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Should IQOS Emissions Be Considered as Smoke and Harmful to Health? A Review of the Chemical Evidence (2022)
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Uguna, C. N., & Snape, C. E. (2022). Should IQOS Emissions Be Considered as Smoke and Harmful to Health? A Review of the Chemical Evidence. ACS Omega, 7(26), 22111–22124. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c01527

The chemical evidence that IQOS emissions fit the definition of both an aerosol and smoke, and that IQOS and potentially other heated tobacco products (HTPs) pose some harmful health threats from the range of compounds released even at somewhat lower... Read More about Should IQOS Emissions Be Considered as Smoke and Harmful to Health? A Review of the Chemical Evidence.

Effect of process variables on producing biocoals by hydrothermal carbonisation of pine Kraft lignin at low temperatures (2022)
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Musa, U., Castro-Díaz, M., Uguna, C. N., & Snape, C. E. (2022). Effect of process variables on producing biocoals by hydrothermal carbonisation of pine Kraft lignin at low temperatures. Fuel, 325, Article 124784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.124784

Lignin from pulping is recovered in a wet form, making it ideal for hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC). This study investigates the effects of temperature (200–280 °C), residence time (1–6 h), and water to biomass mass ratio (2:1–6:1) on the compositio... Read More about Effect of process variables on producing biocoals by hydrothermal carbonisation of pine Kraft lignin at low temperatures.

Renewable binders from waste biomass for road construction: A review on thermochemical conversion technologies and current developments (2022)
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Weir, A., Jiménez del Barco Carrión, A., Queffélec, C., Bujoli, B., Chailleux, E., Uguna, C., Snape, C., & Airey, G. (2022). Renewable binders from waste biomass for road construction: A review on thermochemical conversion technologies and current developments. Construction and Building Materials, 330, Article 127076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.127076

Biobinders (binders manufactured from biomass) are becoming popular in asphalt engineering due to growing environmental concerns of greenhouse gas emissions from the use of fossil fuels and depleting petroleum bitumen reserves. Waste biomass products... Read More about Renewable binders from waste biomass for road construction: A review on thermochemical conversion technologies and current developments.

Molecular Formula Prediction for Chemical Filtering of 3D OrbiSIMS Datasets (2022)
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Edney, M. K., Kotowska, A. M., Spanu, M., Trindade, G. F., Wilmot, E., Reid, J., Barker, J., Aylott, J. W., Shard, A. G., Alexander, M. R., Snape, C. E., & Scurr, D. J. (2022). Molecular Formula Prediction for Chemical Filtering of 3D OrbiSIMS Datasets. Analytical Chemistry, 94(11), 4703–4711. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04898

Modern mass spectrometry techniques produce a wealth of spectral data, and although this is an advantage in terms of the richness of the information available, the volume and complexity of data can prevent a thorough interpretation to reach useful co... Read More about Molecular Formula Prediction for Chemical Filtering of 3D OrbiSIMS Datasets.

Heavy Metal Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Fly-Ash Derived Zeolite NaP1 (2022)
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Ankrah, A. F., Tokay, B., & Snape, C. E. (2022). Heavy Metal Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Fly-Ash Derived Zeolite NaP1. International Journal of Environmental Research, 16(2), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41742-022-00395-9

Fly-ash derived zeolites have recently -received great attention as cheaper adsorbents to remove heavy metals from water since they can be synthesized from a waste product. In this study, we evaluated the single- and multi-cation adsorption efficienc... Read More about Heavy Metal Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Fly-Ash Derived Zeolite NaP1.

The effect of oil extraction on porosity and methane adsorption for dry and moisture-equilibrated shales (2022)
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Li, W., Stevens, L. A., Meredith, W., Uguna, C. N., Vane, C. H., Zhang, B., Carr, A. D., Zheng, D., & Snape, C. E. (2022). The effect of oil extraction on porosity and methane adsorption for dry and moisture-equilibrated shales. Fuel, 316, Article 123304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.123304

The porosity and methane adsorption capacity of shale used to estimate gas in place (GIP) are affected both by moisture and oil residing in the pore structure, as well as oil naturally present from maturation, which can include contaminant drilling m... Read More about The effect of oil extraction on porosity and methane adsorption for dry and moisture-equilibrated shales.

Comparison of the impact of moisture on methane adsorption and nanoporosity for over mature shales and their kerogens (2021)
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Li, W., Stevens, L. A., Uguna, C. N., Vane, C. H., Meredith, W., Tang, L., Li, Q., & Snape, C. E. (2021). Comparison of the impact of moisture on methane adsorption and nanoporosity for over mature shales and their kerogens. International Journal of Coal Geology, 237, Article 103705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2021.103705

© 2021 Elsevier B.V. Moisture in shales under reservoir conditions adversely affects gas adsorption and nanoporosity and is also likely to impact on the contribution that kerogen makes to the methane adsorption capacity. To investigate these phenomen... Read More about Comparison of the impact of moisture on methane adsorption and nanoporosity for over mature shales and their kerogens.

It's the product not the polymer: Rethinking plastic pollution (2020)
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Stanton, T., Kay, P., Johnson, M., Chan, F. K. S., Gomes, R. L., Hughes, J., Meredith, W., Orr, H. G., Snape, C. E., Taylor, M., Weeks, J., Wood, H., & Xu, Y. (2021). It's the product not the polymer: Rethinking plastic pollution. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(1), Article e1490. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1490

Mismanaged plastic waste poses a complex threat to the environments that it contaminates, generating considerable concern from academia, industry, politicians, and the general public. This concern has driven global action that presents a unique oppor... Read More about It's the product not the polymer: Rethinking plastic pollution.

Performance of a silica-polyethyleneimine adsorbent for post-combustion CO2 capture on a 100kg scale in a fluidized bed continuous unit (2020)
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Kim, J. Y., Woo, J. M., Jo, S. H., Kim, H., Lee, S. Y., Yi, C. K., Moon, J. H., Nam, H., Won, Y., Stevens, L. A., Sun, C., Liu, H., Liu, J., Snape, C. E., & Park, Y. C. (2020). Performance of a silica-polyethyleneimine adsorbent for post-combustion CO2 capture on a 100kg scale in a fluidized bed continuous unit. Chemical Engineering Journal, 407, Article 127209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.127209

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Polyethyleneimine (PEI)/silica adsorbents have been considered as a promising candidate for post-combustion CO2 capture, but the limited process study has been performed on a pilot-scale unit. Herein we report the 150 h continuou... Read More about Performance of a silica-polyethyleneimine adsorbent for post-combustion CO2 capture on a 100kg scale in a fluidized bed continuous unit.

Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride (2020)
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Tapia-Ruiz, N., Gordon, A. G., Jewell, C. M., Edwards, H. K., Dunnill, C. W., Blackman, J. M., Snape, C. P., Brown, P. D., MacLaren, I., Baldoni, M., Besley, E., Titman, J. J., & Gregory, D. H. (2020). Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride. Nature Communications, 11, Article 4492. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17951-6

As the only stable binary compound formed between an alkali metal and nitrogen, lithium nitride is a material with remarkable properties and a model material for energy applications involving the transport of lithium ions. Following a materials desig... Read More about Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride.