Cover Picture: Ann. Phys. 2'2018 (2018)
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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.

Lipase immobilised on silica monoliths as continuous-flow microreactors for triglyceride transesterification (2017)
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Alotaibi, M., Manayil, J. C., Greenway, G. M., Haswell, S. J., Kelly, S. M., Lee, A. F., …Kyriakou, G. (2017). Lipase immobilised on silica monoliths as continuous-flow microreactors for triglyceride transesterification. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, 3(1), 68-74. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7re00162b

Lipase immobilised on silica monoliths has been prepared and applied as biocatalytic continuous-flow microreactors for the transesterification of tributyrin as a model bio-oil component. Candida antarctica lipase was trapped within the pores of silic... Read More about Lipase immobilised on silica monoliths as continuous-flow microreactors for triglyceride transesterification.

Coalescence of cluster beam generated sub-2 nm bare Au nanoparticles and analysis of Au film growth parameters (2017)
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Verrelli, E., Michelakaki, I., Boukos, N., Kyriakou, G., & Tsoukalas, D. (2017). Coalescence of cluster beam generated sub-2 nm bare Au nanoparticles and analysis of Au film growth parameters. Annalen der Physik, 530(2), 1700256. https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.201700256

© 2017 by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim In this work is presented the growth model for Au films grown on a carbon substrate at room temperature by using as building blocks Au nanoparticles (NPs) with 1.4 nm mean size generated via remo... Read More about Coalescence of cluster beam generated sub-2 nm bare Au nanoparticles and analysis of Au film growth parameters.

Dual wavelength (ultraviolet and green) photodetectors using solution processed zinc oxide nanoparticles (2017)
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O'Neill, M., Ibrahem, M. A., Verrelli, E., Lai, K. T., Kyriakou, G., Lee, A. F., …O’Neill, M. (2017). Dual wavelength (ultraviolet and green) photodetectors using solution processed zinc oxide nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(42), 36971-36979. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b08092

Narrow-band photoconductivity with a spectral width of 0.16 eV is obtained from solution-processed colloidal ZnO nanocrystals beneath the band-edge at 2.25 eV. A new model involving electron transfer from deep defects to discrete shallow donors is in... Read More about Dual wavelength (ultraviolet and green) photodetectors using solution processed zinc oxide nanoparticles.

Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith via a soft-template method using resorcinol and formaldehyde as carbon precursor and pluronic F127 as template (2014)
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Elaigwu, S. E., Kyriakou, G., Prior, T. J., & Greenway, G. M. (2014). Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith via a soft-template method using resorcinol and formaldehyde as carbon precursor and pluronic F127 as template. Materials letters, 123, 198-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2014.03.003

A new microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith is reported in this work. The process uses microwave heating at 100 °C under acidic condition by employing a triblock copolymer F127 as the template, and resorcinol–formaldehyde as th... Read More about Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of carbon monolith via a soft-template method using resorcinol and formaldehyde as carbon precursor and pluronic F127 as template.

Controlling a spillover pathway with the molecular cork effect (2013)
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Marcinkowski, M. D., Jewell, A. D., Stamatakis, M., Boucher, M. B., Lewis, E. A., Murphy, C. J., …Sykes, E. C. H. (2013). Controlling a spillover pathway with the molecular cork effect. Nature Materials, 12(6), 523-528. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3620

Spillover of reactants from one active site to another is important in heterogeneous catalysis and has recently been shown to enhance hydrogen storage in a variety of materials. The spillover of hydrogen is notoriously hard to detect or control. We r... Read More about Controlling a spillover pathway with the molecular cork effect.

Isolated metal atom geometries as a strategy for selective heterogeneous hydrogenations (2012)
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Boucher, M. B., Kyriakou, G., Jewell, A. D., Lewis, E. A., Sykes, E. C. H., Baber, A. E., …Tierney, H. L. (2012). Isolated metal atom geometries as a strategy for selective heterogeneous hydrogenations. Science, 335(6073), 1209-1212. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1215864

Facile dissociation of reactants and weak binding of intermediates are key requirements for efficient and selective catalysis. However, these two variables are intimately linked in a way that does not generally allow the optimization of both properti... Read More about Isolated metal atom geometries as a strategy for selective heterogeneous hydrogenations.

Identity of the active site in gold nanoparticle-catalyzed sonogashira coupling of phenylacetylene and iodobenzene (2010)
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Beaumont, S. K., Kyriakou, G., & Lambert, R. M. (2010). Identity of the active site in gold nanoparticle-catalyzed sonogashira coupling of phenylacetylene and iodobenzene. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(35), 12246-12248. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1063179

XPS, TEM, and reaction studies were used to examine the catalytic behavior of gold species deposited on lanthana toward the cross-coupling of phenylacetylene and iodobenzene. Atomically dispersed AuI and AuIII were catalytically inert, whereas metall... Read More about Identity of the active site in gold nanoparticle-catalyzed sonogashira coupling of phenylacetylene and iodobenzene.

Sonogashira coupling on an extended gold surface in vacuo: Reaction of phenylacetylene with iodobenzene on Au(111) (2010)
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Kanuru, V. K., Kyriakou, G., Beaumont, S. K., Papageorgiou, A. C., Watson, D. J., & Lambert, R. M. (2010). Sonogashira coupling on an extended gold surface in vacuo: Reaction of phenylacetylene with iodobenzene on Au(111). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(23), 8081-8086. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1011542

Temperature-programmed reaction measurements supported by scanning tunneling microscopy have shown that phenylacetylene and iodobenzene react on smooth Au(111) under vacuum conditions to yield biphenyl and diphenyldiacetylene, the result of homocoupl... Read More about Sonogashira coupling on an extended gold surface in vacuo: Reaction of phenylacetylene with iodobenzene on Au(111).