Publications associées à Comonomer

Acetal-Stabilized Carbohydrates as Novel Platform Molecules for Renewable Polymer Production

To address the rising demand for plastics, it is essential to create new types of polymers that are both highly recyclable and emit minimal amounts of greenhouse gases. These plastics should be derived from readily available, renewable feedstocks. Such eff ...

EPFL2023

Bio-Inspired Fluorine-Free Self-Cleaning Polymer Coatings

Yves Leterrier, Sara Dalle Vacche, Feyza Karasu Kiliç, Lionel François Wasser, Alessandra Vitale

Bio-inspired fluorine-free and self-cleaning polymer coatings were developed using a combination of self-assembly and UV-printing processes. Nasturtium and lotus leaves were selected as natural template surfaces. A UV-curable acrylate oligomer and three ac ...

2018

Influence of Block versus Random Monomer Distribution on the Cellular Uptake of Hydrophilic Copolymers

Harm-Anton Klok, John Moraes, Muriel Blum, Raoul Peltier

The use of polymers has revolutionized the field of drug delivery in the past two decades. Properties such as polymer size, charge, hydrophilicity, or branching have all been shown to play an important role in the cellular internalization of polymeric syst ...

2016

The role of MgB12H12 in the hydrogen desorption process of Mg(BH4)(2)

Andreas Züttel

The presence of MgB12H12 has often been considered as the major obstacle for the reversible hydrogen storage in Mg(BH4)(2). This communication provides evidence that the MgB12H12 phase (or B12H12 monomer) does not exist in the decomposition products ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Poly[N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide] nanogels by RAFT polymerization in inverse emulsion

Harm-Anton Klok, Harald Wutzel, Felix Richter

Inverse emulsion reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization has been used to generate N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) based nanoparticles and reduction-sensitive nanogels with diameters of 100-200 nm. Inverse emulsion R ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Characterization of Molecular Determinants of the Conformational Stability of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor: Leucine 46 Hydrophobic Pocket

Ursula Röthlisberger, Hilal Lashuel, Florence Pojer, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet, Michele Cascella, Marilisa Neri, Magdalena Zweckstetter, Hajer Ouertatani-Sakouhi, Farah El Turk, Min Kyu Cho, Amer Ashrafi

Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) is a key mediator of inflammatory responses and innate immunity and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The oligomerization of MIF, more specifically trimer f ...

Public Library of Science2012

Solution viscosity and flocculation characteristics of linear polymeric flocculants in various media

Jutta Christine Wandrey, David Hunkeler

Rheological characteristics of linear copolymers of acrylamide (AM) and acryloyloxyethyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (Q9), differing in molar mass and chemical composition, have been studied in distilled water (DW) and industrial water (IW) obtained from a ...

2011

Flocculation by Cationic Polyelectrolytes: Relating Efficiency with Polyelectrolyte Characteristics

Jutta Christine Wandrey, David Hunkeler

A series of acrylamide/dimethylaminoethylacrylate methyl chloride copolymers (AM-co-DMAEA) was evaluated as flocculants for model Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (FCC) in distilled water. These cationic polyelectrolytes (PEL) differed by their AM/DMAEA rati ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Elucidating the Role of Quaternary Structure in Modulating Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Functions

Farah El Turk

Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) is a multifunctional protein and a major mediator of innate immunity. The paramount importance of MIF in the pathogenesis of many inflammatory, infectious, auto-immune and oncogenic diseases led to its emergence ...

EPFL2010

Fracture mechanisms in polystyrene/laponite nanocomposites prepared by emulsion polymerization

John Christopher Plummer, Riccardo Ruggerone

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been used to investigate the effect of laponite clay on microdeformation in thin latex-based polystyrene (PS) films, in which the laponite was concentrated at the original interfaces between the PS particles. At r ...

2009

Synthesis and characterization of novel polyelectrolytes based on double-charged cationic monomers

Ricardo Losada Mateo

Bis-1,3(N,N,N-trimethylammonium)-2-propylmethacrylate dichloride (di-M) and bis-1,3(N,N,N-trimethylammonium)-2-propylacrylate dichloride (di-A), two new double-charged monomers, were the subject of the research reported in this thesis. These monomers provi ...

EPFL2009

Copolymerization of a cationic double-charged monomer and electrochemical properties of the copolymers

Jutta Christine Wandrey, Ricardo Losada Mateo

The free radical copolymerization of 1,3-bis(N,N,N-trimethylammonium)-2-propylmethacrylate dichloride (di-M) with acryloyloxyethyltrimethylammonium chloride (Q), diallyldimethylammonium chloride (DADMAC), and acrylamide (A) yielded novel polyelectrolytes a ...

American Chemical Society2009

Local infiltration of planar photonic crystals with UV-curable polymers

Romuald Houdré, Libero Zuppiroli, Rolando Ferrini, Laurent Balet, Pascale El-Kallassi

We present the local polymer infiltration of planar photonic crystal cavities via a maskless laser-writing technique. After the infiltration of the air holes with a UV-curable monomer a focused laser is used to locally polymerize the monomer in selected ho ...

2008

Radical homo-and copolymerization of acrylamide and ionic monomers in weak magnetic field

Jutta Christine Wandrey, Ignacio Rintoul

The synergy between magnetic ﬁeld (MF) and electrostatic interactions on the kinetics of radical homopolymerization of acrylamide (AM), acrylic acid (AA), its ionized form acrylate (A ...

2008

The conformational flexibility of the carboxy terminal residues 105-114 is a key modulator of the catalytic activity and stability of macrophage migration inhibitory factor

Ursula Röthlisberger, Hilal Lashuel, Michele Cascella, Magdalena Zweckstetter, Hajer Ouertatani-Sakouhi, Farah El Turk

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a multifunctional protein and a major mediator of innate immunity. Although X-ray crystallography revealed that MIF exists as a homotrimer, its oligomerization state in vivo and the factors governing its olig ...

American Chemical Society2008

Self-assembly of polypeptide/pi-conjugated polymer/polypeptide triblock copolymers in rod-rod-rod and coll-rod-coil conformations

Mohamad Hojeij, Raffaele Mezzenga

Self-assembly in the bulk of a series of hybrid triblock copolymers formed by a poly(9,9-dihexylfluorene-2,7-diyl) (PHF) middle block and two poly(gamma-benzyl-L-glutamate) (PBLG) end blocks has been studied. Since the alpha-helical secondary structure of ...

American Chemical Society2008

Three-dimensional (3D) polypyrrole microstructures with high aspect ratios fabricated by localized electropolymerization

Giorgio Margaritondo

We present the three-dimensional (3D) growth of polypyrrole (PPy) microstructures with high aspect ratios (HAR) by a localized electropolymerization. The radicals formed by an oxidation of Py monomer is localized on the targeting area due to a confinement ...

American Chemical Society2008

Amphiphilic multi-arm star-block copolymers for encapsulation of fragrance molecules

Harm-Anton Klok, John Christopher Plummer, Céline Ternat

Novel amphiphilic multi-arm star-block copolymers with a hyperbranched core, a hydrophobic inner shell, and a hydrophilic outer shell have been prepared from a commercial hyperbranched polyester macroinitiator by ring-opening polymerization of -caprolacton ...

2007

Design of amphiphilic nanocapsules based on hyperbranched star-block copolymers for the encapsulation and the controlled release of olfactory compounds

Céline Ternat

Effective encapsulation of small, volatile, weakly water-soluble molecules such as flavors and fragrances is necessary to protect them from degradation, to increase their lifetime, and to improve their water dispersion and fixation depending on the substra ...

EPFL2007

Low stress acrylated hyperbranched polymers

Lars Schmidt

The objective of this study was to investigate the behavior of highly functional acrylates, during isothermal ultraviolet (UV) curing. The materials included a pentafunctional acrylate and two acrylated hyperbranched polymers, one with a stiff polyester co ...

EPFL2006