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Molecular Design of Functional Polymers for Silica Scale Inhibition

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Representing environment-induced helix-coil transitions in a coarse grained peptide model

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Impact of a Novel Nickel-Based Catalyst and Phenyl-Acrylate-Based Anion-Exchange Membrane in a Direct Urea Fuel Cell

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Direct Calculation of Entropic Components in Cohesive Interaction Free Energies

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Pressure-induced pKa variations influence conformations of pH-sensitive polymers

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Computational Calorimetry of PNIPAM Cononsolvency in Water/Methanol Mixtures

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Preferential Binding of Urea to Single-Stranded DNA Structures: A Molecular Dynamics Study

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Biophysical Journal, 2018, 114, 1551
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Oxidative protein refolding on size exclusion chromatography: From batch single-column to multi-column counter-current continuous processing

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Spectral Graph Analyses of Water Hydrogen-Bonding Network and Osmolyte Aggregate Structures in Osmolyte–Water Solutions

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Understanding the effect of urea on the phase transition of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in aqueous solution by temperature-dependent near-infrared spectroscopy

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Characterizing Polymer Hydration Shell Compressibilities with the Small-System Method

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Nanomaterials, 2020, 10, 1460
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The Hydrophobic Effect and the Role of Cosolvents

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