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Heavy metals and metalloids concentrations across UK urban horticultural soils and the factors influencing their bioavailability to food crops (2021)
Journal Article
Crispo, M., Dobson, M. C., Blevins, R. S., Meredith, W., Lake, J. A., & Edmondson, J. L. (2021). Heavy metals and metalloids concentrations across UK urban horticultural soils and the factors influencing their bioavailability to food crops. Environmental Pollution, 288, Article 117960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117960

Urban horticulture (UH) has been proposed as a solution to increase urban sustainability, but the potential risks to human health due to potentially elevated soil heavy metals and metalloids (HM) concentrations represent a major constraint for UH exp... Read More about Heavy metals and metalloids concentrations across UK urban horticultural soils and the factors influencing their bioavailability to food crops.

Experimental Study of Coal Sample Damage in Acidic Water Environments (2021)
Journal Article
Yao, Q., Tang, C., Xia, Z., Xu, Q., Wang, W., Wang, X., & Chong, Z. (2021). Experimental Study of Coal Sample Damage in Acidic Water Environments. Mine Water and the Environment, 40(4), 1003-1015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-021-00811-0

We investigated the effects of acidic and circumneutral water on coal samples by uniaxial compression, acoustic emission, and a series of physical tests. In acidic water, the coal samples were damaged, and their ultrasonic velocities decreased, as mi... Read More about Experimental Study of Coal Sample Damage in Acidic Water Environments.

The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-Tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Majid, S., Reeves, S., Figueredo, G., Brown, S., Lang, A., Moore, M., & Morriss, R. The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-Tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review

Background:
Self-monitoring applications for bipolar disorder are increasing in numbers. The application of user-centred design (UCD) is becoming standardised to optimise the reach, adoption and sustained use of this type of technology.

Objectiv... Read More about The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-Tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review.

Polarization-Insensitive Medium-Switchable Holographic Metasurfaces (2021)
Journal Article
Cai, H., Dolan, J. A., Gordon, G. S., Chung, T., & López, D. (2021). Polarization-Insensitive Medium-Switchable Holographic Metasurfaces. ACS Photonics, 8(9), 2581-2589. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00836

The adoption of metasurfaces has led to revolutionary advances in holography due to improved compactness, integrability, and performance. Switchable meta-holograms projecting different replay field images in a controllable manner are highly desirable... Read More about Polarization-Insensitive Medium-Switchable Holographic Metasurfaces.

Segmented Hairpin Topology for Reduced Losses at High-Frequency Operations (2021)
Journal Article
Preci, E., Nuzzo, S., Valente, G., Gerada, D., Barater, D., Degano, M., Buticchi, G., & Gerada, C. (2022). Segmented Hairpin Topology for Reduced Losses at High-Frequency Operations. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 8(1), 688-698. https://doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2021.3103821

Nowadays, one of the key challenges in transport electrification is the reduction of components’ size and weight. The electrical machine plays a relevant role in this regard. Designing machines with higher rotational speeds and excitation frequencies... Read More about Segmented Hairpin Topology for Reduced Losses at High-Frequency Operations.

Mg-based materials for hydrogen storage (2021)
Journal Article
Shang, Y., Pistidda, C., Gizer, G., Klassen, T., & Dornheim, M. (2021). Mg-based materials for hydrogen storage. Journal of Magnesium and Alloys, 9(6), 1837-1860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jma.2021.06.007

Over the last decade's magnesium and magnesium based compounds have been intensively investigated as potential hydrogen storage as well as thermal energy storage materials due to their abundance and availability as well as their extraordinary high gr... Read More about Mg-based materials for hydrogen storage.

Hydrogenation via a low energy mechanochemical approach: the MgB2 case (2021)
Journal Article
Pistidda, C., Santhosh, A., Jerabek, P., Shang, Y., Girella, A., Milanese, C., Dore, M., Garroni, S., Bordignon, S., Chierotti, M. R., Klassen, T., & Dornheim, M. (2021). Hydrogenation via a low energy mechanochemical approach: the MgB2 case. Journal of Physics: Energy, 3(4), Article 044001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/ABF81B

This work aims at investigating the effect that the energy transferred during particle collisions in a milling process entails on solid-gas reactions. For this purpose, the synthesis of Mg(BH4)2 from MgB2 in a pressurized hydrogen atmosphere was chos... Read More about Hydrogenation via a low energy mechanochemical approach: the MgB2 case.

Wind turbine blade wastes and the environmental impacts in Canada (2021)
Journal Article
Heng, H., Meng, F., & McKechnie, J. (2021). Wind turbine blade wastes and the environmental impacts in Canada. Waste Management, 133, 59-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2021.07.032

Electricity production by wind turbines is considered a clean energy technology, but the life cycle of wind turbines could introduce environmental risks due to waste generation, especially at the decommissioning process. This study predicts the futur... Read More about Wind turbine blade wastes and the environmental impacts in Canada.

Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Using Liquid Metal Vias (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alkaraki, S., Kelly, J., & Allayioti, M. (2021, August). Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Using Liquid Metal Vias. Presented at 2021 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, APWC 2021, Honolulu, HI, USA

This paper presents a moderately high directivity (∼12 dBi) antenna having a reconfigurable radiation pattern. The proposed antenna, illustrated in Fig. 1 , is closely based on existing designs [1]-[2]. The proposed antenna consists of a driven eleme... Read More about Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Using Liquid Metal Vias.

Development of Thermally Responsive PolyNIPAm Microcarrier for Application of Cell Culturing—Part I: A Feasibility Study (2021)
Journal Article
Chou, P. M., Khiew, P. S., Brown, P. D., & Hu, B. (2021). Development of Thermally Responsive PolyNIPAm Microcarrier for Application of Cell Culturing—Part I: A Feasibility Study. Polymers, 13(16), Article 2629. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13162629

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (polyNIPAm) microspheres were synthesized via the suspension polymerization technique. Thermal and redox initiators were compared for the polymerization, in order to study the effect of initiator type on the surface charge... Read More about Development of Thermally Responsive PolyNIPAm Microcarrier for Application of Cell Culturing—Part I: A Feasibility Study.