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Apparent contact angle of drops on liquid infused surfaces: geometric interpretation (2021)
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We theoretically investigate the apparent contact angle of drops on liquid infused surfaces as a function of the relative size of the wetting ridge and the deposited drop. We provide an intuitive geometrical interpretation whereby the variation in th... Read More about Apparent contact angle of drops on liquid infused surfaces: geometric interpretation.

Tailoring the multistability of origami-inspired, buckled magnetic structures via compression and creasing (2021)
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Origami-inspired multistable structures are gaining increasing interest because of their potential applications in fields ranging from deployable structures to reconfigurable microelectronics. The multistability of such structures is critical for the... Read More about Tailoring the multistability of origami-inspired, buckled magnetic structures via compression and creasing.

Wall slip and bulk yielding in soft particle suspensions (2021)
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We simulate a dense athermal suspension of soft particles sheared between hard walls of a prescribed roughness profile, fully accounting for the fluid mechanics of the solvent between the particles and for the solid mechanics of changes in the partic... Read More about Wall slip and bulk yielding in soft particle suspensions.

Supereruption doublet at a climate transition (2021)
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Determination of dynamic surface tension and viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids from drop oscillations (2014)
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The oscillations of free-falling drops with size range from pl to μl have been used to measure the transient shear viscosity and the dynamic surface tension of shear-thinning fluids on the timescale of 10−5–10−2 s. The method is first validated with... Read More about Determination of dynamic surface tension and viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids from drop oscillations.

Properties and Applications of Stimuli-Responsive Diacetylenes (2021)
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The topochemical reactivity of diacetylene monomers has long been established and involves the 1,4-addition polymerization reaction. This reaction is governed by well-defined parameters that allow the synthesis of diacetylene polymers. Polydiacetylen... Read More about Properties and Applications of Stimuli-Responsive Diacetylenes.

A levelized cost of energy approach to select and optimise emerging PV technologies: The relative impact of degradation, cost and initial efficiency (2021)
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A model of levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is presented which accounts for the significant ‘burn-in’ losses common in photovoltaic (PV) devices with organic (OPV) and perovskite (PVK) absorber layers. This model is used to quantify the relative impor... Read More about A levelized cost of energy approach to select and optimise emerging PV technologies: The relative impact of degradation, cost and initial efficiency.

Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes (2021)
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Small multicomponent droplets are of increasing importance in a plethora of technological applications ranging from the fabrication of self-assembled hierarchical patterns to the design of autonomous fluidic systems. While often far away from equilib... Read More about Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes.

Real-time tracking of ionic nano-domains under shear flow (2021)
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The behaviour of ions at solid–liquid interfaces underpins countless phenomena, from the conduction of nervous impulses to charge transfer in solar cells. In most cases, ions do not operate as isolated entities, but in conjunction with neighbouring i... Read More about Real-time tracking of ionic nano-domains under shear flow.

Wetting and Drying of Aqueous Droplets Containing Nonionic Surfactants CnEm (2021)
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This paper presents a systematic study of the wetting and drying of aqueous pico-liter droplets containing nonionic surfactants polyoxyethylene alkyl ethers (CnEm; n = 10, 12, 14, m = 6 or 8) in comparison with the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl s... Read More about Wetting and Drying of Aqueous Droplets Containing Nonionic Surfactants CnEm.

Synthesis and characterisation of a mussel-inspired hydrogel film coating for biosensors (2021)
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Mussel-inspired, catechol-containing monomers are being increasingly utilised to design versatile, adhesive, functional copolymers. This work reports the synthesis and detailed characterisation of a novel terpolymer comprising dopamine methacrylamide... Read More about Synthesis and characterisation of a mussel-inspired hydrogel film coating for biosensors.

Volcanic Unrest at Taupō Volcano in 2019: Causes, Mechanisms and Implications (2021)
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Taupō volcano, New Zealand, is a large caldera volcano that has been highly active through the Holocene. It most recently erupted ∼1,800 years ago but there have been multiple periods of historic volcanic unrest. We use seismological and geodetic ana... Read More about Volcanic Unrest at Taupō Volcano in 2019: Causes, Mechanisms and Implications.

Macromolecular Optical Sensor Arrays (2021)
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Chemical sensors play an important role in our understanding of chemical and biological systems, providing sensitive and rapid detection of a variety of substrates. Array-based sensing approaches avoid the ongoing challenge of designing and synthesiz... Read More about Macromolecular Optical Sensor Arrays.

Molecular simulation studies of self-assembly for a chromonic perylene dye: all-atom studies and new approaches to coarse-graining (2021)
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Perylene tetracarboxylic acid bisimides are compounds that show intense visible light absorption and exhibit excellent chemical, photochemical and thermal stability. As such, they have been widely used as dyes and have a range of industrial applicati... Read More about Molecular simulation studies of self-assembly for a chromonic perylene dye: all-atom studies and new approaches to coarse-graining.

Temperature Gradient Interaction Chromatography: A Perspective (2021)
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The application of temperature gradient interaction chromatography (TGIC) as an advanced technique for the characterisation of polymers is discussed, in comparison to other liquid chromatography techniques and in particular the ubiquitous size exclus... Read More about Temperature Gradient Interaction Chromatography: A Perspective.

Capillary Bridges on Liquid-Infused Surfaces (2021)
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We numerically study two-component capillary bridges formed when a liquid droplet is placed in between two liquid-infused surfaces (LIS). In contrast to commonly studied one-component capillary bridges on noninfused solid surfaces, two-component liqu... Read More about Capillary Bridges on Liquid-Infused Surfaces.

Atomistic simulation studies of ionic cyanine dyes: self-assembly and aggregate formation in aqueous solution (2021)
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Cyanine dyes are known to form large-scale aggregates of various morphologies via spontaneous self-assembly in aqueous solution, akin to chromonic liquid crystals. Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations have been performed on four cyanine dyes: pse... Read More about Atomistic simulation studies of ionic cyanine dyes: self-assembly and aggregate formation in aqueous solution.

The self-assembly and thermoresponsivity of poly(isoprene-b-methyl methacrylate) copolymers in non-polar solvents (2021)
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The self-assembly of a series of polyisoprene-block-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PI-b-PMMA) block copolymers, in aliphatic hydrocarbon solvents is reported for the first time. The block copolymers were prepared by a change of mechanism polymerisation (... Read More about The self-assembly and thermoresponsivity of poly(isoprene-b-methyl methacrylate) copolymers in non-polar solvents.

Bilevel Programming for Manufacturers Operating in an Omnichannel Retailing Environment (2021)
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This paper presents a joint production, pricing and inventory control problem that can help manufacturers manage revenue in an omnichannel environment. The paper puts forward a multi-period Stackelberg game between a manufacturer and a retailer, assu... Read More about Bilevel Programming for Manufacturers Operating in an Omnichannel Retailing Environment.

Monitoring apoptosis in intact cells by high‐resolution magic angle spinning 1 H NMR spectroscopy (2021)
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Apoptosis maintains an equilibrium between cell proliferation and cell death. Many diseases, including cancer, develop because of defects in apoptosis. A known metabolic marker of apoptosis is a notable increase in 1H NMR‐observable resonances associ... Read More about Monitoring apoptosis in intact cells by high‐resolution magic angle spinning 1 H NMR spectroscopy.