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The Polymers of Life: Exploring Cellular Function Through Polymer Concepts. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh)Biomolecular phase separation reveals that a hidden layer of cellular organization is governed by the principles of polymer science. This review bridges polymer physics and cell biology, offering a primer on fundamental concepts, proposing a framework for interrogating cellular function, and synthesizing biophysical methods for decoding macromolecular ...
Chen M, Chilkoti A.
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APL Materials, 2021 Many naturally occurring elastomers are intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) built up of repeating units, and they can demonstrate two types of thermoresponsive phase behavior.
Xiangze Zeng +5 more
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Analysis of design elements in universal course shell templates of high-ranking universities
Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, 2022 Despite popular myths related to the design and development of an online course, the endeavor is rather complicated. Universal Course Shell Templates (UCSTs) can alleviate teachers’ workload, support teachers in taking pedagogically sound decisions, and ...
Angelos Konstantinidis
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023 The kinetics of water transfer between the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) and upper critical solution temperature (UCST) thermoresponsive blocks in about 10 nm thin films of a diblock copolymer is monitored by in situ neutron reflectivity ...
Neng Hu +10 more
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Immunogenic-cell-killing and immunosuppression-inhibiting nanomedicine
Bioactive Materials, 2021 Combining chemo-therapeutics with immune checkpoint inhibitors facilitates killing cancer cells and activating the immune system through inhibiting immune escape. However, their treatment effects remain limited due to the compromised accumulation of both
Ying Wang +9 more
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Advances in thermo-responsive polymers exhibiting upper critical solution temperature (UCST)
eXPRESS Polymer Letters, 2019 Immense work has been conducted in the field of thermoresponsive polymers specifically of lower critical solution temperature (LCST) type, but upper critical solution temperature (UCST) type polymers remain a significantly unexplored domain.
K. K. Bansal +4 more
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Molecules, 2021 This work reported the discovery of N-triflimide (NTf)-based zwitter-ionic liquids (ZILs) that exhibit UCST-type phase transitions in water, and their further structural optimization in fine-tuning polarity to ultimately afford newfangled thermosensitive
Yen-Ho Chu +2 more
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Effect of Molecular Weight on Phase Equilibrium in the Polystyrene–Poly(methyl methacrylate) System
Molecules, 2023 Data on the solubility of oligomer polystyrene (PS) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) of various molecular weights have been obtained. The binodal and spinodal curves of the phase state diagram with the upper critical solution temperature (UCST) are ...
Anatoly E. Chalykh, Uliana V. Nikulova
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Crystal structure of 1-tosyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline
Acta Crystallographica Section E, 2014 In the title compound, C16H17NO2S, the heterocyclic ring adopts a half-chair conformation and the bond-angle sum at the N atom is 350.2°. The dihedral angle between the planes of the aromatic rings is 47.74 (10)°.
S. Jeyaseelan +4 more
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Constrained thermoresponsive polymers – new insights into fundamentals and applications
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021 In the last decades, numerous stimuli-responsive polymers have been developed and investigated regarding their switching properties. In particular, thermoresponsive polymers, which form a miscibility gap with the ambient solvent with a lower or upper ...
Patricia Flemming +3 more
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