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Changes in chemical and ultrastructural composition of ameroid constrictors following in vitro expansion (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, T. S., Rance, G. A., Jiang, L., Piggott, M. J., Field, E. J., & Chanoit, G. P. (2018). Changes in chemical and ultrastructural composition of ameroid constrictors following in vitro expansion. PLoS ONE, 13(11), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207471

Objective To (1) characterise the chemical and ultra-structural composition of ameroid constrictors, at a native state and during in vitro expansion and (2) determine the presence of irritant compounds at the surface or within the bulk of the constr... Read More about Changes in chemical and ultrastructural composition of ameroid constrictors following in vitro expansion.

Formation of hollow carbon nanoshells from thiol stabilised silver nanoparticles via heat treatment (2018)
Journal Article
Watts, J. A., Fay, M. W., Rance, G. A., Brown, P. D., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2018). Formation of hollow carbon nanoshells from thiol stabilised silver nanoparticles via heat treatment. Carbon, 139, 538-544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.06.074

Uniform, less 10 nm sized, hollow carbon nano-shells (HCNS) have been prepared via a single-step, thermal treatment of alkanethiol stabilised Ag nanoparticles (TS-AgNP). Direct evidence for the formation of spherical HCNS from TS-AgNP is provided by... Read More about Formation of hollow carbon nanoshells from thiol stabilised silver nanoparticles via heat treatment.

Comparative nanostructure analysis of gasoline turbocharged direct injection and diesel soot-in-oil with carbon black (2018)
Journal Article
Pfau, S., La Roca, A., Haffner-Staton, E., Rance, G., Fay, M., Brough, R., & Malizia, S. (2018). Comparative nanostructure analysis of gasoline turbocharged direct injection and diesel soot-in-oil with carbon black. Carbon, 139, 342-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.06.050

Two gasoline turbocharged direct injection (GTDI) and two diesel soot-in-oil samples were compared with one flame-generated soot sample. High resolution transmission electron microscopy imaging was employed for the initial qualitative assessment of t... Read More about Comparative nanostructure analysis of gasoline turbocharged direct injection and diesel soot-in-oil with carbon black.

Revealing the nature of morphological changes in carbon nanotube-polymer saturable absorber under high-power laser irradiation (2018)
Journal Article
Chernysheva, M., Al Alraimi, M., Rance, G. A., Weston, N. J., Shi, B., Saied, S., …Rozhin, A. (2018). Revealing the nature of morphological changes in carbon nanotube-polymer saturable absorber under high-power laser irradiation. Scientific Reports, 8, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24734-z

Composites of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and water-soluble polymers (WSP) are the focus of significant worldwide research due to a number of applications in biotechnology and photonics, particularly for ultrashort pulse generation. Despit... Read More about Revealing the nature of morphological changes in carbon nanotube-polymer saturable absorber under high-power laser irradiation.

In situ investigations of the phase change behaviour of tungsten oxide nanostructures (2018)
Journal Article
Thummavichai, K., Wang, N., Xu, F., Rance, G., Xia, Y., & Zhu, Y. (2018). In situ investigations of the phase change behaviour of tungsten oxide nanostructures. Royal Society Open Science, 5, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171932

This study appraises the use of in-situ diffraction and spectroscopy techniques, complemented with ex-situ electron microscopy analyses, to investigate the geometry and phase change behaviour of bundled ultrathin W18O49 nanowires and WO3 nanoparticle... Read More about In situ investigations of the phase change behaviour of tungsten oxide nanostructures.

Development of a SERS strategy to overcome the nanoparticle stabilisation effect in serum-containing samples: Application to the quantification of dopamine in the culture medium of PC-12 cells (2018)
Journal Article
Dumont, E., De Bleye, C., Cailletaud, J., Sacre, P.-Y., Van Lerberghe, P.-B., Rogister, B., …Ziemons, E. (2018). Development of a SERS strategy to overcome the nanoparticle stabilisation effect in serum-containing samples: Application to the quantification of dopamine in the culture medium of PC-12 cells. Talanta, 186, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2018.04.038

The analysis of serum samples by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has gained ground over the last years. However, the stabilisation of colloids by the proteins contained in these samples has restricted their use in common practice, unless a... Read More about Development of a SERS strategy to overcome the nanoparticle stabilisation effect in serum-containing samples: Application to the quantification of dopamine in the culture medium of PC-12 cells.

Morphological Characterisation of Diesel Soot in Oil and the Associated Extraction Dependence (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Key, S., La Rocca, A., Fay, M., Rance, G., & Growney , D. (2018). Morphological Characterisation of Diesel Soot in Oil and the Associated Extraction Dependence. In SAE Technical Paper. https://doi.org/10.4271/2018-01-0935

The size and morphology of soot particles and agglomerates extracted from lubricating oil drawn from the sump of a diesel engine have been investigated and compared using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA)... Read More about Morphological Characterisation of Diesel Soot in Oil and the Associated Extraction Dependence.