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- Antfolk, Christian, et al.
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Exploring the conditions for PhD-students to develop abilities to independently formulate research questions
- 2015
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Developing an ability to independently formulate research questions is an important goal in doctoral education. During a seminar in the “Docent course”, accredited by Genombrottet at Lund University, the authors behind this paper ended up in a discussion on the actual conditions for developing such ability. During the discussions, the authors, based on their own experiences, identified several conditions that could hamper the PhD-students’ abilities to develop the skills required to independently formulate research questions. Examples of such conditions were: involvement in projects where objectives and deliverables already were stated by a funder, a lack of discussions with supervisors early in the PhD-process, and/or a lack of proper training. The authors also discussed if working with a compilation thesis automatically lead to contrived overall research questions, which resulted primarily as an afterthought at a very late stage in the process.
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- Bertran, Oscar, et al.
(författare)
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Modeling Nanosized Single Molecule Objects: Dendronized Polymers Adsorbed onto Mica
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1932-7447 .- 1932-7455. ; 119:7, s. 3746-3753
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We attempt to provide direct evidence for the suggested behavior of dendronized polymers as molecular objects (i.e., single shape persistent macromolecules). For this purpose, the microscopic structure of dendronized polymers adsorbed onto mica has been investigated using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. We find that the shape of the second to fourth generation dendronized polymers is basically kept upon adsorption due to substantial backfolding within their interior. The fluctuation strength of the polymer backbones, which is seen to decrease with increasing generation, also indicates that these individual macromolecules exhibit molecular object behavior in the nanosize range.
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