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Two helices from one chiral centre - self organization of disc shaped chiral nanoparticles (2020)
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Mehl, G. H., Yu, H., Qu, W., & Liu, F. (2021). Two helices from one chiral centre - self organization of disc shaped chiral nanoparticles. Chemical science, 12(5), 1778-1782. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc05100d

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been prepared and surface-functionalized with a mixture of 1-hexanethiol co-ligands and chiral discogen ligands separated from a disulfide functionviaa flexible spacer. Polarized optical microscopy together with differ... Read More about Two helices from one chiral centre - self organization of disc shaped chiral nanoparticles.

Effect of calcination time on the physicochemical properties and photocatalytic performance of carbon and nitrogen co-doped tio2 nanoparticles (2020)
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Mouele, E. S. M., Dinu, M., Cummings, F., Fatoba, O. O., Myint, M. T. Z., Kyaw, H. H., Parau, A. C., Vladescu, A., Francesconi, M. G., Pescetelli, S., Di Carlo, A., Agresti, A., Al-Abri, M., Dobretsov, S., Braic, M., & Petrik, L. F. (2020). Effect of calcination time on the physicochemical properties and photocatalytic performance of carbon and nitrogen co-doped tio2 nanoparticles. Catalysts, 10(8), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal10080847

The application of highly active nano catalysts in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) improves the production of non-selective hydroxyl radicals and co-oxidants for complete remediation of polluted water. This study focused on the synthesis and char... Read More about Effect of calcination time on the physicochemical properties and photocatalytic performance of carbon and nitrogen co-doped tio2 nanoparticles.

The first microsolvation step for furans : new experiments and benchmarking strategies (2020)
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Gottschalk, H. C., Poblotzki, A., Fatima, M., Obenchain, D. A., Pérez, C., Antony, J., Auer, A. A., Baptista, L., Benoit, D. M., Bistoni, G., Bohle, F., Dahmani, R., Firaha, D., Grimme, S., Hansen, A., Harding, M. E., Hochlaf, M., Holzer, C., Jansen, G., Klopper, W., …Schnell, M. (2020). The first microsolvation step for furans : new experiments and benchmarking strategies. The Journal of chemical physics, 152(16), 164303. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0004465

The site-specific first microsolvation step of furan and some of its derivatives with methanol is explored to benchmark the ability of quantum-chemical methods to describe the structure, energetics, and vibrational spectrum at low temperature. Infrar... Read More about The first microsolvation step for furans : new experiments and benchmarking strategies.

Realisation of a sub-wavelength dimple using a 193 nm wavelength photonic nano jet (2020)
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Al-Jarwany, Q. A., Mohammed, A. F., Hamza, A. O., Bouillard, J. S., Adawi, A. M., Pamme, N., & Walton, C. D. (2020). Realisation of a sub-wavelength dimple using a 193 nm wavelength photonic nano jet. Chemical Physics Letters, 750, Article 137400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2020.137400

There are many areas of research that benefit from tight focussing of light. We report experimental and computational results of a laser irradiated silica microsphere, 1 μm diameter localised on an SU-8 substrate. A single pulse from an ArF excimer l... Read More about Realisation of a sub-wavelength dimple using a 193 nm wavelength photonic nano jet.

Pattern formation in two-dimensional hard-core/soft-shell systems with variable soft shell profiles (2020)
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Somerville, W. R. C., Law, A. D., Rey, M., Vogel, N., Archer, A. J., & Buzza, D. M. A. (2020). Pattern formation in two-dimensional hard-core/soft-shell systems with variable soft shell profiles. Soft matter, 16(14), 3564-3573. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sm00092b

Hard-core/soft shell (HCSS) particles have been shown to self-assemble into a remarkably rich variety of structures under compression due to the simple interplay between the hard-core and soft-shoulder length scales in their interactions. Most studie... Read More about Pattern formation in two-dimensional hard-core/soft-shell systems with variable soft shell profiles.

Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics (2020)
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Iadlovska, O. S., Babakhanova, G., Mehl, G. H., Welch, C., Cruickshank, E., Strachan, G. J., Storey, J. M. D., Imrie, C. T., Shiyanovskii, S. V., & Lavrentovich, O. D. (2020). Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics. Physical Review Research, 2(1), Article 013238. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013248

Elastic moduli of liquid crystals, known as Frank constants, are of quintessential importance for understanding fundamental properties of these materials and for the design of their applications. Although there are many methods to measure the Frank c... Read More about Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics.

Removal of Human Leukemic Cells from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by Cell Recognition Chromatography with Size Matched Particle Imprints (2020)
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Chester, R., Das, A. A. K., Medlock, J., Nees, D., Allsup, D. J., Madden, L. A., & Paunov, V. N. (2020). Removal of Human Leukemic Cells from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by Cell Recognition Chromatography with Size Matched Particle Imprints. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3(2), 789-800. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.9b00770

We report a cell recognition chromatography approach for blood cancer cell separation from healthy peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) based on sizematched functionalized particle imprints. Negative imprints were prepared from layers of 15 μm... Read More about Removal of Human Leukemic Cells from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by Cell Recognition Chromatography with Size Matched Particle Imprints.

Surface-Modified Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Antialgal and Antiyeast Applications (2020)
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Halbus, A. F., Horozov, T. S., & Paunov, V. N. (2020). Surface-Modified Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Antialgal and Antiyeast Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 3(1), 440-451. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b02045

We explored the factors and mechanisms of the anti-yeast and anti-algal effect of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) coated with zinc sulfide (ZnS), silica (SiO2), poly(sodium 4-styrene sulfonate) sodium salt (PSS) and poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (... Read More about Surface-Modified Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Antialgal and Antiyeast Applications.