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Monitoring the Velocity of Domain Wall Motion in Magnetic Microwires
(MDPI, 2024-02-19)
An approach was proposed to control the displacement of domain walls in magnetic microwires, which are employed in magnetic sensors. The velocity of the domain wall can be altered by the interaction of two magnetic microwires ...
Reducing the carbon footprint of polyurethanes by chemical and biological depolymerization: Fact or fiction?
(Elsevier, 2023-06)
Polyurethanes (PUs) are one of the most widely employed classes of polymers, with a continuously increasing production demand that is expected to reach around 21 million tons in 2022. Due to the simple polymerization process ...
Overcoming the Limitations of Organocatalyzed Glycolysis of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) to Facilitate the Recycling of Complex Waste Under Mild Conditions
(ACS, 2024-03)
Although multiple methods have been reported in the literature for the chemical recycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), large-scale depolymerization is not yet widely employed. The main reasons for the limited ...
Degradable Alternating Copolymers by Radical Copolymerization of 2-Methylen-1,3-dioxepane and Crotonate Esters
(ACS, 2024-03)
Producing backbone degradable copolymers via free-radical copolymerization is a promising, yet challenging method to develop more sustainable materials for many applications. In this work, we present the copolymerization ...
Boosting the Reactivity of Bis-Lactones to Enable Step-Growth Polymerization at Room Temperature
(ACS, 2024-03)
The development of new sustainable polymeric materials endowed with improved performances but minimal environmental impact is a major concern, with polyesters as primary targets. Lactones are key monomers thanks to ...
The ABC of Generalized Coordination Numbers and Their Use as a Descriptor in Electrocatalysis
(Wiley, 2023-07)
The quest for enhanced electrocatalysts can be boosted by descriptor-based analyses. Because adsorption energies are the most common descriptors, electrocatalyst design is largely based on brute-force routines that comb ...
Multicoverage Study of Femtosecond Laser-Induced Desorption of CO from Pd(111)
(ACS, 2024-02)
We study the strong coverage dependence of the femtosecond laser-induced desorption of CO from Pd(111) using molecular dynamics simulations that consistently include the effect of the laser-induced hot electrons on both ...
Microscopic Evidence for the Topological Transition in Model Vitrimers
(ACS, 2023-11)
In addition to the glass transition, vitrimers undergo a topological transition from viscoelastic liquid to viscoelastic solid behavior when the network rearrangements facilitated by dynamic bond exchange reactions freeze. ...
Deciphering the chemical bonding of the trivalent oxygen atom in oxygen doped graphene
(RSC, 2024)
Recently, planar and neutral tricoordinated oxygen embedded in graphene has been imaged experimentally (Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 4570–4577). In this work, this unusual chemical species is studied utilizing a variety of ...
A single amino acid able to promote high-temperature ring-opening polymerization by dual activation
(Wiley, 2024-04)
Amino acids are indispensable compounds in the body, performing several biological processes that enable proper functioning. In this work, it is demonstrated that a single amino acid, taurine, is also able to promote the ...