Predicting Hemiwicking Dynamics on Textured Substrates (2020)
Journal Article
Natarajan, B., Jaishankar, A., King, M., Oktasendra, F., Avis, S. J., Konicek, A. R., …Yeganeh, M. S. (2021). Predicting Hemiwicking Dynamics on Textured Substrates. Langmuir, 37(1), 188-195. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02737

The ability to predict liquid transport rates on textured surfaces is key to the design and optimization of devices and processes such as oil recovery, coatings, reaction-separation, high-throughput screening, and thermal management. In this work we... Read More about Predicting Hemiwicking Dynamics on Textured Substrates.

The fire resistance of high-strength concrete containing natural zeolites (2020)
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Kushnir, A. R., Heap, M. J., Griffiths, L., Wadsworth, F. B., Langella, A., Baud, P., …Utley, J. E. (2021). The fire resistance of high-strength concrete containing natural zeolites. Cement and Concrete Composites, 116, Article 103897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2020.103897

More sustainable and environmentally friendly concretes are essential to reduce the climatic and environmental impact of the growing demand for concrete to fuel urban sprawl. This manuscript reports on an experimental study designed to test the fire... Read More about The fire resistance of high-strength concrete containing natural zeolites.

A Regenerable Biosensing Platform for Bacterial Toxins (2020)
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Antunez, E. E., Mahon, C. S., Tong, Z., Voelcker, N. H., & Müllner, M. (2021). A Regenerable Biosensing Platform for Bacterial Toxins. Biomacromolecules, 22(2), 441-453. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.0c01318

Waterborne diarrheal diseases such as travelers’ diarrhea and cholera remain a threat to public health in many countries. Rapid diagnosis of an infectious disease is critical in preventing the escalation of a disease outbreak into an epidemic. Many o... Read More about A Regenerable Biosensing Platform for Bacterial Toxins.

The Birth of a Hawaiian Fissure Eruption (2020)
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Houghton, B., Tisdale, C., Llewellin, E., Taddeucci, J., Orr, T., Walker, B., & Patrick, M. (2021). The Birth of a Hawaiian Fissure Eruption. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126(1), Article e2020JB020903. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jb020903

Most basaltic explosive eruptions intensify abruptly, allowing little time to document processes at the start of eruption. One opportunity came with the initiation of activity from fissure 8 (F8) during the 2018 eruption on the lower East Rift Zone o... Read More about The Birth of a Hawaiian Fissure Eruption.

Joining European Scientific Forces to Face Pandemics (2020)
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Vasconcelos, M. H., Alcaro, S., Arechavala-Gomeza, V., Baumbach, J., Borges, F., Brevini, T. A., …Riganti, C. (2021). Joining European Scientific Forces to Face Pandemics. Trends in Microbiology, 29(2), 92-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.10.008

Despite the international guidelines on the containment of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the European scientific community was not sufficiently prepared to coordinate scientific efforts. To improve preparedness for future pandemic... Read More about Joining European Scientific Forces to Face Pandemics.

The genetic landscape of crystallins in congenital cataract (2020)
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Berry, V., Ionides, A., Pontikos, N., Georgiou, M., Yu, J., Ocaka, L. A., …Michaelides, M. (2020). The genetic landscape of crystallins in congenital cataract. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 15, Article 333. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-020-01613-3

Background: The crystalline lens is mainly composed of a large family of soluble proteins called the crystallins, which are responsible for its development, growth, transparency and refractive index. Disease-causing sequence variants in the crystalli... Read More about The genetic landscape of crystallins in congenital cataract.

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.

Gold surface cleaning by etching polishing: Optimization of polycrystalline film topography and surface functionality for biosensing (2020)
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Snopok, B., Laroussi, A., Cafolla, C., Voïtchovsky, K., Snopok, T., & Mirsky, V. M. (2021). Gold surface cleaning by etching polishing: Optimization of polycrystalline film topography and surface functionality for biosensing. Surfaces and Interfaces, 22, Article 100818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2020.100818

Modern bio-chemical sensors rely on functional interfacial architectures with well-defined structural nano-motifs over a physical transducer. Gold-coated interfaces are of particular interest for their desirable chemical (functionalization) and optic... Read More about Gold surface cleaning by etching polishing: Optimization of polycrystalline film topography and surface functionality for biosensing.

Suppressing Dimer Formation by Increasing Conformational Freedom in Multi-Carbazole Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters (2020)
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Salah, L., Etherington, M., Shuaib, A., Danos, A., Nazeer, A., Ghazal, B., …Makhseed, S. (2021). Suppressing Dimer Formation by Increasing Conformational Freedom in Multi-Carbazole Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 9(1), 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0tc04222f

Ideal emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are capable of efficiently harvesting non-emissive triplet states, have high colour stabilities, and possess high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs). Maintaining colour stability and PLQY... Read More about Suppressing Dimer Formation by Increasing Conformational Freedom in Multi-Carbazole Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters.

Explosivity of basaltic lava fountains is controlled by magma rheology, ascent rate and outgassing (2020)
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La Spina, G., Arzilli, F., Llewellin, E., Burton, M., Clarke, A., de' Michieli Vitturi, M., …Mader, H. (2021). Explosivity of basaltic lava fountains is controlled by magma rheology, ascent rate and outgassing. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 553, Article 116658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116658

The dichotomy between explosive volcanic eruptions, which produce pyroclasts, and effusive eruptions, which produce lava, is defined by the presence or absence of fragmentation during magma ascent. For lava fountains the distinction is unclear, since... Read More about Explosivity of basaltic lava fountains is controlled by magma rheology, ascent rate and outgassing.

A model for permeability evolution during volcanic welding (2020)
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Wadsworth, F. B., Vasseur, J., Llewellin, E. W., Brown, R. J., Tuffen, H., Gardner, J. E., …Marone, F. (2021). A model for permeability evolution during volcanic welding. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 409, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107118

Volcanic ash and pyroclasts can weld when deposited hot by pyroclastic density currents, in near-vent fall deposits, or in fractures in volcano interiors. Welding progressively decreases the permeability of the particle packs, influencing a range of... Read More about A model for permeability evolution during volcanic welding.

Tales of the unexpected. The non-random statistical copolymerisation of myrcene and styrene in the presence of a polar modifier’. (2020)
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Shaw, L., & Hutchings, L. R. (in press). Tales of the unexpected. The non-random statistical copolymerisation of myrcene and styrene in the presence of a polar modifier’. Polymer Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1039/d0py01099e

Predictive identification of co-formers in co-amorphous systems (2020)
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Chambers, L. I., Grohganz, H., Palmelund, H., Löbmann, K., Rades, T., Musa, O. M., & Steed, J. W. (2021). Predictive identification of co-formers in co-amorphous systems. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 157, Article 105636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejps.2020.105636

This work aims to understand the properties of co-formers that form co-amorphous pharmaceutical materials and to predict co-amorphous system formation. A partial least square – discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) was performed using known co-amorphous sys... Read More about Predictive identification of co-formers in co-amorphous systems.

Aging in a mean field elastoplastic model of amorphous solids (2020)
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Parley, J. T., Fielding, S. M., & Sollich, P. (2020). Aging in a mean field elastoplastic model of amorphous solids. Physics of Fluids, 32(12), Article 127104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0033196

We construct a mean-field elastoplastic description of the dynamics of amorphous solids under arbitrary time-dependent perturbations, building on the work of Lin and Wyart [Phys. Rev. X 6, 011005 (2016)] for steady shear. Local stresses are driven by... Read More about Aging in a mean field elastoplastic model of amorphous solids.

Drug Mimetic Organogelators for the Control of Concomitant Crystallization of Barbital and Thalidomide (2020)
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Saikia, B., Mulvee, M. T., Torres-Moya, I., Sarma, B., & Steed, J. W. (2020). Drug Mimetic Organogelators for the Control of Concomitant Crystallization of Barbital and Thalidomide. Crystal Growth and Design, 20(12), 7989-7996. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.0c01240

A strategic approach to control the polymorphism of two related drugs by introducing a drug-mimetic imide functional group into the molecular weight organogelator structure is presented. This was achieved with novel aminoglutethimide-derived bis(urea... Read More about Drug Mimetic Organogelators for the Control of Concomitant Crystallization of Barbital and Thalidomide.

Convective tipping point initiates localization of basaltic fissure eruptions (2020)
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Jones, T. J., & Llewellin, E. W. (2021). Convective tipping point initiates localization of basaltic fissure eruptions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 553, Article 116637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116637

Basaltic fissure eruptions may evolve rapidly and unpredictably complicating hazard management. Localization of an elongate fissure to one or more focused vents may take days to months, and depends on fluid dynamic processes, such as thermally-driven... Read More about Convective tipping point initiates localization of basaltic fissure eruptions.

Ductile and Brittle Yielding in Thermal and Athermal Amorphous Materials (2020)
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Barlow, H. J., Cochran, J. O., & Fielding, S. M. (2020). Ductile and Brittle Yielding in Thermal and Athermal Amorphous Materials. Physical Review Letters, 125(16), Article 168003. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.168003

We study theoretically the yielding of sheared amorphous materials as a function of increasing levels of initial sample annealing prior to shear, in three widely used constitutive models and three widely studied annealing protocols. In thermal system... Read More about Ductile and Brittle Yielding in Thermal and Athermal Amorphous Materials.

Three-dimensional data capture and analysis of intact eye lenses evidences emmetropia-associated changes and strain-dependent differences in epithelial cell organization (2020)
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Kalligeraki, A. A., Isted, A., Pal, R., Saunter, C., Girkin, J., Jarrin, M., …Quinlan, R. A. (2020). Three-dimensional data capture and analysis of intact eye lenses evidences emmetropia-associated changes and strain-dependent differences in epithelial cell organization. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 16898. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73625-9

Organ and tissue development are highly coordinated processes; lens growth and functional integration into the eye (emmetropia) is a robust example. An epithelial monolayer covers the anterior hemisphere of the lens, and its organization is the key t... Read More about Three-dimensional data capture and analysis of intact eye lenses evidences emmetropia-associated changes and strain-dependent differences in epithelial cell organization.

Explosive-effusive volcanic eruption transitions caused by sintering (2020)
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Wadsworth, F. B., Llewellin, E. W., Vasseur, J., Gardner, J. E., & Tuffen, H. (2020). Explosive-effusive volcanic eruption transitions caused by sintering. Science Advances, 6(39), Article eaba7940. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba7940

Silicic volcanic activity has long been framed as either violently explosive or gently effusive. However, recent observations demonstrate that explosive and effusive behavior can occur simultaneously. Here, we propose that rhyolitic magma feeding sub... Read More about Explosive-effusive volcanic eruption transitions caused by sintering.

Bidirectional Motion of Droplets on Gradient Liquid Infused Surfaces (2020)
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Sadullah, M. S., Launay, G., Parle, J., Ledesma-Aguilar, R., Gizaw, Y., McHale, G., …Kusumaatmaja, H. (2020). Bidirectional Motion of Droplets on Gradient Liquid Infused Surfaces. Communications Physics, 3, Article 166. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-00429-8

The current paradigm of self-propelled motion of liquid droplets on surfaces with chemical or topographical wetting gradients is always mono-directional. In contrast, here, we demonstrate bidirectional droplet motion, which we realize using liquid in... Read More about Bidirectional Motion of Droplets on Gradient Liquid Infused Surfaces.