Rheology of nitrile rubber with hybrid crosslinked network composed of covalent bonding and hydrogen bonding

Structure and Hydrogen Bonding in CaSiD1+ x: Issues About Covalent Bonding

We report here our high-resolution neutron powder diffraction and neutron vibrational spectroscopy study of CaSiD1+x along with first-principles calculations, which reveal the deuterium structural arrangements and bonding in this novel alloy hydride. Both the structural and spectroscopic results show that, for x > 0, D atoms start occupying a Ca3Si interstitial site. The corresponding Si-D bond...

How Cellulose Stretches: Synergism between Covalent and Hydrogen Bonding

Cellulose is the most familiar and most abundant strong biopolymer, but the reasons for its outstanding mechanical performance are not well understood. Each glucose unit in a cellulose chain is joined to the next by a covalent C-O-C linkage flanked by two hydrogen bonds. This geometry suggests some form of cooperativity between covalent and hydrogen bonding. Using infrared spectroscopy and X-ra...

Adaptive Polymeric Nanomaterials Utilizing Reversible Covalent and Hydrogen Bonding

Hydrogen bonding

molecules to evolve in the test tube. With the discovery of catalytic RNA, and advances in nucleic acid amplification techniques such as the polymerase chain reaction, it became possible to construct laboratory systems that allow the Darwinian evolution of functional RNA (and later DNA) molecules. This is not evolution based on natural selection, but rather directed evolution based on selection...

Persistent homology analysis of ion aggregation and hydrogen-bonding network

Despite the great advancement of experimental tools and theoretical models, a quantitative characterization of the microscopic structures of ion aggregates and its associated water hydrogen-bonding networks still remains a challenging problem. In this paper, a newly-invented mathematical method called persistent homology is introduced, for the first time, to quantitatively analyze the intrinsic...