Publications associées à Crystal Engineering of Polymeric Structures with Dative Boron–Nitrogen Bonds: Design Criteria and Limitations

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Soft Mechanochemistry of Disulfide-Crosslinked Polymer Networks

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

Composition and method for the preparation of sheets, films, fibers, and molded parts

Holger Frauenrath, Oguzhan Oguz, Daniel Görl, Shuichi Haraguchi

The invention describes a composition containing a) a functionalized polymer (10) that comprises at least one polyester segment (13) and at least one, in particular at least two, polymer aggregating segment (11, 12) capable of forming non-covalent bonds ba ...

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

Composition containing a polymer and an additive

John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Daniel Görl

The invention describes a composition containing a) a functionalized polymer (10) that comprises at least one polymer segment (13) and at least two polymer aggregating segments (11,12) capable of forming non-covalent bonds based on a supramolecular interac ...

2019

Crystalline and Soft Materials Based on Dative Boron-Nitrogen Bonds

Nicolas Luisier

The thesis describes the utilization of dative boron-nitrogen bond is used for the construction of new materials. In chapter 2.1, the synthesis of new organogels based on bisimidazolyl ligands and diboronate esters is described. Gels with a critical gel co ...

EPFL2016

Polymer - Carbon Nanostructures Composites : from Chemistry to Physics, to Material Science

Maryam Majidian

Synthesis and characterization of polymer-based composites containing carbon nanostructures is the focus of this dissertation. The main polymer which has been used for this research is SU8. The motivation of the work is to overcome the drawbacks of SU8 e.g ...

EPFL2016

Polymer-theory insights into biomolecular systems

Salvatore Assenza

Boosted by the technological advances in experimental techniques, cellular biology is nowadays facing the need for quantitative approaches in order to rationalize the huge amount of collected data. A particularly succesfull theoretical framework is provide ...

EPFL2015

Peptide-Polymer Conjugates for Therapeutic Applications

Ana Maria Raduta

Over the last ten years the attention of the pharmaceutical industry has shifted away from small molecules to focus on new biologics such as antibodies, proteins and therapeutic peptides. Herein, peptides have emerged as a particularly interesting category ...

EPFL2015

Multicomponent Assembly of Boronic Acid-Based Macrocycles, Cages, and Polymers

Burçak Içli

This work describes the synthesis and characterization of boronic acid-based supramolecular structures. Different reversible interactions such as boronate ester formation, imine condensation and dative B–N bond formation are used to assemble macrocycles, c ...

EPFL2012

Boron-Nitrogen Dative Bonds in Structural Supramolecular Chemistry

Erin Sheepwash

This work describes the use of boron-nitrogen dative bonds in supramolecular chemistry. Molecular tectons have been synthesized for crystal engineering. These tectons are linked via B-N dative bonds to form 1-dimensional polymers and macrocycles. B-N dativ ...

EPFL2012

Supramolecular polymers based on dative boron–nitrogen bonds

Kay Severin, Nicolas Luisier, Erin Sheepwash

Heteroditopic monomers containing an arylboronate ester and a dialkyl-4-aminopyridine group aggregate via dative boron–nitrogen bonds to give main chain supramolecular polymers. The degree of polymerization can be tuned by changing the electronic and steri ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Cell Uptake and Trafficking Behavior of Non-covalent, Coiled-coil Based Polymer-Drug Conjugates

Harm-Anton Klok, Bojana Portmann

This paper reports on the cell uptake and trafficking properties of a series of non-covalent polymer-drug conjugates. These nanomedicines are composed of a poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide) backbone functionalized with multiple copies of a drug. The ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

DNA Topology : A Biophysical Study of DNA Rings, Knots, and Catenanes by Means of Atomic Force Microscopy and Numerical Simulations

Guillaume Witz

This thesis explores different aspects of DNA topology through experimental and numerical techniques. Topology is a vast mathematical field, that deals with the spatial properties of objects undergoing continuous deformations, but here it is restricted to ...

EPFL2010

Synthesis of sequence-defined oligomers and polymers

Nadja Franz

The preparation of synthetic polymers with exact control over chain length and monomer sequence is one of the long-standing challenges in polymer science. Nature perfectly masters the synthesis of high molecular weight, perfectly monodisperse polypeptides ...

EPFL2009

Peptide/protein – polymer conjugates: synthetic strategies and design concepts

Harm-Anton Klok

This feature article provides a compilation of tools available for preparing well-defined peptide/protein–polymer conjugates, which are defined as hybrid constructs combining (i) a defined number of peptide/protein segments with uniform chain lengths and d ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2008

Physical properties and interactions of biomolecules : an atomic force microscopy study

Mélanie Favre

The aim of this thesis was to explore the statistical physics and the mechanical properties of individual biomolecules, to study their interactions, and to develop new techniques based on atomic force microscopy (AFM). First, we exploit the high resolution ...

EPFL2008

Ionic solid-state dimers and polymers derived from imidazolium dicarboxylic acids

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Zhaofu Fei, Wee Han Ang

A series of imidazolium dicarboxylic acids have been prepd. from the reaction of the 1,3-bis(carboxymethyl)imidazolium zwitterion with the Bronsted acids HX (X = F, Br, Cl, ClO4). The structures of these acids have been established in the solid ...

2006