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ArticleGels (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Supramolecular Fractal Growth of Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks.

Pedram Nasr, Hannah Leung, France-Isabelle Auzanneau, Michael A Rogers

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Article in Gels (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pedram NasrDepartment of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3352-2425
Hannah LeungDepartment of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.
France-Isabelle AuzanneauDepartment of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3281-2383
Michael A RogersDepartment of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0079-4309
University of Guelph · CA

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2017-03869
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex morphologies, as is the case in self-assembled fibrillar networks (SAFiNs) of 1,3:2,4-Dibenzylidene sorbitol (DBS), are often characterized by their Fractal dimension and not Euclidean. Self-similarity presents for DBS-polyethylene glycol (PEG) SAFiNs in the Cayley Tree branching pattern, similar box-counting fractal dimensions across length scales, and fractals derived from the Avrami model. Irrespective of the crystallization temperature, fractal values corresponded to limited diffusion aggregation and not ballistic particle-cluster aggregation. Additionally, the fractal dimension of the SAFiN was affected more by changes in solvent viscosity (e.g., PEG200 compared to PEG600) than crystallization temperature. Most surprising was the evidence of Cayley branching not only for the radial fibers within the spherulitic but also on the fiber surfaces.

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1,3:2,4-Dibenzylidene sorbitolCayley Treecrystallizationfractal dimensionfractalityself-assembled fibrillar networks (SAFiNs)solvent viscositysupercooling

Identifiers

PMID33919860
PMCPMC8167784
OpenAlexW3152596570

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