Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (85)

Decarbonation of subducting carbonate-bearing sediments and basalts of altered oceanic crust: Insights into recycling of CO2 through volcanic arcs (2022)
Journal Article
Arzilli, F., Burton, M., La Spina, G., Macpherson, C. G., van Keken, P. E., & McCann, J. (2023). Decarbonation of subducting carbonate-bearing sediments and basalts of altered oceanic crust: Insights into recycling of CO2 through volcanic arcs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 602, Article 117945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117945

The geological carbon cycle has played a key role in controlling climate throughout Earth's history. For the last ∼3 billion years plate tectonics has driven subduction. Subducted slabs have transported CO2 from the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmo... Read More about Decarbonation of subducting carbonate-bearing sediments and basalts of altered oceanic crust: Insights into recycling of CO2 through volcanic arcs.

Spatial estimation of groundwater quality, hydrogeochemical investigation, and health impacts of shallow groundwater in Kabul city, Afghanistan (2022)
Journal Article
Hamidi, M. D., Kissane, S., Bogush, A. A., Karim, A. Q., Sagintayev, J., Towers, S., & Greenwell, H. C. (2023). Spatial estimation of groundwater quality, hydrogeochemical investigation, and health impacts of shallow groundwater in Kabul city, Afghanistan. Sustainable Water Resources Management, 9(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-022-00808-9

The management of groundwater in densely populated areas with no centralized water treatment is critical for the prevention of diseases and maintaining sanitation. Here, we determine the bacteriological and chemical characteristics of groundwater in... Read More about Spatial estimation of groundwater quality, hydrogeochemical investigation, and health impacts of shallow groundwater in Kabul city, Afghanistan.

Fine‐Tuning the Photophysics of Donor‐Acceptor (D‐A 3 ) Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters Using Isomerisation (2022)
Journal Article
L. dos Santos, P., de Sa Pereira, D., Eng, J., Ward, J. S., Bryce, M. R., Penfold, T. J., & Monkman, A. P. (2023). Fine‐Tuning the Photophysics of Donor‐Acceptor (D‐A 3 ) Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters Using Isomerisation. ChemPhotoChem, 7(2), Article e202200248. https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202200248

Here two D–A3 regioisomers, comprising three dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide acceptor units attached to a central triazatruxene core, are studied. Both molecules show thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), however, the efficiency of the TADF m... Read More about Fine‐Tuning the Photophysics of Donor‐Acceptor (D‐A 3 ) Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters Using Isomerisation.

Enhanced skyrmion metastability under applied strain in FeGe (2022)
Journal Article
Littlehales, M., Turnbull, L., Wilson, M., Birch, M., Popescu, H., Jaouen, N., …Hatton, P. (2022). Enhanced skyrmion metastability under applied strain in FeGe. Physical Review B, 106(21), Article 214434. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.106.214434

Mechanical straining of skyrmion hosting materials has previously demonstrated increased phase stability through the expansion of the skyrmion equilibrium pocket. Additionally, metastable skyrmions can be generated via rapid field cooling to form sig... Read More about Enhanced skyrmion metastability under applied strain in FeGe.

Highly Thermally Resistant Bisamide Gelators as Pharmaceutical Crystallization Media (2022)
Journal Article
Torres-Moya, I., Sánchez, A., Saikia, B., Yufit, D. S., Prieto, P., Carrillo, J. R., & Steed, J. W. (2022). Highly Thermally Resistant Bisamide Gelators as Pharmaceutical Crystallization Media. Gels, 9(1), Article 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels9010026

Three simple bisamide derivatives (G1, G2 and G3) with different structural modifications were synthesized with easy synthetic procedures in order to test their gel behaviour. The outcomes showed that hydrogen bonding was essential in gel formation;... Read More about Highly Thermally Resistant Bisamide Gelators as Pharmaceutical Crystallization Media.

Near-infrared electroluminescence beyond 940 nm in Pt(N^C^N)X complexes: influencing aggregation with the ancillary ligand X (2022)
Journal Article
Salthouse, R. J., Pander, P., Yufit, D. S., Dias, F. B., & Williams, J. G. (2022). Near-infrared electroluminescence beyond 940 nm in Pt(N^C^N)X complexes: influencing aggregation with the ancillary ligand X. Chemical Science, 13(45), 13600-13610. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc05023d

We present a study of aggregate excited states formed by complexes of the type Pt(N^C^N)X, where N^C^N represents a tridentate cyclometallating ligand, and X = SCN or I. These materials display near-infrared (NIR) photoluminescence in film and electr... Read More about Near-infrared electroluminescence beyond 940 nm in Pt(N^C^N)X complexes: influencing aggregation with the ancillary ligand X.

Structured ternary fluids as nanocrystal incubators for enhanced crystallization control (2022)
Journal Article
Maunder, J., Aguilar, J., Hodgkinson, P., & Cooper, S. (2022). Structured ternary fluids as nanocrystal incubators for enhanced crystallization control. Chemical Science, 13(44), 13132-13140. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sc04413g

In crystallization from solution, a ubiquitous process in both industry and the natural world, nucleation is usually the rate-determining step, followed by faster crystal growth. Consequently, crystals typically exist in the nm-size range for such li... Read More about Structured ternary fluids as nanocrystal incubators for enhanced crystallization control.

Designer Gelators for the Crystallization of a Salt Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient─Mexiletine Hydrochloride (2022)
Journal Article
Andrews, J. L., Kennedy, S. R., Yufit, D. S., McCabe, J. F., & Steed, J. W. (2022). Designer Gelators for the Crystallization of a Salt Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient─Mexiletine Hydrochloride. Crystal Growth and Design, 22(11), 6775-6785. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00925

We report an approach to obtain drug-mimetic supramolecular gelators, which are capable of stabilizing metastable polymorphs of the pharmaceutical salt mexiletine hydrochloride, a highly polymorphic antiarrhythmic drug. Solution-phase screening led t... Read More about Designer Gelators for the Crystallization of a Salt Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient─Mexiletine Hydrochloride.

Identification of Graphene Dispersion Agents through Molecular Fingerprints (2022)
Journal Article
Goldie, S. J., Degiacomi, M. T., Jiang, S., Clark, S. J., Erastova, V., & Coleman, K. S. (2022). Identification of Graphene Dispersion Agents through Molecular Fingerprints. ACS Nano, 16(10), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c04406

The scalable production and dispersion of 2D materials, like graphene, is critical to enable their use in commercial applications. While liquid exfoliation is commonly used, solvents such as N-methyl-pyrrolidone (NMP) are toxic and difficult to scale... Read More about Identification of Graphene Dispersion Agents through Molecular Fingerprints.

Rock and fault rheology explain differences between on fault and distributed seismicity (2022)
Journal Article
Collettini, C., Barchi, M., De Paola, N., Trippetta, F., & Tinti, E. (2022). Rock and fault rheology explain differences between on fault and distributed seismicity. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 5627. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33373-y

Analysis of seismicity can illuminate active fault zone structures but also deformation within large volumes of the seismogenic zone. For the Mw 6.5 2016–2017 Central Italy seismic sequence, seismicity not only localizes along the major structures ho... Read More about Rock and fault rheology explain differences between on fault and distributed seismicity.

Molecular clusters in confined spaces (2022)
Journal Article
Braschinsky, A., & Steed, J. W. (2022). Molecular clusters in confined spaces. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 473, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214840

Confinement chemistry is a growing field with many potential applications in the synthetic, catalytic and especially pharmaceutical industries. Confinement of materials can reveal novel properties as compared to their bulk. They can also give insight... Read More about Molecular clusters in confined spaces.

Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry (2022)
Journal Article
Dramićanin, M. D., Marciniak, Ł., Kuzman, S., Piotrowski, W., Ristić, Z., Periša, J., …Ma, C. (2022). Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry. Light: Science and Applications, 11, Article 279. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-00958-7

The near-infrared luminescence of Ca6Ba(PO4)4O:Mn5+ is demonstrated and explained. When excited into the broad and strong absorption band that spans the 500–1000 nm spectral range, this phosphor provides an ultranarrow (FWHM = 5 nm) emission centered... Read More about Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry.

Rational Molecular Design Enables Efficient Blue TADF−OLEDs with Flexible Graphene Substrate (2022)
Journal Article
Sharif, P., Alemdar, E., Ozturk, S., Caylan, O., Haciefendioglu, T., Buke, G., …Oral, A. (2022). Rational Molecular Design Enables Efficient Blue TADF−OLEDs with Flexible Graphene Substrate. Advanced Functional Materials, 32(47), Article 2207324. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202207324

Observation of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) in conjugated systems redefined the molecular design approach to realize highly efficient organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) in the early 2010s. Enabling effective reverse intersystem... Read More about Rational Molecular Design Enables Efficient Blue TADF−OLEDs with Flexible Graphene Substrate.

Integral Role of Water in the Solid-State Behavior of the Antileishmanial Drug Miltefosine (2022)
Journal Article
Hall, A. V., Gostick, I. E., Yufit, D. S., Marchant, G. Y., Kirubakaran, P., Madu, S. J., …Steed, J. W. (2022). Integral Role of Water in the Solid-State Behavior of the Antileishmanial Drug Miltefosine. Crystal Growth and Design, 22(10), 6262-6266. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00843

Miltefosine is a repurposed anticancer drug and currently the only orally administered drug approved to treat the neglected tropical disease leishmaniasis. Miltefosine is hygroscopic and must be stored at subzero temperatures. In this work, we report... Read More about Integral Role of Water in the Solid-State Behavior of the Antileishmanial Drug Miltefosine.

Understanding the Interaction of Gluconamides and Gluconates with Amino Acids in Hair Care (2022)
Journal Article
Chambers, L. I., Yufit, D. S., Musa, O. M., & Steed, J. W. (2022). Understanding the Interaction of Gluconamides and Gluconates with Amino Acids in Hair Care. Crystal Growth and Design, 22(10), 6190-6200. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00753

A hair care mixture formed from a gluconamide derivative and 3-hydroxypropyl ammonium gluconate is known to strengthen hair fibers; however, the mechanism by which the mixture affects hair is unknown. To give insight into the aggregation of the targe... Read More about Understanding the Interaction of Gluconamides and Gluconates with Amino Acids in Hair Care.

Confinement of Skyrmions in Nanoscale FeGe Device-like Structures (2022)
Journal Article
Twitchett-Harrison, A. C., Loudon, J. C., Pepper, R. A., Birch, M. T., Fangohr, H., Midgley, P. A., …Hatton, P. D. (2022). Confinement of Skyrmions in Nanoscale FeGe Device-like Structures. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 4(9), 4427 - 4437. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.2c00692

Skyrmion-based devices have been proposed as a promising solution for low-energy data storage. These devices include racetrack or logic structures and require skyrmions to be confined in regions with dimensions comparable to the size of a single skyr... Read More about Confinement of Skyrmions in Nanoscale FeGe Device-like Structures.

X-ray diffraction imaging of fully packaged n–p–n transistors under accelerated ageing conditions (2022)
Journal Article
Tanner, B. K., Danilewsky, A., & McNally, P. J. (2022). X-ray diffraction imaging of fully packaged n–p–n transistors under accelerated ageing conditions. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 55(5), 1139-1146. https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600576722007142

X-ray diffraction imaging was used to monitor the local strains that developed around individual n–p–n bipolar transistors within fully encapsulated packages under conditions of extremely high forward bias to simulate accelerated ageing. Die warpage... Read More about X-ray diffraction imaging of fully packaged n–p–n transistors under accelerated ageing conditions.

A review of drag anchor penetration models to inform cable burial risk assessment (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pretti, G., Coombs, W., Augarde, C., Puigvert, M., Gutierrez, J., & Cross, L. (2022, August). A review of drag anchor penetration models to inform cable burial risk assessment. Paper presented at 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG), Austin, Texas

Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters: Is There Evidence Beyond Reasonable Doubt? (2022)
Journal Article
Hempe, M., Kukhta, N. A., Danos, A., Batsanov, A. S., Monkman, A. P., & Bryce, M. R. (2022). Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters: Is There Evidence Beyond Reasonable Doubt?. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 13(35), 8221-8227. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00907

Intramolecular hydrogen bonding between donor and acceptor segments in thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials is now frequently employed to─purportedly─rigidify the structure and improve the emission performance of these materials.... Read More about Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters: Is There Evidence Beyond Reasonable Doubt?.