Tailored structures

Yang H, Alonso-Vante N, Leger JM, Lamy C. 2004. Tailoring, structure, and activity of carbon-supported nanosized Pt-Cr alloy electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction in pure and methanol-containing electrolytes. J Phys Chem 108 1938-1947. 

Kotzia, G. A., Lappa, K. and Labrou, N. E. (2007). Tailoring structure-function properties of L-asparaginase engineering resistance to trypsin cleavage. Biochem J. 404(2), 337-343. 

Szulc ZM, Bielawski J, Gracz H, Gustilo M, Mayroo N, Hannun YA, Obeid LM, Bielawska A. Tailoring structure-function and targeting properties of ceramides by site-specific cationization. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2006 14 7083-7104. 

Searching for appropriate preparation techniques of nanoparticles leading to SERS-active particle arrays with preferably tailored structure... 

Bonnemann and Richards lead off the section on synthetic approaches with a discussion of nanomaterials as electrocatalysts to tailor structure and interfacial properties. Teranishi and Toshima as well as Simonov and Likholobov discuss preparation and characterization of supported monometallic and bimetallic nanoparticles. 

A deeper understanding of the stability of sp carbon structures and of their role in the nanostructured carbon network (abundance, stabilization mechanisms, interconnectivity) would provide a new insight in the physics and chemistry of linear carbon chains and it would address the long-sought opportunity of combining carbon building blocks with different hybridization to produce new forms of carbon with tailored structural and functional properties [1,24]. 

Sohds are exposed to the environment via their surfaces. Adsorption and reactions at the surface of various materials used in technology and everyday life are responsible for many important desired and undesired phenomena, including coating, passivation, corrosion, and heterogeneous catalysis. Surface interactions also offer a way to create novel advanced materials with tailored structural, electronic, magnetic and chemical properties. High-level quantum chemistry methods, together with the rich arsenal of experimental surface science techniques... 

Dutta S, Chattopadhyay S, Sarkar A, Chakrabarti M, Sanyal D, Jana D, Role of defects in tailoring structural, electrical and optical properties of ZnO, Prog. Mater. Sci., 54, 89-136, 2009. 

Tong W, Gao C (2008) Multilayer microcapsules with tailored structures for bio-related applications. J Mater Chem 18 3799-3812... 

Many efforts have been devoted to the microcapsules with tailored structure and the fabrication methods thereof. Examples like double-shell microcapsule of polyurea/polyurethane show improved thermal mechanical property and ethanol resistance, poly(acrylonitrile-divinylbenzene-styrene)/polyamide two-layer microcapsule was prepared to encapsulate water, and self-bursting microcapsules " may have potential application in agricultural field because of its unique release profile. Additionally, monodispersed microcapsules based on miCTofludic processes like SPG (Shirasu... 

The concept of tecton can be better understood if contrasted with the concept of supramolecular synthon. Paraphrasing Corey s historic definition of synthon, Desiraju defined that a supramolecular synthon is a stmc-tural unit vvdthin a supermolecule that can be formed or assembled by known or conceivable synthetic operations involving intermolecular interactions. The supramolecular synthon concept is backwardly oriented (i.e., is useful in supramolecular retrosynthesis) and focuses on the part of a supermolecule that is formed or can be formed through an intermolecular interaction. The tecton concept is forwardly oriented (i.e., is useful in supramolecular synthesis) and focuses on a molecule that predictably gives supermolecules, thanks to its tailored structure and robust binding sites. 

Consequently, all the algorithms dedicated to the solution of generic nonlinear systems cannot exploit the tailored structure of the Jacobian and they thus are not as efficient as the ones that could be adopted to solve the special system (7.10). 

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