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Bimetallic copper(II) and zinc(II) complexes of acyclic Schiff base ligands derived from amino acids (2010)
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Arbaoui, A., Redshaw, C., Sanchez-Ballester, N. M., Elsegood, M. R., & Hughes, D. L. (2011). Bimetallic copper(II) and zinc(II) complexes of acyclic Schiff base ligands derived from amino acids. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 365(1), 96-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2010.08.043

The acyclic Schiff-base ligands (2-(OH)-5-(R3)C 6H2-1,3-(HCNC(R1)(R2)CO 2H), derived from the dialdehyde 2-hydroxy-5-R-1,3- benzenedicarboxaldehyde (R = Me or t-Bu) and two equivalents of the amino acids glycine, 2,2-diphenylglycine or phenylalanine,... Read More about Bimetallic copper(II) and zinc(II) complexes of acyclic Schiff base ligands derived from amino acids.

Novel anisotropic materials from functionalised colloidal cellulose and cellulose derivatives (2010)
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Holt, B. L., Stoyanov, S. D., Pelan, E., & Paunov, V. N. (2010). Novel anisotropic materials from functionalised colloidal cellulose and cellulose derivatives. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20(45), 10058-10070. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0jm01022g

This feature article describes selected examples of the properties and the methods of preparation of cellulose micro and nano crystallites (whiskers) and derivatives, with aspects related to fabrication of various anisotropic materials. Nanometre siz... Read More about Novel anisotropic materials from functionalised colloidal cellulose and cellulose derivatives.

Live celloidosome structures based on the assembly of individual cells by colloid interactions (2010)
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Fakhrullin, R. F., Brandy, M., Cayre, O. J., Velev, O. D., & Paunov, V. N. (2010). Live celloidosome structures based on the assembly of individual cells by colloid interactions. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 12(38), 11912-11922. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cp00131g

A new class of colloid structures, celloidosomes, has been developed which represent hollow microcapsules whose membranes consist of a single monolayer of living cells. Two routes for producing these structures were designed based on templating of: (... Read More about Live celloidosome structures based on the assembly of individual cells by colloid interactions.

Comparison of Birch with electrochemical reduction of 2,3-diphenyl-1,4- diazaspiro[4.5]deca-1,3-diene (2010)
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Zhou, Y., Andreou, A., Biktagirov, E., Eames, J., & Wadhawan, J. (2010). Comparison of Birch with electrochemical reduction of 2,3-diphenyl-1,4- diazaspiro[4.5]deca-1,3-diene. Electrochemistry communications, 12(11), 1493-1497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2010.08.016

Reduction of 2,3-diphenyl-1,4-diazaspiro[4.5]deca-1,3-diene is investigated both voltammetrically (glassy-carbon electrode, 20°C, non-aqueous-solvents) and using dissolving-metals (sodium, −78°C, tetrahydrofuran (THF)/NH3(l)). Remarkably, electro-red... Read More about Comparison of Birch with electrochemical reduction of 2,3-diphenyl-1,4- diazaspiro[4.5]deca-1,3-diene.

Phase inversion of particle-stabilised perfume oil-water emulsions: experiment and theory (2010)
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Binks, B. P., Fletcher, P. D. I., Holt, B. L., Beaussoubre, P., & Wong, K. (2010). Phase inversion of particle-stabilised perfume oil-water emulsions: experiment and theory. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 12(38), 11954-11966. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cp00558d

Phase inversion of fumed silica particle-stabilised emulsions of water and perfume oil can be effected in three ways. The transitional inversion from water-in-oil (w/o) to oil-in-water (o/w) occurs upon increasing the particle hydrophilicity for 9 oi... Read More about Phase inversion of particle-stabilised perfume oil-water emulsions: experiment and theory.

Bridging the visible: the modulation of the absorption by more than 450 nm (2010)
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Delbaere, S., Vermeersch, G., Frigoli, M., & Mehl, G. H. (2010). Bridging the visible: the modulation of the absorption by more than 450 nm. Organic Letters, 12(18), 4090-4093. https://doi.org/10.1021/ol101672v

The coexistence of 18 isomers, identified by NMR spectroscopy and gathered into six states with very different absorption properties, is observed upon irradiation with selective wavelengths of a triphotochromic system joining two naphthopyran entitie... Read More about Bridging the visible: the modulation of the absorption by more than 450 nm.

Identity of the active site in gold nanoparticle-catalyzed sonogashira coupling of phenylacetylene and iodobenzene (2010)
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Beaumont, S. K., Kyriakou, G., & Lambert, R. M. (2010). Identity of the active site in gold nanoparticle-catalyzed sonogashira coupling of phenylacetylene and iodobenzene. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(35), 12246-12248. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1063179

XPS, TEM, and reaction studies were used to examine the catalytic behavior of gold species deposited on lanthana toward the cross-coupling of phenylacetylene and iodobenzene. Atomically dispersed AuI and AuIII were catalytically inert, whereas metall... Read More about Identity of the active site in gold nanoparticle-catalyzed sonogashira coupling of phenylacetylene and iodobenzene.

Aqueous Foams Stabilized by in Situ Surface Activation of CaCO3 Nanoparticles via Adsorption of Anionic Surfactant (2010)
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Cui, Z., Cui, Y., Cui, C., Chen, Z., & Binks, B. P. (2010). Aqueous Foams Stabilized by in Situ Surface Activation of CaCO3 Nanoparticles via Adsorption of Anionic Surfactant. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 26(15), 12567-12574. https://doi.org/10.1021/la1016559

The in situ surface activation of unmodified CaCO3 nanoparticles by interaction with surfactant in aqueous media has been studied, and the impact of this on the foamability and foam stability of aqueous dispersions was assessed. Using complementary e... Read More about Aqueous Foams Stabilized by in Situ Surface Activation of CaCO3 Nanoparticles via Adsorption of Anionic Surfactant.

Highly permeable macroporous polymers synthesized from pickering medium and high internal phase emulsion templates (2010)
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Horozov, T. S., Bismarck, A., Ikem, V. O., & Menner, A. (2010). Highly permeable macroporous polymers synthesized from pickering medium and high internal phase emulsion templates. Advanced materials, 22(32), 3588-3592. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201000729

Open porous poly-Plckerlng-M/HIPEs with permeabilities of up to 2.6 D were prepared by polymerisation of PickeringM/HIPEs to which small amounts of surfactant were added. The permeability of these poly-Pickering-M/HIPEs is more than 5 times that of c... Read More about Highly permeable macroporous polymers synthesized from pickering medium and high internal phase emulsion templates.

Interfacing Living Unicellular Algae Cells with Biocompatible Polyelectrolyte-Stabilised Magnetic Nanoparticles (2010)
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Fakhrullin, R. F., Shlykova, L. V., Zamaleeva, A. I., Nurgaliev, D. K., Osin, Y. N., García-Alonso, J., & Paunov, V. N. (2010). Interfacing Living Unicellular Algae Cells with Biocompatible Polyelectrolyte-Stabilised Magnetic Nanoparticles. Macromolecular bioscience, 10(10), 1257-1264. https://doi.org/10.1002/mabi.201000161

Green algae are a promising platform for the development of biosensors and bioelectronic devices. Here we report a reliable single-step technique for the functionalisation of living unicellular green algae Chlorella pyrenoidosa with biocompatible 15n... Read More about Interfacing Living Unicellular Algae Cells with Biocompatible Polyelectrolyte-Stabilised Magnetic Nanoparticles.

Reductive synthesis of metal antimonides (2010)
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Kift, R. L., & Prior, T. J. (2010). Reductive synthesis of metal antimonides. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 505(2), 428-433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2010.06.078

A new low temperature synthetic route to binary and ternary metal antimonides is reported. Binary transition metal antimonides prepared include CoSb3, CoSb2, CoSb, NiSb, NiSb2, Cu2Sb and Mo3Sb2; new ternary compositions prepared include the series Co... Read More about Reductive synthesis of metal antimonides.

Stabilisation of liquid-air surfaces by particles of low surface energy (2010)
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Binks, B. P., & Rocher, A. (2010). Stabilisation of liquid-air surfaces by particles of low surface energy. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 12(32), 9169-9171. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cp00777c

We describe the stabilisation of liquid-air surfaces by micro-particles of a low surface energy solid. By varying the surface tension of the liquid, various particle-stabilised materials from oil dispersions to air-in-oil foams to dry water can be pr... Read More about Stabilisation of liquid-air surfaces by particles of low surface energy.

Particle stabilised emulsions studied by WETSEM technique (2010)
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Dyab, A. K. F., & Paunov, V. N. (2010). Particle stabilised emulsions studied by WETSEM technique. Soft matter, 6(12), 2613-2615. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0sm00032a

We have developed a new simple method to study the interfacial structure of particle stabilised emulsions in situ by wet scanning electron microscopy (WETSEM) technique for the first time. Particle layer(s), particle location, aggregation and bridgin... Read More about Particle stabilised emulsions studied by WETSEM technique.

Sonogashira coupling on an extended gold surface in vacuo: Reaction of phenylacetylene with iodobenzene on Au(111) (2010)
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Kanuru, V. K., Kyriakou, G., Beaumont, S. K., Papageorgiou, A. C., Watson, D. J., & Lambert, R. M. (2010). Sonogashira coupling on an extended gold surface in vacuo: Reaction of phenylacetylene with iodobenzene on Au(111). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(23), 8081-8086. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1011542

Temperature-programmed reaction measurements supported by scanning tunneling microscopy have shown that phenylacetylene and iodobenzene react on smooth Au(111) under vacuum conditions to yield biphenyl and diphenyldiacetylene, the result of homocoupl... Read More about Sonogashira coupling on an extended gold surface in vacuo: Reaction of phenylacetylene with iodobenzene on Au(111).

"Comb-like" non-ionic polymeric macrosurfactants (2010)
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Raduan, N. H., Horozov, T. S., & Georgiou, T. K. (2010). "Comb-like" non-ionic polymeric macrosurfactants. Soft matter, 6(10), 2321-2329. https://doi.org/10.1039/b926822g

A series of non-ionic comb-like polymeric macrosurfactants were synthesized by group transfer polymerisation. Specifically, nine amphiphilic block copolymers were prepared based on the hydrophobic n-hexyl methacrylate and the hydrophilic poly(ethylen... Read More about "Comb-like" non-ionic polymeric macrosurfactants.

Directed assembly of yeast cells into living yeastosomes by microbubble templating (2010)
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Brandy, M., Cayre, O. J., Fakhrullin, R. F., Velev, O. D., & Paunov, V. N. (2010). Directed assembly of yeast cells into living yeastosomes by microbubble templating. Soft matter, 6(15), 3494-3498. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0sm00003e

We report the fabrication of yeastosomes—novel multicellular assemblies, which consist of a spherical monolayer of living yeast cells held together by colloid interactions. Our method is based on templating of microbubbles with cells coated with cati... Read More about Directed assembly of yeast cells into living yeastosomes by microbubble templating.

A microflow chemiluminescence system for determination of chloramphenicol in honey with preconcentration using a molecularly imprinted polymer (2010)
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Thongchai, W., Liawruangath, B., Liawruangrath, S., & Greenway, G. M. (2010). A microflow chemiluminescence system for determination of chloramphenicol in honey with preconcentration using a molecularly imprinted polymer. Talanta, 82(2), 560-566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2010.05.007

A novel chemiluminescence (CL) microfluidic system incorporating a molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) preconcentration step was used for the determination of chloramphenicol in honey samples. The MIP was prepared by using chloramphenicol as the temp... Read More about A microflow chemiluminescence system for determination of chloramphenicol in honey with preconcentration using a molecularly imprinted polymer.

Porphyrin-nanosensor conjugates. New tools for the measurement of intracellular response to reactive oxygen species (2010)
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Josefsen, L. B., Aylott, J. W., Beeby, A., Warburton, P., Boyle, J. P., Peers, C., & Boyle, R. W. (2010). Porphyrin-nanosensor conjugates. New tools for the measurement of intracellular response to reactive oxygen species. Photochemical & photobiological sciences : an international journal, 9(6), 801-811. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0pp00004c

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have for some time been implicated in the onset and progression of medical conditions including cancer, ageing, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease. Recently, it has been postulated that ROS play a much more subtle rol... Read More about Porphyrin-nanosensor conjugates. New tools for the measurement of intracellular response to reactive oxygen species.

Ionothermal synthesis and crystal structures of metal phosphate chains (2010)
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Wragg, D. S., Le Ouay, B., Beale, A. M., O'Brien, M. G., Slawin, A. M., Warren, J. E., …Morris, R. E. (2010). Ionothermal synthesis and crystal structures of metal phosphate chains. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 183(7), 1625-1631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2010.05.002

We have prepared isostructural aluminium and gallium phosphate chains by ionothermal reactions in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide and 1-ethylpyridinium bromide under a variety of conditions. The chains can be prepared as pure phases or along with... Read More about Ionothermal synthesis and crystal structures of metal phosphate chains.

One-step photoembossing for submicrometer surface relief structures in liquid crystal semiconductors (2010)
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Liedtke, A., Lei, C., O’Neill, M., Dyer, P. E., Kitney, S. P., & Kelly, S. M. (2010). One-step photoembossing for submicrometer surface relief structures in liquid crystal semiconductors. ACS Nano, 4(6), 3248-3253. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn100012g

We report a new single-step method to directly imprint nanometer-scale structures on photoreactive organic semiconductors. A surface relief grating is spontaneously formed when a light-emitting, liquid crystalline, and semiconducting thin film is irr... Read More about One-step photoembossing for submicrometer surface relief structures in liquid crystal semiconductors.