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Novel oil-in-water emulsions stabilised by ionic surfactant and similarly charged nanoparticles at very low concentrations (2018)
Journal Article
Xu, M., Jiang, J., Pei, X., Song, B., Cui, Z., & Binks, B. P. (2018). Novel oil-in-water emulsions stabilised by ionic surfactant and similarly charged nanoparticles at very low concentrations. Angewandte Chemie, 57(26), 7738-7742. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201802266

Novel oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions are prepared which are stabilised by a cationic surfactant in combination with similarly charged alumina nanoparticles at concentrations as low as 10-5 M and 10-4 wt.%, respectively. The surfactant molecules adsorb... Read More about Novel oil-in-water emulsions stabilised by ionic surfactant and similarly charged nanoparticles at very low concentrations.

Recovery of Al, Cr and V from steel slag by bioleaching: batch and column experiments (2018)
Journal Article
Gomes, H. I., Funari, V., Mayes, W. M., Rogerson, M., & Prior, T. J. (2018). Recovery of Al, Cr and V from steel slag by bioleaching: batch and column experiments. Journal of environmental management, 222, 30-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.05.056

Steel slag is a major by-product of the steel industry and a potential resource of technology critical elements. For this study, a basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel slag was tested for bacterial leaching and recovery of aluminium (Al), chromium (Cr),... Read More about Recovery of Al, Cr and V from steel slag by bioleaching: batch and column experiments.

A review on the recent advances in the reductions of carbon–carbon/oxygen multiple bonds including aromatic rings using Raney Ni–Al Alloy or Al powder in the presence of noble metal catalysts in water (2018)
Journal Article
Rayhan, U., Kowser, Z., Islam, M. N., Redshaw, C., & Yamato, T. (2018). A review on the recent advances in the reductions of carbon–carbon/oxygen multiple bonds including aromatic rings using Raney Ni–Al Alloy or Al powder in the presence of noble metal catalysts in water. Topics in catalysis, 61(7-8), 560-574. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-018-0994-2

Over the past few years, heterogeneous catalysts have attracted much attention with a view to lowering reaction temperatures and improving the selectivity of many organic syntheses. When it comes to designing or optimizing a catalyst, a lot of attent... Read More about A review on the recent advances in the reductions of carbon–carbon/oxygen multiple bonds including aromatic rings using Raney Ni–Al Alloy or Al powder in the presence of noble metal catalysts in water.

CFD analysis and experimental validation of magnetic droplet generation and deflection across multilaminar flow streams (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gómez-Pastora, J., Karampelas, I. H., Alorabi, A. Q., Tarn, M. D., Bringas, E., Iles, A., Paunov, V. N., Pamme, N., Furlani, E. P., & Ortiz, I. (2018, June). CFD analysis and experimental validation of magnetic droplet generation and deflection across multilaminar flow streams. Presented at TechConnect Briefs 2018 - Advanced Materials

© 2018 OOSV. All rights reserved. The use of droplet-based microfluidic systems has increased in the last decade due to the advantages these systems present such as compatibility with many chemical and biological reagents, capability of performing a... Read More about CFD analysis and experimental validation of magnetic droplet generation and deflection across multilaminar flow streams.

Phase inversion of colored Pickering emulsions stabilized by organic pigment particle mixtures (2018)
Journal Article
Binks, B. P., & Olusanya, S. O. (2018). Phase inversion of colored Pickering emulsions stabilized by organic pigment particle mixtures. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 34(17), 5040-5051. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00715

Pickering emulsions stabilized by a mixture of coloured organic pigment particles of different hydrophobicity have been investigated at equal oil:water ratio and a fixed overall particle concentration by several complementary methods. Transitional ph... Read More about Phase inversion of colored Pickering emulsions stabilized by organic pigment particle mixtures.

Two-photon-absorption properties of pyrene-based dipolar D-π-A fluorophores (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, C. Z., Zhang, R., Sakaguchi, K., Feng, X., Yu, X., Elsegood, M. R. J., Teat, S. J., Redshaw, C., & Yamato, T. (2018). Two-photon-absorption properties of pyrene-based dipolar D-π-A fluorophores. Chemphotochem, 2(8), 749-756. https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.201800053

Two-photon absorption (TPA) properties of pyrene-based derivatives are rare as a result of the limited number of controllable synthetic methods to prepare them. However, these materials are in great demand given their potential practical application... Read More about Two-photon-absorption properties of pyrene-based dipolar D-π-A fluorophores.

Photo-induced anticancer activity and singlet oxygen production of prodigiosenes (2018)
Journal Article
Savoie, H., Figliola, C., Marchal, E., Crabbe, B. W., Hallett-Tapley, G. L., Boyle, R. W., & Thompson, A. (2018). Photo-induced anticancer activity and singlet oxygen production of prodigiosenes. Photochemical & photobiological sciences : an international journal, 17(5), 599-606. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8pp00060c

© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry and Owner Societies. The photo-induced cytotoxicity of prodigiosenes is reported. One prodigiosene represents a synthetic analogue of the natural product prodigiosin, and two are conjugated to molecules that targ... Read More about Photo-induced anticancer activity and singlet oxygen production of prodigiosenes.

Tuning selective reflection of light by surface anchoring in cholesteric cells with oblique helicoidal structures (2018)
Journal Article
Iadlovska, O. S., Maxwell, G. R., Babakhanova, G., Mehl, G. H., Welch, C., Shiyanovskii, S. V., & Lavrentovich, O. D. (2018). Tuning selective reflection of light by surface anchoring in cholesteric cells with oblique helicoidal structures. Optics letters, 43(8), 1850-1853. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.43.001850

Selective reflection of light by oblique helicoidal cholesteric (ChOH) can be tuned in a very broad spectral range by an applied electric field. In this work, we demonstrate that the peak wavelength of the selective reflection can be controlled by su... Read More about Tuning selective reflection of light by surface anchoring in cholesteric cells with oblique helicoidal structures.

Conjugated, rod-like viologen oligomers: Correlation of oligomer length with conductivity and photoconductivity (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, L., Vivier, E., Eling, C. J., Babra, T. S., Bouillard, J. S. G., Adawi, A. M., Benoit, D. M., Hartl, F., Colquhoun, H. M., Efremova, O. A., & Greenland, B. W. (2018). Conjugated, rod-like viologen oligomers: Correlation of oligomer length with conductivity and photoconductivity. Synthetic Metals, 241, 31-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2018.03.019

© 2018 An iterative synthesis has been used to produce conjugated, monodisperse, viologen-based aromatic oligomers containing up to 12 aromatic/heterocyclic rings. The methoxy-substituted oligomers were soluble in common organic solvents and could be... Read More about Conjugated, rod-like viologen oligomers: Correlation of oligomer length with conductivity and photoconductivity.

Synthesis and Characterization of Temperature-Sensitive and Chemically Cross-Linked Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Photosensitizer Hydrogels for Applications in Photodynamic Therapy (2018)
Journal Article
Belali, S., Savoie, H., O’Brien, J. M., Cafolla, A. A., O’Connell, B., Karimi, A. R., Boyle, R. W., & Senge, M. O. (2018). Synthesis and Characterization of Temperature-Sensitive and Chemically Cross-Linked Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Photosensitizer Hydrogels for Applications in Photodynamic Therapy. Biomacromolecules, 19(5), 1592-1601. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00293

Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society. A novel poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) hydrogel containing different photosensitizers (protoporphyrin IX (PpIX), pheophorbide a (Pba), and protoporphyrin IX dimethyl ester (PpIX-DME)) has been synthes... Read More about Synthesis and Characterization of Temperature-Sensitive and Chemically Cross-Linked Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Photosensitizer Hydrogels for Applications in Photodynamic Therapy.

Fluoride doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with increased MRI relaxivity (2018)
Journal Article
Jones, N. E., Burnett, C. A., Salamon, S., Landers, J., Wende, H., Lazzarini, L., Gibbs, P., Pickles, M., Johnson, B. R., Evans, D. J., Archibald, S. J., & Francesconi, M. G. (2018). Fluoride doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with increased MRI relaxivity. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6(22), 3665-3673. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8tb00360b

Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONs) are being actively researched and experimented with as contrast agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), as well as image-directed delivery of therapeutics. The efficiency of an MRI contrast agent can be described... Read More about Fluoride doped γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with increased MRI relaxivity.

Development of radiolabeled fatty acid derivatives for imaging cardiac metabolism using PET and SPECT (2018)
Thesis
Al-Ali, Z. S. A. (2018). Development of radiolabeled fatty acid derivatives for imaging cardiac metabolism using PET and SPECT. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223957

Cardiac diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. To address this problem, a better understanding of biochemical reasons underlying heart pathologies is needed. Fatty acid oxidation (FAO) plays a significant role in cardiac energy production... Read More about Development of radiolabeled fatty acid derivatives for imaging cardiac metabolism using PET and SPECT.

Heterogeneous Pd catalysts as emulsifiers in Pickering emulsions for integrated multistep synthesis in flow chemistry (2018)
Journal Article
Hiebler, K., Lichtenegger, G. J., Maier, M. C., Park, E. S., Gonzales-Groom, R., Binks, B. P., & Gruber-Woelfler, H. (2018). Heterogeneous Pd catalysts as emulsifiers in Pickering emulsions for integrated multistep synthesis in flow chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 14, 648-658. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.14.52

Within the “Compartmentalised Smart Factory” approach of the ONE-FLOW project the implementation of different catalysts in “compartments” provided by Pickering emulsions and their application in continuous flow is targeted. We present here the develo... Read More about Heterogeneous Pd catalysts as emulsifiers in Pickering emulsions for integrated multistep synthesis in flow chemistry.

A hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene-based ditopic receptor for alkylammonium ions controlled by Ag + ions 4 (2018)
Journal Article
Georghiou, P., Elsegood, M., Teat, S., Elsegood, M. R., Jiang, X.-K., Ikejiri, Y., Wu, C., Rahman, S., Georghiou, P. E., Zeng, X., Elsegood, M. R. J., Warwick, T. G., Redshaw, C., Teat, S. J., & Yamato, T. (2018). A hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene-based ditopic receptor for alkylammonium ions controlled by Ag + ions 4. Molecules, 23(2), 467. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules23020467

A receptor cone-1 based on a hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene bearing three pyridyl groups 21 was successfully synthesized, which has a C3-symmetric conformation and is capable of binding 22 alkylammonium and metal ions simultaneously in a cooperative fas... Read More about A hexahomotrioxacalix[3]arene-based ditopic receptor for alkylammonium ions controlled by Ag + ions 4.

How inert, perturbing, or interacting are cryogenic matrices? A combined spectroscopic (infrared, electronic, and x-ray absorption) and DFT investigation of matrix-isolated Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, and Zinc Dibromides (2018)
Journal Article
Wilkin, O. M., Harris, N., Rooms, J. F., Dixon, E. L., Bridgeman, A. J., & Young, N. A. (2018). How inert, perturbing, or interacting are cryogenic matrices? A combined spectroscopic (infrared, electronic, and x-ray absorption) and DFT investigation of matrix-isolated Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, and Zinc Dibromides. The journal of physical chemistry. A, 122(8), 1994-2029. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.7b09734

The interactions of FeBr2, CoBr2, NiBr2 and ZnBr2 with Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, CH4 and N2 matrices have been investigated using IR, electronic absorption and X-ray absorption spectroscopies, as well as DFT calculations. ZnBr2 is linear in all the matrices. N... Read More about How inert, perturbing, or interacting are cryogenic matrices? A combined spectroscopic (infrared, electronic, and x-ray absorption) and DFT investigation of matrix-isolated Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, and Zinc Dibromides.

Cover Picture: Ann. Phys. 2'2018 (2018)
Journal Article
Verrelli, E., Michelakaki, I., Boukos, N., Kyriakou, G., & Tsoukalas, D. (2018). Cover Picture: Ann. Phys. 2'2018. Annalen der Physik, 530(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.201870013

In article number 1700256, Emanuele Verrelli and co‐workers propose that cluster beam deposition of sub‐2nm magic number Au clusters, Au20 and Au55, on flat surfaces reveals a rich evolution of the phenomena taking place at substrate level. New magic... Read More about Cover Picture: Ann. Phys. 2'2018.

Characterization of energy-rich hydrochars from microwave-assisted hydrothermal carbonization of coconut shell (2018)
Journal Article
Elaigwu, S. E., & Greenway, G. M. (2019). Characterization of energy-rich hydrochars from microwave-assisted hydrothermal carbonization of coconut shell. Waste and biomass valorization, 10(7), 1979–1987. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-018-0209-x

In this study, microwave-assisted hydrothermal carbonization of waste coconut shell (feedstock) is reported. It is a thermo-conversion technique in which the feedstock was transformed into energy-rich carbonaceous material under mild conditions. The... Read More about Characterization of energy-rich hydrochars from microwave-assisted hydrothermal carbonization of coconut shell.

A three-dimensional (time, wavelength and intensity) functioning fluorescent probe for the selective recognition/discrimination of Cu2+, Hg2+, Fe3+ and F- ions (2018)
Journal Article
Ruan, Q., Mu, L., Zeng, X., Zhao, J. L., Zeng, L., Chen, Z. M., Yang, C., Wei, G., & Redshaw, C. (2018). A three-dimensional (time, wavelength and intensity) functioning fluorescent probe for the selective recognition/discrimination of Cu2+, Hg2+, Fe3+ and F- ions. Dalton Transactions : an international journal of inorganic chemistry, 47(11), 3674-3678. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7dt04785a

We have strategically incorporated three different fluorophores at tren to construct a multi-energy donor/acceptor “smart” probe L. This probe operates by using three-dimensional scales (response time, wavelength and fluorescence intensity) which all... Read More about A three-dimensional (time, wavelength and intensity) functioning fluorescent probe for the selective recognition/discrimination of Cu2+, Hg2+, Fe3+ and F- ions.

Electrochemical sensor for the detection of scaling ions in formation water (2018)
Thesis
Crapnell, R. D. (2018). Electrochemical sensor for the detection of scaling ions in formation water. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4628886

This thesis aims to develop appropriate sensing chemistry for the electrochemical detection of alkaline-earth metal ions in formation water. Accordingly, the first chapter outlines the relevance of this work and gives an overview of the methods curre... Read More about Electrochemical sensor for the detection of scaling ions in formation water.

pH-dependent modulation of reactivity in Ruthenium(II) organometallics (2018)
Journal Article
Prior, T. J., Savoie, H., Boyle, R. W., & Murray, B. S. (2018). pH-dependent modulation of reactivity in Ruthenium(II) organometallics. Organometallics, 37(3), 294-297. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00868

The pH-dependent intramolecular chelation of a tethered sulfonamide ligand in ruthenium(II) arene complexes is demonstrated, a process shown to modulate metal-centered reactivity toward the model ligand guanosine 5′-monophosphate within the physiolog... Read More about pH-dependent modulation of reactivity in Ruthenium(II) organometallics.