• Particle engineering of excipients: a mechanistic investigation into the compaction properties of lignin and [co]-spray dried lignin 

  Solomon, Samuel; Ziaee, Ahmad; Giraudeau, Laura; O'Reilly, Emmet J.; Walker, Gavin M.; Albadarin, Ahmad B. (Elsevier, 2019)

  In this work, lignin was spray dried with sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) in order to improve the compaction properties of lignin. Bulk level and physicochemical properties of spray dried formulations were measured and compared ...
• Characterization of adsorption site energies and heterogeneous of porous materials 

  Kumar, Vasanth K.; Srinivas, Gadipelli; Wood, Barbara; Ramisetty, Kiran A.; Stewart, Andrew A.; Howard, Christopher A.; Brett, Dan; Rodriquez-Reinoso, F. (American Society of Chemistry, 2019)

  Characterization of the guest-host interactions and the heterogeneity of porous materials is essential across the physical and biological sciences, for example for gas sorption and separation, pollutant removal from ...
• Fly ash from poultry litter gasification - can it be utilised in agriculture sysstems as a fertiliser? 

  Pandey, Daya Shankar; Kwapinska, Marzena; Leahy, James J.; Kwapinski, Witold (Elsevier, 2019)

  Fly ash from a poultry litter gasification process and the potential of application of the fly ash as a fertiliser in line with the poultry litter protocol is investigated. The fines collected in the cyclone are mainly ...
• Thermal variations in the patient compartment of an ambulance in an Irish context: a feasibility study 

  Gaumont, Damien; Armstrong, Claire; Armstrong, Gordon (Irish College of Paramedics, 2018)

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• Guidelines for developing efficient thermal conduction and storage models within building energy simulations 

  Hillary, Jason; Walsh, Ed J.; Shah, Amip; Zhou, Rongliang; Walsh, Pat A. (Elsevier, 2017)

  Improving building energy efficiency is of paramount importance due to the large proportion of energy consumed by thermal operations. Consequently, simulating a building's environment has gained popularity for assessing ...
• Probing crystal nucleation of fenoxycarb from solution through the effect of solvent 

  Zeglinski, Jacek; Kuhs, Manuel; Devi, Renuka K.; Khamar, Dikshitkumar; Hegarty, Avril C.; Thompson, Damien; Rasmuson, Åke C. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Induction time experiments, spectroscopic and calorimetric analysis, and molecular modelling were used to probe the influence of solvent on the crystal nucleation of fenoxycarb (FC), a medium-sized, flexible organic ...
• Facilitated dissociation of water in the presence of lithium metal at ambient temperature as a requisite for lithium-gas reactions 

  Shang, Jin; Shirazian, Saeed (American Chemical Society, 2018)

  The high reactivity of lithium with gas molecules under ambient conditions plays a key role, negative or positive, depending on the purpose, in its wide applications. However, the underlying mechanism is still unclear. A ...
• A lattice Boltzmann approach to surfactant-laden emulsions 

  Mukherjee, Siddhartha; Berghout, Pieter; Van den Akker, Harry E.A. (Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2019)

  We present a pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method to simulate liquid–liquid emulsions with a slightly soluble surfactant. The model is investigated in 2-D, over a wide parameter space for a single, stationary, immiscible ...
• Experimental investigation on the bubble formation from needles with and without liquid co-flow 

  Muilwijk, Corné; Van den Akker, Harry E.A. (Elsevier, 2019)

  We report experiments on bubble formation from needles with and without liquid co-flow, carried out with needles in the range of 0.79 < dn < 2.06 mm, for gas flow rates up to 4.5 cm3/s per needle, and with liquid co-flow ...
• Spreading of memes on multiplex networks 

  O'Brien, Joseph D.; Dassios, Ioannis K.; Gleeson, James P. (IOP Publishing, 2019)

  A model for the spreading of online information or ‘memes’ on multiplex networks is introduced and analyzed using branching-process methods. The model generalizes that of (Gleeson et al 2016 Phys. Rev.X) in two ways. ...
• Development of a toluene detector based on deep UV absorption spectrophotometry using glass and aluminum capillary tube gas cells with a LED source 

  Khan, Sulaiman; Newport, David; Le Calvé, Stéphane (MDPI, 2019)

  A simple deep-ultraviolet (UV) absorption spectrophotometer based on ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) was developed for the detection of air-borne toluene with a good sensitivity. A fiber-coupled deep UV-LED was ...
• Tar from pilot scale co-pyrolysis of biological dairy sludge and spruce wood chips 

  Horvat, Alen; Kwapinska, Marzena; Leahy, James J. (Elsevier, 2019)

  A pilot scale investigation of co-pyrolysis of biological dairy sludge and spruce wood chips and pyrolysis of spruce wood chips solely was carried out. Pyrolysis was tested as a waste treatment method aiming to reduce the ...
• Low temperature gasification of poultry litter in a lab-scale fluidized reactor 

  Katsaros, Giannis; Pandey, Daya Shankar; Horvat, Alen; Tassou, Savvas (Elsevier, 2019)

  Low temperature gasification of poultry litter (PL) was experimentally studied in a lab scale fluidized bed reactor. The experiments were carried out at three different equivalence ratios (ER) of 0.17; 0.21; 0.25 and ...
• Investigation of chicken litter conversion into useful energy resources by using low temperature pyrolysis 

  Simbolon, L.M.; Pandey, Daya Shankar; Horvat, Alen; Kwapinska, Marzena; Leahy, James J.; Tassou, Savvas (Elsevier, 2019)

  The global production of poultry is predicted to grow considerably in the future. Intensive poultry farming poses significant challenges to traditional waste disposal methods (i.e. direct land application) leading to ...
• Shank3 transgenic and prenatal zinc-deficient autism mouse models show convergent and individual alterations of brain structures in MRI 

  Schoen, Michael; Asoglu, Harun; Bauer, Helen F.; Müller, Hans-Peter; Abael, Alireza; Saurer, Ann Katrin; Zhang, Rong; Song, Tian-jia; Bockmann, Juergen; Kassubek, Jan; Rasche, Volker; Grabrucker, Andreas M.; Boecker, Tobias M. (Frontiers Media, 2019)

  Research efforts over the past decades have unraveled both genetic and environmental factors, which contribute to the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is, to date, largely unknown how different underlying ...
• Coupled processes in charged porous media: from theory to application 

  Joekar-Niasar, Vahid; Schreyer, Lynn; Sedighi, Majid; Icardi, Matteo; Huyghe, Jacques M. (Springer, 2019)

  Charged porous media are pervasive, and modeling such systems is mathematically and computationally challenging due to the highly coupled hydrodynamic and electrochemical interactions caused by the presence of charged ...
• Organic piezoelectric materials: milestones and potential 

  Guerin, Sarah; Tofail, Syed A.M.; Thompson, Damien (Springer, 2019)

  Research on the piezoelectric response of biomolecules has intensified following demonstration of open circuit voltages of over 20 V in biopiezoelectric generators. Organic piezoelectric nanotubes, fibers, and micro-islands ...
• Phase transition in the Boltzmann–Vlasov equation 

  Fowler, Andrew C. (Springer, 2019)

  In this paper we revisit the problem of explaining phase transition by a study of a form of the Boltzmann equation, where inter-molecular attraction is included by means of a Vlasov term in the evolution equation for the ...
• The heterogeneous crystallization of a novel solvate of clozapine base in the presence of excipients 

  Verma, Vivek; Bannigan, Pauric; Lusi, Matteo; Crowley, Clare M.; Hudson, Sarah; Hodnett, Benjamin K.; Davern, Peter (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018)

  A new methanol solvate of clozapine base (CPB) has been identified. It exhibits different molecular arrangements and bonding environments at low and room temperatures, while still maintaining the same PXRD pattern throughout. ...
• Thermodynamic properties of paracetamol impurities 4-nitrophenol and 4'-chloroacetanilide and the impact of such impurities on the crystallisation of paracetamol from solution 

  Steendam, René R.E.; Keshavarz, Lelia; de Souza, Brian P.; Frawley, Patrick J. (Elsevier, 2019)

  The impact of structurally-related additives and impurities on active pharmaceutical ingredients is an essential yet poorly understood area. This work describes the characterisation of temperature-dependent solid-liquid ...

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