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... Manufacturing heterostructure architectures with multiple interfaces and understanding the interfacial polarizations are important for exploring high-efficient microwave absorbents. Herein, high-crystalline core-shell FeCo@Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles were in-situ anchored on graphene. The FeCo@Fe₃O₄/graphene hybrids reveal boosting microwave absorption which can be adjusted by controlling the graphene com ...
... Conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs), which combine a π-conjugated polymer backbone with pendant ionic functionalities, offer an opportunity for electrostatic control of materials properties. In this work, the mesoscale morphology and physical properties of a high-mobility conjugated polyelectrolyte are tuned by the addition of salt, variation of the charge-compensating counterion, and complexation ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; ecotoxicology; polydimethylsiloxane; polyethylene; Show all 4 Subjects
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... For most passive sampling applications, the availability of accurate passive sampler–water partition coefficients (Kₚ‐w) is of key importance. Unfortunately, a huge variability exists in literature Kₚ‐w values, in particular for hydrophobic chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). This variability is a major source of concern in the passive sa ...
... Fullerene C₆₀ is an all-carbon cage molecule with rich physicochemical properties. It is highly symmetric and hydrophobic, which can be used as a building block for the preparation of amphiphiles that self-assemble into diverse supramolecular structures in aqueous solutions. Meanwhile, C₆₀ is also lipophobic, which is different from the alkyl chains in traditional surfactants. By attaching alkyl c ...
... Food powders often exhibit hydrophobic surface areas. To understand the effect of corresponding wettability variations on particle floating, which critically influences powder reconstitution, we studied floating of glass beads after creating surface heterogeneity by spraying cocoa butter. Force-position curves were recorded to characterise contact line pinning.Floating of particles with surface he ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; ethylbenzene; octane; solubilization; surfactants; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Hydrocarbons are well-known insoluble oils which are rarely considered as stimuli to trigger molecular self-assembly transition. We report in this work that hydrocarbons are a class of distinct stimuli for the self-assembly transition in the catanionic surfactant systems. Particularly, the cyclic hydrocarbons and chain-like ones has exactly opposite impact. By solubilizing in the palisade region o ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; diagnostic techniques; electrochemistry; oxidation; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The coffee-ring effect (CRE), which denotes the accumulation of nonvolatile compounds at the periphery of a pinned sessile drying drop, is a universal and ubiquitous yet complex phenomenon. It is crucial to better understand and control it, either to avoid its various deleterious consequences in many processes requiring homogeneous deposition or to exploit it for applications ranging from controll ...
Fengbin Wang; Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic; Matthijn Vos; Leticia C. Beltran; Mark A.B. Kreutzberger; Jean-Marie Winter; Zhangli Su; Jun Liu; Stefan Schouten; Mart Krupovic; Edward H. Egelman
hydrophobicity, etc ; Sulfolobus; capsid; genome; viruses; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Spindle- or lemon-shaped viruses infect archaea in diverse environments. Due to the highly pleomorphic nature of these virions, which can be found with cylindrical tails emanating from the spindle-shaped body, structural studies of these capsids have been challenging. We have determined the atomic structure of the capsid of Sulfolobus monocaudavirus 1, a virus that infects hosts living in nearly b ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; droplets; energy; friction; liquids; Show all 5 Subjects
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... When a water droplet strikes a superhydrophobic surface, there may be several to a few tens of rebounds before it comes to rest. Although this intriguing multiphase flow phenomenon has received a great deal of attention from interfacial scientists and engineers, the underlying dynamics have not yet been completely resolved. In this paper, we report on an experimental investigation into the bouncin ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; adhesion; ice; liquids; temperature; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Ice adhesion to solids, being affected by the ice/solid intermolecular interactions and structure of ice surface layer is dependent on temperature, and ice surface layer equilibration time.A new centrifugal method of shear ice adhesion strength measurement with accurate temperature control on each stage from ice formation on test surfaces to the adhesion measurement is applied to study ice adhesio ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; Argyroneta; air; humidity; oxygen; topology; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Superhydrophobic surfaces have suffered from being frequently penetrated by micro-/nano-droplets in high humidity, which severely deteriorates their water repellency. So far, various biological models for the high water repellency have been reported, which, however, focused mostly on the structural topology with less attention on the dimension character. Here, we revealed a common dimension charac ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; composite polymers; hydrophilicity; solvents; triazoles; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Recent research suggests that the end groups of polymers can affect their self-assembly. However, the effect of end groups on the self-assembly of block copolymers in solution remains unclear, and thus far, only micelle–vesicle transformations have been achieved via end-group modification. Herein, we report that hydrophilic block end groups and the junction between two blocks can affect the soluti ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; droplets; liquids; printers; probability; wettability; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Surface 2019, surface charge density (SCD) gradient printing-driven droplet transport, has attracted considerable attention as a novel and effective approach, which adopts the water droplet impacting a nonwetting surface to create a reprintable SCD gradient pathway conveniently and realizes the high-velocity and long-distance transport of droplets. In the present work, we further investigated the ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; catalytic activity; hydrolysis; polystyrenes; urea; Show all 5 Subjects
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... To develop simple catalytic systems without well-defined tertiary structures is of paramount importance to perform bio-inspired chemistry but remains challenge. Here, we have developed a simple one-step strategy for preparing polystyrene-supported artificial catalytic triad (ACT) systems. Polymers containing ACTs and a polymer containing urea groups were designed and synthesized for the preparatio ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; abrasives; contact angle; durability; silica; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Transparent superhydrophobic coatings with mechanical stability, self-cleaning function, and anti-reflective property have drawn much attention due to the great potential in a variety of real-world applications. In this work, we develop an ingenious approach to construct micropatterned transparent superhydrophobic coatings with a multilayer structure (water contact angle ∼153.6°, sliding angle ∼3. ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; air; cations; energy; relative humidity; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Long-term stability remains a great challenge for metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The utilization of ionic liquids (ILs) is a promising strategy to solve the stability problem. However, few studies have focused on controlling the halide anions of ILs, in which different organic cations can modulate the melting point of ILs and film crystal growth. Here, ILs with a 1-ethyl-3-methylimida ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; models; quantum mechanics; solutes; solvation; Show all 5 Subjects
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... We propose a model for solvated positronium (Ps) atoms in water, based on the sequential quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (s-QM/MM) protocol. We developed a Lennard-Jones force field to account for Ps–water interactions in the MM step. The repulsive term was obtained from a previously reported model for the solvated electron, while the dispersion constant was derived from the Slater–Kirkwood ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; DNA; cysteine; genes; leucine; metagenomics; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Leucine rich repeats (LRRs) occurring in tandem are 20–29 amino acids long. Eleven LRR types have been recognized. Sequence features of LRRs from viruses were investigated using over 600 LRR proteins from 89 species. Directly before, metagenome data of nucleo-cytoplasmic large dsDNA viruses (NCLDVs) have been published; the 2,074 NCLDVs encode 199,021 proteins. From the NCLDVs 547 LRR proteins wer ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; amino acids; biocompatibility; biodegradability; hydrogen; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Amino acids are one of the simplest biomolecules and they play an essential role in many biological processes. They have been extensively used as building blocks for the synthesis of functional nanomaterials, thanks to their self-assembly capacity. In particular, amphiphilic amino acid derivatives can be designed to enrich the diversity of amino acid-based building blocks, endowing them with speci ...
hydrophobicity, etc ; adsorbents; adsorption; heavy metals; protonation; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Adsorption capacities and characteristics of heavy metal adsorbents have been investigated thoroughly, but the essential functional groups to bind heavy metal pollutants in composites have not been identified and confirmed separately. Previous researches reported that –OH, –NH₂, –CONH₂ or their protonation had binding effects to heavy metals. However, these descriptions were all based on the compl ...