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Antibiofouling Slippery Liquid Impregnated Pulsed Plasma Poly(styrene) Surfaces (2023)
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Rawlinson, J. M., Cox, H. J., Hopkins, G., Cahill, P., & Badyal, J. P. S. (2023). Antibiofouling Slippery Liquid Impregnated Pulsed Plasma Poly(styrene) Surfaces. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 10(32), Article 2300284. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202300284

Biofouling is a major global environmental and economic challenge wherein organisms settle on solid surfaces submerged in natural waters. This leads to the spread of invasive marine species around the globe, accelerates surface deterioration through... Read More about Antibiofouling Slippery Liquid Impregnated Pulsed Plasma Poly(styrene) Surfaces.

Nature-inspired trapped air cushion surfaces for environmentally sustainable antibiofouling (2022)
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Rawlinson, J. M., Cox, H. J., Hopkins, G., Cahill, P., & Badyal, J. P. S. (2023). Nature-inspired trapped air cushion surfaces for environmentally sustainable antibiofouling. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 656, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.130491

Feathers of seabirds and waterfowl (for example the mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos)) consist of hierarchical fibrillar structures encapsulated with hydrophobic preen oil. These characteristics afford waterproofing through the entrapment of air pock... Read More about Nature-inspired trapped air cushion surfaces for environmentally sustainable antibiofouling.

Anti-biofouling functional surfaces for marine aquaculture (2022)
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Cox, H. J., Cooper, I., Kaspar, H. F., Packer, M. A., & Badyal, J. P. S. (2022). Anti-biofouling functional surfaces for marine aquaculture. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 639, Article 128313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.128313

Aquaculture is a global-scale industry providing sustainable production of protein-rich foods required to feed the growing world population. Microalgae cultivation in aquaculture bioreactors can exude extracellular polymeric substances leading to bio... Read More about Anti-biofouling functional surfaces for marine aquaculture.

Nature‐Inspired Substrate‐Independent Omniphobic and Antimicrobial Slippery Surfaces (2021)
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Cox, H. J., Gibson, C. P., Sharples, G. J., & Badyal, J. P. S. (2022). Nature‐Inspired Substrate‐Independent Omniphobic and Antimicrobial Slippery Surfaces. Advanced Engineering Materials, 24(6), Article 2101288. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202101288

Inspired by the carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plant, a range of highly liquid repellent lubricant-infused surfaces has been devised (low water droplet contact angle hysteresis and sliding angle values). This entails matching functional pulsed plasma... Read More about Nature‐Inspired Substrate‐Independent Omniphobic and Antimicrobial Slippery Surfaces.

Breakthrough Science and Technologies Transforming Our Future - Sustainable Packaging: Protecting Products and the Planet The Royal Society (2021)
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Badyal, J. P., & Mackey, G. (2021). Breakthrough Science and Technologies Transforming Our Future - Sustainable Packaging: Protecting Products and the Planet The Royal Society. [No known commissioning body]

On the 2 July 2021, the Royal Society held an online symposium to explore recent advances and disruptive approaches in the field of sustainable packaging. The purpose of the event was twofold: first to give a platform to businesses worldwide who are... Read More about Breakthrough Science and Technologies Transforming Our Future - Sustainable Packaging: Protecting Products and the Planet The Royal Society.

Tea–Essential Oil–Metal Hybrid Nanocoatings for Bacterial and Viral Inactivation (2021)
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Cox, H. J., Sharples, G. J., & Badyal, J. P. S. (2021). Tea–Essential Oil–Metal Hybrid Nanocoatings for Bacterial and Viral Inactivation. ACS Applied Nano Material, 4(11), 12619-12628. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c03151

Natural plant-derived antimicrobial nanocoatings have been synthesized by mixing brewed tea with cinnamaldehyde oil. Concurrent addition of copper or silver salts produces hybrid tea–cinnamaldehyde–copper or tea–cinnamaldehyde–silver nanocoatings, re... Read More about Tea–Essential Oil–Metal Hybrid Nanocoatings for Bacterial and Viral Inactivation.

Tunable High Refractive Index Polymer Hybrid and Polymer–Inorganic Nanocomposite Coatings (2021)
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Ritchie, A. W., Cox, H. J., Gonabadi, H. I., Bull, S. J., & Badyal, J. P. S. (2021). Tunable High Refractive Index Polymer Hybrid and Polymer–Inorganic Nanocomposite Coatings. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13(28), 33477-33484. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c07372

Atomized spray plasma deposition (ASPD) provides a single-step, low-temperature, and dry approach for the preparation of high refractive index hybrid polymer or polymer–inorganic nanocomposite coatings. Refractive indices as high as 1.936 at 635 nm w... Read More about Tunable High Refractive Index Polymer Hybrid and Polymer–Inorganic Nanocomposite Coatings.

Bioinspired and eco-friendly high efficacy cinnamaldehyde antibacterial surfaces (2021)
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Cox, H. J., Li, J., Saini, P., Paterson, J. R., Sharples, G. J., & Badyal, J. P. S. (2021). Bioinspired and eco-friendly high efficacy cinnamaldehyde antibacterial surfaces. Journal of Materials Chemistry B: Materials for biology and medicine, 9(12), 2918-2930. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0tb02379e

Antimicrobial essential oils are incorporated into mussel-inspired and natural plant polyphenol coatings as part of a single-step fabrication process. Polydopamine–cinnamaldehyde, polyethyleneimine–cinnamaldehyde, and tannic acid–cinnamaldehyde coati... Read More about Bioinspired and eco-friendly high efficacy cinnamaldehyde antibacterial surfaces.

Capture and Release Recyclable Dimethylaminomethyl-Calixarene Functional Cloths for Point-of-Use Removal of Highly Toxic Chromium Water Pollutants (2020)
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Bieber, V. S., Ozcelik, E., Cox, H. J., Ottley, C. J., Ratan, J. K., Karaman, M., …Badyal, J. P. S. (2020). Capture and Release Recyclable Dimethylaminomethyl-Calixarene Functional Cloths for Point-of-Use Removal of Highly Toxic Chromium Water Pollutants. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(46), 52136-52145. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c14772

Chromium(VI) contamination of drinking water arises from industrial activity wherever there is a lack of environmental legislation enforcement regarding the removal of such pollutants. Although it is possible to remove such harmful metal ions from dr... Read More about Capture and Release Recyclable Dimethylaminomethyl-Calixarene Functional Cloths for Point-of-Use Removal of Highly Toxic Chromium Water Pollutants.

Ultra-High Selectivity Pulsed Plasmachemical Deposition Reaction Pathways (2019)
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Carletto, A., & Badyal, J. P. S. (2019). Ultra-High Selectivity Pulsed Plasmachemical Deposition Reaction Pathways. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(30), 16468-16476. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cp02192b

Glycidyl methacrylate pulsed plasmas have been investigated using time-resolved in situ mass spectrometry. At low pulsed plasma duty cycles, monomer fragmentation leading to the formation of polymerisation initiator species occurs within each short e... Read More about Ultra-High Selectivity Pulsed Plasmachemical Deposition Reaction Pathways.

Bioinspired Multifunctional Polymer–Nanoparticle–Surfactant Complex Nanocomposite Surfaces for Antibacterial Oil–Water Separation (2018)
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Ritchie, A., Cox, H., Barrientos-Palomo, S., Sharples, G., & Badyal, J. (2019). Bioinspired Multifunctional Polymer–Nanoparticle–Surfactant Complex Nanocomposite Surfaces for Antibacterial Oil–Water Separation. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 560, 352-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2018.10.030

Bioinspired polymer–nanoparticle–fluorosurfactant complex composite coatings are shown to display fast-switching oleophobic–hydrophilic properties. The large switching parameters (difference between the equilibrium oil and water static contact angles... Read More about Bioinspired Multifunctional Polymer–Nanoparticle–Surfactant Complex Nanocomposite Surfaces for Antibacterial Oil–Water Separation.

Atomised Spray Plasma Deposition of Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Nanocomposite Surfaces (2018)
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Castaneda-Montes, I., Ritchie, A., & Badyal, J. (2018). Atomised Spray Plasma Deposition of Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Nanocomposite Surfaces. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 558, 192-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2018.08.054

Atomised spray plasma deposition (ASPD) using perfluorotributylamine–nanoparticle slurry mixtures yields superhydrophobic nanocomposite layers in a single solventless step. X-ray photoelectron and infrared spectroscopies indicate the formation of a p... Read More about Atomised Spray Plasma Deposition of Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Nanocomposite Surfaces.

Palladium–poly(ionic liquid) membranes for permselective sonochemical flow catalysis (2018)
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Wilson, M., Kore, R., Ritchie, A., Fraser, R., Beaumont, S., Srivastava, R., & Badyal, J. (2018). Palladium–poly(ionic liquid) membranes for permselective sonochemical flow catalysis. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 545, 78-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2018.02.044

Anisotropic palladium–poly(ionic liquid) catalyst membranes have been prepared by complexation of palladium(II) chloride to poly(ionic liquid) functionalised flexible porous substrates. The practical viability of these low loading (sub 0.1 mol%) pall... Read More about Palladium–poly(ionic liquid) membranes for permselective sonochemical flow catalysis.

Substrate-Independent Epitaxial Growth of the Metal-Organic Framework MOF-508a (2018)
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Wilson, M., Barrientos Palomo, S., Stevens, P., Mitchell, N., Oswald, G., Nagaraja, C. M., & Badyal, J. P. (2018). Substrate-Independent Epitaxial Growth of the Metal-Organic Framework MOF-508a. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(4), 4057-4065. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b16029

Plasmachemical deposition is a substrate-independent method for the conformal surface functionalization of solid substrates. Structurally well-defined pulsed plasma deposited poly(1-allylimidazole) layers provide surface imidazole linker groups for t... Read More about Substrate-Independent Epitaxial Growth of the Metal-Organic Framework MOF-508a.

Bioinspired Asymmetric-Anisotropic (Directional) Fog Harvesting Based on the Arid Climate Plant Eremopyrum orientale (2017)
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Gürsoy, M., Harris, M., Carletto, A., Yaprak, A., Karaman, M., & Badyal, J. (2017). Bioinspired Asymmetric-Anisotropic (Directional) Fog Harvesting Based on the Arid Climate Plant Eremopyrum orientale. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 529, 959-965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.06.065

Asymmetric-anisotropic (directional) fog collection behaviour is observed for leaves of the arid climate plant species Eremopyrum orientale. This is underpinned by a hierarchical surface structure comprising macroscale grooves, microscale tilted cone... Read More about Bioinspired Asymmetric-Anisotropic (Directional) Fog Harvesting Based on the Arid Climate Plant Eremopyrum orientale.

Bioinspired fog capture and channel mechanism based on the arid climate plant Salsola crassa (2017)
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Gürsoy, M., Harris, M., Downing, J., Barrientos-Palomo, S., Carletto, A., Yaprak, A., …Badyal, J. (2017). Bioinspired fog capture and channel mechanism based on the arid climate plant Salsola crassa. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 529, 195-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.05.071

Salsola crassa plant hairs collect fog in their natural arid climate habitat through the capture and growth of water droplets. These then, either drip onto the ground below due to gravity, or coalesce into larger attached water droplets, whilst concu... Read More about Bioinspired fog capture and channel mechanism based on the arid climate plant Salsola crassa.

Magnetic recyclable microcomposite silica-steel core with TiO₂ nanocomposite shell photocatalysts for sustainable water purification (2017)
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Wilson, M., Cheng, C., Oswald, G., Srivastava, R., Beaumont, S., & Badyal, J. (2017). Magnetic recyclable microcomposite silica-steel core with TiO₂ nanocomposite shell photocatalysts for sustainable water purification. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 523, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.03.034

Micron-sized steel particles encapsulated within a silica host matrix and then coated with a photocatalytic TiO2 nanocomposite shell have been prepared using sol-gel chemistry and shown to readily degrade waterborne organic pollutants during UV illum... Read More about Magnetic recyclable microcomposite silica-steel core with TiO₂ nanocomposite shell photocatalysts for sustainable water purification.

Recyclable palladium catalyst cloths for carbon-carbon coupling reactions (2017)
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Wilson, M., Kore, R., Fraser, R., Beaumont, S., Srivastava, R., & Badyal, J. (2017). Recyclable palladium catalyst cloths for carbon-carbon coupling reactions. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 520, 788-795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.01.050

Low loading palladium catalyst cloths have been prepared by surface complexation of palladium(II) chloride with plasmachemical imidazole functionalised non-woven polypropylene cloth. For Sonogashira, Mizoroki-Heck, and Suzuki-Miyaura carbon-carbon co... Read More about Recyclable palladium catalyst cloths for carbon-carbon coupling reactions.

Plasmachemical Double Click Thiol–ene Reactions for Wet Electrical Barrier (2016)
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Fraser, R., Carletto, A., Wilson, M., & Badyal, J. (2016). Plasmachemical Double Click Thiol–ene Reactions for Wet Electrical Barrier. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8(33), 21832-21838. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b07381

Click thiol–ene chemistry is demonstrated for the reaction of thiol containing molecules with surface alkene bonds during electrical discharge activation. This plasmachemical reaction mechanism is shown to be 2-fold for allyl mercaptan (an alkene and... Read More about Plasmachemical Double Click Thiol–ene Reactions for Wet Electrical Barrier.

Smart water channelling through dual wettability by leaves of the bamboo Phyllostachys aurea (2016)
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Wigzell, J., Racovita, R., Stentiford, B., Wilson, M., Harris, M., Fletcher, I., …Badyal, J. (2016). Smart water channelling through dual wettability by leaves of the bamboo Phyllostachys aurea. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 506, 344-355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2016.06.058

The young leaves of the bamboo plant, Phyllostachys aurea, exhibit a distinct dual wetting behaviour on their adaxial surface. Contact angle analysis, variable pressure (environmental) scanning electron microscopy, gas chromatography, time-of-flight... Read More about Smart water channelling through dual wettability by leaves of the bamboo Phyllostachys aurea.