• A forensic investigation on the persistence of organic gunshot residues 

  Maitre, Matthieu; Horder, Mark; Kirkbride, Kenneth Paul; Gassner, Anne-Laure; Weyermann, Celine; Roux, Claude; Beavis, Alison (Elsevier, 2018-09-01)

  Gunshot residues (GSR) are a potential form of forensic traces in firearm-related events. In most forensic laboratories, GSR analyses focus on the detection and characterisation of the inorganic components (IGSR), which ...

• Controlled slicing of single walled carbon nanotubes under continuous flow 

  Alharbi, Thaar M D; Vimalanathan, Kasturi; Lawrance, Warren Donald; Raston, Colin L (Elsevier, 2018-08-31)

  Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are sliced with control over their length distribution within a laser irradiated dynamic thin film in a vortex fluidic device (VFD) operating under continuous flow conditions. Length ...

• Tethered membrane architectures - design and applications 

  Andersson, Jakob; Koper, Ingo; Knoll, Wolfgang (Frontiers Media, 2018-09-07)

  Membrane proteins perform a large number of essential biological tasks, but the understanding of these proteins has progressed much more slowly than that of globular proteins. The study of membrane proteins is hindered ...

• Resistance to pentamidine is mediated by AdeAB, regulated by AdeRS, and influenced by growth conditions in Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978 

  Adams, Felise G; Stroeher, Uwe Horst; Hassan, Karl Adam; Marri, Shashikanth; Brown, Melissa Hackett (Public Library of Science, 2018-05-11)

  In recent years, effective treatment of infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii has become challenging due to the ability of the bacterium to acquire or up-regulate antimicrobial resistance determinants. Two component ...

• A silicon-labelled amino acid suitable for late-stage fluorination and unexpected oxidative cleavage reactions in the preparation of a key intermediate in the Strecker synthesis 

  Scroggie, Kymberley R; Alcock, Lisa J; Matos, Maria J; Bernardes, Goncalo J L; Perkins, Michael Victor; Chalker, Justin M (Wiley, 2018-03-13)

  A novel silicon-substituted phenylalanine derivative was prepared using the Strecker amino acid synthesis. An unexpected oxidative cleavage was observed in the preparation of the aldehyde required for the Strecker reaction. ...

• Efficient Near-Infrared Electroluminescence at 840 nm with “Metal-Free” Small-Molecule:Polymer Blends 

  Minotto, Alessandro; Murto, Petri; Genene, Zewdneh; Zampetti, Andrea; Carnicella, Giuseppe; Mammo, Wendimagegn; Andersson, Mats R; Wang, Ergang; Cacialli, Franco (Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2018-07-10)

  Due to the so‐called energy‐gap law and aggregation quenching, the efficiency of organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs) emitting above 800 nm is significantly lower than that of visible ones. Successful exploitation of ...

• TiO2 nanofiber photoelectrochemical cells loaded with sub-12 nm AuNPs: Size dependent performance evaluation 

  Macdonald, Thomas J; Ambroz, Filip; Batmunkh, Munkhbayar; Li, Yang; Kim, Dongyoung; Contini, Claudia; Poduval, Radhika; Liu, Huiyun; Shapter, Joseph George; Papakonstantinou, Ioannis; Parkin, Ivan P (Elsevier, 2018-06-22)

  Incorporation of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) into titanium dioxide (TiO2) photoelectrodes has been used traditionally to increase the performance of photoelectrochemical cells (PECs) through their tailored optical properties. ...

• Molecular tweezers with a rotationally restricted linker and freely rotating porphyrin moieties 

  Murphy, Rhys; Pham, Duc-Truc; White, J M; Lincoln, Stephen F; Johnston, Martin Ross (The Royal Society Publishing, 2018-07-23)

  The effect of the degree of conformational rigidity and/or flexibility on preorganisation in artificial molecular receptors continues to be actively explored by supramolecular chemists. This work describes a bisporphyri ...

• Surface Chemical Characterisation of Pyrite Exposed to Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Associated Extracellular Polymeric Substances 

  LaVars, Sian M; Newton, Kelly; Quinton, Jamie Scott; Cheng, Pei-Yu; Wei, Der-Hsin; Chan, Yuet-Loy; Harmer, Sarah-Louise (MDPI, 2018-03-24)

  A. ferrooxidans and their metabolic products have previously been explored as a viable alternative depressant of pyrite for froth flotation; however, the mechanism by which separation is achieved is not completely ...

• Green Synthesis of Three-Dimensional Hybrid N-Doped ORR Electro-Catalysts Derived from Apricot Sap 

  Karunagaran, Ramesh; Coghlan, Campbell; Shearer, Cameron; Tran, Diana; Gulati, Karan; Tung, Tran Thanh; Doonan, Christian; Losic, Dusan (MDPI, 2018-01-28)

  Rapid depletion of fossil fuel and increased energy demand has initiated a need for an alternative energy source to cater for the growing energy demand. Fuel cells are an enabling technology for the conversion of sustainable ...

• Measuring the Density of States of the Inner and Outer Wall of Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes 

  Chambers, Benjamin A; Shearer, Cameron; Yu, Le Ping; Gibson, Christopher; Andersson, Gunther (MDPI, 2018-06-19)

  The combination of ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and metastable helium induced electron spectroscopy is used to determine the density of states of the inner and outer coaxial carbon nanotubes. Ultraviolet ...

• Selective Attachment of Leptospirillum ferrooxidans for Separation of Chalcopyrite and Pyrite through Bio-Flotation 

  Bleeze, Belinda; Zhao, Jing; Harmer, Sarah Louise (MDPI, 2018-02-27)

  The replacement of depressants used in sulfide mineral beneficiation, with bacteria and their metabolites, promises to reduce the environmental impact left by the mining industry. In this study, the attachment of ...

• Efficiency Improvement Using Molybdenum Disulphide Interlayers in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube/Silicon Solar Cells 

  Alzahly, Shaykha; Yu, Le Ping; Shearer, Cameron; Gibson, Christopher; Shapter, Joseph George (MDPI, 2018-04-21)

  Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) is one of the most studied and widely applied nanomaterials from the layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) semiconductor family. MoS2 has a large carrier diffusion length and a high ...

• The mercury problem in artisanal and small-scale gold mining 

  Esdaile, Louisa J; Chalker, Justin M (Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2018-01-03)

  Mercury‐dependent artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM) is the largest source of mercury pollution on Earth. In this practice, elemental mercury is used to extract gold from ore as an amalgam. The amalgam is typically ...

• Environmentally friendly preparation of nanoparticles for organic photovoltaics 

  Pan, Xun; Sharma, Anirudh; Gedefaw, Desta; Kroon, Renee; Diaz de Zerio, Amaia; Holmes, Natalie P; Kilcoyne, A L David; Barr, Matthew G; Fahy, Adam; Marks, Melissa; Zhou, Xiaojing; Belcher, Warwick; Dastoor, Paul; Andersson, Mats R (Elsevier, 2018)

  Aqueous nanoparticle dispersions were prepared from a conjugated polymer poly[thiophene-2,5-diyl-alt-5,10-bis((2-hexyldecyl)oxy)dithieno[3,2-c:3′,2′-h][1,5]naphthyridine-2,7-diyl] (PTNT) and fullerene blend utilizing ...

• Octupolar organometallic Pt(II) NCN-pincer complexes; Synthesis, electronic, photophysical, and NLO properties 

  Batema, Guido D; van Walree, Cornelius A; van Klink, Gerard P M; de Mello Donega, Celso; Meijerink, Andries; Perez-Moreno, Javier; Clays, Koen; van Koten, Gerard (Elsevier, 2017-12-28)

  A series of organometallic octupolar 1,3,5-substituted-2,4,6-styryl-benzene complexes was synthesized by post-modification of parent [PtCl(NCN-CHO-4)], i.e. 1,3,5-tri-R-2,4,6-tris[(4-(PtCl)(3,5-bis[(dimethylamino) meth ...

• Electron impact ionization of 1-butanol: I. Mass spectra and partial ionization cross sections 

  Pires, W A D; Nixon, Kate Louise; Ghosh, Sujoy Kumar; Amorim, R A A; Neves, Rafael F C; Duque, H V; Da Silva, D G M; Jones, Darryl Bruce; Brunger, Michael James; Lopes, Maria Cristina Andreolli (Elsevier, 2018-03-31)

  Experimental measurements of the cations created through electron impact ionization have been undertaken for the primary isomer of butanol, using a Hiden Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (EPIC 300) with a mass resolution of ...

• Shear stress mediated scrolling of graphene oxide 

  Alharbi, Thaar M D; Harvey, David; Alsulami, Ibrahim K; Dehbari, Nazila; Duan, Xiaofei; Lamb, Robert N; Lawrance, Warren Donald; Raston, Colin L (Elsevier, 2018-03-21)

  Graphene oxide scrolls (GOS) are fabricated in high yield from a colloidal suspension of graphene oxide (GO) sheets under shear stress in a vortex fluidic device (VFD) while irradiated with a pulsed laser operating at ...

• Gradient Technology for High-Throughput Screening of Interactions between Cells and Nanostructured Materials 

  Michelmore, Andrew; Clements, Lauren; Steele, David A.; Voelcker, Nicolas Hans; Szili, Endre (Hindawi, 2012-05-08)

  We present a novel substrate suitable for the high-throughput analysis of cell response to variations in surface chemistry and nanotopography. Electrochemical etching was used to produce silicon wafers with nanopores ...

• Monitoring EDTA and endogenous metabolite biomarkers from serum with mass spectrometry 

  Lowe, Rachel D; Go, Eden P; Tong, Grace C; Voelcker, Nicolas Hans; Siuzdak, Gary (Hindawi, 2005)

  We describe a quantitative method for the determination of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) in human serum by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS), liquid chromatography electrospray ionisation tandem mass ...

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