catenation

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The ordinary places we think we know onshore are an altogether different matter seen — and heard — from the water, where the creatures with whom we share this place are cavorting in a spring catenation of life.

From Seattle Times

The authors took advantage of this fortuitous process to devise a protocol for making large, self-assembled polycatenanes by using a solution of toroids as ‘seeds’ for catenation.

From Nature

The construction of larger systems is limited by the efficiency of the catenation step, in which a preassembled toroid precursor forms a ring that interlinks through another toroid; moreover, a large number of covalent bonds must be formed in the preassembled structure.

From Nature

The authors found that addition of monomers in small portions favours the initiation of self-assembly processes that lead to catenation and were thus able to produce linear and branched polycatenanes containing up to 22 rings.

From Nature

The text is written in the ancient Slavic Glagolitic script, and that sets the tone, texture and catenation of Janácek’s effusive score, with its powerful brass reiterations, exuberant choral outbursts.

From Los Angeles Times