Fabrication of piezoelectric foams from cyclic olefin copolymers with different mechanical properties and thermal stabilities, comprehensive characterization their electromechanics applications to sensors actuators.

Extension of ultra-high-throughput experiment (UHTE) approaches to new assay methodologies is often limited by compromised data quality when samples are miniaturized. Overcoming this challenge requires attending to all components of an automated laboratory system contributing to assay variability. A key but often neglected source is the high-density multiwell platform or microtiter plate. Mater...

A unique technique for the rapid fabrication of thermoplastic microfluidic chips is described. The method enables the realization of fully-sealed microchannels in around one hour while requiring only minimal infrastructure by taking advantage of a solvent swelling mechanism that allows raised features to be patterned on the surface of homogeneous thermoplastic materials. Patterning is achieved ...

Extensive solid-state NMR analyses unambiguously determine the formation of silica supported W bis-methylidene methyl species by reaction of the corresponding methyl carbyne with trimethylphosphine or a cyclic olefin.

Discovered in 2005, cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs) have led to numerous discoveries the field of ruthenium olefin metathesis, until then largely dominated by well-known N-heterocyclic...

Copolymerization of racemic alpha-olefins with ethylene and propylene was carried out in the presence of enantiopure C1-symmetric ansa metallocene, {1,2-(SiMe2)2(eta5-C5H-3,5-(CHMe2)2)(eta5-C5H3)}ZrCl2 to probe the effect of the polymer chain end on enantioselection for the R- or S-alpha-olefin during the kinetic resolution by polymerization catalysis. Copolymerizations with ethylene revealed t...

Copolymerization of racemic -olefins with ethylene and propylene was carried out in the presence of enantiopure C1-symmetric ansa metallocene, {1,2-(SiMe2)2( -C5H-3,5-(CHMe2)2)( -C5H3)}ZrCl2 to probe the effect of the polymer chain end on enantioselection for the Ror S-olefin during the kinetic resolution by polymerization catalysis. Copolymerizations with ethylene revealed that the polymer cha...

The dispersion of index-guiding microstructured polymer optical fibers is calculated for second-harmonic generation. The quadratic nonlinearity is assumed to come from poling of the polymer, which in this study is chosen to be the cyclic olefin copolymer Topas. We found a very large phase mismatch between the pump and the second-harmonic waves. Therefore the potential for cascaded quadratic sec...