by Charlie Smith | Mar 19, 2024 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Fig. 1. Coordination-induced bond weakening (CIBW) motifs. (a) Traditional motif involving a reducing and Lewis acidic metal ion, (b) the multisite proton-coupled electron transfer motif evident in the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem-II, (c)...
by Charlie Smith | Mar 19, 2024 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Fig. 1. Optimized DFT/PBE50 structures of Zn salts. In red, symmetries: a Zn porphyrin (Zn-2); b Zn porphene (Zn-1); c bond length map for P2mm and P4mm forms of Zn-1; d Zn z-isoporphene; e Zn s-isoporphene. In parentheses, calculated energies...
by Charlie Smith | Mar 19, 2024 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Fig. 1. Anomalous Small Angle X-ray Scattering (ASAXS) data from cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and the parallelepiped structure of CNCs and ionic shells surrounding them Nanocellulose, which is cellulose in nanostructure form that can be produced at...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 4, 2023 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Schematic of proteins constructed from the Gal-3 carbo-hydrate recognition domain (CRD). WT Gal-3 contains one CRD bound to an N-terminal domain that promotes oligomeric assembly. Several engineered variants were tested, including a truncated Gal-3...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 4, 2023 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge (a) Chemical reduction of TP to afford the radical-anions, (b) coordination of TP– with K+, Rb+, and Cs+ ions. From Z. Zhou and M.A. Petrukhin, Coordination Chemistry Reviews 486 (2023) 215144. © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Planar and...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 4, 2023 | Science Highlights - NSF's ChemMatCARS
Click to Enlarge Upon 70º C thermal exposure, MOF-encapsulated BSA remains folded while native BSA unfolds. From R. Murty et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 © 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society It has been hypothesized that the confinement of...