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Development of Multimodal Imaging Agents for Thrombosis (2025)
Thesis
Gil, H. (2025). Development of Multimodal Imaging Agents for Thrombosis. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5088352

Quantum dots (QDs) are colloidal nanoparticles with unique optical and electronic characteristics attributed to quantum confinement effects, making them ideal for fluorescence imaging of biological systems. This thesis investigates the synthesis and... Read More about Development of Multimodal Imaging Agents for Thrombosis.

Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer (2025)
Journal Article
Ibrahem, M. A., Rasheed, B. G., Canimkurbey, B., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. S. G., & O’Neill, M. (2025). Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer. ACS Omega, 10(3), 2849-2857. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c08801

We investigate the enhancement in the efficiency of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells enabled by plasmonic excitation of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) of different diameters (10, 20, and 30 nm), randomly incorporated within an optical spacing layer of... Read More about Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer.

Capillary assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles at cylindrical fluid interfaces in the immersion regime (2025)
Journal Article
Eatson, J. L., Stephenson, B. T., Gordon, J. R., Horozov, T. S., & Buzza, D. M. A. (in press). Capillary assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles at cylindrical fluid interfaces in the immersion regime. Acta Mechanica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-024-04206-4

The unique behaviour of colloids at liquid interfaces provides exciting opportunities for engineering the assembly of colloidal particles into functional materials. In particular, the deformable nature of liquid interfaces means that we can use inter... Read More about Capillary assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles at cylindrical fluid interfaces in the immersion regime.

Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells (2025)
Journal Article
Abid, Z., Akram, W., Marcial-Hernandez, R., Gunturkun, D., Shahid, M., Altaf, M., Min, J., Khan, J. I., Iqbal, J., Rasul, S., Nielsen, C. B., & Ashraf, R. S. (in press). Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c07415

Lead-free perovskites based on nontoxic titanium(IV) are promising candidates for photovoltaic applications due to their improved intrinsic/environmental stability compared to the lead analogues in metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However,... Read More about Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells.

Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Milky Way (2025)
Thesis
Womack, K. (2025). Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Milky Way. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5086887

To better understand the processes that have formed the Milky Way and enriched the galactic gas, we can study galactic chemical evolution (GCE). When we study GCE we combine our understanding of galaxy formation with stellar evolution to trace the ch... Read More about Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Milky Way.

A catalogue of complex radio sources in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey created using a Self-Organising Map (2025)
Journal Article
Alam, A., Pimbblet, K., & Gordon, Y. (2025). A catalogue of complex radio sources in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey created using a Self-Organising Map. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 42, Article e013. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2024.133

Next generations of radio surveys are expected to identify tens of millions of new sources, and identifying and classifying their morphologies will require novel and more efficient methods. Self-Organising Maps (SOMs), a type of unsupervised machine... Read More about A catalogue of complex radio sources in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey created using a Self-Organising Map.

Self-assembly of defined core–shell ellipsoidal particles at liquid interfaces (2024)
Journal Article
Eatson, J., Bauernfeind, S., Midtvedt, B., Ciarlo, A., Menath, J., Pesce, G., Schofield, A. B., Volpe, G., Clegg, P. S., Vogel, N., Buzza, D. M. A., & Rey, M. (2025). Self-assembly of defined core–shell ellipsoidal particles at liquid interfaces. Journal of colloid and interface science, 683, pt.2, 435-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.12.156

Hypothesis: Ellipsoidal particles confined at liquid interfaces exhibit complex self-assembly due to quadrupolar capillary interactions, favouring either tip-to-tip or side-to-side configurations. However, predicting and controlling which structure f... Read More about Self-assembly of defined core–shell ellipsoidal particles at liquid interfaces.

Silicon Isotopic Composition of Mainstream Presolar SiC Grains Revisited: The Impact of Nuclear Reaction Rate Uncertainties (2024)
Journal Article
Fok, H. K., Pignatari, M., Côté, B., & Trappitsch, R. (2024). Silicon Isotopic Composition of Mainstream Presolar SiC Grains Revisited: The Impact of Nuclear Reaction Rate Uncertainties. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 977(1), Article L24. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad91ab

Presolar grains are stardust particles that condensed in the ejecta or in the outflows of dying stars and can today be extracted from meteorites. They recorded the nucleosynthetic fingerprint of their parent stars and thus serve as valuable probes of... Read More about Silicon Isotopic Composition of Mainstream Presolar SiC Grains Revisited: The Impact of Nuclear Reaction Rate Uncertainties.

PEGylation of indium phosphide quantum dots prevents quantum dot mediated platelet activation (2024)
Journal Article
Naylor-Adamson, L., Price, T. W., Booth, Z., Leonard, S. V. L., Gallo, J., Tung, L. D., Harvell-Smith, S., Thi Kim Thanh, N., Aslam, Z., Allsup, D., Hondow, N., Chamberlain, T., Schneider, J. E., Naseem, K., Bouillard, J. S. G., Stasiuk, G. J., & Calaminus, S. D. (in press). PEGylation of indium phosphide quantum dots prevents quantum dot mediated platelet activation. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4tb01334d

Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconducting inorganic nanocrystals, that have garnered interest in biological and medical spheres due, to their potential benefits in biomedical imaging and drug-delivery systems. Indium phosphide QDs shelled with zinc sulph... Read More about PEGylation of indium phosphide quantum dots prevents quantum dot mediated platelet activation.

A search for H i absorption in distant star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH -I. Selection and analysis of the radio sample (2024)
Journal Article
Eden, S. L., Sadler, E. M., Pimbblet, K. A., Mahony, E. K., & Yoon, H. (2025). A search for H i absorption in distant star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH -I. Selection and analysis of the radio sample. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(1), 387-407. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2581

We present and discuss two catalogues of UV-selected (NUV < 22.8 mag) galaxies that lie within a 200 deg 2 area of sky covered by the ASKAP FLASH survey and have an impact parameter of less than 20 arcsec to a FLASH radio continuum source. These cata... Read More about A search for H i absorption in distant star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH -I. Selection and analysis of the radio sample.

Unique Coexistence of Two Resistive Switching Modes in a Memristor Device Enables Multifunctional Neuromorphic Computing Properties (2024)
Journal Article
Jaafar, A. H., Al Habsi, S. K. S., Braben, T., Venables, C., Francesconi, M. G., Stasiuk, G. J., & Kemp, N. T. (2024). Unique Coexistence of Two Resistive Switching Modes in a Memristor Device Enables Multifunctional Neuromorphic Computing Properties. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16(33), 43816–43826. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c07820

We report on hybrid memristor devices consisting of germanium dioxide nanoparticles (GeO2 NP) embedded within a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) thin film. Besides exhibiting forming-free resistive switching and an uncommon “ON” state in pristine con... Read More about Unique Coexistence of Two Resistive Switching Modes in a Memristor Device Enables Multifunctional Neuromorphic Computing Properties.

Programmable 2D materials through shape-controlled capillary forces (2024)
Journal Article
Eatson, J., Morgan, S., Horozov, T. S., & Buzza, M. D. (2024). Programmable 2D materials through shape-controlled capillary forces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(35), Article e2401134121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401134121

In recent years, self-assembly has emerged as a powerful tool for fabricating functional materials. Since self-assembly is fundamentally determined by the particle interactions in the system, if we can gain full control over these interactions, it wo... Read More about Programmable 2D materials through shape-controlled capillary forces.

The Production of Trans-Lead Isotopes in the Intermediate Neutron Capture Process (2024)
Thesis
Harvey, G. (2024). The Production of Trans-Lead Isotopes in the Intermediate Neutron Capture Process. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5001524

In the field of stellar nucleosynthesis, there were long believed to be two neutron capture processes responsible for heavy element production, the slow (s) and rapid (r) processes. However, recently a third process has been discovered that lies betw... Read More about The Production of Trans-Lead Isotopes in the Intermediate Neutron Capture Process.

Constraining the duration of ram pressure stripping features in the optical from the direction of jellyfish galaxy tails (2024)
Journal Article
Salinas, V., Jaffé, Y. L., Smith, R., Shinn, J. H., Crossett, J. P., Gullieuszik, M., González-Torà, G., Piraino-Cerda, F., Poggianti, B., Vulcani, B., Biviano, A., Lourenço, A. C. C., Bilton, L. E., Kelkar, K., & Calderón-Castillo, P. (2024). Constraining the duration of ram pressure stripping features in the optical from the direction of jellyfish galaxy tails. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533(1), 341-359. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1784

Ram pressure stripping is perhaps the most efficient mechanism for removing gas and quenching galaxies in dense environments, as they move through the intergalactic medium. Extreme examples of on-going ram pressure stripping are known as jellyfish ga... Read More about Constraining the duration of ram pressure stripping features in the optical from the direction of jellyfish galaxy tails.

Hybrid approach predicts a lower binding energy for benzene on water ice (2024)
Journal Article
Clark, V. H., Benoit, D. M., Van De Sande, M., & Walsh, C. (2024). Hybrid approach predicts a lower binding energy for benzene on water ice. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(3), 3499-3508. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1605

In this paper, we provide a highly accurate value for the binding energy of benzene to proton-ordered crystalline water ice (XIh), as a model for interstellar ices. We compare our computed value to the latest experimental data available from temperat... Read More about Hybrid approach predicts a lower binding energy for benzene on water ice.

Evaluation of interfacial photophysical processes by time-resolved optical spectroscopy in perovskite solar cells (2024)
Journal Article
Khan, J. I., Yang, Y., Palmer, J. R., Tyndall, S. B., Chaudhuri, S., Liu, C., Grater, L., North, J. D., Chen, B., Young, R. M., Schatz, G. C., Wasielewski, M. R., Kanatzidis, M. G., Swearer, D. F., & Sargent, E. H. (in press). Evaluation of interfacial photophysical processes by time-resolved optical spectroscopy in perovskite solar cells. Matter, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2024.05.046

Predictions for CO emission and the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in galaxy simulations with non-equilibrium chemistry (2024)
Journal Article
Thompson, O. A., Richings, A. J., Gibson, B. K., Faucher-Giguère, C. A., Feldmann, R., & Hayward, C. C. (2024). Predictions for CO emission and the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in galaxy simulations with non-equilibrium chemistry. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(2), 1948-1965. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1486

Our ability to trace the star-forming molecular gas is important to our understanding of the Universe. We can trace this gas using CO emission, converting the observed CO intensity into the H2 gas mass of the region using the CO-to-H2 conversion fact... Read More about Predictions for CO emission and the CO-to-H2 conversion factor in galaxy simulations with non-equilibrium chemistry.

Investigation of Low Lasing Threshold Organic Semiconductors and their Integration into Planar and Defect Microcavities (2024)
Thesis
Claronino, P. (2024). Investigation of Low Lasing Threshold Organic Semiconductors and their Integration into Planar and Defect Microcavities. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5001507

This thesis presents a study into organic semiconductor laser materials and the design and fabrication of distributed Bragg reflector microcavities that can achieve low threshold lasing. A range of organic laser materials were investigated, where the... Read More about Investigation of Low Lasing Threshold Organic Semiconductors and their Integration into Planar and Defect Microcavities.

The environmental dependence of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation in Horizon Run 5 (2024)
Journal Article
Rowntree, A., Singh, A., Vincenzo, F., Gibson, B. K., Gouin, C., Galárrag a-Espinosa, D., Lee, J., Kim, J., Laigle, C., Park, C., Pichon, C., Few, G., Hong, S. E., & Kim, Y. (2024). The environmental dependence of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation in Horizon Run 5. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(4), 3858-3875. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1384

Metallicity offers a unique window into the baryonic history of the cosmos, being instrumental in probing evolutionary processes in galaxies between different cosmic environments. We aim to quantify the contribution of these environments to the scatt... Read More about The environmental dependence of the stellar mass-gas metallicity relation in Horizon Run 5.

Impact of Newly Measured Nuclear Reaction Rates on 26Al Ejected Yields from Massive Stars (2024)
Journal Article
Battino, U., Roberti, L., Lawson, T. V., Laird, A. M., & Todd, L. (2024). Impact of Newly Measured Nuclear Reaction Rates on 26Al Ejected Yields from Massive Stars. Universe, 10(5), Article 204. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10050204

Over the last three years, the rates of all the main nuclear reactions involving the destruction and production of 26Al in stars (26Al(n, p)26Mg, 26Al(n, α)23Na, 26Al(p, γ)27Si and 25Mg(p, γ)26Al) have been re-evaluated thanks to new high-precision e... Read More about Impact of Newly Measured Nuclear Reaction Rates on 26Al Ejected Yields from Massive Stars.