• The role of trace metals in Alzheimer’s disease 

  De Benedictis, Chiara A.; Vilella, Antonietta; Grabrucker, Andreas M. (2019)

  The extracellular aggregation of insoluble protein deposits of amyloid-β (Aβ) into plaques and the hyperphosphorylation of the intracellular protein tau leading to neurofibrillary tangles are the main pathological hallmarks ...
• Editorial: Advances in label free tissue imaging with laser scanning microscopy techniques 

  Stanciu, Stefan G.; Silien, Christophe; Bianchini, Paolo (Frontiers Media, 2020)

  Advances in Label Free Tissue Imaging with Laser Scanning Microscopy Techniques
• Halogen-2H2 binding in ultramicroporous MOFs for benchmark C2H2/CO2 separation selectivity 

  Mukherjee, Soumya; He, Yonghe; Franz, Douglas M.; Wang, Shi-Qiang; Xian, Wan-Ru; Bezrukov, Andrey A.; Space, Brian; Xu, Zhengtao; He, Jun; Zaworotko, Michael J. (Wiley and Sons Ltd.,, 2020)

  Acetylene (C2H2) capture is a step in a number of industrial processes but comes with a high energy footprint. Whereas physisorbents have the potential to reduce this energy footprint, they are handicapped by generally ...
• Finite volume approximation of nonlinear agglomeration population balance equation on triangular grid 

  Singh, Mehakpreet; Ismail, Hamza Y.; Singh, Randhir; Albadarin, Ahmad B.; Walker, Gavin M. (Elsevier, 2019)

  In this present work, a finite volume scheme for approximating a multidimensional nonlinear agglomeration population balance equation on a regular triangular grid is developed. The finite volume schemes developed in ...
• Enabling cocrystallization of challenging systems: passing through a stable cocrystal solvate as a pathway to strenuous cocrystal forms 

  de Maere d'Aertrycke, J.B.; Payen, R.; Collard, L.; Robeyns, K.; Croker, Denise M.; Leyssens, T. (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  Caffeine and maleic acid can form various cocrystal forms, which is a potential route to avoiding hydration issues of caffeine. This particular system was intensively studied as it not only shows cocrystal polymorphism but ...
• Selective synthesis of methanol by photoelectrocatalytic reduction of CO2 over PANI-CuFe2O4 hybrid catalyst 

  Karim, K M Rezaul; Tarek, M; Sarkar, S M; Ong, H R; Abdullah, H; Cheng, C K; Khan, M M Rahman (IOP Publishing, 2020)

  In this work, a hybrid photocatalyst, PANI-CuFe2O4 was synthesized, characterized and used as a photocathode for the photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) reduction of CO2 to methanol selectively under 470 nm wavelength light ...
• Pharmaceutical cocrystals: from serendipity to design to application 

  Kavanagh, Oisín N.; Croker, Denise M.; Walker, Gavin M.; Zaworotko, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2019)

  The field of pharmaceutical cocrystals has reached a tipping point, particularly because cocrystals can improve the physicochemical properties of drugs without compromising their therapeutic benefit. Accounts of cocrystal ...
• Two-phase flow regime identification through local temperature mapping 

  O'Donovan, Alan; Grimes, Ronan (Elsevier, 2020)

  Two-phase flows underpin some of our most ubiquitous technologies, ranging from micro-scale liquid-liquid cooling of electronics to macro-scale liquid-vapour boiling and condensation in thermal power plants. Establishing ...
• Textural and organoleptic properties of fat-free buffalo yogurt as affected by polydextrose 

  Huang, Li; Abdel-Hamid, Mahmoud; Romeih, Ehab; Zeng, Qing-Kun; Yang, Pan; Walker, Gavin M.; Li, Ling (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2020)

  The demand for functional, nutraceutical and low calories dairy products has grown in recent decades. The effects of using different concentrations of polydextrose (1.5%, 3%, and 5%) on the textural and organoleptic ...
• Role of thermal and photoannealing on nonlinear optical response of Ge30Se55Bi15 thin films 

  Aparimita, Adyasha; Khan, Pritam; Aswin, J.R.; Adarsh, K.V.; Naik, R. (AIP Publishing, 2020)

  In this article, we employed the nanosecond Z-scan technique to demonstrate the nonlinear optical response in Ge30Se55Bi15 thin films after thermal and photoannealing. The intensity dependent open aperture Z-scan traces ...
• Highly selective trace ammonium removal from dairy wastewater streams by aluminosilicate materials 

  O'Connor, Elaine; Kavanagh, Oisín N.; Chovan, Drahomir; Madden, David G.; Cronin, Patrick; Albadarin, Ahmad B.; Walker, Gavin M.; Ryan, Alan (Elsevier, 2019)

  Water is a key solvent, fundamental to supporting life on earth. It is equally important in many industrial processes, particularly within agricultural and pharmaceutical industries, which are major drivers of the global ...
• Anchoring and packing of self-assembled monolayers of semithio-bambusurils on Au(111)† 

  Kunturu, Pramod Patil; Kap, Özlem; Sotthewes, Kai; Cazade, Pierre-André; Zandvliet, Harold J. W.; Thompson, Damien; Reany, Ofer; Huskens, Jurriaan (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020)

  Semithio-bambusurils are a unique family of anion-binding host macrocycles that form self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on Au(111). SAMs of semithio-bambusijn]uril homologs with different cage sizes (1: n = 4; 2: n = 6) ...
• Gas detection using portable deep-UV absorption spectrophotometry: a review 

  Khan, Suliman; Newport, David; Le Calvé, Stéphane (MDPPI, 2019)

  Several gas molecules of environmental and domestic significance exhibit a strong deep-UV absorption. Therefore, a sensitive and a selective gas detector based on this unique molecular property (i.e., absorption at a ...
• Formulating a stable mannitol infusion while maintaining hyperosmolarity 

  Kavanagh, Oisín N.; Hogan, Fiona; Murphy, Caoimhe; Croker, Denise M.; Walker, Gavin M. (MDPI, 2020)

  Mannitol infusion is commonly used in the treatment of intracranial hypertension following traumatic brain injury. It has long been known to have stability issues, specifically, mannitol recrystallises from solutions greater ...
• Use of nanoadvanced activated carbon, alumina and ferric adsorbents for humics removal from water: isotherm study 

  Stanford, Cecile Andre; Khraisheh, Majeda; Momani, Fares Al; Albadarin, Ahmad B.; Walker, Gavin M.; Al Ghout, Mohammad A. (Springer, 2020)

  The adsorption of humic substances on three different adsorbents was investigated and adsorption isotherms were applied in this research. The three adsorbents studied include granular activated carbon (GAC), ferric ...
• Visualising early-stage liquid phase organic crystal growth via liquid cell electron microscopy† 

  Cookman, Jennifer; Hamilton, Victoria; Price, Louise S.; Hall, Simon R.; Bangert, Ursel (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020)

  Here, we show that the development of nuclei and subsequent growth of a molecular organic crystal system can be induced by electron beam irradiation by exploiting the radiation chemistry of the carrier solvent. The technique ...
• The effect of cooling on the degree of crystallinity,solid-state properties, and dissolution rate of multi-component hot-melt extruded solid dispersions 

  Hurley, Dean; Davis, Mark; Walker, Gavin M.; Lyons, John G.; Higginbotham, Clement L. (MDPI, 2020)

  The effect of cooling on the degree of crystallinity, solid-state and dissolution properties of multi-component hot-melt extruded solid dispersions [SD] is of great interest for the successful formulation of amorphous SDs ...
• The importance of the mixing energy in ionized superabsorbent polymer swelling models 

  Fennell, Eanna; Kamphus, Juliane; Huyghe, Jacques M. (MDPI, 2020)

  The Flory-Rehner theoretical description of the free energy in a hydrogel swelling model can be broken into two swelling components: the mixing energy and the ionic energy. Conventionally for ionized gels, the ionic energy ...
• Laser induced periodic surface structures enhance neuroelectrode charge transfer capability and modulate astrocyte function in vitro 

  Kelly, Adriona; Farid, Nazar; Krukiewicz, Katarzyna; Belisle, Nicole; Groarke, John; Waters, Elaine; Trotier, Alexandre; Laffir, Fathima R.; Kilcoyne, Michelle; O'Connor, Gerard M.; Biggs, Manus J. (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  The brain machine interface (BMI) describes a group of technologies capable of communicating with excitable nervous tissue within the central nervous system (CNS). BMI’s have seen major advances in recent years but these ...
• Germanium tin alloy nanowires as anode materials for high performance Li-Ion batteries 

  Doherty, Jessica; McNulty, David; Biswas, Subhajit; Moore, Kalani; Conroy, Michele A.; Bangert, Ursel; O'Dwyer, Colm; Holmes, Justin D. (IOP Publishing, 2020)

  The combination of two active Li-ion materials (Ge and Sn) can result in improved conduction paths and higher capacity retention. Here we report for the first time, the implementation of Ge1–xSnx alloy nanowires as anode ...

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