Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

How water's properties are encoded in its molecular structure and energies

E Brini, CJ Fennell, M Fernandez-Serra… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
How are water's material properties encoded within the structure of the water molecule? This
is pertinent to understanding Earth's living systems, its materials, its geochemistry and …

Protons and hydroxide ions in aqueous systems

N Agmon, HJ Bakker, RK Campen… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Understanding the structure and dynamics of water's constituent ions, proton and hydroxide,
has been a subject of numerous experimental and theoretical studies over the last century …

A chemistry and microstructure perspective on ion‐conducting membranes for redox flow batteries

P Xiong, L Zhang, Y Chen, S Peng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are among the most promising grid‐scale energy storage
technologies. However, the development of RFBs with high round‐trip efficiency, high rate …

The multiple roles of histidine in protein interactions

SM Liao, QS Du, JZ Meng, ZW Pang… - Chemistry Central …, 2013 - Springer
Background Among the 20 natural amino acids histidine is the most active and versatile
member that plays the multiple roles in protein interactions, often the key residue in enzyme …

Proton-coupled electron transfer

DR Weinberg, CJ Gagliardi, JF Hull, CF Murphy… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
An initial review (PCET1) on proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) by Huynh and Meyer
appeared in Chemical Reviews in 2007.(1) This is a follow-up on the original. It was …

Proton-coupled electron transfer

MHV Huynh, TJ Meyer - Chemical Reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
At the core of many important energy conversion processes in chemistry and biology are
oxidation-reduction reactions in which both electrons and protons are transferred. An …

Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: from a paradigmatic model to biological transport

T Chou, K Mallick, RKP Zia - Reports on progress in physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Unlike equilibrium statistical mechanics, with its well-established foundations, a similar
widely accepted framework for non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM) remains …

Disruption of microalgal cells for the extraction of lipids for biofuels: Processes and specific energy requirements

AK Lee, DM Lewis, PJ Ashman - Biomass and bioenergy, 2012 - Elsevier
Some species of microalgae have high lipid yields; however, all species of microalgae, with
the only known exception of Botryococcus braunii, have their lipids located inside the cells …

Two-dimensional vanadyl phosphate ultrathin nanosheets for high energy density and flexible pseudocapacitors

C Wu, X Lu, L Peng, K Xu, X Peng, J Huang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Two-dimensional materials have been an ideal material platform for constructing flexible
ultrathin-film supercapacitors, offering great advantages of flexibility, ultra-thinness and even …