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Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor (2017)
Journal Article
Sher, F., Pans, M. A., Sun, C., Snape, C. E., & Liu, H. (2018). Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor. Fuel, 215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2017.11.039

Oxy-fuel combustion is one of the promising carbon capture technologies considered to be suitable for future commercial applications with stationary combustion plants. Although more and more biomass and waste are now being burned in stationary combus... Read More about Oxy-fuel combustion study of biomass fuels in a 20 kWth fluidized bed combustor.

Determination of pore network accessibility in hierarchical porous solids (2017)
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Rigby, S. P., Hasan, M., Stevens, L., Williams, H. E., & Fletcher, R. S. (2017). Determination of pore network accessibility in hierarchical porous solids. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 56(50), 14822-14831. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.7b04659

This paper validates the hypothesis that the supposedly non-specific adsorbates nitrogen and argon wet heavy metals differently, and shows how this unexpected effect can be actively utilised to deliver information on pore inter-connectivity. To explo... Read More about Determination of pore network accessibility in hierarchical porous solids.

Towards sustainable processing of columbite group minerals: Elucidating the relation between dielectric properties and physico-chemical transformations in the mineral phase (2017)
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Sanchez-Segado, S., Monti, T., Katrib, J., Kingman, S., Dodds, C., & Jha, A. (2017). Towards sustainable processing of columbite group minerals: Elucidating the relation between dielectric properties and physico-chemical transformations in the mineral phase. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 18016. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18272-3

© 2017 The Author(s). Current methodologies for the extraction of tantalum and niobium pose a serious threat to human beings and the environment due to the use of hydrofluoric acid (HF). Niobium and tantalum metal powders and pentoxides are widely us... Read More about Towards sustainable processing of columbite group minerals: Elucidating the relation between dielectric properties and physico-chemical transformations in the mineral phase.

Development of the Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge Process: towards the sustainable production of titanium and its alloys (2017)
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Hu, D., Dolganov, A., Ma, M., Bhattacharya, B., Bishop, M. T., & Chen, G. Z. (2018). Development of the Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge Process: towards the sustainable production of titanium and its alloys. JOM Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 70(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-017-2664-4

The Kroll process has been employed for titanium extraction since the 1950s. It is a labour and energy intensive multi-step semi-batch process. The post-extraction processes for making the raw titanium into alloys and products are also excessive, inc... Read More about Development of the Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge Process: towards the sustainable production of titanium and its alloys.

Additive manufacture of complex 3D Au-containing nanocomposites by simultaneous two-photon polymerisation and photoreduction (2017)
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Parmenter, C. D. J., Hu, Q., Sun, X. Z., Parmenter, C. D., Fay, M. W., Smith, E. F., Rance, G. A., He, Y., Zhang, F., Liu, Y., Irvine, D., Tuck, C., Hague, R., & Wildman, R. (2017). Additive manufacture of complex 3D Au-containing nanocomposites by simultaneous two-photon polymerisation and photoreduction. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 17150. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17391-1

© 2017 The Author(s). The fabrication of complex three-dimensional gold-containing nanocomposite structures by simultaneous two-photon polymerisation and photoreduction is demonstrated. Increased salt delivers reduced feature sizes down to line width... Read More about Additive manufacture of complex 3D Au-containing nanocomposites by simultaneous two-photon polymerisation and photoreduction.

Experimental investigation of woody and non-woody biomass combustion in a bubbling fluidised bed combustor focusing on gaseous emissions and temperature profiles (2017)
Journal Article
Sher, F., Pans, M. A., Afilaka, D. T., Sun, C., & Liu, H. (2017). Experimental investigation of woody and non-woody biomass combustion in a bubbling fluidised bed combustor focusing on gaseous emissions and temperature profiles. Energy, 141, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.11.118

Air staging is a well-known effective method to control NOx emissions from solid fuel combustion boilers. However, further research is still needed to clarify the effect of air staging at different injection locations on the gaseous emissions of Flui... Read More about Experimental investigation of woody and non-woody biomass combustion in a bubbling fluidised bed combustor focusing on gaseous emissions and temperature profiles.

Iron-catalyzed indolizine synthesis from pyridines, diazo compounds, and alkynes (2017)
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Douglas, T., Pordea, A., & Dowden, J. (in press). Iron-catalyzed indolizine synthesis from pyridines, diazo compounds, and alkynes. Organic Letters, 19(23), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.7b03252

The iron (III) catalyzed synthesis of indolizines from commercially available alkyne, pyridine, and diazo precursors is reported. This mild, expedient method is tolerant of various solvents and proceeds with as little as 0.25 mol % [Fe(TPP)Cl]. Signi... Read More about Iron-catalyzed indolizine synthesis from pyridines, diazo compounds, and alkynes.

Simulation of charge transport in organic semiconductors: a time-dependent multiscale method based on nonequilibrium Green's functions (2017)
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Leitherer, S., Jäger, C., Krause, A., Halik, M., Clark, T., & Thoss, M. (in press). Simulation of charge transport in organic semiconductors: a time-dependent multiscale method based on nonequilibrium Green's functions. Physical Review Materials, 1(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.064601

In weakly interacting organic semiconductors, static disorder and dynamic disorder often have an important impact on transport properties. Describing charge transport in these systems requires an approach that correctly takes structural and electroni... Read More about Simulation of charge transport in organic semiconductors: a time-dependent multiscale method based on nonequilibrium Green's functions.

Recombinant expression and characterisation of the oxygen-sensitive 2-enoate reductase from Clostridium sporogenes (2017)
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Mordaka, P. M., Hall, S. J., Minton, N. P., & Stephens, G. (in press). Recombinant expression and characterisation of the oxygen-sensitive 2-enoate reductase from Clostridium sporogenes. Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000568

‘Ene’-reductases have attracted significant attention for the preparation of chemical intermediates and biologically active products. To date, research has been focussed primarily on Old Yellow Enzyme-like proteins, due to their ease of handling, whe... Read More about Recombinant expression and characterisation of the oxygen-sensitive 2-enoate reductase from Clostridium sporogenes.

Characterising the impact of post-treatment storage on chemistry and antimicrobial properties of plasma treated water derived from microwave and DBD sources (2017)
Journal Article
Niquet, R., Boehm, D., Schnabel, U., Cullen, P., Bourke, P., & Ehlbeck, J. (in press). Characterising the impact of post-treatment storage on chemistry and antimicrobial properties of plasma treated water derived from microwave and DBD sources. Plasma Processes and Polymers, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppap.201700127

The biological effects of atmospheric cold plasma generated reactive species are mediated through and at a liquid interface. The diversity of antimicrobial efficacy or intensity of effects may differ with respect to the plasma device or set up, and i... Read More about Characterising the impact of post-treatment storage on chemistry and antimicrobial properties of plasma treated water derived from microwave and DBD sources.