Quirks are generic predictions of strongly-coupled dark sectors. For weak-scale masses and a broad range of confining scales in the dark sector, quirks can be discovered only at the energy frontier, but quirk-anti-quirk pairs are produced with unusual signatures at low
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Cyclic and Linear Tetrablock Copolymers Synthesized at Speed and Scale by Lewis Pair Polymerization of a One-Pot (Meth)acrylic Mixture and Characterized at Multiple Levels
- Award ID(s):
- 2305058
- PAR ID:
- 10546110
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACS
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Volume:
- 146
- Issue:
- 7
- ISSN:
- 0002-7863
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 4930 to 4941
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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