• Extraction and purification of curcuminoids from crude curcumin by a combination of crystallization and chromatography 

  Heffernan, Claire; Ukrainczyk, Marko; Gamidi, Rama Krishna; Hodnett, Benjamin K.; Rasmuson, Åke C. (American Chemical Society, 2017)

  In this work a method is developed for the extraction and purification of the three curcuminoids; Curcumin (CUR), Demethoxycurcumin (DMC) and Bisdemethoxycurcumin (BDMC) from commercially available crude curcumin. In a ...
• Bioelectrochemistry of Cytochrome c in a closed bipolar electrochemical cell 

  Gamero-Quijano, Alonso; Herzog, Grégoire; Scanlon, Micheál D. (Elsevier, 2019)

  The reversible oxidation and reduction of Cytochrome c (Cyt c) is demonstrated with a closed bipolar electrochemical cell (CBPEC). Herein, a 4-electrode configuration was studied with the opposite poles of the bipolar ...
• Zymobacter palmae pyruvate decarboxylase is Less effective than that of zymomonas mobilis for ethanol production in metabolically engineered synechocystis sp. PCC6803 

  Quinn, Lorraine; Armshaw, Patricia; Soulimane, Tewfik; Sheehan, Con; Ryan, Michael P.; Pembroke, Tony J. (MDPI, 2019)

  produce bioethanol from model cyanobacteria such as Synechocystis, a two gene cassette consisting of genes encoding pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) are required to transform pyruvate first to ...
• Fine tuning and specific binding sites with a porous hydrogen-bonded metal-complex framework for gas selective separations 

  Bao, Zongbi; Xie, Danyan; Chang, Ganggang; Wu, Hui; Li, Liangying; Zhou, Wei; Wang, Hailong; Zhang, Zhiguo; Xing, Huabin; Yang, Qiwei; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Ren, Qilong; Chen, Banglin (American Chemical Society, 2018)

  Research on HOFs has been developed for quite a long time; however, those with both established permanent porosities and functional properties are extremely rare due to weak hydrogen-bonding interactions among molecular ...
• The Limerick bubbly flow rig: design, performance, hold-up and mixing pattern 

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

  As Euler-Euler CFD simulations of bubbly flows suffer from uncertainties due to the many underpinning models, there is an obvious need of accurate experimental data for validation. With this in mind, a new bubbly flow test ...
• Crystal growth of single salicylamide crystals 

  Lynch, Aisling; Rasmuson, Åke C. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Growth of single salicylamide crystals was investigated in a nonstirred growth cuvette and on a rotating disk. In the growth cuvette the crystal growth rates were measured for both primary nucleated crystals and seed ...
• Molecular sieving and direct visualization of CO2 in binding pockets of an ultramicroporous lanthanide MOF platform 

  Han, Lin; Pham, Tony; Zhuo, Mingjing; Forrest, Katherine A.; Suepaul, Shanelle; Space, Brian; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Shi, Wei; Chen, Yao; Cheng, Peng; Zhang, Zhenjie (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Inspired by the structure of carbonic anhydrase, we developed a robust ultramicroporous lanthanide metal-organic framework (MOF) platform (NKMOF-3-Ln), which possess porous pocket to selectively bind with CO2 at ambient ...
• Dissolution of indomethacin crystals into a polymer melt:role of diffusion and fragmentation 

  Moseson, Dana E.; Parker, Andrew S.; Gilpin, Christopher J.; Stewart, Andrew A.; Beaudoin, Stephen P.; Taylor, Lynne S. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  The dissolution or melting of a crystalline drug into a molten polymeric matrix underpins the fabrication of a number of drug delivery systems. However, little is known about how crystals dissolve in such viscous matrices. ...
• A vibration energy harvester and power management solution for battery-free operation of wireless sensor nodes 

  Rodriguez, Juan Carlos; Nico, Valeria; Punch, Jeff (MDPI, 2019)

  Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvesting (EM-VEH) is an attractive alternative to batteries as a power source for wireless sensor nodes that enable intelligence at the edge of the Internet of Things (IoT). Industrial ...
• Benchmark selectivity p-xylene separation by a non-porous molecular solid through liquid or vapor extraction† 

  Sun, Na; Wang, Shi-Qiang; Zou, Ruqiang; Cui, Wen-Gang; Zhang, Anqi; Zhang, Tianzhen; Li, Qi; Zhuang, Zhan-Zhong; Zhang, Ying-Hui; Xu, Jialiang; Zaworotko, Michael J.; Bu, Xian-He (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)

  Solid–liquid separation of similarly sized organic molecules utilizing sorbents offers the potential for new energy-efficient approaches to a number of important industrial separations such as xylenes (C8) separations. ...
• Resilience for stochastic systems interacting via a quasi-degenerate network 

  Nicoletti, Sara; Fanelli, Duccio; Zagli, Niccolò; Asllani, Malbor; Battistelli, Giorgio; Carletti, Timoteo; Chisci, Luigi; Innocenti, Giacomo; Livi, Roberto (AIP Publishing, 2019)

  A stochastic reaction-diffusion model is studied on a networked support. In each patch of the network, two species are assumed to interact following a non-normal reaction scheme. When the interaction unit is replicated ...
• Nanomedicine against Aβ aggregation by β–sheet breaker peptide delivery:In vitro evidence 

  Pederzoli, Francesca; Ruozi, Barbara; Duskey, Jason; Hagmeyer, Simone; Sauer, Ann Katrin; Grabrucker, Stefanie; Coelho, Romina; Oddone, Natalia; Ottonelli, Ilaria; Daini, Eleonora; Zoli, Michele; Vandelli, Maria Angela; Tosi, Giovanni; Grabrucker, Andreas M. (MDPI, 2019)

  The accumulation of amyloid β (Aβ) triggers a cascade of toxic events in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The KLVFF peptide can interfere with Aβ aggregation. However, the peptide suffers from poor bioavailability and the inability ...
• Analytical approach for solving population balances: a homotopy perturbation method 

  Kaur Gurmeet; Singh Randhir; Singh Mehakpreet; Kumar Jitendra; Matsoukas Themis (IOP Publsihing, 2019)

  .In the present work, a new approach is proposed for finding the analytical solution of population balances for aggregation and fragmentation process. This approach is relying on the idea of the homotopy perturbation method ...
• Pyrolysis process as a sustainable management option of poultry manure: characterization of the derived biochars and assessment of their nutrient release capacities 

  Hadroug, Samar; Jellali, Salah; Leahy, James J.; Kwapinska, Marzena; Jeguirim, Mejdi; Hamdi, Helmi; Kwapinski, Witold (MDPI, 2019)

  Raw poultry manure (RPM) and its derived biochars at temperatures of 400 (B400) and 600 C (B600) were physico-chemically characterized, and their ability to release nutrients was assessed under static conditions. The ...
• The formation and enhancement of heterostructures to optimize surface plasmon propagation in nano-optics devices 

  Pita, Isabel A. (University of Limerick, 2017)

  This thesis focuses on the formation of heterogeneous structures, and their optimization to form improved components for nanocircuits; including light source, antenna incorporation for enhanced wave guiding, and probe ...
• Impact of fluid shear on particle size distribution of batch crystallization processes in stirred vessels 

  Hogan, Brian (University of Limerick, 2019)

  Crystallization is a puriification process during which molecules of a crystal compound bond together arranging themselves in a compound specific orderly lattice structure in which foreign molecules known as impurities ...
• Development of a laminar shear apparatus for characterising the shear-mitigating effect(s) of bovine serum albumin in mammalian cell suspension culture 

  Collins, Michael (University of Limerick, 2019)

  The stirred tank bioreactor is one of the most widely-utilised technologies in the biopharmaceutical industry for large-scale mammalian cell culture resulting in the production of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. In these ...
• 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 ...

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