• Simultaneously toughening and stiffening elastomers with octuple hydrogen bonding 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Xia, Zhijie; Qi, Yuan; Sumigawa, Takashi; Wu, Jianyang; Sestak, Petr; Lu, Yinan; Håkonsen, Verner; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; Chen, Wei; Xiao, Senbo; Long, Rong; Kitamura, Takayuki; Li, Liangbin; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Current synthetic elastomers suffer from the well-known trade-off between toughness and stiffness. By a combination of multi-scale experiments and atomistic simulations, we demonstrate a transparent unfilled elastomer with ...
    • Sorption and Mobility of Charged Organic Compounds: How to Confront and Overcome Limitations in Their Assessment 

      Sigmund, Gabriel; Arp, Hans Peter; Aumeier, Benedikt M.; Bucheli, Thomas D.; Chefetz, Benny; Chen, Wei; Droge, Steven T. J.; Endo, Satoshi; Escher, Beate I.; Hale, Sarah; Hofmann, Thilo; Pignatello, Joseph; Reemtsma, Thorsten; Schmidt, Torsten C.; Schönsee, Carina D.; Scheringer, Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Permanently charged and ionizable organic compounds (IOC) are a large and diverse group of compounds belonging to many contaminant classes, including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and natural toxins. ...