Salmonellosis is a significant public health problem worldwide. It has been implicated in a number of food-borne outbreaks in the Republic of Ireland; its prevention, surveillance, and control have become a public health ...

This thesis describes the development of high-capacity, next generation Li-ion battery (LIB) electrodes based on nanostructured Li-alloying materials, silicon and germanium. The results chapters are arranged as research ...

Pyrolysis is a promising way to convert biomass into fuels and chemicals. This reaction is complex and inevitably involves a cascade of radical reactions that lead to char formation, in which some radicals become trapped ...

Background: Integrative Conjugative Elements (ICEs) are important factors in the plasticity of microbial genomes. An element related to the ICE Tn4371 was discovered during a bioinformatic search of the Ralstonia pickettii ...

Vanillin crystals in a saturated aqueous solution disappear and a second liquid phase emerges when the temperature is raised above 51°C. The phenomenon has been investigated with crystallization and equilibration experiments, ...

A chromophore containing a coplanar dihexyl-substituted dithienosilole (CL1) synthesised for use in dye-sensitised solar cells displayed an energy conversion efficiency of 6.90% under AM 1.5 sunlight irradiation. The new ...

Bile salts, phospholipids, and digestive proteins are amphipathic compounds found naturally in the human gastrointestinal system. Therefore, it is important to consider their effects on the crystallization kinetics and ...

Enzymatic biofuel cells can generate electricity directly from the chemical energy of biofuels in physiological fluids, but their power density is significantly limited by the performance of the cathode which is based on ...

Microbial contamination management is a crucial task in the food industry. Undesirable microbial spoilage in a modern food processing plant poses a risk to consumers’ health, causing severe economic losses to the manufacturers ...

This thesis investigated a number of solution mediated and solid state polymorphic transformations between the 5 known polymorphs Sulphathiazole. The polymorphs were isolated in their pure states and characterized. This ...