Specific combination of guest sorption properties was observed for phosphorus-containing dendrimers, which distinguish them from ordinary polymers and clathrate-forming hosts. The sorption capacity for 30 volatile guests, binding reversibility, guest desorption kinetics and guest exchange, glass transition behavior and ability to be plasticized with guest were studied for phosphorus dendrimers ...

Virtual machine introspection (VMI) describes the method of monitoring and analyzing the state of a virtual machine from the hypervisor level. This lends itself well to security applications, though the hardware virtualization support from Intel and AMD was not designed with VMI in mind. This results in many challenges for developers of hardware-supported VMI systems. This paper describes the d...

We study the phase diagram and orientational ordering of guest liquid crystalline (LC) rods immersed in a quenched host made of a liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) matrix with mobile side chains. The LCP matrix lies below the glass transition of the polymer backbone. The side chains are mobile and can align to the guest rod molecules in a plane normal to the local LCP chain contour. A field theo...

We study physical situations when one or two “guest” arbitrarilycharged particles are immersed in the bulk of a classical electrolyte modelled by a Coulomb gas of ± unit point-like charges, the whole system being in thermal equilibrium. The models are treated as twodimensional with logarithmic pairwise interactions among charged constituents; the (dimensionless) inverse temperature β is conside...

Metal-organic complexes (MOCs) as promising candidates for directly visual X-ray detection at room temperature are rare and discovered unexpectedly, even though every crystalline material needs X-ray diffraction studies. Here, we report a rational strategy of mimicking host-guest system for developing high-sensitive X-ray-induced photochromic materials. Two resulting calix-like metal-organic co...

Guest molecules trapped within the regular voids of crystalline adducts, called inclusion compounds, are likely to experience mobility. Recent solid-state *H NMR studies indicated these motions to be primarily discrete jumps related to the molecular symmetry, to that of the environment, or to some other geometric feature of the system investigated. In this work we offer a more consistent pictur...

Most polymeric thermoresponsive hydrogels contract upon heating beyond the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the polymers used. Herein, we report a supramolecular hydrogel system that shows the opposite temperature dependence. When the non-thermosesponsive hydrogel NaphtGel, containing dialkoxynaphthalene guest molecules, becomes complexed with the tetra cationic macrocyclic host CB...

Davidson writes excellently about the risk of too much medicine in Oman and the Middle East suggesting that this may be related to traditional Arab culture that seeks to please or satisfy a guest.1 This is known as Ikram ad-Daif, an Arabic phrase which can be translated as ‘honouring one’s guest’; one of the most established practices in Arab and the wider Muslim tradition. Application of this ...

The host-guest complexes of conjugated microporous polymers encapsulating C60 and dye molecules have been investigated systematically. The orientation of guest molecules inside the cavities, have different terms: inside the open cavities of the polymer, or inside the cavities formed by packing different polymers. The host backbone shows responsive dynamic behavior in order to accommodate the si...

The incorporation of hydrophobic guest molecules into lipid membranes by the exchange of the guest molecule from a cyclodextrin (CDx) complex to a liposome is limited to guest molecules that can be included in CDxs. To solve this problem, large guest molecules were incorporated into liposomes by chemical reactions of guest molecules in lipid membranes. Stable lipid-membrane-incorporated fullere...