Editorial on the Special Issue: “Advances in Xerogels: From Design to Applications”
Gels, 2023 Xerogels are solid materials derived from gels which consist of interconnected particles or polymers dispersed in a liquid [...]
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Nanomaterials, 2023 The highly distorted water-soluble 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octabromo-5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin (Br8TPPS44−) is readily protonated under acidic pH, forming the diacid H2Br8TPPS42− and subsequently the zwitterionic H4Br8TPPS4, which ...
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Separations, 2020 Coal tar is a complex mixture of organic compounds obtained from the thermal treatment of coal; it contains several different chemical classes of compounds, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, phenols and different heterocyclic compounds including ...
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Cry "Good for history, Cambridge and Saint George"? Essay Review of Mary Jo Nye (Ed.); The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 5. The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) [PDF]
, 2004 FIRST PARAGRAPH This volume is the third thus far published of The Cambridge history of science, planned in eight parts over the last decade by Cambridge University Press.
Gooday, G.
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Chance, necessity and the origins of life: a physical sciences perspective
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2017 Earth's 4.5-billion-year history has witnessed a complex sequence of high-probability chemical and physical processes, as well as ‘frozen accidents’.
R. Hazen
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How does the Earth system generate and maintain thermodynamic disequilibrium and what does it imply for the future of the planet? [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2011 The Earth's chemical composition far from chemical equilibrium is unique in our Solar System, and this uniqueness has been attributed to the presence of widespread life on the planet.
A. Kleidon
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2018 The secular evolution of the Earth's crust is marked by a profound change in average crustal chemistry between 3.2 and 2.5 Ga. A key marker for this change is the transition from Archaean sodic granitoid intrusions of the tonalite–trondhjemite ...
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A Computational Quantum-Based Perspective on the Molecular Origins of Life’s Building Blocks
Entropy, 2022 The search for the chemical origins of life represents a long-standing and continuously debated enigma. Despite its exceptional complexity, in the last decades the field has experienced a revival, also owing to the exponential growth of the computing ...
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Incidence of Phage Capsid Organization on the Resistance to High Energy Proton Beams
Applied Sciences, 2022 The helical geometry of virus capsid allows simple self-assembly of identical protein subunits with a low request of free energy and a similar spiral path to virus nucleic acid.
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Do interdisciplinary research teams deliver higher gains to science? [PDF]
, 2017 The present paper takes its place in the stream of studies that analyze the effect of interdisciplinarity on the impact of research output. Unlike previous studies, in this study the interdisciplinarity of the publications is not inferred through their ...
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