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DendriMacs and HyperMacs - emerging as more than just model branched polymers (2008)
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Hutchings, L. (2008). DendriMacs and HyperMacs - emerging as more than just model branched polymers. Soft Matter, 4(11), 2150-2159. https://doi.org/10.1039/b809634a

The past decade has seen an emerging interest in the design and synthesis of ever more complex, hierarchically branched polymers – often described as dendritically branched polymers. In part, this has been driven by the long-established desire of bot... Read More about DendriMacs and HyperMacs - emerging as more than just model branched polymers.

Facile photoinduced charge separation through a cyanoacetylide bridge in a heterobimetallic Fe(ii)–Re(i) complex (2008)
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Smith, M. E., Flynn, E. L., Fox, M. A., Trottier, A., Wrede, E., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A., Ronayne, K. L., Towrie, M., Parker, A. W., Hartl, F., & Low, P. J. (2008). Facile photoinduced charge separation through a cyanoacetylide bridge in a heterobimetallic Fe(ii)–Re(i) complex. Chemical Communications, 2008(44), 5845-5847. https://doi.org/10.1039/b811357b

Photoinduced Fe-to-bpy charge transfer in [{Cp(dppe)Fe}(μ-C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CC[triple bond, length as m-dash]N){Re(CO)3(bpy)}]PF6 has been observed by ps-TRIR spectroscopy, supported by UV-Vis/IR spectroelectrochemistry and DFT calculat... Read More about Facile photoinduced charge separation through a cyanoacetylide bridge in a heterobimetallic Fe(ii)–Re(i) complex.

Memory effects in MIS structures based on silicon and polymethylmethacrylate with nanoparticle charge-storage elements. (2008)
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Mabrook, M., Jombert, A., Machin, S., Pearson, C., Kolb, D., Coleman, K., …Petty, M. (2009). Memory effects in MIS structures based on silicon and polymethylmethacrylate with nanoparticle charge-storage elements. Materials Science and Engineering: B, 159-160, 14-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2008.09.003

We report on the electrical behaviour of metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) structures fabricated on p-type silicon substrates and using polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) as the dielectric. Gold nanoparticles, single-wall carbon nanotubes and C60, depos... Read More about Memory effects in MIS structures based on silicon and polymethylmethacrylate with nanoparticle charge-storage elements..

Hyperfine energy levels of alkali-metal dimers : ground-state polar molecules in electric and magnetic fields (2008)
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Aldegunde, J., Rivington, B. A., Zuchowski, P. S., & Hutson, J. M. (2008). Hyperfine energy levels of alkali-metal dimers : ground-state polar molecules in electric and magnetic fields. Physical Review A, 78(3), Article 033434. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.78.033434

We investigate the energy levels of heteronuclear alkali-metal dimers in levels correlating with the lowest rotational level of the ground electronic state, which are important in efforts to produce ground-state ultracold molecules. We use density-fu... Read More about Hyperfine energy levels of alkali-metal dimers : ground-state polar molecules in electric and magnetic fields.

The effect of viscoelasticity on stress fields within polyethylene melt flow for a cross-slot and contraction-expansion slit geometry (2008)
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Hassell, D., Auhl, D., McLeish, T., & Mackley, M. R. (2008). The effect of viscoelasticity on stress fields within polyethylene melt flow for a cross-slot and contraction-expansion slit geometry. Rheologica Acta, 47(7), 821-834. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-008-0261-8

The sensitivity of the principal stress difference (PSD) profiles to material viscoelasticity is demonstrated for two flow geometries using three different polyethylenes. Studies were performed using both experimental optical techniques and computati... Read More about The effect of viscoelasticity on stress fields within polyethylene melt flow for a cross-slot and contraction-expansion slit geometry.

A simple classical model for predicting onset crystallization temperatures on curved substrates and its implications for phase transitions in confined volumes (2008)
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Cooper, S., Nicholson, C., & Liu, J. (2008). A simple classical model for predicting onset crystallization temperatures on curved substrates and its implications for phase transitions in confined volumes. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 129(12), Article 124715. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2977993

For small confinement volumes, phase transition temperatures are determined by the scarcity of the crystallizing material, rather than the magnitude of the energy barrier, as the supply of molecules undergoing the phase transition can be depleted bef... Read More about A simple classical model for predicting onset crystallization temperatures on curved substrates and its implications for phase transitions in confined volumes.

Poly(ethylene) Glycol/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composites (2008)
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Chakraborty, A. K., & Coleman, K. S. (2008). Poly(ethylene) Glycol/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composites. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 8(8), 4013-4016. https://doi.org/10.1166/jnn.2008.an43

Single-walled carbon nanotubes have been shown to exhibit extraordinary electronic and mechanical properties. However, their relative inertness limits their use in many applications. Chemical functionalization can significantly modify their propertie... Read More about Poly(ethylene) Glycol/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composites.

The Metal-Dependent Regulators FurA and FurB from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (2008)
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Lucarelli, D., Vasil, M., Meyer-Klaucke, W., & Pohl, E. (2008). The Metal-Dependent Regulators FurA and FurB from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 9(8), 1548-1560. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms9081548

The ferric uptake regulators (Fur) form a large family of bacterial metalactivated DNA-binding proteins that control a diverse set of genes at the transcriptional level. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, expresses two m... Read More about The Metal-Dependent Regulators FurA and FurB from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.

The use of diethylaminosulfur trifluoride (DAST) for fluorination in a continuous-flow microreactor (2008)
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Baumann, M., Baxendale, I. R., & Ley, S. V. (2008). The use of diethylaminosulfur trifluoride (DAST) for fluorination in a continuous-flow microreactor. Synlett: Accounts and Rapid Communications in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 2111-2114. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1078026

The convenient and safe use of diethylaminosulfur tri­fluoride as a fluorinating agent in a continuous-flow microreactor is described using an in-line purification method to obtain clean reaction products.

Prospects for producing ultracold NH(3) molecules by sympathetic cooling : a survey of interaction potentials (2008)
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Zuchowski, P. S., & Hutson, J. M. (2008). Prospects for producing ultracold NH(3) molecules by sympathetic cooling : a survey of interaction potentials. Physical Review A, 78(2), Article 022701. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.78.022701

We investigate the possibility of producing ultracold NH3 molecules by sympathetic cooling in a bath of ultracold atoms. We consider the interactions of NH3 with alkali-metal and alkaline-earth-metal atoms, and with Xe, using ab initio coupled-cluste... Read More about Prospects for producing ultracold NH(3) molecules by sympathetic cooling : a survey of interaction potentials.

Catabolism of glutathione conjugates in Arabidopsis thaliana: role in metabolic reactivation of the herbicide safener fenclorim. (2008)
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Brazier-Hicks, M., Evans, K., Cunningham, O., Hodgson, D., Steel, P., & Edwards, R. (2008). Catabolism of glutathione conjugates in Arabidopsis thaliana: role in metabolic reactivation of the herbicide safener fenclorim. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283(30), 21102-21112. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m801998200

The safener fenclorim (4,6-dichloro-2-phenylpyrimidine) increases tolerance to chloroacetanilide herbicides in rice by enhancing the expression of detoxifying glutathione S-transferases (GSTs). Fenclorim also enhances GSTs in Arabidopsis thaliana, an... Read More about Catabolism of glutathione conjugates in Arabidopsis thaliana: role in metabolic reactivation of the herbicide safener fenclorim..

Polymorphism and hydrogen bonding in cinchomeronic acid: a variable temperature experimental and computational study (2008)
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Evans, I. R., Howard, J. A. K., Evans, J. S. O., Postlethwaite, S. R., & Johnson, M. R. (2008). Polymorphism and hydrogen bonding in cinchomeronic acid: a variable temperature experimental and computational study. CrystEngComm, 10(10), 1404-1409. https://doi.org/10.1039/b807015f

3,4-Pyridinedicarboxylic acid is a compound commonly used as a multifunctional ligand in coordination chemistry. The crystal structure of its orthorhombic Form I has been known for over 30 years, while a new Form II has only been reported recently as... Read More about Polymorphism and hydrogen bonding in cinchomeronic acid: a variable temperature experimental and computational study.

Argentophilicity-Dependent Colossal Thermal Expansion in Extended Prussian Blue Analogues. (2008)
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Goodwin, A. L., Keen, D. A., Tucker, M. G., Dove, M. T., Peters, L., & Evans, J. S. (2008). Argentophilicity-Dependent Colossal Thermal Expansion in Extended Prussian Blue Analogues. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130(30), 9660-9661. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja803623u

The thermal expansion behavior of isostructural variants of the colossal thermal expansion material Ag3[CoIII(CN)6] has been investigated using variable temperature X-ray and neutron powder diffraction. It was found that substitution at the octahedra... Read More about Argentophilicity-Dependent Colossal Thermal Expansion in Extended Prussian Blue Analogues..

Vibrational excitation through tug-of-war inelastic collisions. (2008)
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Greaves, S., Wrede, E., Goldberg, N., Zhang, J., Miller, D., & Zare, R. (2008). Vibrational excitation through tug-of-war inelastic collisions. Nature, 454(7200), 88-91. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07079

Vibrationally inelastic scattering is a fundamental collision process that converts some of the kinetic energy of the colliding partners into vibrational excitation. The conventional wisdom is that collisions with high impact parameters (where the pa... Read More about Vibrational excitation through tug-of-war inelastic collisions..

Orbital energies and negative electron affinities from density functional theory: Insight from the integer discontinuity (2008)
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Teale, A., De Proft, F., & Tozer, D. (2008). Orbital energies and negative electron affinities from density functional theory: Insight from the integer discontinuity. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 129(4), Article 044110. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2961035

Orbital energies in Kohn–Sham density functional theory (DFT) are investigated, paying attention to the role of the integer discontinuity in the exact exchange-correlation potential. A series of closed-shell molecules are considered, comprising some... Read More about Orbital energies and negative electron affinities from density functional theory: Insight from the integer discontinuity.

Molecular polymeric matter, Weissenberg, Astbury and the pleasure of being wrong (2008)
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McLeish, T. (2008). Molecular polymeric matter, Weissenberg, Astbury and the pleasure of being wrong. Rheologica Acta, 47(5-6), 479-489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-007-0226-3

The career of Karl Weissenberg began with X-ray structure studies of biopolymers. His background in scattering theory clearly affected his later approach to the measurements and modelling of the rheology of complex fluids. We show how the combination... Read More about Molecular polymeric matter, Weissenberg, Astbury and the pleasure of being wrong.

Roles of chain length, chain architecture, and time in the initiation of visible crazes in polystyrene (2008)
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De Focatiis, D., Buckley, C., & Hutchings, L. (2008). Roles of chain length, chain architecture, and time in the initiation of visible crazes in polystyrene. Macromolecules, 41(12), 4484-4491. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma702157m

Visible craze initiation stress has been measured for a wide range of linear and branched monodisperse polystyrenes (PS) soaked in diethylene glycol. Results show that, for a given time under stress, craze initiation in linear PS is disentanglement-d... Read More about Roles of chain length, chain architecture, and time in the initiation of visible crazes in polystyrene.