Experimental Polymer Mechanochemistry and its Interpretational Frameworks

Polymer mechanochemistry: Flex, release and repeat.

Mechanochemistry

The scientific community’s general interest in using mechanical energy to trigger or facilitate chemical reactivity has been growing at a speedy pace. In particular, in recent years, organic chemistry has witnessed a constant flow of examples where the use of mechanochemical techniques proved not only to outperform traditional solution-based methodologies, but also enabled access to otherwise i...

Exhibiting interpretational and representational validity

A natural language argument may be valid in at least two nonequivalent senses: it may be interpretationally or representationally valid (cf. Etchemendy 1990). Interpretational and representational validity can both be formally exhibited by classical first-order logic. However, as these two notions of informal validity differ extensionally and first-order logic fixes one determinate extension fo...

Interpretational Strategies and Semantic Identities

It is not possible to model semantics of natural language unless one can clearly establish the structure of contextual information and how "context" guides the construction of semantic identities of linguistic units. We claim that this cannot be done unless one can overcome the representational locality imposed by extensional formalisms. In this paper we present a formalism aiming at setting up...

Exploring mechanochemistry to turn organic bio-relevant molecules into metal-organic frameworks: a short review

Mechanochemistry is a powerful and environmentally friendly synthetic technique successfully employed in different fields of synthetic chemistry. Application spans from organic to inorganic chemistry including the synthesis of coordination compounds. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of compounds with numerous applications, from which we highlight herein their application in the pharm...