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From magma ascent to ash generation: investigating volcanic conduit processes by integrating experiments, numerical modeling, and observations (2017)
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Processes occurring in volcanic conduits, the pathways through which magma travels from its storage region to the surface, have a fundamental control on the nature of eruptions and associated phenomena. It has been well established that magma flows,... Read More about From magma ascent to ash generation: investigating volcanic conduit processes by integrating experiments, numerical modeling, and observations.

Towards bio-based tapered block copolymers: the behaviour of myrcene in the statistical anionic copolymerisation (2019)
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To explore the potential of myrcene (Myr) as a bio-based monoterpene comonomer for styrenic copolymers and to establish its general applicability for the carbanionic copolymerisation, several statistical copolymerisations of myrcene and common monome... Read More about Towards bio-based tapered block copolymers: the behaviour of myrcene in the statistical anionic copolymerisation.

Thickening of viscoelastic flow in a model porous medium (2017)
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We study numerically two-dimensional creeping viscoelastic flow past a biperiodic square array of cylinders within the Oldroyd B, FENE-CR and FENE-P constitutive models of dilute polymer solutions. Our results capture the initial mild decrease then d... Read More about Thickening of viscoelastic flow in a model porous medium.

Antimicrobial action of the cationic peptide, chrysophsin-3: a coarse-grained molecular dynamics study (2018)
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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are small cationic proteins that are able to destabilize a lipid bilayer structure through one or more modes of action. In this study, we investigate the processes of peptide aggregation and pore formation in lipid bilay... Read More about Antimicrobial action of the cationic peptide, chrysophsin-3: a coarse-grained molecular dynamics study.

The Roles of Blending and of Molecular Weight Distribution on Craze Initiation (2017)
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Craze initiation stress was measured in three-point bending isochronal creep tests on a series of entangled bimodal blends of polystyrenes of narrow dispersity, on three polystyrenes of broad dispersity, and on four blends of polystyrenes of broad di... Read More about The Roles of Blending and of Molecular Weight Distribution on Craze Initiation.

Steady bilayer channel and free-surface isothermal film flow over topography (2018)
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Two flow configurations, involving bilayers, are explored systematically: through an inclined channel comprised of two planar surfaces in parallel alignment and down an inclined plane. Both liquid layers are assumed to be perfectly immiscible and the... Read More about Steady bilayer channel and free-surface isothermal film flow over topography.

Determining the spring constant of arbitrarily shaped cantilevers in viscous environments (2018)
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Accurate calibration of the flexural spring constant of microcantilevers is crucial for sensing devices, microactuators, and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Existing methods rely on precise knowledge of cantilever geometry, make significant simplifica... Read More about Determining the spring constant of arbitrarily shaped cantilevers in viscous environments.

Multiply Threaded Rotaxanes (2018)
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Mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) of all shapes and sizes are available to Chemists, driving forward progress across a broad range of research areas. Yet, some classes of MIMs remain relatively elusive. This Review summarises the properties o... Read More about Multiply Threaded Rotaxanes.

Small-Molecule Povidone Analogs in Coamorphous Pharmaceutical Phases (2018)
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The crystallization inhibitor polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) is commonly used as a stabilizer in the formation of amorphous polymer dispersions of poorly soluble pharmaceuticals. In this work we examine the use of a range of PVP-inspired small-molecule b... Read More about Small-Molecule Povidone Analogs in Coamorphous Pharmaceutical Phases.

Blooming of Smectic Surfactant/Plasticizer Layers on Spin-Cast Poly(vinyl alcohol) Films (2018)
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The blooming of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and the influence of plasticizer (glycerol) on the surfactant distribution in poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) films have been explored by neutron reflectometry (NR) and ion beam analysis techniques. When in bina... Read More about Blooming of Smectic Surfactant/Plasticizer Layers on Spin-Cast Poly(vinyl alcohol) Films.

Managing quality risk in supply chain to drive firm's performance: the roles of control mechanisms (2018)
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Product harm scandal can be viewed as a company's nightmare. In many cases, the source of defective or unsafe components may not be the manufacturing firm itself; rather, there may be problems inherent in the supply network. This research aims to inv... Read More about Managing quality risk in supply chain to drive firm's performance: the roles of control mechanisms.

Measuring bilayer surface energy and curvature in asymmetric droplet interface bilayers (2018)
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For the past decade, droplet interface bilayers (DIBs) have had an increased prevalence in biomolecular and biophysical literature. However, much of the underlying physics of these platforms is poorly characterized. To further our understanding of th... Read More about Measuring bilayer surface energy and curvature in asymmetric droplet interface bilayers.

End-Functionalized Chains via Anionic Polymerization: Can the Problems with Using Diphenylethylene Derivatives be Solved by using Bisphenol F? (2017)
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The controlled functionalization of polymers via anionic polymerization draws great attention not only because of the importance of introducing functionality into otherwise unfunctionalized polymers, but also because of the possibility to use the res... Read More about End-Functionalized Chains via Anionic Polymerization: Can the Problems with Using Diphenylethylene Derivatives be Solved by using Bisphenol F?.

Halogen and Hydrogen Bonding in Povidone-Iodine and Related Co-Phases (2017)
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Povidone-iodine is a widely used antiseptic and on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. We report the X-ray crystal structure of a two-monomer unit model compound showing that the structure of povidone-iodine comprises protona... Read More about Halogen and Hydrogen Bonding in Povidone-Iodine and Related Co-Phases.

The Bar-Hinge Motor: A synthetic protein design exploiting conformational switching to achieve directional motility (2019)
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One challenge to synthetic biology is to design functional machines from natural building blocks, from individual amino acids up to larger motifs such as the coiled coil. Here we investigate a novel bipedal motor concept, the Bar-Hinge Motor (BHM), a... Read More about The Bar-Hinge Motor: A synthetic protein design exploiting conformational switching to achieve directional motility.

Supramolecular gelation as the first stage in Ostwald’s rule (2018)
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Ostwald’s rule of stages describes the observation that a metastable polymorph of a particular compound will crystallise before the thermodynamically stable form under the same conditions. Whilst traditionally applied to crystalline systems, there ha... Read More about Supramolecular gelation as the first stage in Ostwald’s rule.

21st Century Developments in the Understanding and Control of Molecular Solids (2018)
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The first decades of the 21st Century have seen very significant advances in the understanding, prediction and control of molecular solids. Advances in crystallization techniques, polymorphism, co-crystals, co-amorphous materials, crystal engineering... Read More about 21st Century Developments in the Understanding and Control of Molecular Solids.

Minimizing delay of ships in bulk terminals by simultaneous ship scheduling, stockyard planning and train scheduling. (2014)
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Because of an increase in population, the demand for coal has drastically risen with millions of tons of coal being imported annually through Indian ports. To accommodate with this rise in demand, there has been an increase in the concern over proper... Read More about Minimizing delay of ships in bulk terminals by simultaneous ship scheduling, stockyard planning and train scheduling..

Analysis of the influence of module construction upon forward osmosis performance (2017)
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The potential of a commercial forward osmosis (FO) module to recover water from NEWater brine, an RO retentate, was assessed by taking an innovative approach to obtaining the mass transfer coefficients. The performance comparison of the spiral wound... Read More about Analysis of the influence of module construction upon forward osmosis performance.

An optimization model for a monopolistic firm serving an environmentally conscious market: Use of Chemical Reaction Optimization Algorithm (2014)
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This work considers a monopolist firm which faces the following twin challenges of serving an environmentally sensitive market. The first challenge is the demand׳s elasticity to emissions and price. To entice its emission conscious customers and gene... Read More about An optimization model for a monopolistic firm serving an environmentally conscious market: Use of Chemical Reaction Optimization Algorithm.