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Photothermal colloid antibodies for shape-selective recognition and killing of microorganisms (2013)
Journal Article
Borovička, J., Metheringham, W. J., Madden, L. A., Walton, C. D., Stoyanov, S. D., & Paunov, V. N. (2013). Photothermal colloid antibodies for shape-selective recognition and killing of microorganisms. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(14), 5282-5285. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja400781f

We have developed a class of selective antimicrobial agents based on the recognition of the shape and size of the bacterial cells. These agents are anisotropic colloid particles fabricated as negative replicas of the target cells which involve templa... Read More about Photothermal colloid antibodies for shape-selective recognition and killing of microorganisms.

Self-assembly of two-dimensional colloidal clusters by tuning the hydrophobicity, composition, and packing geometry (2013)
Journal Article
Law, A. D., Auriol, M., Smith, D., Horozov, T. S., & Buzza, D. M. A. (2013). Self-assembly of two-dimensional colloidal clusters by tuning the hydrophobicity, composition, and packing geometry. Physical review letters, 110(13), 0 - 0. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.110.138301

We study the structure of binary monolayers of large (3 m diameter) very hydrophobic (A) and large (3 m diameter) hydrophilic (B) or small (1 m diameter) hydrophilic (C) silica particles at an octanewater interface. By tuning the composition and pack... Read More about Self-assembly of two-dimensional colloidal clusters by tuning the hydrophobicity, composition, and packing geometry.

The stellar masses of ~40 000 uv selected galaxies from the wigglez survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman Break galaxies? (2013)
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Banerji, M., Glazebrook, K., Blake, C., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S., Davis, T. M., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., Martin, D. C., Pimbblet, K., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The stellar masses of ~40 000 uv selected galaxies from the wigglez survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman Break galaxies?. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 431(3), 2209-2229. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt320

We characterize the stellar masses and star formation rates in a sample of ̃40 000 spectroscopically confirmed UV-luminous galaxies at 0.3 < z < 1.0 selected from within theWiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. In particular, we match this UV bright population... Read More about The stellar masses of ~40 000 uv selected galaxies from the wigglez survey at 0.3 < z < 1.0: Analogues of Lyman Break galaxies?.

Investigation of the gate oxide leakage current of low temperature formed hafnium oxide films (2013)
Journal Article
Verrelli, E., & Tsoukalas, D. (2013). Investigation of the gate oxide leakage current of low temperature formed hafnium oxide films. Journal of applied physics, 113(11), Article 114103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4795278

In this work, low temperature physically deposited hafnium oxide films are investigated in terms of their electrical properties through measurements and analysis of leakage currents in order to understand the defects behavior in this dielectric mater... Read More about Investigation of the gate oxide leakage current of low temperature formed hafnium oxide films.

Using visualization for visualization : an ecological interface design approach to inputting data (2013)
Journal Article
Wright, H., Mathers, C., & Walton, J. P. R. B. (2013). Using visualization for visualization : an ecological interface design approach to inputting data. Computers and Graphics, 37(3), 202-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2013.01.013

Visualization is experiencing growing use by a diverse community, with continuing improvements in the availability and usability of systems. In spite of these developments the problem of how first to get the data in has received scant attention: the... Read More about Using visualization for visualization : an ecological interface design approach to inputting data.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis (2013)
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Hopkins, A. M., Driver, S. P., Brough, S., Owers, M. S., Bauer, A. E., Gunawardhana, M. L. P., Cluver, M. E., Colless, M., Foster, C., Lara-López, M. A., Roseboom, I., Sharp, R., Steele, O., Thomas, D., Baldry, I. K., Brown, M. J. I., Liske, J., Norberg, P., Robotham, A. S. G., Bamford, S., …Wilkins, S. (2013). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430(3), 2047-2066. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt030

The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic survey, using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for up to ~300 000 galaxies over 280 deg2, to a limiting magnitud... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): spectroscopic analysis.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: measuring the cosmic growth rate with the two-point galaxy correlation function (2013)
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Contreras, C., Blake, C., Poole, G. B., Marin, F., Brough, S., Colless, M., Couch, W., Croom, S., Croton, D., Davis, T. M., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Glazebrook, K., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., Martin, D. C., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: measuring the cosmic growth rate with the two-point galaxy correlation function. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430(2), 924-933. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts608

The growth history of large-scale structure in the Universe is a powerful probe of the cosmological model, including the nature of dark energy. We study the growth rate of cosmic structure to redshift z = 0.9 using more than 162 000 galaxy redshifts... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: measuring the cosmic growth rate with the two-point galaxy correlation function.

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities at the sloshing cold fronts in the Virgo cluster as a measure for the effective ICM viscosity (2013)
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Roediger, E., Kraft, R. P., Forman, W. R., E. J. Nulsen, P., & Churazov, E. (2013). Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities at the sloshing cold fronts in the Virgo cluster as a measure for the effective ICM viscosity. The Astrophysical journal, 764(1), Article 60. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/60

Sloshing cold fronts (CFs) arise from minor merger triggered gas sloshing. Their detailed structure depends on the properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM): hydrodynamical simulations predict the CFs to be distorted by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilit... Read More about Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities at the sloshing cold fronts in the Virgo cluster as a measure for the effective ICM viscosity.

The clustering of extremely red objects (2013)
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Palamara, D. P., Brown, M. J. I., Jannuzi, B. T., Dey, A., Stern, D., Pimbblet, K. A., Weiner, B. J., Ashby, M. L. N., Kochanek, C. S., Gonzalez, A., Brodwin, M., Le Floc'h, E., & Rieke, M. (2013). The clustering of extremely red objects. The Astrophysical journal, 764(1), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/764/1/31

We measure the clustering of extremely red objects (EROs) in 8 deg 2 of the NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey Boötes field in order to establish robust links between ERO (z 1.2) and local galaxy (z < 0.1) populations. Three different color selection cr... Read More about The clustering of extremely red objects.

Neutron capture cross section of unstable Ni63: Implications for stellar nucleosynthesis (2013)
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Wallner, A., Vlastou, R., Vlachoudis, V., Vermeulen, M. J., Versaci, R., Ventura, A., Vaz, P., Lederer, C., Massimi, C., Altstadt, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Barbagallo, M., Bécares, V., Bečvář, F., Belloni, F., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Boccone, V., Bosnar, D., …Variale, V. (2013). Neutron capture cross section of unstable Ni63: Implications for stellar nucleosynthesis. Physical review letters, 110(2), Article 022501. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.110.022501

The Ni63(n,γ) cross section has been measured for the first time at the neutron time-of-flight facility n-TOF at CERN from thermal neutron energies up to 200 keV. In total, capture kernels of 12 (new) resonances were determined. Maxwellian averaged c... Read More about Neutron capture cross section of unstable Ni63: Implications for stellar nucleosynthesis.

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure (2013)
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Poole, G. B., Blake, C., Parkinson, D., Brough, S., Colless, M., Contreras, C., Couch, W., Croton, D. J., Croom, S., Davis, T., Drinkwater, M. J., Forster, K., Gilbank, D., Gladders, M., Glazebrook, K., Jelliffe, B., Jurek, R. J., Li, I.-H., Madore, B., Martin, D. C., …Yee, H. K. C. (2013). The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(3), 1902-1912. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts431

We place the most robust constraint to date on the scale of the turnover in the cosmological matter power spectrum using data from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We find this feature to lie at a scale of k 0 = 0.0160 +0.0035 -0.0041 (h Mpc -1 ) (6... Read More about The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: probing the epoch of radiation domination using large-scale structure.

Biosynthesis of luminescent quantum dots in an earthworm (2012)
Journal Article
Stürzenbaum, S. R., Höckner, M., Panneerselvam, A., Levitt, J., Bouillard, J. S., Taniguchi, S., Dailey, L. A., Khanbeigi, R. A., Rosca, E. V., Thanou, M., Suhling, K., Zayats, A. V., & Green, M. (2013). Biosynthesis of luminescent quantum dots in an earthworm. Nature nanotechnology, 8(1), 57-60. https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.232

The synthesis of designer solid-state materials by living organisms is an emerging field in bio-nanotechnology. Key examples include the use of engineered viruses as templates for cobalt oxide (Co3O4) particles1, superparamagnetic cobalt–platinum all... Read More about Biosynthesis of luminescent quantum dots in an earthworm.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1  m to 1 mm (2012)
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Driver, S. P., Robotham, A. S. G., Kelvin, L., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I. K., Bamford, S. P., Brough, S., Brown, M., Hopkins, A. M., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Norberg, P., Peacock, J. A., Andrae, E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Cameron, E., Colless, M., Conselice, C. J., Croom, S. M., …Wilkins, S. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1  m to 1 mm. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(4), 3244-3264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.22036.x

We use the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA) I data set combined with GALEX, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) imaging to construct the low-redshift (z < 0.1) galaxy luminosity functions in FUV, NUV, u... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1  m to 1 mm.

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 μm to 1 mm (2012)
Journal Article
Driver, S. P., Robotham, A. S., Kelvin, L., Alpaslan, M., Baldry, I. K., Bamford, S. P., Brough, S., Brown, M., Hopkins, A. M., Liske, J., Loveday, J., Norberg, P., Peacock, J. A., Andrae, E., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bourne, N., Cameron, E., Colless, M., Conselice, C. J., Croom, S. M., …Wilkins, S. (2012). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 μm to 1 mm. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(4), 3244-3264. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.22036.x

We use the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA) I data set combined with GALEX, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) imaging to construct the low-redshift (z < 0.1) galaxy luminosity functions in FUV, NUV, u... Read More about Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The 0.013 < z < 0.1 cosmic spectral energy distribution from 0.1 μm to 1 mm.

The drivers of AGN activity in galaxy clusters: AGN fraction as a function of mass and environment (2012)
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Pimbblet, K. A., Shabala, S. S., Haines, C. P., Fraser-McKelvie, A., & Floyd, D. J. E. (2013). The drivers of AGN activity in galaxy clusters: AGN fraction as a function of mass and environment. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(2), 1827-1839. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts470

We present an analysis of optical spectroscopically identified active galactic nuclei (AGN) down to a cluster magnitude of M * + 1 in a sample of six self-similar Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxy clusters at z ~ 0.07. These clusters are specifically s... Read More about The drivers of AGN activity in galaxy clusters: AGN fraction as a function of mass and environment.

The 12C +12C reaction and the impact on nucleosynthesis in massive stars (2012)
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Pignatari, M., Hirschi, R., Wiescher, M., Gallino, R., Bennett, M., Beard, M., Fryer, C., Herwig, F., Rockefeller, G., & X. Timmes, F. (2013). The 12C +12C reaction and the impact on nucleosynthesis in massive stars. The Astrophysical journal, 762(1), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/762/1/31

Despite much effort in the past decades, the C-burning reaction rate is uncertain by several orders of magnitude, and the relative strength between the different channels 12 C( 12 C, α) 20 Ne, 12 C( 12 C, p) 23 Na, and 12 C( 12 C, n) 23 Mg is poorly... Read More about The 12C +12C reaction and the impact on nucleosynthesis in massive stars.

The stellar metallicity distribution of disc galaxies and bulges in cosmological simulations (2012)
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Calura, F., Gibson, B. K., Michel-Dansac, L., Stinson, G. S., Cignoni, M., Dotter, A., Pilkington, K., House, E. L., Brook, C. B., Few, C. G., Bailin, J., Couchman, H. M. P., & Wadsley, J. (2012). The stellar metallicity distribution of disc galaxies and bulges in cosmological simulations. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(2), 1401-1417. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.22052.x

By means of high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way (MW) like disc galaxies, we conduct an analysis of the associated stellar metallicity distribution functions (MDFs). After undertaking a kinematic decomposition of each... Read More about The stellar metallicity distribution of disc galaxies and bulges in cosmological simulations.

17O(α,γ)21Ne and17O(α, n)20Ne for the weak s process (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Best, A., Görres, J., Beard, M., Couder, M., deBoer, R., Falahat, S., Güray, R. T., Kontos, A., Kratz, K.-L., LeBlanc, P. J., Li, Q., O'Brien, S., Özkan, N., Pignatari, M., Sonnabend, K., Talwar, R., Tan, W., Uberseder, E., & Wiescher, M. 17O(α,γ)21Ne and17O(α, n)20Ne for the weak s process. Presented at EXOTIC NUCLEI AND NUCLEAR/PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS (IV). FROM NUCLEI TO STARS: Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2012, Sinaia, Romania

The ratio of the reaction rates of the competing channels 17 O(αγ) 21 Ne and 17 O(α,n) 20 Ne determines the efficiency of 16 O as a neutron poison in the s process in low metallicity rotating stars. It has a large impact on the element production, ei... Read More about 17O(α,γ)21Ne and17O(α, n)20Ne for the weak s process.

Towards an understanding of the vibrational spectrum of the neutral Au7cluster (2012)
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Mancera, L. A., & Benoit, D. M. (2013). Towards an understanding of the vibrational spectrum of the neutral Au7cluster. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 15(6), 1929-1943. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cp43211k

We present a detailed theoretical study of the vibrational spectrum of the neutral Au 7 cluster, aimed at understanding its reported experimental spectrum [P. Gruene et al., Science, 2008, 321, 674]. We study the effect of vibrational anharmonicity,... Read More about Towards an understanding of the vibrational spectrum of the neutral Au7cluster.

Broadband and broadangle SPP antennas based on plasmonic crystals with linear chirp (2012)
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Bouillard, J. S., Vilain, S., Dickson, W., Wurtz, G. A., & Zayats, A. V. (2012). Broadband and broadangle SPP antennas based on plasmonic crystals with linear chirp. Scientific reports, 2(1), Article 829. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00829

Plasmonic technology relies on the coupling of light to surface electromagnetic modes on smooth or structured metal surfaces. While some applications utilise the resonant nature of surface polaritons, others require broadband characteristics. We demo... Read More about Broadband and broadangle SPP antennas based on plasmonic crystals with linear chirp.