– A phenomenological model for the unbinding transition of multi-component fluid membranes is proposed, where the unbinding transition is described using a theory analogous to Flory-Huggins theory for polymers. The coupling between the lateral phase separation of inclusion molecules and the membrane-substrate distance explains the phase coexistence between two unbound phases as observed in rece...

a simple and mild one-pot three-component reaction for the preparation 1,4-dihydropyridines has been developed from various aldehyde substrates, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds (dimedone) and ammonium acetate (hantzsch method) in the presence of a catalytic amount of phospho sulfonic acid (psa) as an efficient and heterogeneous solid acid in etoh at room temperature. preparation of psa is straightforw...

Three-component reactions have emerged as useful methods because the combinationof three components to generate new products in a single step is extremely economical,among the multi-component reactions. A green, simple, efficient, and cost-effective procedure has been carried out by the synthesis of dihydropyrimidinonesin Biginelli’s condensation of ethyl cyanoacetate, aldehyde and urea or thio...

Systems of systems (SoS) are a hot topic in our “fully connected global world”. Our aim is not to provide another definition of what SoS are, but rather to focus on the adequacy of reusing standard system architecting techniques within this approach in order to improve performance, fault detection and safety issues in large-scale coupled systems that definitely qualify as SoS, whatever the defi...

Coupled systems comprise multiple interacting subsystems and are an increasingly common computational science application, most notably as multiscale and multiphysics models. Parallel computing and, in particular, message-passing programming have enabled the development of these models but also present a parallel coupling problem (PCP) in the form of intermodel data dependencies. Component-base...

Since the introduction of component-based development (CBD), effective component identification technique is known to be an important factor for successful CBD projects. As in CORBA Component Model by OMG, a component consists of one or more related objects, carrying out a homogeneous functionality. Most of the CBD methodologies utilize UML as the basic notational convention. Especially the com...