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From textile waste to carbon nanomaterials for offshore wind turbine blades (2023)
Thesis
Marsden, H. (2023). From textile waste to carbon nanomaterials for offshore wind turbine blades. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4459343

The aim of this research was to determine the feasibility of carbon production from the pyrolysis of textile waste, seeking a way of increasing the sustainability of “fast fashion” and recycling the 92 million tonnes of textile waste entering landfil... Read More about From textile waste to carbon nanomaterials for offshore wind turbine blades.

Response surface methodology for synthesis of bio-jet fuel from waste cooking oil using agitated ozone treatment (2022)
Journal Article
Siswanto, A. P., Yulianto, M. E., Handayani, D., Faisal, M. M., Wardani, O. K., & Kuvshinov, D. (2022). Response surface methodology for synthesis of bio-jet fuel from waste cooking oil using agitated ozone treatment. Materials Today: Proceedings, 63(supp.1), S346-S348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.03.274

Development of bio-jet fuel has gained much attention in the few years due to the carbon emission problem. Waste cooking oil (WCO) is an alternative raw material to produce medium chain of methyl ester which has similar properties with bio jet fuel.... Read More about Response surface methodology for synthesis of bio-jet fuel from waste cooking oil using agitated ozone treatment.

Identification of soluble tissue‑derived biomarkers from human thyroid tissue explants maintained on a microfluidic device (2021)
Journal Article
Riley, A., Jones, H., England, J., Kuvshinov, D., Green, V., & Greenman, J. (2021). Identification of soluble tissue‑derived biomarkers from human thyroid tissue explants maintained on a microfluidic device. Oncology Letters, 22(5), Article 780. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2021.13041

Although a large cohort of potential biomarkers for thyroid cancer aggressiveness have been tested in various formats in recent years, to the best of our knowledge, thyro‑ globulin and calcitonin remain the only two established biomarkers associated... Read More about Identification of soluble tissue‑derived biomarkers from human thyroid tissue explants maintained on a microfluidic device.

Synthesis of Ni-based catalysts by hexamethylenetetramine-nitrates solution combustion method for co-production of hydrogen and nanofibrous carbon from methane (2019)
Journal Article
Kuvshinov, D. G., Kurmashov, P. B., Bannov, A. G., Popov, M. V., & Kuvshinov, G. G. (2019). Synthesis of Ni-based catalysts by hexamethylenetetramine-nitrates solution combustion method for co-production of hydrogen and nanofibrous carbon from methane. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44(31), 16271-16286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.04.179

It was shown that hexamethylenetetramine (HMT)is a new effective fuel for single-step solutions combustion synthesis (SCS)of supported Ni catalysts for methane decomposition into hydrogen and nanofibrous carbon. Several generalized chemical equations... Read More about Synthesis of Ni-based catalysts by hexamethylenetetramine-nitrates solution combustion method for co-production of hydrogen and nanofibrous carbon from methane.

A patient tumour-on-a-chip system for personalised investigation of radiotherapy based treatment regimens (2019)
Journal Article
Kennedy, R., Kuvshinov, D., Sdrolia, A., Kuvshinova, E., Hilton, K., Crank, S., Beavis, A. W., Green, V., & Greenman, J. (2019). A patient tumour-on-a-chip system for personalised investigation of radiotherapy based treatment regimens. Scientific reports, 9(1), Article 6327. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42745-2

Development of personalised cancer models to predict response to radiation would benefit patient care; particularly in malignancies where treatment resistance is prevalent. Herein, a robust, easy to use, tumour-on-a-chip platform which maintains prec... Read More about A patient tumour-on-a-chip system for personalised investigation of radiotherapy based treatment regimens.

A comprehensive study of the effect of chemical impurities on selection and sizing of centrifugal machines for supercritical carbon dioxide transport pipelines (2018)
Journal Article
Okezue, C., & Kuvshinov, D. (2018). A comprehensive study of the effect of chemical impurities on selection and sizing of centrifugal machines for supercritical carbon dioxide transport pipelines. Applied energy, 230, 816-835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.08.074

Compressors and booster pumps constitute the “heart” of the supercritical carbon dioxide transport pipeline network because they consume most of the required energy input. In other words, most of the operating expenditure for the transport pipeline g... Read More about A comprehensive study of the effect of chemical impurities on selection and sizing of centrifugal machines for supercritical carbon dioxide transport pipelines.

Long-term imaging of calcium dynamics using genetically encoded calcium indicators and automatic tracking of cultured cells (2018)
Journal Article
Razlivanov, I., Liew, T., Moore, E. W., Al-Kathiri, A., Bartram, T., Kuvshinov, D., & Nikolaev, A. (2018). Long-term imaging of calcium dynamics using genetically encoded calcium indicators and automatic tracking of cultured cells. BioTechniques, 65(1), 37-39. https://doi.org/10.2144/btn-2018-0024

© 2018 Future Science. All rights reserved. Calcium dynamics is crucial for many signaling pathways and cell functions. Understanding how calcium regulates cell function often requires long-term imaging of calcium dynamics. Here we report a methodolo... Read More about Long-term imaging of calcium dynamics using genetically encoded calcium indicators and automatic tracking of cultured cells.

Cell lysis and detoxification of cyanotoxins using a novel combination of microbubble generation and plasma microreactor technology for ozonation (2018)
Journal Article
Pandhal, J., Siswanto, A., Kuvshinov, D., Zimmerman, W. B., Lawton, L., & Edwards, C. (2018). Cell lysis and detoxification of cyanotoxins using a novel combination of microbubble generation and plasma microreactor technology for ozonation. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, Article 678. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00678

© 2018 Pandhal, Siswanto, Kuvshinov, Zimmerman, Lawton and Edwards. There has been a steady rise in the incidences of algal blooms globally, and worryingly, there is increasing evidence that changes in the global climate are leading to a shift toward... Read More about Cell lysis and detoxification of cyanotoxins using a novel combination of microbubble generation and plasma microreactor technology for ozonation.

Effect of Chemical Impurities on Centrifugal Machine Performance: Implications for Compressor Sizing in A CO 2 Transport Pipeline [QUERY] (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Okezue, C., & Kuvshinov, D. Effect of Chemical Impurities on Centrifugal Machine Performance: Implications for Compressor Sizing in A CO 2 Transport Pipeline [QUERY]. Presented at 9th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE 2017), Cardiff, UK

© 2017 The Author(s). Several research studies have been published on CO 2 pipeline transportation. Most of them focus on developing hydraulic models of entire CO 2 pipeline networks. From these studies, a lot of original knowledge has been produced... Read More about Effect of Chemical Impurities on Centrifugal Machine Performance: Implications for Compressor Sizing in A CO 2 Transport Pipeline [QUERY].

Maintenance of head and neck tumor on-chip: gateway to personalized treatment? (2017)
Journal Article
Bower, R., Green, V. L., Kuvshinova, E., Kuvshinov, D., Karsai, L., Crank, S. T., Stafford, N. D., & Greenman, J. (2017). Maintenance of head and neck tumor on-chip: gateway to personalized treatment?. Future Science OA, 3(2), FSO174. https://doi.org/10.4155/fsoa-2016-0089

Aim: Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) are solid tumors with low overall survival (40–60%). In a move toward personalized medicine, maintenance of tumor biopsies in microfluidic tissue culture devices is being developed. Methodology/ res... Read More about Maintenance of head and neck tumor on-chip: gateway to personalized treatment?.

Effect of pressure on the efficiency of nickel and nickel-copper catalysts in decomposition of methane (2016)
Journal Article
Kuvshinov, G. G., Popov, M. V., Tonkodubov, S. E., & Kuvshinov, D. G. (2016). Effect of pressure on the efficiency of nickel and nickel-copper catalysts in decomposition of methane. Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry / Zhurnal Prikladnoi Khimii, 89(11), 1777-1785. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070427216110070

Methane decomposition into hydrogen and nanofibrous carbon in the presence of high-percentage catalysts (70–90)% Ni–(0–20)% Cu–10% Al at a temperature of 948 K and pressures of 1 to 5 atm was studied in order to develop a technology for enrichment of... Read More about Effect of pressure on the efficiency of nickel and nickel-copper catalysts in decomposition of methane.

Microfluidic culture of head and neck tumour maintains viability, as shown by single cell analysis, providing potential for novel applications and personalised medicine (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bower, R., Green, V., Kuvshinov, D., Crank, S., Stafford, N., & Greenman, J. (2016, October). Microfluidic culture of head and neck tumour maintains viability, as shown by single cell analysis, providing potential for novel applications and personalised medicine. Presented at 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2016, Dublin, Ireland

The current paper details a succinct characterisation of an in-house designed microfluidic culture device. The maintenance of tissue viability was determined by studying single cells, following dissociation, of head and neck tumour pre and post cultu... Read More about Microfluidic culture of head and neck tumour maintains viability, as shown by single cell analysis, providing potential for novel applications and personalised medicine.

Microbubbles enhanced synthetic phorbol ester degradation by ozonolysis (2014)
Journal Article
Kuvshinov, D., Siswanto, A., & Zimmerman, W. (2014). Microbubbles enhanced synthetic phorbol ester degradation by ozonolysis. International journal of chemical, molecular, nuclear, materials and metallurgical engineering, 8(1), 76-79

A phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (TPA) is a synthetic analogue of phorbol ester (PE), a natural toxic compound of Euphorbiaceae plant. The oil extracted from plants of this family is useful source for primarily biofuel. However this oil might also b... Read More about Microbubbles enhanced synthetic phorbol ester degradation by ozonolysis.

Efficient compact micro DBD plasma reactor for ozone generation for industrial application in liquid and gas phase systems (2014)
Journal Article
Kuvshinov, D., Lozano-Parada, J., Siswanto, A., & Zimmerman, W. (2014). Efficient compact micro DBD plasma reactor for ozone generation for industrial application in liquid and gas phase systems. International journal of chemical, molecular, nuclear, materials and metallurgical engineering, 8(1), 80-83. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1090542

Ozone is well known as a powerful, fast reacting oxidant. Ozone based processes produce no by-product residual as non-reacted ozone decomposes to molecular oxygen. Therefore an application of ozone is widely accepted as one of the main approaches for... Read More about Efficient compact micro DBD plasma reactor for ozone generation for industrial application in liquid and gas phase systems.

Morphology of silicon carbide synthesized using laser ablation of a mixture of nanofibrous carbon with xerogel (2012)
Journal Article
Kuvshinov, G. G., Krutskii, Y. L., Orishich, A. M., Chukanov, I. S., Varfolomeeva, A. S., Afonin, Y. V., Zaikovskii, V. I., & Kuvshinov, D. G. (2012). Morphology of silicon carbide synthesized using laser ablation of a mixture of nanofibrous carbon with xerogel. Nanotechnologies in Russia, 7(7-8), 385-391. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995078012040088

The results of studying products obtained using the laser ablation of a composite consisting of granular nanofibrous carbon impregnated by an organic-silicon compound-tetraethoxysilane-based alcogel-are presented. A continuous CO 2 laser with a power... Read More about Morphology of silicon carbide synthesized using laser ablation of a mixture of nanofibrous carbon with xerogel.

Modification of nanofibrous carbon morphology under effect of laser ablation (2011)
Journal Article
Kuvshinov, G. G., Krutskii, Y. L., Chukanov, I. S., Orishich, A. M., Afonin, Y. V., Zaikovskii, V. I., & Kuvshinov, D. G. (2011). Modification of nanofibrous carbon morphology under effect of laser ablation. Nanotechnologies in Russia, 6(9-10), 607-612. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995078011050107

This paper presents the results of studies of carbon nanostructures obtained by the laser ablation of a nanofibrous carbon formed in the process of a catalytic decomposition of hydrocarbons in the presence of high-percentage catalysts containing the... Read More about Modification of nanofibrous carbon morphology under effect of laser ablation.

Thermal conductivity measurement of liquids in a microfluidic device (2010)
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Kuvshinov, D., Bown, M. R., MacInnes, J. M., Allen, R. W., Ge, R., Aldous, L., Hardacre, C., Doy, N., Newton, M. I., & McHale, G. (2011). Thermal conductivity measurement of liquids in a microfluidic device. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 10(1), 123-132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-010-0652-x

A new microfluidic-based approach to measuring liquid thermal conductivity is developed to address the requirement in many practical applications for measurements using small (microlitre) sample size and integration into a compact device. The approac... Read More about Thermal conductivity measurement of liquids in a microfluidic device.

Small volume laboratory on a chip measurements incorporating the quartz crystal microbalance to measure the viscosity-density product of room temperature ionic liquids (2010)
Journal Article
Doy, N., McHale, G., Newton, M. I., Hardacre, C., Ge, R., MacInnes, J. M., Kuvshinov, D., & Allen, R. W. (2010). Small volume laboratory on a chip measurements incorporating the quartz crystal microbalance to measure the viscosity-density product of room temperature ionic liquids. Biomicrofluidics, 4(1), Article 014107. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3353379

A microfluidic glass chip system incorporating a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) to measure the square root of the viscosity-density product of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) is presented. The QCM covers a central recess on a glass chip, wi... Read More about Small volume laboratory on a chip measurements incorporating the quartz crystal microbalance to measure the viscosity-density product of room temperature ionic liquids.

Nanofibrous carbon with herringbone structure as an effective catalyst of the H2S selective oxidation (2010)
Journal Article
Shinkarev, V. V., Glushenkov, A. M., Kuvshinov, D. G., & Kuvshinov, G. G. (2010). Nanofibrous carbon with herringbone structure as an effective catalyst of the H2S selective oxidation. Carbon, 48(7), 2004-2012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2010.02.008

Granular nanofibrous carbons (NFCs) with herringbone structure were synthesised by the decomposition of natural gas over Ni/Al2O3 catalysts, and their performance in the selective oxidation of hydrogen sulphide was studied. Samples obtained over pure... Read More about Nanofibrous carbon with herringbone structure as an effective catalyst of the H2S selective oxidation.