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Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 33.0 days***
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Catalytic cracking could enable low temperature conversion of hard-to recycle polyolefin plastics by overcoming traditional macro and microscopic mass transport limitations.
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This article assesses molecular poses using steric and energetic criteria, showing that classical protein-ligand docking tools currently still outperform deep learning-based methods.
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