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Threaded Rings that Swim in Excitable Media (2019)
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Cincotti, A., Maucher, F., Evans, D., Chapin, B. M., Horner, K., Bromley, E., Lobb, A., Steed, J. W., & Sutcliffe, P. (2019). Threaded Rings that Swim in Excitable Media. Physical Review Letters, 123(25), Article 258102. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.123.258102

Cardiac tissue and the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction provide two notable examples of excitable media that support scroll waves, in which a filament core is the source of spiral waves of excitation. Here we consider a novel topological configuration i... Read More about Threaded Rings that Swim in Excitable Media.

Silica nanoparticles with thermally activated delayed fluorescence for live cell imaging (2019)
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Crucho, C. I., Avó, J., Nobuyasu, R., N. Pinto, S., Fernandes, F., Lima, J. C., Berberan-Santos, M. N., & Dias, F. B. (2020). Silica nanoparticles with thermally activated delayed fluorescence for live cell imaging. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 109, Article 110528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2019.110528

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) has revolutionized the field of organic light emitting diodes owing to the possibility of harvesting non-emissive triplet states and converting them in emissive singlet states. This mechanism generates... Read More about Silica nanoparticles with thermally activated delayed fluorescence for live cell imaging.

Harnessing energy landscape exploration to control the buckling of cylindrical shells (2019)
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Panter, J., Chen, J., Zhang, T., & Kusumaatmaja, H. (2019). Harnessing energy landscape exploration to control the buckling of cylindrical shells. Communications Physics, 2, Article 151. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-019-0251-4

Even for relatively simple thin shell morphologies, many di↵erent buckled configurations can be stable simultaneously. Which state is observed in practice is highly sensitive to both environmental perturbations and shell imperfections. The complexity... Read More about Harnessing energy landscape exploration to control the buckling of cylindrical shells.

Learning dynamical information from static protein and sequencing data (2019)
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Pearce, P., Woodhouse, F., Forrow, A., Kelly, A., Kusumaatmaja, H., & Dunkel, J. (2019). Learning dynamical information from static protein and sequencing data. Nature Communications, 10, Article 5368. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13307-x

Many complex processes, from protein folding to neuronal network dynamics, can be described as stochastic exploration of a high-dimensional energy landscape. While efficient algorithms for cluster detection in high-dimensional spaces have been develo... Read More about Learning dynamical information from static protein and sequencing data.

Optimizing geophysical muon radiography using information theory (2019)
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Benton, C., Mitchell, C., Coleman, M., Paling, S., Lincoln, D., Thompson, L., Clark, S., & Gluyas, J. (2020). Optimizing geophysical muon radiography using information theory. Geophysical Journal International, 220(2), 1078-1094. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz503

Cosmic ray muons are highly penetrating, with some reaching several kilometres into solid rock. Consequently, muon detectors have been used to probe the interiors of large geological structures, by observing how the muon flux varies with direction of... Read More about Optimizing geophysical muon radiography using information theory.

Threshold interface magnetization required to induce magnetic proximity effect (2019)
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Inyang, O., Bouchenoire, L., Nicholson, B., Tokaç, M., Rowan-Robinson, R., Kinane, C., & Hindmarch, A. (2019). Threshold interface magnetization required to induce magnetic proximity effect. Physical Review B, 100(17), Article 174418. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.174418

Proximity-induced magnetization (PIM) has broad implications across interface-driven spintronics applications employing spin currents. We directly determine the scaling between PIM in Pt and the temperaturedependent interface magnetization in an adja... Read More about Threshold interface magnetization required to induce magnetic proximity effect.

Balancing charge-transfer strength and triplet states for deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence with an unconventional electron rich dibenzothiophene acceptor (2019)
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Huang, R., Kukhta, N., Ward, J., Danos, A., Batsanov, A., Bryce, M., & Dias, F. (2019). Balancing charge-transfer strength and triplet states for deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence with an unconventional electron rich dibenzothiophene acceptor. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 7(42), 13224-13234. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc02175b

Manipulation of the emission properties of deep-blue emitters exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) through molecular design is challenging. We present an effective strategy to probe deeper into the role of localized (LE) and cha... Read More about Balancing charge-transfer strength and triplet states for deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence with an unconventional electron rich dibenzothiophene acceptor.

Multi-plane remote refocussing epifluorescence microscopy to image dynamic Ca2+ events (2019)
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Lawton, P., Buckley, C., Saunter, C., Wilson, C., Corbett, A., Salter, P., McCarron, J., & Girkin, J. (2019). Multi-plane remote refocussing epifluorescence microscopy to image dynamic Ca2+ events. Biomedical Optics Express, 10(11), 5611-5624. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.10.005611

Rapid imaging of multiple focal planes without sample movement may be achieved through remote refocusing, where imaging is carried out in a plane conjugate to the sample plane. The technique is ideally suited to studying the endothelial and smooth mu... Read More about Multi-plane remote refocussing epifluorescence microscopy to image dynamic Ca2+ events.

In Situ Fabrication of Polymeric Microcapsules by Ink-Jet Printing of Emulsions (2019)
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Deng, R., Wang, Y., Yang, L., & Bain, C. D. (2019). In Situ Fabrication of Polymeric Microcapsules by Ink-Jet Printing of Emulsions. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(43), 40652-40661. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b14417

Phase separation driven by solvent evaporation of emulsions can be used to create polymeric microcapsules. The combination of emulsion solvent evaporation with ink-jet printing allows the rapid fabrication of polymeric microcapsules at a target locat... Read More about In Situ Fabrication of Polymeric Microcapsules by Ink-Jet Printing of Emulsions.

Achieving Conformational Control in RTP and TADF Emitters by Functionalization of the Central Core (2019)
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Kukhta, N., Huang, R., Batsanov, A., Bryce, M., & Dias, F. (2019). Achieving Conformational Control in RTP and TADF Emitters by Functionalization of the Central Core. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(43), 26536-26546. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b08238

Three new symmetrical donor–acceptor–donor (D–A–D)-type molecules were prepared with phenothiazine (PTZ) as electron donors and 9,9-dimethylthioxanthene (TX) as the electron acceptor. The PTZ groups are attached at different positions on the acceptor... Read More about Achieving Conformational Control in RTP and TADF Emitters by Functionalization of the Central Core.

Morphological analysis of chiral rod clusters from a coarse-grained single-site chiral potential (2019)
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Sutherland, B., Olesen, S., Kusumaatmaja, H., Morgan, J., & Wales, D. (2019). Morphological analysis of chiral rod clusters from a coarse-grained single-site chiral potential. Soft Matter, 15(40), 8147-8155. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sm01343a

We present a coarse-grained single-site potential for simulating chiral interactions, with adjustable strength, handedness, and preferred twist angle. As an application, we perform basin-hopping global optimisation to predict the favoured geometries... Read More about Morphological analysis of chiral rod clusters from a coarse-grained single-site chiral potential.

Negative-vector-chirality 120∘ spin structure in the defect- and distortion-free quantum kagome antiferromagnet YCu3(OH)6Cl3 (2019)
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Zorko, A., Pregelj, M., Gomilšek, M., Klanjšek, M., Zaharko, O., Sun, W., & Mi, J.-X. (2019). Negative-vector-chirality 120∘ spin structure in the defect- and distortion-free quantum kagome antiferromagnet YCu3(OH)6Cl3. Physical Review B, 100(14), Article 144420. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.144420

The magnetic ground state of the ideal quantum kagome antiferromagnet (QKA) has been a longstanding puzzle, mainly because perturbations to the nearest-neighbor isotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian can lead to various fundamentally different ground state... Read More about Negative-vector-chirality 120∘ spin structure in the defect- and distortion-free quantum kagome antiferromagnet YCu3(OH)6Cl3.

Weakly-Emergent Strain-Dependent Properties of High Field Superconductors (2019)
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Branch, P., Tsui, Y., Osamura, K., & Hampshire, D. (2019). Weakly-Emergent Strain-Dependent Properties of High Field Superconductors. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 13998. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50266-1

All superconductors in high field magnets operating above 12 T are brittle and subjected to large strains because of the differential thermal contraction between component parts on cool-down and the large Lorentz forces produced in operation. The con... Read More about Weakly-Emergent Strain-Dependent Properties of High Field Superconductors.

Amorphous InGaZnO and metal oxide semiconductor devices: an overview and current status (2019)
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Troughton, J., & Atkinson, D. (2019). Amorphous InGaZnO and metal oxide semiconductor devices: an overview and current status. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 7(40), 12388-12414. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc03933c

The past 20 years has witnessed a rapid expansion of applications using metal oxide semiconductor devices that ranges from displays technology, to clothing and packaging. Details of these technological applications have been the subject of technical... Read More about Amorphous InGaZnO and metal oxide semiconductor devices: an overview and current status.

Determining the anisotropy and exchange parameters of polycrystalline spin-1 magnets (2019)
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Blackmore, W., Brambleby, J., Lancaster, T., Clark, S., Johnson, R., Singleton, J., Ozarowski, A., Schlueter, J., Chen, Y.-S., Arif, A., Lapidus, S., Xiao, F., Williams, R., Blundell, S., Pearce, M., Lees, M., Manuel, P., Villa, D., Villa, J., Manson, J., & Goddard, P. (2019). Determining the anisotropy and exchange parameters of polycrystalline spin-1 magnets. New Journal of Physics, 21(9), https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab3dba

Although low-dimensional S = 1 antiferromagnets remain of great interest, difficulty in obtaining highquality single crystals of the newest materials hinders experimental research in this area. Polycrystalline samples are more readily produced, but t... Read More about Determining the anisotropy and exchange parameters of polycrystalline spin-1 magnets.

An unusual plank-shaped nematogen with a graphene nanoribbon core (2019)
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Farias, G., Simeão, D. S., Moreira, T. S., dos Santos, P. L., Bentaleb, A., Girotto, E., Monkman, A. P., Eccher, J., Durola, F., Bock, H., de Souza, B., & Bechtold, I. H. (2019). An unusual plank-shaped nematogen with a graphene nanoribbon core. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 7(39), 12080-12085. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc03704g

A [12]phenacene exclusively decorated with four lateral hexylester substituents self-assembles into a nematic liquid crystal glass on cooling after melting at high temperature. This uniaxial nematic organization of a plank-shaped nanographene is unpr... Read More about An unusual plank-shaped nematogen with a graphene nanoribbon core.

Homoconjugation enhances the photophysical and electrochemical properties of a new 3D intramolecular charge transfer iptycene displaying deep blue emission (2019)
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Montanaro, S., Congrave, D. G., Etherington, M. K., & Wright, I. A. (2019). Homoconjugation enhances the photophysical and electrochemical properties of a new 3D intramolecular charge transfer iptycene displaying deep blue emission. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 7(41), 12886-12890. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc03255j

A new structural class of 3D molecule capable of intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) is introduced, based upon an electron poor ring-fused triptycene core. Its photophysical and electrochemical properties are evaluated in comparison with an analogou... Read More about Homoconjugation enhances the photophysical and electrochemical properties of a new 3D intramolecular charge transfer iptycene displaying deep blue emission.