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Formative Assessment: improving students' experience in the teaching labs (2015)
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Milian, L. (2015). Formative Assessment: improving students' experience in the teaching labs. Online educational research journal,

Formative assessment is recognised as one of the most effective ways to help and promote students’ learning. Students consider laboratory learning to be challenging, though sometimes it is not appreciated and not recognised as a valuable source of le... Read More about Formative Assessment: improving students' experience in the teaching labs.

Solution-processed blue/deep blue and white phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PhOLEDs) hosted by a polysiloxane derivative with pendant mCP (1, 3-bis(9-carbazolyl)benzene) (2015)
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Sun, D., Zhou, X., Liu, J., Sun, X., Li, H., Ren, Z., …Yan, S. (2015). Solution-processed blue/deep blue and white phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PhOLEDs) hosted by a polysiloxane derivative with pendant mCP (1, 3-bis(9-carbazolyl)benzene). ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7(51), 27989-27998. https://doi.org/10.1021/am507592s

The synthesis and characterization is reported of an efficient polysiloxane derivative containing the 1,3-bis(9-carbazolyl)benzene (mCP) moiety as a pendant unit on the polysiloxane backbone. In comparison with mCP, the mCP-polysiloxane hybrid (PmCPS... Read More about Solution-processed blue/deep blue and white phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes (PhOLEDs) hosted by a polysiloxane derivative with pendant mCP (1, 3-bis(9-carbazolyl)benzene).

Surfactant and Plasticizer Segregation in Thin Poly(vinyl alcohol) Films (2015)
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Briddick, A., Li, P., Hughes, A., Courchay, F., Martinez, A., & Thompson, R. (2016). Surfactant and Plasticizer Segregation in Thin Poly(vinyl alcohol) Films. Langmuir, 32(3), 864-872. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03758

The vertical depth distributions of individual additive components [cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), deuterated pentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether (d25-C12E5), and deuterated glycerol (d-glycerol)] in PVA films have been isolated and explor... Read More about Surfactant and Plasticizer Segregation in Thin Poly(vinyl alcohol) Films.

Photoelectron imaging as a probe of the repulsive Coulomb barrier in the photodetachment of antimony tartrate dianions (2015)
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West, C., Bull, J., Woods, D., & Verlet, J. (2016). Photoelectron imaging as a probe of the repulsive Coulomb barrier in the photodetachment of antimony tartrate dianions. Chemical Physics Letters, 645, 138-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2015.12.041

A photoelectron imaging study of the text-book antimony tartrate dianion is presented. The vertical and adiabatic detachment energies are determined to be 2.5 ± 0.1 eV and 2.1 ± 0.2 eV, respectively. The photoelectron spectra exhibit a typical cut-of... Read More about Photoelectron imaging as a probe of the repulsive Coulomb barrier in the photodetachment of antimony tartrate dianions.

Insights into the Behaviour of Biomolecules on the Early Earth: The Concentration of Aspartate by Layered Double Hydroxide Minerals (2015)
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Grégoire, B., Erastova, V., Geatches, D. L., Clark, S. J., Greenwell, H. C., & Fraser, D. G. (2016). Insights into the Behaviour of Biomolecules on the Early Earth: The Concentration of Aspartate by Layered Double Hydroxide Minerals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 176, 239-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.12.026

The role of mineral surfaces in concentrating and facilitating the polymerisation of simple protobiomolecules during the Hadean and Archean has been the subject of much research in order to constrain the conditions that may have led to the origin of... Read More about Insights into the Behaviour of Biomolecules on the Early Earth: The Concentration of Aspartate by Layered Double Hydroxide Minerals.

Internal conversion outcompetes autodetachment from resonances in the deprotonated tetracene anion continuum (2015)
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Bull, J., West, C., & Verlet, J. (2015). Internal conversion outcompetes autodetachment from resonances in the deprotonated tetracene anion continuum. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(48), 32464-32471. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp05388a

Photoelectron velocity-map imaging and electronic structure calculations have been used to study the temporary anion (resonance) dynamics of the closed-shell site-specific deprotonated tetracene anion (C18H11−) in the hv = 3.26 eV (380 nm) to 4.13 eV... Read More about Internal conversion outcompetes autodetachment from resonances in the deprotonated tetracene anion continuum.

Na+ mobility in sodium strontium silicate fast ion conductors (2015)
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Peet, J. R., Widdifield, C. M., Apperley, D. C., Hodgkinson, P., Johnson, M. R., & Evans, I. R. (2015). Na+ mobility in sodium strontium silicate fast ion conductors. Chemical Communications, 51(96), 17163-17165. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc06644a

We present the first direct evidence of Na-ion mobility in sodium strontium silicate fast ion conductors, based on variable temperature 23Na solid state NMR spectroscopy and spin-lattice relaxation measurements.

Solvent Dependence of the Single Molecule Conductance of Oligoyne-Based Molecular Wires (2015)
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Milan, D. C., Al-Owaedi, O. A., Oerthel, M., Marqués-González, S., Brooke, R. J., Bryce, M. R., …García-Suárez, V. M. (2016). Solvent Dependence of the Single Molecule Conductance of Oligoyne-Based Molecular Wires. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(29), 15666-15674. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b08877

The conductance and the decay of conductance as a function of molecular length within a homologous series of oligoynes, Me3Si—(C≡C)n—SiMe3 (n = 2, 3, 4, or 5), is shown to depend strongly on the solvent medium. Single molecule junction conductance me... Read More about Solvent Dependence of the Single Molecule Conductance of Oligoyne-Based Molecular Wires.

Anion-specific aggregation induced phosphorescence emission (AIPE) in an ionic iridium complex in aqueous media (2015)
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Li, G., Guan, W., Du, S., Zhu, D., Shan, G., Zhu, X., …Monkman, A. P. (2015). Anion-specific aggregation induced phosphorescence emission (AIPE) in an ionic iridium complex in aqueous media. Chemical Communications, 51(95), 16924-16927. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc07187a

Efficient aggregation induced phosphorescence emission (AIPE) of an ionic Ir(III) complex occurs when the counterion (PF6−) is exchanged specifically by ClO4− in aqueous media. As a result, a rapid, highly selective “turn-on” phosphorescent response... Read More about Anion-specific aggregation induced phosphorescence emission (AIPE) in an ionic iridium complex in aqueous media.

Chain Architecture as an Orthogonal Parameter To Influence Block Copolymer Morphology. Synthesis and Characterization of Hyperbranched Block Copolymers: HyperBlocks (2015)
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Hutchings, L. R., Agostini, S., Hamley, I. W., & Hermida-Merino, D. (2015). Chain Architecture as an Orthogonal Parameter To Influence Block Copolymer Morphology. Synthesis and Characterization of Hyperbranched Block Copolymers: HyperBlocks. Macromolecules, 48(24), 8806-8822. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02052

For block copolymers there is usually a strong correlation between the copolymer composition (volume fraction of each block) and the resulting solid state morphology. However, for a variety of potential applications, e.g., semipermeable membranes or... Read More about Chain Architecture as an Orthogonal Parameter To Influence Block Copolymer Morphology. Synthesis and Characterization of Hyperbranched Block Copolymers: HyperBlocks.