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High Permittivity Polysiloxanes and Polyphosphazenes for Actuator Applications

In the modern world, soft robots are gaining importance with technological advances. Compared to rigid robots, their elasticity enables safer and more adaptable integration into various systems, making them suitable for wearable devices, biomedical enginee ...

EPFL2025

Characterisation of Polymer Materials for the Development of an Artificial Urethra

Loriane André, Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi, Amine Benouhiba, Quentin Philippe Mario De Menech

Low Urinary Tract Dysfunctions (LUTD) and in particular Urinary Incontinence (UI) is a medical condition affecting millions of people worldwide. In this context researchers and engineers performed tests on porcine and human urethras. However, ethical conce ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Stabilization versus competing de-metalation, trans-metalation and (cyclo)-dehydrogenation of Pd porphyrins at a copper surface

Francesco Armillotta

Metal-porphyrins are studied intensively due their potential applications, deriving from the variety of electronic and chemical properties, tunable by selecting metal centers and functional groups. Metalation, de- and trans-metalation processes are fundame ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Benzylic C(sp3)-H Azidation: Copper vs Iron Catalysis

Jieping Zhu, Jérôme Waser, Qian Wang, Pierre Gérard Joseph Palamini, Raphaël Michel Henri Simonet-Davin

The generation of benzylic radicals through hydrogen atom abstraction (HAT) has been a recent research focus and various C(sp(3))-H bond functionalization protocols have been developed relying on this elementary step. We report herein copper- and iron-cata ...

2024

All Platinum Group Metal-Free and Durable Catalysts for Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells

Andreas Züttel, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Liping Zhong, Thi Ha My Pham, Youngdon Ko

Platinum group metal-free catalysts (e.g., Fe-N-C and Co-N-C) are used as hydrogen peroxide reduction reaction (PRR) catalysts in direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFCs). Fe-N-C is more active in the PRR and demonstrates high performance at the beginning of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Understanding Your Support System: The Design of a Stable Metal-Organic Framework/Polyazoamine Support for Biomass Conversion

Jeremy Luterbacher, Wendy Lee Queen, Mehrdad Asgari, Shuliang Yang, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve

Introducing oligomeric or polymeric units into metal- organic frameworks (MOFs) can result in composites that have significantly improved properties when compared with the individual MOF or polymer building blocks. With such synergy in mind, this work pres ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Uniformly Dispersed Poly(lactic acid)-Grafted Lignin Nanoparticles Enhance Antioxidant Activity and UV-Barrier Properties of Poly(lactic acid) Packaging Films

Yves Leterrier, Harm-Anton Klok, Alice Boarino, Aigoul Schreier

Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) represents one of the most widely used biodegradable polymers for food packaging applications. While this material provides many advantages, it is characterized by limited antioxidant and UV-barrier properties. Blending PLA with lig ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Nanoindentation Reveals Crosslinking Behavior of Solar Encapsulants-The Methodological Advantages over Bulk Methods

Andreas Schueler

The power degradation and failure of photovoltaic (PV) modules can be caused by changes in the mechanical properties of the polymeric components during the module lifetime. This paper introduces instrumented nanoindentation as a method to investigate the m ...

2021

Carboxymethyl cellulose nanocomposite beads as super-efficient catalyst for the reduction of organic and inorganic pollutants

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

Carboxymethyl cellulose/copper oxide-nickel oxide (CMC/CuO-NiO) nanocomposite beads were prepared by facile, simple and environmentally friendlymethod. Initially, CuO-NiOwas prepared and applied for the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP). The resu ...

ELSEVIER2021

Relative abundance of nitrogen cycling microbes in coral holobionts reflects environmental nitrate availability

Nils Rädecker

Recent research suggests that nitrogen (N) cycling microbes are important for coral holobiont functioning. In particular, coral holobionts may acquire bioavailable N via prokaryotic dinitrogen (N2) fixation or remove excess N via denitrification activity. ...

2021

Colloidal Nanocrystals as Electrocatalysts with Tunable Activity and Selectivity

Raffaella Buonsanti, Jan Vávra, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Valery Okatenko, Cedric David Koolen, Pranit Srinivas Iyengar, James Richard Pankhurst, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili

Correlating the catalyst activity, selectivity, and stability with its structure and composition is of the utmost importance in advancing the knowledge of heterogeneous electrocatalytic processes for chemical energy conversion. Well-defined colloidal nanoc ...

2021

Structure-Property Relationships in Bithiophenes with Hydrogen-Bonded Substituents

Rosario Scopelliti, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Kurt Schenk, Holger Frauenrath, Kun-Han Lin, Bilal Özen

The use of crystal engineering to control the supramolecular arrangement of pi-conjugated molecules in the solid-state is of considerable interest for the development of novel organic electronic materials. In this study, we investigated the effect of combi ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Nanocalorimetric platform for accurate thermochemical studies in microliter volumes

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Thomas Lehnert, Raphaël Etienne Jean Trouillon, Rima Padovani

A straightforward and general way for monitoring chemical reactions is via their thermal signature. Such approach requires however an experimental setup with a high thermal stability that simultaneously allows time-resolved heat detection with high sensiti ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

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