Outputs (341)

Aggregate Science: From Structures to Properties (2020)
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Bidirectional Motion of Droplets on Gradient Liquid Infused Surfaces (2020)
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The current paradigm of self-propelled motion of liquid droplets on surfaces with chemical or topographical wetting gradients is always mono-directional. In contrast, here, we demonstrate bidirectional droplet motion, which we realize using liquid in... Read More about Bidirectional Motion of Droplets on Gradient Liquid Infused Surfaces.

Hybrid GMP–polyamine hydrogels as new biocompatible materials for drug encapsulation (2020)
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Here we present the preparation and characterization of new biocompatible materials for drug encapsulation. These new gels are based on positively charged [1+1] 1H-pyrazole-based azamacrocycles which minimise the electrostatic repulsions between the... Read More about Hybrid GMP–polyamine hydrogels as new biocompatible materials for drug encapsulation.

Nanoscale mapping of the directional flow patterns at liquid-solid interfaces (2020)
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The nanoscale behavior of liquid molecules and solutes along the interface with solids controls many processes such as molecular exchanges, wetting, electrochemistry, nanofluidics, biomolecular function, and lubrication. Experimentally, several techn... Read More about Nanoscale mapping of the directional flow patterns at liquid-solid interfaces.

The crystal engineering of radiation-sensitive diacetylene cocrystals and salts (2020)
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In this work we develop photoreactive cocrystals/salts of a commercially-important diacetylene, 10,12- pentacosadiynoic acid (PCDA, 1) and report the first X-ray crystal structures of PCDA based systems. The topochemical reactivity of the system is m... Read More about The crystal engineering of radiation-sensitive diacetylene cocrystals and salts.

Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals Novel and Recurrent Disease-Causing Variants in Lens Specific Gap Junctional Protein Encoding Genes Causing Congenital Cataract (2020)
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Pediatric cataract is clinically and genetically heterogeneous, and is the most common cause of childhood blindness worldwide. In this study, we aimed to identify disease-causing variants in three large British families and one isolated case with aut... Read More about Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals Novel and Recurrent Disease-Causing Variants in Lens Specific Gap Junctional Protein Encoding Genes Causing Congenital Cataract.

The thermal properties of porous andesite (2020)
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The thermal properties of volcanic rocks are crucial to accurately model heat transfer in volcanoes and in geothermal systems located within volcanic deposits. Here we provide laboratory measurements of thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity fo... Read More about The thermal properties of porous andesite.

Evaporation of a thin droplet in a shallow well: theory and experiment (2021)
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Motivated by the industrial manufacture of OLED displays, we formulate and analyse a mathematical model for the evolution of a thin droplet in a shallow axisymmetric well of rather general shape both before and after touchdown that accounts for the s... Read More about Evaporation of a thin droplet in a shallow well: theory and experiment.

A novel experimental apparatus for investigating bubbly flows in a slot geometry (2020)
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Bubbly flows occur in a wide variety of industrial and environmental settings. While there is a broad literature that describes bubbly flow behavior in pipes and channels, flow in a high aspect ratio slot has received little attention. We describe th... Read More about A novel experimental apparatus for investigating bubbly flows in a slot geometry.

Unrestrained ESCRT-III drives micronuclear catastrophe and chromosome fragmentation (2020)
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The ESCRT-III membrane fission machinery maintains the integrity of the nuclear envelope. Although primary nuclei resealing takes minutes, micronuclear envelope ruptures seem to be irreversible. Instead, micronuclear ruptures result in catastrophic m... Read More about Unrestrained ESCRT-III drives micronuclear catastrophe and chromosome fragmentation.

Impact of water on the lubricating properties of hexadecane at the nanoscale (2020)
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Fluid lubricants are routinely used to reduce friction in a wide range of applications, from car engines to machinery and hard-disk drives. However, their efficiency can be significantly influenced by the ambient conditions they are exposed to, in pa... Read More about Impact of water on the lubricating properties of hexadecane at the nanoscale.

A first integral form of the energy-momentum equations for viscous flow, with comparisons drawn to classical fluid flow theory (2020)
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An elegant four-dimensional Lorentz-invariant first-integral of the energy-momentum equations for viscous flow, comprised of a single tensor equation, is derived assuming a flat space–time and that the energy momentum tensor is symmetric. It represen... Read More about A first integral form of the energy-momentum equations for viscous flow, with comparisons drawn to classical fluid flow theory.

Rapid alteration of fractured volcanic conduits beneath Mt Unzen (2021)
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The nature of sub-volcanic alteration is usually only observable after erosion and exhumation at old inactive volcanoes, via geochemical changes in hydrothermal fluids sampled at the surface, via relatively low-resolution geophysical methods or can b... Read More about Rapid alteration of fractured volcanic conduits beneath Mt Unzen.

Modulation of Charge Transfer by N-Alkylation to Control Photoluminescence Energy and Quantum Yield (2020)
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Charge transfer in organic fluorophores is a fundamental photophysical process that can be either beneficial, e.g., facilitating thermally activated delayed fluorescence, or detrimental, e.g., mediating emission quenching. N-Alkylation is shown to pr... Read More about Modulation of Charge Transfer by N-Alkylation to Control Photoluminescence Energy and Quantum Yield.

Gold surface cleaning by etching polishing: Optimization of polycrystalline film topography and surface functionality for biosensing (2020)
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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.

Performance of Bicontinuous Structural Electrolytes (2020)
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Structural power composites are multifunctional materials with simultaneous load bearing and energy storing functionality. This is made possible due to carbon fibers' ability to act not only as structural reinforcement materials, but also as electrod... Read More about Performance of Bicontinuous Structural Electrolytes.

Encapsulated Nanodroplet Crystallization of Organic-Soluble Small Molecules (2020)
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Small molecules can form crystalline solids, in which individual molecules pack together into ordered three-dimensional arrays. Once a suitable crystal is grown, the packing and atomic connectivity of the constituent molecules can be studied by X-ray... Read More about Encapsulated Nanodroplet Crystallization of Organic-Soluble Small Molecules.

Elastoviscoplastic rheology and aging in a simplified soft glassy constitutive model (2020)
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Yield stress fluids display a rich rheological phenomenology. Beyond the defining existence of a yield stress in the steady state flow curve, this includes, in many materials, rather flat viscoelastic spectra over many decades of frequency in small a... Read More about Elastoviscoplastic rheology and aging in a simplified soft glassy constitutive model.

Potential Fields in Fluid Mechanics: A Review of Two Classical Approaches and Related Recent Advances (2020)
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The use of potential fields in fluid dynamics is retraced, ranging from classical potential theory to recent developments in this evergreen research field. The focus is centred on two major approaches and their advancements: (i) the Clebsch transform... Read More about Potential Fields in Fluid Mechanics: A Review of Two Classical Approaches and Related Recent Advances.

A novel missense mutation in LIM2 causing isolated autosomal dominant congenital cataract (2020)
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Background: Congenital cataract is the most common cause of blindness in the world. Congenital cataracts are clinically and genetically heterogeneous and are mostly inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. We identified the genetic cause of isolat... Read More about A novel missense mutation in LIM2 causing isolated autosomal dominant congenital cataract.