• Approximate solution techniques for the sorption of a finite amount of swelling solvent in a glassy polymer 

  Mitchell, Sarah L.; McInerney, N.P.; O'Brien, Stephen B.G. (Elsevier, 2021)

  This study examines a one-dimensional Stefan problem describing the sorption of a finite amount of swelling solvent in a glassy polymer. The polymer is initially in a dry non-swollen state, where the polymer network is ...
• Comparison of progressive damage between thermoset and thermoplastic CFRP composites under in-situ tensile loading 

  Rao, Pavan S.; Hardiman, Mark; O'Dowd, Noel P.; Sebaey, Tamer A. (SAGE Publications, 2020)

  The in-situ damage progression in three carbon fibre reinforced cross-ply composite systems under tensile loading is examined, namely, carbon IM7/epoxy, carbon IM7/PEEK and carbon AS4/polyamide. Epoxy is a thermoset polymer ...
• Nonlinear walkers and efficient exploration of congested networks 

  Carletti, Timoteo; Asllani, Malbor; Fanelli, Duccio; Latora, Vito (American Physical Society, 2020)

  Random walks are the simplest way to explore or search a graph and have revealed a very useful tool to investigate and characterize the structural properties of complex networks from the real world. For instance, they have ...
• Techno-economic assessment of heterotrophic microalgae biodiesel production integrated with a sugarcane bio-refinery 

  Coelho, Renato Sano; Cuellar, Maria C.; Franco, Telma T.; van der Wielen, Luuk A.M. (John Wiley & Sons, 2020)

  The use of diesel fuel in crop and transportation operations is responsible for one third of the carbon emissions in sugarcane biorefineries. A possible solution is to replace it with biodiesel from lipids, directly ...
• Bioactive Lipids of Marine Microalga Chlorococcum sp. SABC 012504 with anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombotic activities 

  Shiels, Katie; Tsoupras, Alexandros; Lordan, Ronan; Nasopoulou, Constantina; Zabetakis, Ioannis; Murray, Patrick; Kumar, Sushanta (MDPI, 2021)

  Microalgae are at the start of the food chain, and many are known producers of a significant amount of lipids with essential fatty acids. However, the bioactivity of microalgal lipids for anti-inflammatory and antithrombotic ...
• Quasi-static and high strain rate response of Kevlar reinforced thermoplastics 

  Chouhan, Hemant; Bhalla, Neelanchali Asija; Bandaru, Aswani Kumar; Gebremeskel, Shishay Amare; Bhatnagar, Naresh (Elsevier, 2021)

  The present study deals with the quasi-static and high strain rate characterization of Kevlar-129 based thermoplastic composites. Two different thermoplastic matrices, namely, Polypropylene (PP) and Polyetherimide (PEI) ...
• Synthesis of multi-application activated carbon from oak seeds by KOH activation for methylene blue adsorption and electrochemical supercapacitor electrode 

  Borghei, Seyed Abbas; Zare, Masoud Habibi; Ahmadi, Mojtaba; Sadeghi, Mohammad Hasan; Marjani, Azam; Shirazian, Saeed; Ghadir, Mahdi (Elsevier, 2021)

  In the current study, an oak as a non-expensive, renewable, and a biomass resource was used to generate a nano-porous activated carbon applicable in methylene blue adsorption from wastewater and energy storage equipment. ...
• Generation and physicochemical characterization of posaconazole cocrystals using gas antisolvent (GAS) and supercritical solvent (CSS) methods 

  Long, Barry; Verma, Vivek; Ryan, Kevin M.; Padrela, Luis (Elsevier, 2021)

  Posaconazole (PSZ) is a BCS (biopharmaceutical classification system) Class II anti-fungal drug used to treat infections in immunocompromised patients. The work presented herein describes the generation of cocrystals of ...
• Comparison of hydrodynamic cavitation devices based on linear and swirling flows: degradation of dichloroaniline in water 

  Sarvothaman, Varaha Prasad; Simpson, Alister; Ranade, Vivek V. (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  Hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) is being increasingly used for a wide range of applications including waste water treatment. No systematic comparison of pollutant degradation performance of different HC devices is available. ...
• Fluidic oscillator as a continuous crystallizer: feasibility evaluation 

  Pandit, Ajinkya Vikram; Ranade, Vivek V. (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  Crystallization is an important separation unit operation accounting for nearly 90% of organic molecules in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries. Recently, continuous crystallization was demonstrated to have ...
• Passive mixer cum reactor using threaded inserts: investigations of flow, mixing and heat transfer characteristics 

  Khalde, Chirag M.; Ramanan, Vikram; Sangwai, Jitendra S.; Ranade, Vivek V. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Significant efforts have been and are being spent on developing intensified tubular reactors for continuous manufacturing of fine and specialty chemicals. In this work, we have proposed a new design of passive mixer-cum-reactor ...
• Colloidal WSe2 nanocrystals as anodes for lithium-ion batteries 

  Zhou, Pengshang; Collins, Gearoid A.; Hens, Zeger; Ryan, Kevin M.; Geaney, Hugh; Singh, Shalini (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020)

  Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are increasingly of interest in the field of lithium ion batteries due to their unique structure. However, previous preparation methods have mainly focused on their growth from ...
• Design considerations for composite cylindrical shells on elastic foundations subject to compression buckling 

  Ansari, Quaiyum M.; Zucco, Giovanni; Trinh, Luan C.; Weaver, Paul M. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Elastic boundary conditions play an important role in the buckling analysis of cylinders under compressive loading. These structures are used widely in aerospace applications and are highly sensitive to geometrical, material, ...
• Thermal behavior of Mg-Ni-phyllosilicate nanoscrolls and performance of the resulting composites in hexene-1 and acetone hydrogenation 

  Khrapova, Ekaterina K.; Ugolkov, Valery L.; Straumal, Elena A.; Lermontov, Sergey A.; Lebedev, Vasily A.; Kozlov, Daniil A.; Kunkel, Tatyana S.; Nominé, Alexandre; Bruyere, Stephanie; Ghanbaja, Jaafar; Belmonte, Thierry; Krasilin, Andrei A. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021)

  Here we report on the thermal properties of Mg−Ni‐phyllosilicate nanoscrolls as a promising precursor for production of Ni/silicate composite catalysts. Spontaneous scrolling of the phyllosilicate layer originating from ...
• A semi-analytical approach based on the variational iteration method for static analysis of composite beams 

  Doeva, Olga; Masjedi, Pedram Khaneh; Weaver, Paul M. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Using the Variational Iteration Method (VIM) the 3D static deflection problem of composite beams subject to concentrated tip and uniformly distributed loads is analysed, resulting in a system of coupled non‐ homogeneous ...
• Dynamics of cascades on burstiness-controlled temporal networks 

  Unicomb, Samuel; Iñiguez, Gerardo; Gleeson, James P.; Karsai, Márton (Nature Research, 2021)

  Burstiness, the tendency of interaction events to be heterogeneously distributed in time, is critical to information diffusion in physical and social systems. However, an analytical framework capturing the effect of ...
• Synchronization dynamics in non-normal networks: the trade-off for optimality 

  Muolo, Riccardo; Carletti, Timoteo; Gleeson, James P.; Asllan, Malbor (MDPI, 2021)

  Synchronization is an important behavior that characterizes many natural and human made systems that are composed by several interacting units. It can be found in a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from neuroscience ...
• Constructed wetlands for the treatment of bauxite residue leachate: Long term field evidence and implications for management 

  O'Connor, G; Courtney, R. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Alkaline leachate from bauxite residue disposal areas is likely to require treatment for post-closure. Traditional treatment methods are not attractive in the long-term due to management requirement, energy input and ...
• Evolution of hierarchically-layered Cu-rich silicide nano-architectures 

  Amiinu, Ibrahim Saana; Kapuria, Nilotpal; Adegoke, Temilade Esther; Holzinger, Angelika; Geaney, Hugh; Scanlon, Micheál D.; Ryan, Kevin M. (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  A solution based synthesis of well-ordered Cu-rich silicide nano-architectures, consisting of a pair of layered cups and stems (ρ-Cu15Si4 ) is demonstrated. The as-grown ρ-Cu15Si4 typically exhibits distinct interconnected ...
• The relationship between post-surgery infection and breast cancer recurrence 

  O'Connor, R.I´; Kiely, P.A.; Dunne, C.P. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Breast cancer is the second most prevalent form of cancer in women worldwide, with surgery remaining the standard treatment. The adverse impact of the surgery remains controversial. It has been suggested that systemic ...

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