• Electrochemical detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecules at a liquid | liquid interface 

  Burgoyne, Edward D.; Stockmann, Talia Jane; Molina-Osorio, Andrés; Shanahan, Rachel; McGlacken, Gerard; Scanlon, Micheál D. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Opportunistic pathogenic bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, pose a serious risk to patients suffering from a compromised immune system and those patients with cystic fibrosis. Confirming their presence often ...
• Droplet-turbulence interactions and quasi-equilibrium dynamics in turbulent emulsions 

  Mukherjee, Siddhartha; Safdari, Arman; Shardt, Orest; Kenjere, Sasa; Van den Akker, Harry E.A. (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

  We perform direct numerical simulations (DNS) of emulsions in homogeneous isotropic turbulence using a pseudopotential lattice-Boltzmann (PP-LB) method. Improving on previous literature by minimizing droplet dissolution ...
• Influence of impurities on the solubility, nucleation, crystallization and compressibility of paracetamol 

  Keshavarz, Leila; Steendam, René R.E.; Blijlevens, Melian A.R.; Pishnamazi, Mahboubeh; Frawley, Patrick J. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  The striking ability of impurities to significantly influence crystallization processes is a topic of paramount interest in the pharmaceutical industry. Despite being present in small quantities, impurities tend to considerably ...
• On the ubiquity of helical α-synuclein tetramers 

  Xu, Liang; Bhattacharya, Shanyon; Thompson, Damien (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)

  The experimental finding that α-synuclein (αS) occurs physiologically as a helically folded tetramer begs the question: why are helical tetramers the most populated multimers? While the helical tetramer is known to resist ...
• Investigating CO2 sorption in SIFSIX-3-M (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) through computational studies 

  Forrest, Katherine A.; Pham, Tony; Elsaidi, Sameh K.; Mohamed, Mona H.; Thallapally, Praveen K.; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Space, Brian (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  A combined Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and periodic density functional theory (DFT) study of CO2 sorption was performed in SIFSIX-3-M (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn), a family of hybrid ultramicroporous materials (HUMs) that ...
• Robust microporous metal-organic frameworks for highly efficient and simultaneous removal of propyne and propadiene from propylene 

  Peng, Yun-Lei; He, Chaohui; Pham, Tony; Wang, Ting; Li, Pengfei; Krishna, Rajamani; Forrest, Katherine A.; Hogan, Adam; Suepaul, Shanelle; Space, Brian; Fang, Ming; Chen, Yao; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Li, Jinping; Li, Libo; Zhang, Zhenjie; Cheng, Peng; Chen, Banglin (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Simultaneous removal of trace amounts of propyne and propadiene from propylene is an important but challenging industrial process. We report herein a class of microporous metal–organic frameworks (NKMOF‐1‐M) with exceptional ...
• Self-healing hypercrosslinked metal–organic polyhedra (HCMOPs) membranes with antimicrobial activity and highly selective separation properties 

  Liu, Jinjin; Duan, Wenjie; Song, Jie; Guo, Xiuxiu; Wang, Zhifang; Shi, Xinlei; Liang, Jiajie; Wang, Juan; Cheng, Peng; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Zhang, Zhenjie (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Fabrication of hybrid membranes composed of porous materials embedded in polymer matrices is a subject of topical interest. Herein, we introduce a new class of hybrid membranes: hypercrosslinked metal-organic polyhedra ...
• Template-directed synthesis of photocatalyst-encapsulating metal-organic frameworks with boosted photocatalytic activity 

  Yang, Xiaojie; Liang, Tao; Sun, Jiaxing; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Zhang, Zhenjie (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  In the past decade, the use of visible light to promote organic transformations has gained intense attention. In this study, we developed a template-directed synthesis method to use homogenous Ru and Ir photocatalysts ...
• The synthesis of transition metal silicide and germanide nanostructures within the solution-based solvent vapour growth system 

  Sheehan, Martin (University of Limerick, 2017)

  This thesis describes the use of the solution-based solvent vapour growth (SVG) system in the synthesis of transition metal germanide and silicide nanostructures, as well as the use of transition metal silicide nanowire ...
• Hydro-pyrolysis and catalytic upgrading of biomass and Its hydroxy residue fast pyrolysis vapors 

  Liu, Yichen; Leahy, James J.; Grams, Jacek; Kwapinski, Witold (MDPI, 2019)

  Fast pyrolysis of Miscanthus, its hydrolysis residue and lignin were carried with a pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) followed by online vapor catalytic upgrading with sulfated ZrO2, sulfated TiO2 ...
• Crystal growth kinetics of Piracetam polymorphs in ethanol and isopropanol 

  Soto, Rodrigo; Rasmuson, Åke C. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  The crystal growth kinetics of two different polymorphs of Piracetam have been investigated in ethanol and isopropanol. Isothermal seeded desupersaturation experiments were carried out at supersaturation ratios below 1.2 ...
• A soft porous crystal based upon organic cages that exhibits guest-induced breathing and selective gas separation 

  Wang, Zhifang; Sikdar, Nivedita; Wang, Shi-Qiang; Li, Xia; Yu, Meihui; Bu, Xian-He; Chang, Ze; Zou, Xiaolong; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Yu, Kuang; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Zhang, Zhenjie (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Soft porous crystals (SPCs) that exhibit stimuli-responsive dynamic sorption behavior are attracting interest for gas storage/separation applications. However, design and synthesis of SPCs is challenging. Herein, we report ...
• Cleaving carboxyls: understanding thermally triggered hierarchical pores in the metal-organic framework MIL-121 

  Chen, Shoushun; Mukherjee, Soumya; Lucier, Bryan E.G.; Guo, Ying; Tung, Ying; Wong, Angel; Terskikh, Victor V.; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Huang, Yining (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Carboxylic acid linker ligands are known to form strong metalcarboxylate bonds to afford many different variations of permanently microporous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). A controlled approach to decarboxylation of ...
• Controlling polymorphism of carbamazepine nanoparticles in a continuous supercritical-CO2-assisted spray drying process 

  Long, Barry; Walker, Gavin M.; Ryan, Kevin M.; Padrela, Luis (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Controlling polymorphism in the transition from batch to continuous crystallization represents a major obstacle for the pharmaceutical industry. This work demonstrates a novel methodology to control the polymorphism of ...
• An investigation of the inter-molecular interaction, solid-state properties and dissolution properties of mixed copovidone hot-melt extruded solid dispersions 

  Higginbotham Clement L.; Hurley, Dean; Carter, David; Lawrence, Ng; Davis, Mark T.; Walker, Gavin M.; Lyons, John G.; Higginbotham, Clement L. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Previous research has focused on spray dried quaternary mixtures which, due to the addition of a surfactant, affected the physical stability and amorphous stability of selected model drugs. Very little research has focused ...
• Electrophoretic deposition of tin sulfide nanocubes as high performance lithium-ion battery anodes 

  Bree, Gerard; Geaney, Hugh; Ryan, Kevin M. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  We report the use of assemblies of SnS nanocubes as lithium‐ion battery anodes. The particles are deposited in dense, conductive thin films with high gravimetric capacity using electrophoretic deposition, negating the ...
• Improvements in single-use bioreactor film material composition leads to robust and reliable Chinese hamster ovary cell performance 

  Kelly, Paul S.; Dorival-García, Noemi; Paré, Samantha; Carillo, Sara; Ta, Christine; Alarcon Miguez, Antonio; Coleman, Orla; Harper, Emma; Shannon, Maeve; Henry, Michael; Connolly, Lisa; Harper, Emma; Shannon, Maeve; Henry, Michael; Connolly, Lisa; Clynes, Martin; Meleady, Paula; Bones, Jonathan; Barron, Niall (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Single‐use technologies, in particular disposable bioreactor bags, have become integral within the biopharmaceutical community. However, safety concerns arose upon the identification of toxic leachable compounds derived ...
• A Study of the photoelectrochemical etching of n-GaN in H3PO4 and KOH electrolytes 

  Heffernan, C.; Lynch, R.P.; Buckley, D.N. (Electrochemical Society, 2019)

  We investigated the photoelectrochemical etching of n-GaN in H3PO4 and KOH as a function of electrolyte concentration, potential and light intensity. Etch rates measured by stylus profilometry were compared with coulometric ...
• A multi-scale crystal plasticity model for cyclic plasticity and low-cycle fatigue in a precipitate-strengthened steel at elevated temperature 

  Li, Dong-Feng; Barrett, Richard A.; O'Donoghue, Padraic E.; O'Dowd, Noel P.; Leen, Sean B. (Elsevier, 2017)

  In this paper, a multi-scale crystal plasticity model is presented for cyclic plasticity and low-cycle fatigue in a tempered martensite ferritic steel at elevated temperature. The model explicitly represents the geometry ...
• Carbon fibre from renewable resources: the role of lignin molecular structure on its blendability with biobased poly (ethylene terephthalate) 

  Beaucamp, Anne; Wang, Yan; Culebras, Mario; Collins, Maurice N. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)

  Biobased poly(ethylene terephthalate) has been successfully blended with isopropyl alcohol fractioned hardwood organosolv lignin. The blend compatibility was analysed using Gibbs free energy calculation and confirmed by ...

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