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Exploiting trifluoromethyl substituents for tuning orbital character of singlet and triplet states to increase the rate of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (2020)
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Ward, J. S., Danos, A., Stachelek, P., Fox, M. A., Batsanov, A. S., Monkman, A. P., & Bryce, M. R. (2020). Exploiting trifluoromethyl substituents for tuning orbital character of singlet and triplet states to increase the rate of thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 4(12), https://doi.org/10.1039/d0qm00429d

‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation (2020)
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Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2020). ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation. Endeavour, 44(4), Article 100750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2021.100750

Despite some scepticism, the suggestion by Hartung in 1976 that the report in the chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury corresponded to a meteorite impact with the moon in 1178, creating the Giordano Bruno crater, retains considerable support, particula... Read More about ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation.

Reconfigurable and self-biased magnonic metamaterials (2020)
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Haldar, A., & Adeyeye, A. O. (2020). Reconfigurable and self-biased magnonic metamaterials. Journal of Applied Physics, 128(24), Article 240902. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0033254

In magnonics, magnetic waves and oscillations are exploited for signal and information processing at microwave frequencies. A magnonic metamaterial is employed to configure different microwave bands by spatial engineering of magnetizations using diff... Read More about Reconfigurable and self-biased magnonic metamaterials.

Predicting Hemiwicking Dynamics on Textured Substrates (2020)
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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.

Mass Photometry of Membrane Proteins (2020)
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Olerinyova, A., Sonn-Segev, A., Gault, J., Eichmann, C., Schimpf, J., Kopf, A. H., …Kukura, P. (2021). Mass Photometry of Membrane Proteins. Chem, 7(1), 224-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2020.11.011

Integral membrane proteins (IMPs) are biologically highly significant but challenging to study because they require maintaining a cellular lipid-like environment. Here, we explore the application of mass photometry (MP) to IMPs and membrane-mimetic s... Read More about Mass Photometry of Membrane Proteins.

Position-dependent stability and lifetime of the skyrmion state in nickel-substituted Cu2OSeO3 (2020)
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Crisanti, M., Birch, M., Wilson, M., Moody, S., Štefančič, A., Huddart, B., …Cubitt, R. (2020). Position-dependent stability and lifetime of the skyrmion state in nickel-substituted Cu2OSeO3. Physical Review B, 102(22), Article 224407. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.224407

We report spatially resolved small-angle neutron-scattering measurements of the conical and skyrmion states of a bulk single crystal of nickel-substituted Cu2OSeO3, with a nominal concentration of Ni of 14%. We observe a significant spatial dependenc... Read More about Position-dependent stability and lifetime of the skyrmion state in nickel-substituted Cu2OSeO3.

Cyclophane Molecules Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Linking Donor Units to Influence Molecular Conformation (2020)
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Hempe, M., Harrison, A. K., Ward, J. S., Batsanov, A. S., Fox, M. A., Dias, F. B., & Bryce, M. R. (2021). Cyclophane Molecules Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Linking Donor Units to Influence Molecular Conformation. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86(1), 429-445. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c02174

The synthetic methodology to covalently link donors to form cyclophane-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules is presented. These are the first reported examples of TADF cyclophanes with “electronically innocent” bridges betw... Read More about Cyclophane Molecules Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Linking Donor Units to Influence Molecular Conformation.

Extended ligand conjugation and dinuclearity as a route to efficient platinum-based near-infrared (NIR) triplet emitters and solution-processed NIR-OLEDs (2020)
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Shafikov, M. Z., Pander, P., Zaytsev, A. V., Daniels, R., Martinscroft, R., Dias, F. B., …Kozhevnikov, V. N. (2021). Extended ligand conjugation and dinuclearity as a route to efficient platinum-based near-infrared (NIR) triplet emitters and solution-processed NIR-OLEDs. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 9(1), 127-135. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0tc04881j

Near infrared (NIR) emission from molecular materials is typically targeted by using more extended conjugated systems compared to visible-emitting materials. But efficiencies usually fall off due to the combined effects of increasing non-radiative an... Read More about Extended ligand conjugation and dinuclearity as a route to efficient platinum-based near-infrared (NIR) triplet emitters and solution-processed NIR-OLEDs.

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.

Inelastic Scattering in Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging (2020)
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Mendis, B. G., Barthel, J., Findlay, S. D., & Allen, L. J. (2020). Inelastic Scattering in Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 26(6), 1147-1157. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1431927620024605

Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and electron channeling contrast imaging (ECCI) are used to extract crystallographic information from bulk samples, such as their crystal structure and orientation as well as the presence of any dislocation and... Read More about Inelastic Scattering in Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging.

Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods (2020)
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Sivan, A. K., Galán-González, A., Di Mario, L., Tappy, N., Hernández-Ferrer, J., Catone, D., …Martelli, F. (2021). Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods. Nanoscale Advances, 3(1), 214-222. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0na00693a

The controlled modification of the electronic properties of ZnO nanorods via transition metal doping is reported. A series of ZnO nanorods were synthesized by chemical bath growth with varying Co content from 0 to 20 atomic% in the growth solution. O... Read More about Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods.

Current State and Future Prospects for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Systems (2020)
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Abbas, Q., Mirzaeian, M., Hunt, M. R., Hall, P., & Raza, R. (2020). Current State and Future Prospects for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Systems. Energies, 13(21), Article 5847. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13215847

Electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems such as electrochemical capacitors, batteries and fuel cells are considered as the most important technologies proposing environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions to address rapidly growi... Read More about Current State and Future Prospects for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Systems.

No evidence for room temperature ferromagnetism in the high temperature metal-organic material: Ni2TCNQ (2020)
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Berlie, A., Terry, I., Szablewski, M., & Quinn, K. (2020). No evidence for room temperature ferromagnetism in the high temperature metal-organic material: Ni2TCNQ. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 33(6), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/abb545

The search for ferromagnetic organic-based compounds has been a particular challenge to both chemists and physicists over the past few decades. The synthesis of the Ni2A, where A is an organic acceptor; tetracyanoethene (TCNE), 3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano... Read More about No evidence for room temperature ferromagnetism in the high temperature metal-organic material: Ni2TCNQ.

Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Comparative Study of Macrocyclic Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Compounds: Molecular Charge Stability vs OLED EQE Roll‐Off (2020)
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Nyga, A., Izumi, S., Higginbotham, H. F., Stachelek, P., Pluczyk, S., de Silva, P., …Data, P. (2020). Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Comparative Study of Macrocyclic Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Compounds: Molecular Charge Stability vs OLED EQE Roll‐Off. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 9(12), 2153-2161. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajoc.202000475

In this work, we present how a small change in molecular structure can affect the electrochemical stability of organic compounds. A new electron donor–acceptor–donor–acceptor (D–A–D–A) macrocyclic π‐conjugated compound ( t BuMC ) comprising of dibenz... Read More about Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Comparative Study of Macrocyclic Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Compounds: Molecular Charge Stability vs OLED EQE Roll‐Off.

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.