berend Smit, Kyriakos Stylianou, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Samantha Lynn Anderson

The invention relates to a method for degradation of plastic materials into terephthalic acid (TPA)and/or ethylene glycol and/or other monomers that form the plastic materials. ...

2020

Toward Bright Red-Emissive Carbon Dots through Controlling Interaction among Surface Emission Centers

Nikita Tepliakov

Relatively weak red photoluminescence of carbon dots (CDots) is a major challenge on the way to their successful implementation in biological and optoelectronic devices. We present a theoretical analysis of the interaction among the surface emission center ...

2020

Inkjet‐Printed Composites for Room‐Temperature VOC Sensing: From Ink Formulation to Sensor Characterization

Jürgen Brugger, Thomas Maeder, Mohammadmahdi Kiaee

The authors report the fabrication and characterization of chemiresistive sensors, composed of a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), styrene‐ethylene‐ran‐butylene‐styrene, and a high‐structure carbon black (CB) targeted for detecting hydrocarbons at or near roo ...

Wiley2020

A polymeric ionic liquid catalyst for the N-formylation and N-methylation of amines using CO2/PhSiH3

Paul Joseph Dyson, Andreas Züttel, Zhaofu Fei, Kyriakos Stylianou, Arunraj Chidambaram, Aswin Gopakumar, Dmitry Vasilyev, Serhii Shyshkanov

We describe a polymeric ionic liquid (PIL) derived from trimethyl(p-vinylbenzyl)ammonium chloride ([VBTAm]Cl) that efficiently catalyzes the N-formylation of amines employing CO2 and PhSiH3 at room temperature with low catalyst loadings in near-quantitativ ...

2020

Phase behaviour and structure of a model biomolecular condensate

Julian Charles Shillcock

Phase separation of immiscible fluids is a common phenomenon in polymer chemistry, and is recognized as an important mechanism by which cells compartmentalize their biochemical reactions. Biomolecular condensates are condensed fluid droplets in cells that ...

2020

Highly Loaded Mildly Edge‐Oxidized Graphene Nanosheet Dispersions for Large‐Scale Inkjet Printing of Electrochemical Sensors

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Horst Pick, Milica Jovic, Victor Costa Bassetto, Yingdi Zhu, Bhawna Nagar

Inkjet printing of electrochemical sensors using a highly loaded mildly edge‐oxidized graphene nanosheet (EOGN) ink is presented. An ink with 30 mg/mL EOGNs is formulated in a mixture of N‐methyl pyrrolidone and propylene glycol with only 30 min of sonicat ...

2020

Reliable Langmuir Blodgett colloidal masks for large area nanostructure realization

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Madasamy Thangamuthu

The fabrication of highly ordered nanostructures over large areas is key for many technologies and colloidal lithography using the Langmuir Blodgett technique appears a simple and straightforward way of reaching that goal. While this technique has been wid ...

2020

Polymer brush interfaces for protein biosensing prepared by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization

Harm-Anton Klok

Thin polymer films that are able to bind proteins are of great relevance for a wide variety of biosensor and biochip applications. Some of these applications require films that have high protein binding capacities while others call for surfaces that allow ...

2019