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Proceedings: SimBio-M 2024 (ed. Peter Zioupos, Christophe Bastien) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2024, September). Proceedings: SimBio-M 2024 (ed. Peter Zioupos, Christophe Bastien). Presented at SimBio-M 2024, Online

This conference introduces new technologies, advances and tools in the various fields of Simulation in Biosciences and Multiphysics, notably in the areas of BioMechanics, BioMaterials, and BioMedicine.

While the conference concentrates mainly on t... Read More about Proceedings: SimBio-M 2024 (ed. Peter Zioupos, Christophe Bastien).

A Critical Assessment of the EU Public Procurement Directives: reforming the public and utilities markets in the EU (2024)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. (2024). A Critical Assessment of the EU Public Procurement Directives: reforming the public and utilities markets in the EU. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 35(10), 547-561

This article evaluates the objectives of the legal framework on public procurement in the European Union and evaluates its contribution to the internal market. A critical analysis of the public procurement acquis's evolution is set out, which reveals... Read More about A Critical Assessment of the EU Public Procurement Directives: reforming the public and utilities markets in the EU.

The Equator Project Research School and Mentoring Network: Evaluated Interventions to Improve Equity in Geoscience Research (2024)
Journal Article
Dowey, N., Lawrence, A., Raji, M., Jackson, C., Williams, R., Fernando, B., Giles, S., Barclay, J., Brotherson, L., Childs, E., Houghton, J., Khatwa, A., Mills, K., Jameson, G., Rockey, F., Rogers, S., & Souch, C. (2024). The Equator Project Research School and Mentoring Network: Evaluated Interventions to Improve Equity in Geoscience Research. Earth Science, Systems and Society, 4, Article 10123. https://doi.org/10.3389/esss.2024.10123

There is a well-documented racial and ethnic diversity crisis in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) subjects in the Global North that leads to inequities in who does environmental research. The Equator project set out to increase part... Read More about The Equator Project Research School and Mentoring Network: Evaluated Interventions to Improve Equity in Geoscience Research.

The Affirmation of Public-private Partnerships as Modality for Delivering Public Services: The Incorporation of the Concessions Directive 2014/23 Into Domestic Legal Systems (2024)
Journal Article
Bovis, C. (2024). The Affirmation of Public-private Partnerships as Modality for Delivering Public Services: The Incorporation of the Concessions Directive 2014/23 Into Domestic Legal Systems. European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review, 19(3), 174-190. https://doi.org/10.21552/epppl/2024/3/5

Concessions and public-private partnerships are contractual agreements that are characterised by their high value, complexity, and long-term nature. The key elements of these agreements include granting the concessionaire the right to utilise and ben... Read More about The Affirmation of Public-private Partnerships as Modality for Delivering Public Services: The Incorporation of the Concessions Directive 2014/23 Into Domestic Legal Systems.

Memristor-based LSTM neuromorphic circuits for offshore wind turbine blade fault detection (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Burton, H., Bouillard, J. S., & Kemp, N. Memristor-based LSTM neuromorphic circuits for offshore wind turbine blade fault detection. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 21-25 May 2023, Monterey, CA, USA

The UK offshore wind industry is rapidly growing to meet CO2 emission targets. However, the main drawback of the offshore environment is the increased cost of maintenance. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) show great potential to reduce this cost. Lon... Read More about Memristor-based LSTM neuromorphic circuits for offshore wind turbine blade fault detection.

China's green data center development:Policies and carbon reduction technology path (2023)
Journal Article
Li, G., Sun, Z., Wang, Q., Wang, S., Huang, K., Zhao, N., Di, Y., Zhao, X., & Zhu, Z. (2023). China's green data center development:Policies and carbon reduction technology path. Environmental Research, 231, Article 116248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116248

Data center is a very important infrastructure to support the development of information technology, and its development and increment are very remarkable. However, with the rapid and large-scale development of data centers, the problem of energy con... Read More about China's green data center development:Policies and carbon reduction technology path.

Information Rich Voxel Grid for Use in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Robotics (2023)
Journal Article
Balding, S., Gning, A., Cheng, Y., & Iqbal, J. (2023). Information Rich Voxel Grid for Use in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Robotics. Applied Sciences, 13(8), Article 5065. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13085065

Robotic agents are now ubiquitous in both home and work environments; moreover, the degree of task complexity they can undertake is also increasing exponentially. Now that advanced robotic agents are commonplace, the question for utilisation becomes... Read More about Information Rich Voxel Grid for Use in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Robotics.

Does national culture impact trade credit provision of SMEs? (2023)
Journal Article
Hoang, C. H., Ly, K. C., Xiao, Q., & Zhang, X. (2023). Does national culture impact trade credit provision of SMEs?. Economic modelling, 124, Article 106288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106288

Trade credit provision considerably varies from country to country, especially among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, there is scant literature on the determinants of such variations. Thus, this study determines how cultural diffe... Read More about Does national culture impact trade credit provision of SMEs?.

Evaluation of Mathematical Models for CO2 Frost Formation in a Cryogenic Moving Bed (2023)
Journal Article
Cann, D., & Font-Palma, C. (2023). Evaluation of Mathematical Models for CO2 Frost Formation in a Cryogenic Moving Bed. Energies, 16(5), Article 2314. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16052314

Moving bed heat exchangers (MBHE)s are used in industrial applications including waste heat recovery and the drying of solids. As a result, energy balance models have been developed to simulate the heat transfer between a moving bed and the gas phase... Read More about Evaluation of Mathematical Models for CO2 Frost Formation in a Cryogenic Moving Bed.

Nanoarchitectonics of the aggregation-induced emission luminescent molecule Tetraphenylethylene-COOH (TPE-COOH): Fluorescence imaging of targeted cancer microsphere cells (2023)
Journal Article
Luo, F., Shen, L., Zhang, J., Huang, Y., Chen, T., Xu, H., Zhang, Q., Redshaw, C., & Feng, X. (2023). Nanoarchitectonics of the aggregation-induced emission luminescent molecule Tetraphenylethylene-COOH (TPE-COOH): Fluorescence imaging of targeted cancer microsphere cells. Dyes and pigments : an international journal, 214, Article 111192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2023.111192

Cancer microspheres are an ideal cellular model for studying cancer stem cells. However, the lack of effective and rapid fluorescent imaging reagents for cancer microspheres has severely hampered cytological studies associated with cancer microsphere... Read More about Nanoarchitectonics of the aggregation-induced emission luminescent molecule Tetraphenylethylene-COOH (TPE-COOH): Fluorescence imaging of targeted cancer microsphere cells.

Elucidation of single atom catalysts for energy and sustainable chemical production: Synthesis, characterization and frontier science (2023)
Journal Article
Loy, A. C. M., Teng, S. Y., How, B. S., Zhang, X., Cheah, K. W., Butera, V., Leong, W. D., Chin, B. L. F., Yiin, C. L., Taylor, M. J., & Kyriakou, G. (2023). Elucidation of single atom catalysts for energy and sustainable chemical production: Synthesis, characterization and frontier science. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 96, Article 101074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecs.2023.101074

The emergence of single atom sites as a frontier research area in catalysis has sparked extensive academic and industrial interest, especially for energy, environmental and chemicals production processes. Single atom catalysts (SACs) have shown remar... Read More about Elucidation of single atom catalysts for energy and sustainable chemical production: Synthesis, characterization and frontier science.

Circular economy landfills for temporary storage and treatment of mineral-rich wastes (2023)
Journal Article
Sapsford, D. J., Stewart, D. I., Sinnett, D. E., Burke, I. T., Cleall, P. J., Harbottle, M. J., Mayes, W., Owen, N. E., Sardo, A. M., & Weightman, A. (2023). Circular economy landfills for temporary storage and treatment of mineral-rich wastes. Proceedings of the ICE - Waste and Resource Management, 176(2), 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1680/jwarm.22.00008

Many countries face serious strategic challenges with the future supply of both aggregates and critical elements. Yet, at the same time, they must sustainably manage continued multimillion tonne annual arisings of mineral-dominated wastes from mining... Read More about Circular economy landfills for temporary storage and treatment of mineral-rich wastes.

Is the uptake, engagement, and effectiveness of exclusively mobile interventions for the promotion of weight-related behaviors equal for all? A systematic review (2023)
Journal Article
Szinay, D., Forbes, C. C., Busse, H., DeSmet, A., Smit, E. S., & König, L. M. (in press). Is the uptake, engagement, and effectiveness of exclusively mobile interventions for the promotion of weight-related behaviors equal for all? A systematic review. Obesity Reviews, Article e13542. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13542

Mobile health interventions are promising behavior change tools. However, there is a concern that they may benefit some populations less than others and thus widen inequalities in health. This systematic review investigated differences in uptake of,... Read More about Is the uptake, engagement, and effectiveness of exclusively mobile interventions for the promotion of weight-related behaviors equal for all? A systematic review.

Sorption direct air capture with CO2 utilization (2023)
Journal Article
Jiang, L., Liu, W., Liu, W., Wang, R. Q., Gonzalez-Diaz, A., Rojas-Michaga, M. F., Michailos, S., Pourkashanian, M., Zhang, X. J., & Font-Palma, C. (2023). Sorption direct air capture with CO2 utilization. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 95, Article 101069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecs.2022.101069

Direct air capture (DAC) is gathering momentum since it has vast potential and high flexibility to collect CO2 from discrete sources as “synthetic tree” when compared with current CO2 capture technologies, e.g., amine based post-combustion capture. I... Read More about Sorption direct air capture with CO2 utilization.

Lessons, narratives, and research directions for a sustainable circular economy (2022)
Journal Article
Leipold, S., Petit-Boix, A., Luo, A., Helander, H., Simoens, M., Ashton, W. S., Babbitt, C. W., Bala, A., Bening, C. R., Birkved, M., Blomsma, F., Boks, C., Boldrin, A., Deutz, P., Domenech, T., Ferronato, N., Gallego-Schmid, A., Giurco, D., Hobson, K., Husgafvel, R., …Xue, B. (2022). Lessons, narratives, and research directions for a sustainable circular economy. Journal of Industrial Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13346

The current enthusiasm for the circular economy (CE) offers a unique opportunity to advance the impact of research on sustainability transitions. Diverse interpretations of CE by scholars, however, produce partly opposing assessments of its potential... Read More about Lessons, narratives, and research directions for a sustainable circular economy.

Direct Evidence of the Exfoliation Efficiency and Graphene Dispersibility of Green Solvents toward Sustainable Graphene Production (2022)
Journal Article
Ng, K. L., Maciejewska, B. M., Qin, L., Johnston, C., Barrio, J., Titirici, M. M., Tzanakis, I., Eskin, D. G., Porfyrakis, K., Mi, J., & Grobert, N. (2023). Direct Evidence of the Exfoliation Efficiency and Graphene Dispersibility of Green Solvents toward Sustainable Graphene Production. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 11(1), 58-66. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c03594

Achieving a sustainable production of pristine high-quality graphene and other layered materials at a low cost is one of the bottlenecks that needs to be overcome for reaching 2D material applications at a large scale. Liquid phase exfoliation in con... Read More about Direct Evidence of the Exfoliation Efficiency and Graphene Dispersibility of Green Solvents toward Sustainable Graphene Production.

What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (2022)
Journal Article
Pouran, H. M., Karimi, S. M., Padilha Campos Lopes, M., & Sheng, Y. (2022). What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies. Energies, 15(23), Article 9037. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15239037

This perspective paper elaborates on how the burden of environmental issues on public health and the economy led China’s government to declare its revised environmental policies or “war on pollution”. It explains the importance of photovoltaic solar... Read More about What China’s Environmental Policy Means for PV Solar, Electric Vehicles, and Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies.

Process design and life cycle assessment of furfural and glucose co-production derived from palm oil empty fruit bunches (2022)
Journal Article
Ng, Z. W., Gan, H. X., Putranto, A., Akbar Rhamdhani, M., Zein, S. H., George, O. A., Giwangkara, J., & Butar, I. (2022). Process design and life cycle assessment of furfural and glucose co-production derived from palm oil empty fruit bunches. Environment, Development and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02633-8

In light of environmental issues, lignocellulosic empty fruit bunch (EFB) biomass is promoted as a carbon–neutral, environmentally friendly, and renewable alternative feedstock. A comprehensive environmental assessment of EFB biorefineries is critica... Read More about Process design and life cycle assessment of furfural and glucose co-production derived from palm oil empty fruit bunches.

Competition or Authorization—Manufacturers’ Choice of Remanufacturing Strategies (2022)
Journal Article
Wu, Y., & Li, Y. (2022). Competition or Authorization—Manufacturers’ Choice of Remanufacturing Strategies. Sustainability, 14(19), Article 12632. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912632

In the face of the cannibalization of remanufactured products produced by independent remanufacturers (IRs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can produce remanufactured products themselves to compete with independent remanufacturers (IRs), or... Read More about Competition or Authorization—Manufacturers’ Choice of Remanufacturing Strategies.

The role of ‘living laboratories’ in accelerating the energy system decarbonization (2022)
Journal Article
Fan, Z., Cao, J., Jamal, T., Fogwill, C., Samende, C., Robinson, Z., Polack, F., Ormerod, M., George, S., Peacock, A., & Healey, D. (2022). The role of ‘living laboratories’ in accelerating the energy system decarbonization. Energy Reports, 8, 11858-11864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2022.09.046

To decarbonize the energy system by the year 2050, it is crucial that innovations are trialled in a ‘real world’ setting for the purpose of increasing public adoption and support, and for providing insights to decision-makers to ensure their decision... Read More about The role of ‘living laboratories’ in accelerating the energy system decarbonization.