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Impact of Solvent Structuring in Water/tert-Butanol Mixtures on the Assembly of Silica Nanoparticles to Aerogels

Winkler, Robert; Ré, Elisa; Arrachart, Guilhem; Pellet-Rostaing, Stéphane

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Impact of Solvent Structuring in Water/tert-Butanol Mixtures on the Assembly of Silica Nanoparticles to Aerogels

Winkler, Robert; Ré, Elisa; Arrachart, Guilhem; Pellet-Rostaing, Stéphane

Soft matter structuring is a useful tool for the preparation of well-structured inorganic materials. Here, we report a strategy using a structured solvent based on binary mixtures as a directing agent for silica nanoparticles in aerogel elaboration. Binary mixtures involving water/ethanol and water/tert-butanol have been respectively chosen as representatives of…
Unlocking Simultaneously the Temperature and Electrochemical Windows of Aqueous Phthalocyanine Electrolytes

Huang, Zhifeng; Zhang, Peng; Gao, Xinpei; Henkensmeier, Dirk; Passerini, Stefano; Chen, Ruiyong

ApplicationCharacterizationCustomer publicationsInorganic materialMaterialPhase analysisRenewable energySAXSTechniqueTemperature

Unlocking Simultaneously the Temperature and Electrochemical Windows of Aqueous Phthalocyanine Electrolytes

Huang, Zhifeng; Zhang, Peng; Gao, Xinpei; Henkensmeier, Dirk; Passerini, Stefano; Chen, Ruiyong

The change from organic solvents to aqueous solvents for safe and robust battery electrolytes is desirable for electrochemical energy storage. Thermodynamically, water has an electrochemical stability window of 1.23 V, and pure water freezes at 0 °C. Such properties clearly restrict the high-voltage applications and temperature adaptability of aqueous electrolytes.…
De-symmetrizing periodically grafted amphiphilic copolymers: design, synthesis and generation of Janus folded chains

Sarkar, Ramkrishna; Gowd, E. Bhoje; Ramakrishnan, S.

(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacteristic dimensionCharacterizationCustomer publicationsMaterialPhase analysisPolymer researchSAXSTechniqueTemperatureWAXS

De-symmetrizing periodically grafted amphiphilic copolymers: design, synthesis and generation of Janus folded chains

Sarkar, Ramkrishna; Gowd, E. Bhoje; Ramakrishnan, S.

Periodically grafted amphiphilic copolymers (PGACs) were earlier shown to fold in a zigzag fashion to enable segregation of the two immiscible segments, namely the backbone and the pendant segments; crystallization of one or both segments led to the formation of a lamellar structure with the two segments located in alternate…
Enhanced functional properties of biopolymer film incorporated with curcurmin-loaded mesoporous silica nanoparticles for food packaging

Wu, Chunhua; Zhu, Yang; Wu, Tiantian; Wang, Lin; Yuan, Yi; Chen, Jicheng; Hu, Yaqin; Pang, Jie

(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacterizationCustomer publicationsFood scienceMaterialPhase analysisPolymer researchPorous materialSAXSTechnique

Enhanced functional properties of biopolymer film incorporated with curcurmin-loaded mesoporous silica nanoparticles for food packaging

Wu, Chunhua; Zhu, Yang; Wu, Tiantian; Wang, Lin; Yuan, Yi; Chen, Jicheng; Hu, Yaqin; Pang, Jie

Curcumin loaded mesoporous silica nanoparticle (SBA-15) was incorporated into chitosan (CS) film to improve the functional properties of pure CS film. Curcumin was loaded into SBA-15 (SBA-15-Cur) through a rotavapor method. The structural properties of SBA-15-Cur were characterised in detail by small-angle X-ray scattering, fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, transmission electron…
Sustainable in Situ Approach to Covalently Functionalize Graphene Oxide with POSS Molecules Possessing Extremely Low Dielectric Behavior

Joseph, Angel Mary; Nagendra, Baku; Surendran, K. P.; Gowd, E. Bhoje

(Natural) polymersApplicationCharacterizationCompositesCustomer publicationsMaterialPhase analysisPolymer researchTechniqueWAXS

Sustainable in Situ Approach to Covalently Functionalize Graphene Oxide with POSS Molecules Possessing Extremely Low Dielectric Behavior

Joseph, Angel Mary; Nagendra, Baku; Surendran, K. P.; Gowd, E. Bhoje

Incorporation of multifunctional inorganic additives into the commercial polymers still stands as the most captivating and effective way to realize new-generation electronic components. Here, we introduce a simple, cost-effective, and environmentally benign method to covalently functionalize graphene oxide (GO) with vinyl- and aminopropyl-functionalized hybrid silica spheres with a polyhedral…
Dynamics of proteins confined in non-ionic bicontinuous microemulsions: a FCS study

Wrede, Oliver; Großkopf, Sören; Seidel, Thorsten; Hellweg, Thomas

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Dynamics of proteins confined in non-ionic bicontinuous microemulsions: a FCS study

Wrede, Oliver; Großkopf, Sören; Seidel, Thorsten; Hellweg, Thomas

In our present work we present an approach which allows one to confine proteins in structurally nearly identical bicontinuous microemulsions with systematically decreasing water domain size. It is shown that sub-diffusive behaviour occurs already at water domain sizes below 13 nm. However, above 13 nm normal diffusion is seen. Moreover,…