Kushal Ghale

TL;DR: A type of highly efficient peroxidase mimic that was engineered by depositing Ir atoms as ultrathin skins on Pd nanocubes (i.e., Pd-Ir cubes) exhibited significantly enhanced efficiency, with catalytic constants more than 20- and 400-fold higher than those of the initial Pd cubes and horseradish per oxidase (HRP), respectively.

TL;DR: Kinetic studies reveal that the propagating intermediates for the polymerization in low dielectric solvents maintain cyclic architectures with two chain ends in close contact through Coulombic interaction, which facilitates quasi-living polymerization behavior in cyclic zwitterionic species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method for accurately predicting adsorption energies on transition-metal surfaces based on DFT calculations, using an adaptively weighted sum of energies from RPBE and optB86b-vdW (or optB88-vdw) density functionals.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of cyclic and linear poly(N-alkyl glycine)s (a.k.a. polypeptoids) with various linear and branched alkyl side chains (n = 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14) were synthesized by N-heterocyclic carbene or benzylamine-initiated polymerizations of the corresponding N-alky N-carboxyanhydride (R-NCAs), respectively.

TL;DR: Intrinsic viscosity measurements confirm the architectural difference between the polymers prepared by the two methods and reveals that both cyclic and linear poly[(S)-N-CHMePh-glycine]s behave as random-coil polymers in 0.1M LiBr/Dimethylformamide (DMF) solution.