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Warm mix asphalt (WMA) for rapid construction in airfield pavement (2020)
Journal Article
Rahman, T., Dawson, A., & Thom, N. (2020). Warm mix asphalt (WMA) for rapid construction in airfield pavement. Construction and Building Materials, 246, Article 118411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.118411

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Warm-mix asphalt (WMA) is commonly mixed and compacted 15°C to 30°C below that of conventional hot mix asphalt (HMA). The lower production temperature of WMA is expected to give an advantage of a lower cooling time of newly laid a... Read More about Warm mix asphalt (WMA) for rapid construction in airfield pavement.

A Reactive Prodrug Ink Formulation Strategy for Inkjet 3D Printing of Controlled Release Dosage Forms and Implants (2020)
Journal Article
He, Y., Foralosso, R., Ferraz Trindade, G., Ilchev, A., Cantu, L. R., Clark, E., Khaled, S., Hague, R. J. M., Tuck, C. J., Rose, F. R. A. J., Mantovani, G., Irvine, D., Roberts, C. J., & Wildman, R. D. (2020). A Reactive Prodrug Ink Formulation Strategy for Inkjet 3D Printing of Controlled Release Dosage Forms and Implants. Advanced Therapeutics, 3(6), Article 1900187. https://doi.org/10.1002/adtp.201900187

We propose a strategy for creating tuneable 3D printed drug delivery devices. 3D printing offers the opportunity for improved compliance and patient treatment outcomes through personalisation, but bottlenecks include finding formulations that provide... Read More about A Reactive Prodrug Ink Formulation Strategy for Inkjet 3D Printing of Controlled Release Dosage Forms and Implants.

Delivery of temozolomide and N3-propargyl analog to brain tumors using an apoferritin nanocage (2020)
Journal Article
Bouzinab, K., Summers, H., Stevens, M. F., Moody, C. J., Thomas, N. R., Gershkovich, P., Weston, N., Ashford, M. B., Bradshaw, T. D., & Turyanska, L. (2020). Delivery of temozolomide and N3-propargyl analog to brain tumors using an apoferritin nanocage. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(11), 12609-12617. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c01514

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a grade IV astrocytoma, which is the most aggressive form of brain tumor. The standard of care for this disease includes surgery, radiotherapy and temozolomide (TMZ) chemotherapy. Poor accumulation of TMZ at the tumor... Read More about Delivery of temozolomide and N3-propargyl analog to brain tumors using an apoferritin nanocage.

Scalable Continuous Vortex Reactor for Gram to Kilo Scale for UV and Visible Photochemistry (2020)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., Sharabi, M., Jefferson-Loveday, R., Pickering, S. J., Poliakoff, M., & George, M. W. (2020). Scalable Continuous Vortex Reactor for Gram to Kilo Scale for UV and Visible Photochemistry. Organic Process Research and Development, 24(2), 201-206. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.9b00475

© 2020 American Chemical Society. We report the development of a scalable continuous Taylor vortex reactor for both UV and visible photochemistry. This builds on our recent report (Org. Process Res. Dev. 2017, 21, 1042) detailing a new approach to co... Read More about Scalable Continuous Vortex Reactor for Gram to Kilo Scale for UV and Visible Photochemistry.

Sliding wear behaviour of WC-Co reinforced NiCrFeSiB HVOAF thermal spray coatings against WC-Co and Al2O3 counterbodies (2020)
Journal Article
Pulsford, J., Venturi, F., Kamnis, S., & Hussain, T. (2020). Sliding wear behaviour of WC-Co reinforced NiCrFeSiB HVOAF thermal spray coatings against WC-Co and Al2O3 counterbodies. Surface and Coatings Technology, 386, Article 125468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2020.125468

© 2020 The Authors NiCrFeSiB alloys reinforced with WC-Co are potentially useful composite coating materials for use in applications in which resistance to sliding wear, hot corrosion and high temperature is required. Furthermore these materials offe... Read More about Sliding wear behaviour of WC-Co reinforced NiCrFeSiB HVOAF thermal spray coatings against WC-Co and Al2O3 counterbodies.

Flexible Pavements and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Review and Implications (2020)
Journal Article
Qiao, Y., Dawson, A. R., Parry, T., Flintsch, G., & Wang, W. (2020). Flexible Pavements and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Review and Implications. Sustainability, 12(3), 1057. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12031057

© 2020 by the authors. Flexible pavements and climate are interactive. Pavements are climate sensitive infrastructure, where climate can impact their deterioration rate, subsequent maintenance, and life-cycle costs. Meanwhile, climate mitigation meas... Read More about Flexible Pavements and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Review and Implications.

Experimental Evaluation of Geocell and EPS Geofoam as Means of Protecting Pipes at the Bottom of Repeatedly Loaded Trenches (2020)
Journal Article
Moghaddas Tafreshi, S. N., Joz Darabi, N., Dawson, A. R., & Azizian, M. (2020). Experimental Evaluation of Geocell and EPS Geofoam as Means of Protecting Pipes at the Bottom of Repeatedly Loaded Trenches. International Journal of Geomechanics, 20(4), 04020023. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GM.1943-5622.0001624

© 2020 American Society of Civil Engineers. With growing populations and continuing urban development, embedding pipes in the ground that are then overrun by traffic is inevitable. This paper describes full-scale prototype tests on high-density polye... Read More about Experimental Evaluation of Geocell and EPS Geofoam as Means of Protecting Pipes at the Bottom of Repeatedly Loaded Trenches.

A Review on the Potential of Electric Vehicles in Reducing World CO2 Footprints (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alotaibi, S., Omer, S., & Su, Y. (2020, December). A Review on the Potential of Electric Vehicles in Reducing World CO2 Footprints. Presented at XIV. International Conference on Electric Vehicle Engineering and Applications, Paris, France

The conventional Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) based vehicles are a threat to the environment as they account for a large proportion of the overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world. Hence, it is required to replace these vehicles with m... Read More about A Review on the Potential of Electric Vehicles in Reducing World CO2 Footprints.

Thermal Activation of Electrochemical Seed Surfaces for Selective and Tunable Hydrophobic Patterning (2020)
Journal Article
Speidel, A., Murray, J. W., Bisterov, I., Mitchell-Smith, J., Parmenter, C., & Clare, A. T. (2020). Thermal Activation of Electrochemical Seed Surfaces for Selective and Tunable Hydrophobic Patterning. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(6), 7744-7759. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20121

Remarkable interfacial behaviors are observed in nature. Our efforts, directed toward replicating the structures, chemistries, and therefore functional properties of natural nonwetting surfaces, are competing with the result of billions of years of n... Read More about Thermal Activation of Electrochemical Seed Surfaces for Selective and Tunable Hydrophobic Patterning.

Feature Extraction of Oscillating Flow with Vapor Condensation of Moist Air in a Sonic Nozzle (2020)
Journal Article
Ding, H., Li, Y., Wang, C., Wen, C., & Tian, Y. (2020). Feature Extraction of Oscillating Flow with Vapor Condensation of Moist Air in a Sonic Nozzle. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 69(9), 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2020.2967130

The sonic nozzle is commonly used in flow measurement. However, the non-equilibrium condensation phenomenon of moist air in the nozzle has a negative effect on the measuring accuracy. To investigate this complex phenomenon, the experiments on the osc... Read More about Feature Extraction of Oscillating Flow with Vapor Condensation of Moist Air in a Sonic Nozzle.

Modelling damage in fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite laminates subjected to three-point-bend loading (2020)
Journal Article
Liu, H., Liu, J., Ding, Y., Zhou, J., Kong, X., Harper, L. T., Blackman, B. R., Falzon, B. G., & Dear, J. P. (2020). Modelling damage in fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite laminates subjected to three-point-bend loading. Composite Structures, 236, Article 111889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.111889

It is important to account for nonlinearity in the deformation of a thermoplastic matrix, as well as fibre fracture and matrix cracking, when predicting progressive failure in unidirectional fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composites. In this research... Read More about Modelling damage in fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite laminates subjected to three-point-bend loading.

Performance Verification of a Flexible Vibration Monitoring System (2020)
Journal Article
Bointon, P., Todhunter, L., Clare, A., & Leach, R. (2020). Performance Verification of a Flexible Vibration Monitoring System. Machines, 8(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines8010003

The performance of measurement or manufacturing systems in high-precision applications is dependent upon the dynamics of the system, as vibration can be a significant contributor to the measurement uncertainty and process variability. Technologies ma... Read More about Performance Verification of a Flexible Vibration Monitoring System.

Book cover Human and Organisational Factors pp 5–13Cite as Accounting for Differing Perspectives and Values: The Rail Industry (2020)
Book Chapter
RYAN, B. (2020). Book cover Human and Organisational Factors pp 5–13Cite as Accounting for Differing Perspectives and Values: The Rail Industry. In Human and Organizational Factors: Practices and Strategies for a Changing World (5-13). Springer

This chapter reflects on how researchers have worked in differ-ent ways with industry in five research projects, investigating and imple-menting solutions for problems related to human and organisational fac-tors (HOF). Three observations are present... Read More about Book cover Human and Organisational Factors pp 5–13Cite as Accounting for Differing Perspectives and Values: The Rail Industry.

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dong, M., Husain, M., Brooks, D., Wilson, M., Craven, M., Destrebecq, F., Georges, J., Aps, B., & Baden-Kristensen, K. (2019, September). Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention. Presented at International MinD Conference 2019 - Designing with and for People with Dementia: Well-being, Empowerment and Happiness, Dresden, Germany

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major cause of the rapidly growing and crushing aging challenge that threatens to economically undermine today's healthcare system. AD prevalence will grow to over 100 million cases in 2050. AD is incurable but can be pr... Read More about Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention.

Latest developments on the shielding effectiveness measurements of materials and gaskets in reverberation chambers (2019)
Journal Article
Gifuni, A., Gradoni, G., Smartt, C., Greedy, S., Villalón, A. M., Bastianelli, L., Moglie, F., Mariani Primiani, V., Perna, S., & Thomas, D. (2019). Latest developments on the shielding effectiveness measurements of materials and gaskets in reverberation chambers. IET Science Measurement and Technology, 14(4), 435-445. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-smt.2019.0242

In this study, the authors present the latest developments on the measurements for the shielding effectiveness (SE) of gaskets and materials in reverberation chambers (RCs). A variant method, where the insertion loss of the fixture is achieved from t... Read More about Latest developments on the shielding effectiveness measurements of materials and gaskets in reverberation chambers.

Synergistic effects of hybrid conductive nanofillers on the performance of 3D printed highly elastic strain sensors (2019)
Journal Article
Xiang, D., Zhang, X., Harkin-Jones, E., Zhu, W., Zhou, Z., Shen, Y., Li, Y., Zhao, C., & Wang, P. (2019). Synergistic effects of hybrid conductive nanofillers on the performance of 3D printed highly elastic strain sensors. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 129, Article 105730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2019.105730

In this work, thermoplastic polyurethane based conductive polymer composites containing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and synthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were used to fabricate highly elastic strain sensors via fused deposition modeling. The print... Read More about Synergistic effects of hybrid conductive nanofillers on the performance of 3D printed highly elastic strain sensors.

Laser Induced Phased Arrays (LIPA) to detect nested features in additively manufactured components (2019)
Journal Article
Pieris, D., Stratoudaki, T., Javadi, Y., Lukacs, P., Catchpole-Smith, S., Wilcox, P. D., Clare, A., & Clark, M. (2020). Laser Induced Phased Arrays (LIPA) to detect nested features in additively manufactured components. Materials and Design, 187, Article 108412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2019.108412

© 2019 The Authors. Additive manufacturing (AM) has the capability to build complex parts with internal features, which have many advantages over conventionally manufactured parts. This makes AM an alternative for advanced manufacturing sectors. AM c... Read More about Laser Induced Phased Arrays (LIPA) to detect nested features in additively manufactured components.