A new hysteresis simulation method for interpreting the magnetic properties of non-oriented electrical steels (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, Z., Hamzehbahmani, H., & Gaskell, P. (2023). A new hysteresis simulation method for interpreting the magnetic properties of non-oriented electrical steels. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 576, Article 170763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.170763

The magnetic properties of non-oriented electrical steels (NOESs) are characterized using an analytical simulation method accounting for the microstructures in ferromagnetic materials. Complementary experimental data for thin sheet laminations, obtai... Read More about A new hysteresis simulation method for interpreting the magnetic properties of non-oriented electrical steels.

A critical review of structural supercapacitors and outlook on future research challenges (2023)
Journal Article
Greenhalgh, E. S., Nguyen, S., Valkova, M., Shirshova, N., Shaffer, M. S., & Kucernak, A. (2023). A critical review of structural supercapacitors and outlook on future research challenges. Composites Science and Technology, 235, Article 109968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2023.109968

Structural composites and electrochemical energy storage underpin electrification of transportation, but advances in electric vehicles are shackled by parasitic battery mass. The emergence of structural power composites, multifunctional materials tha... Read More about A critical review of structural supercapacitors and outlook on future research challenges.

Modelling the effect of dipole ordering on charge-carrier mobility in organic semiconductors (2023)
Journal Article
Pope, T., Giret, Y., Fsadni, M., Docampo, P., Groves, C., & Penfold, T. J. (2023). Modelling the effect of dipole ordering on charge-carrier mobility in organic semiconductors. Organic Electronics, 115, Article 106760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2023.106760

The hopping mobility in organic semiconductors is strongly influenced by the correlated on-site noise — i.e. the dipole–dipole interaction between neighbouring molecules. In this paper, we use Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) to study the effect of dipole m... Read More about Modelling the effect of dipole ordering on charge-carrier mobility in organic semiconductors.

Biogenic silver nanoparticles-modified forward osmosis membranes with mitigated internal concentration polarization and enhanced antibacterial properties (2022)
Journal Article
Wu, X., Fang, F., Zhang, B., Wu, J. J., & Zhang, K. (2022). Biogenic silver nanoparticles-modified forward osmosis membranes with mitigated internal concentration polarization and enhanced antibacterial properties. npj Clean Water, 5, Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-022-00190-1

Thin-film composite forward osmosis (TFC-FO) membranes show the potential to be applied in water treatment applications. However, the TFC-FO membrane performance was limited by internal concentration polarization (ICP) and membrane fouling. In this s... Read More about Biogenic silver nanoparticles-modified forward osmosis membranes with mitigated internal concentration polarization and enhanced antibacterial properties.

In-Materio Extreme Learning Machines (2022)
Book Chapter
Jones, B. A., Al Moubayed, N., Zeze, D. A., & Groves, C. (2022). In-Materio Extreme Learning Machines. In G. Rudolph, A. V. Kononova, H. Aguirre, P. Kerschke, G. Ochoa, & T. Tušar (Eds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XVII (505-519). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14714-2_35

Nanomaterial networks have been presented as a building block for unconventional in-Materio processors. Evolution in-Materio (EiM) has previously presented a way to congure and exploit physical materials for computation, but their ability to scale as... Read More about In-Materio Extreme Learning Machines.

Towards Intelligently Designed Evolvable Processors (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, B. A., Chouard, J. L., Branco, B. C., Vissol-Gaudin, E. G., Pearson, C., Petty, M. C., …Groves, C. (2022). Towards Intelligently Designed Evolvable Processors. Evolutionary Computation, 30(4), 479-501. https://doi.org/10.1162/evco_a_00309

Evolution-in-Materio is a computational paradigm in which an algorithm reconfigures a material’s properties to achieve a specific computational function. This paper addresses the question of how successful and well performing Evolution-in-Materio pro... Read More about Towards Intelligently Designed Evolvable Processors.

An advanced, comprehensive thermochemical equilibrium model of a downdraft biomass gasifier (2022)
Journal Article
Ibrahim, A., Veremieiev, S., & Gaskell, P. (2022). An advanced, comprehensive thermochemical equilibrium model of a downdraft biomass gasifier. Renewable Energy, 194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.05.069

A stoichiometric model is formulated for predicting the syngas yield from the reduction zone of a downdraft biomass gasifier. It incorporates the thermodynamic equilibrium of the global gasification reaction, predicts the concentration of the minor g... Read More about An advanced, comprehensive thermochemical equilibrium model of a downdraft biomass gasifier.

Single event burnout sensitivity of SiC and Si (2022)
Journal Article
Littlefair, M. T. M., Simdyankin, S., Turvey, S., Groves, C., & Horsfall, A. B. (2022). Single event burnout sensitivity of SiC and Si. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 37(6), Article 065013. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6641/ac668c

Exposure to ionizing radiation has the potential to catastrophically modify the operation, and destroy, electronic components in microseconds. The electrification of aircraft necessitates the need to use the most power dense and lowest loss semicondu... Read More about Single event burnout sensitivity of SiC and Si.

Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Jones, B. A., Al Moubayed, N., Zeze, D. A., & Groves, C. (2022). Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icrc53822.2021.00026

Evolution-in-Materio (EiM) is an unconventional computing paradigm, which uses an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to configure a material's parameters so that it can perform a computational task. While EiM processors show promise, slow manufacturing and... Read More about Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors.

How does location determine the economic competitiveness of grid-scale Emerging PV? (2022)
Journal Article
Nieto-Díaz, B. A., Crossland, A. F., & Groves, C. (2022). How does location determine the economic competitiveness of grid-scale Emerging PV?. Energy Technology, 10(5), Article 2101012. https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.202101012

Emerging Photovoltaic (PV) devices with perovskite or organic absorber layers may play a substantial role in our energy future due to their potential low-cost manufacture and differing properties compared to established Silicon equivalents. However,... Read More about How does location determine the economic competitiveness of grid-scale Emerging PV?.

Mechanical-Stress-Related Epigenetic Regulation of ZIC1 Transcription Factor in the Etiology of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis (2022)
Journal Article
Datta, H. K., Kringen, M. K., Tuck, S. P., Salpingidou, G., Olstad, O. K., Gautvik, K. M., …Reppe, S. (2022). Mechanical-Stress-Related Epigenetic Regulation of ZIC1 Transcription Factor in the Etiology of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(6), Article 2957. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23062957

Mechanical loading exerts a profound influence on bone density and architecture, but the exact mechanism is unknown. Our study shows that expression of the neurological transcriptional factor zinc finger of the cerebellum 1 (ZIC1) is markedly increas... Read More about Mechanical-Stress-Related Epigenetic Regulation of ZIC1 Transcription Factor in the Etiology of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis.

Permeate Flux in Ultrafiltration Processes—Understandings and Misunderstandings (2022)
Journal Article
Field, R. W., & Wu, J. J. (2022). Permeate Flux in Ultrafiltration Processes—Understandings and Misunderstandings. Membranes, 12(2), Article 187. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12020187

Concentration polarization refers to the rapid emergence of concentration gradients at a membrane/solution interface resulting from selective transfer through the membrane. It is distinguishable from fouling in at least two ways: (1) the state of the... Read More about Permeate Flux in Ultrafiltration Processes—Understandings and Misunderstandings.

A Novel Dynamic Hysteresis Model for Grain-Oriented Electrical Steels Based on Magnetic Domain Theory (2021)
Journal Article
Zhang, Z., Hamzehbahmani, H., & Gaskell, P. H. (2022). A Novel Dynamic Hysteresis Model for Grain-Oriented Electrical Steels Based on Magnetic Domain Theory. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 58(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmag.2021.3128765

A novel approach is adopted to model the hysteresis phenomenon of grain-oriented electrical steels (GOESs), by incorporating a variation of the domain patterns associated with ferromagnetic materials during magnetization and demagnetization. The ensu... Read More about A Novel Dynamic Hysteresis Model for Grain-Oriented Electrical Steels Based on Magnetic Domain Theory.

Gravity-driven film flow down a uniformly heated smoothly corrugated rigid substrate (2021)
Journal Article
Daly, G., Veremieiev, S., & Gaskell, P. (2022). Gravity-driven film flow down a uniformly heated smoothly corrugated rigid substrate. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 930, Article A23. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.920

Gravity induced film flow over a rigid smoothly corrugated substrate heated uniformly from below, is explored. This is achieved by reducing the governing equations of motion and energy conservation to a manageable form within the mathematical framewo... Read More about Gravity-driven film flow down a uniformly heated smoothly corrugated rigid substrate.

Differing Impacts of Blended Fullerene Acceptors on the Performance of Ternary Organic Solar Cells (2021)
Journal Article
Palacios-Gómez, D. A., Huerta Flores, A. M., MacKenzie, R. C., Pearson, C., Alanazi, F., Mendis, B. G., & Groves, C. (2021). Differing Impacts of Blended Fullerene Acceptors on the Performance of Ternary Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 4(10), 10867-10876. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c01833

Organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices offer the ability to tune the electronic and optical properties of the active layer by selection of a wide range of molecules; however, their power conversion efficiencies currently lag other competing photovoltaic... Read More about Differing Impacts of Blended Fullerene Acceptors on the Performance of Ternary Organic Solar Cells.

Biphasic epoxy-ionic liquid structural electrolytes: minimising feature size through cure cycle and multifunctional block-copolymer addition (2021)
Journal Article
Wendong, Q., Dent, J., Arrighi, V., Cavalcanti, L., Shaffer, M. S., & Shirshova, N. (2021). Biphasic epoxy-ionic liquid structural electrolytes: minimising feature size through cure cycle and multifunctional block-copolymer addition. Multifunctional materials, 4(3), Article 035003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-7532/ac1ea7

Structural electrolytes provide mechanical properties approaching structural resin combined with a high degree of ionic conductivity. Here, structural electrolytes based on bisphenol A diglycidyl ether and the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium... Read More about Biphasic epoxy-ionic liquid structural electrolytes: minimising feature size through cure cycle and multifunctional block-copolymer addition.

A levelized cost of energy approach to select and optimise emerging PV technologies: The relative impact of degradation, cost and initial efficiency (2021)
Journal Article
Nieto-Díaz, B. A., Crossland, A. F., & Groves, C. (2021). A levelized cost of energy approach to select and optimise emerging PV technologies: The relative impact of degradation, cost and initial efficiency. Applied Energy, 299, Article 117302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117302

A model of levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is presented which accounts for the significant ‘burn-in’ losses common in photovoltaic (PV) devices with organic (OPV) and perovskite (PVK) absorber layers. This model is used to quantify the relative impor... Read More about A levelized cost of energy approach to select and optimise emerging PV technologies: The relative impact of degradation, cost and initial efficiency.

Electrical behaviour and evolutionary computation in thin films of bovine brain microtubules (2021)
Journal Article
Vissol-Gaudin, E., Pearson, C., Groves, C., Zeze, D. A., Cantiello, H. F., Cantero, M. D. R., & Petty, M. C. (2021). Electrical behaviour and evolutionary computation in thin films of bovine brain microtubules. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 10776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90260-0

We report on the electrical behaviour of thin films of bovine brain microtubules (MTs). For samples in both their dried and hydrated states, the measured currents reveal a power law dependence on the applied DC voltage. We attribute this to the injec... Read More about Electrical behaviour and evolutionary computation in thin films of bovine brain microtubules.

The combustion behavior of epoxy‐based multifunctional electrolytes (2021)
Journal Article
Shirshova, N., Rogaume, T., Najmi, H., & Poisson, M. (2022). The combustion behavior of epoxy‐based multifunctional electrolytes. Fire and Materials, 46(1), 192-204. https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.2967

Multifunctional or structural electrolytes are characterized by ionic conductivity high enough to be used in the electrochemical devices and mechanical performance suitable for the structural applications. Preliminary insights are provided into the c... Read More about The combustion behavior of epoxy‐based multifunctional electrolytes.

Multilayer Modelling of Lubricated Contacts: A New Approach Based on a Potential Field Description (2020)
Book Chapter
Scholle, M., Mellmann, M., Gaskell, P. H., Westerkamp, L., & Marner, F. (2020). Multilayer Modelling of Lubricated Contacts: A New Approach Based on a Potential Field Description. In G. Ostermeyer, V. L. Popov, E. V. Shilko, & O. S. Vasiljeva (Eds.), Multiscale biomechanics and tribology of inorganic and organic system (359-375). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60124-9_16

A first integral approach, derived in an analogous fashion to Maxwell’s use of potential fields, is employed to investigate the flow characteristics, with a view to minimising friction, of shear-driven fluid motion between rigid surfaces in parallel... Read More about Multilayer Modelling of Lubricated Contacts: A New Approach Based on a Potential Field Description.