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Mechano-bactericidal activity of two-photon polymerized micro-and nanoscale topographies against Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Surface interactions and antibacterial efficacy (2024)
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Tan, N., Im, J., Neate, N., Leong, C.-O., Wildman, R. D., Marsh, G. E., & Yee, M. S.-L. (2024). Mechano-bactericidal activity of two-photon polymerized micro-and nanoscale topographies against Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Surface interactions and antibacterial efficacy. Materials Today Communications, 40, Article 109785. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.109785

The emergence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria poses a significant health concern, stemming from chemically induced intrinsic and acquired-resistance responses in the microbe. Nanopatterns are an alternative bactericidal approach, employing physic... Read More about Mechano-bactericidal activity of two-photon polymerized micro-and nanoscale topographies against Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Surface interactions and antibacterial efficacy.

On the Microstructural Evolution and Failure Mechanism in Laser Powder Bed Fusioned Ti-6Al-4V during Low Cycle Fatigue at Room and Elevated Temperatures (2022)
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Gupta, A., Bennett, C. J., Sun, W., & Neate, N. (2022). On the Microstructural Evolution and Failure Mechanism in Laser Powder Bed Fusioned Ti-6Al-4V during Low Cycle Fatigue at Room and Elevated Temperatures. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 21, 4299-4319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2022.10.141

Microstructural features and their evolution during cyclic deformation directly impact the low cycle fatigue (LCF) life of additively manufactured Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) Ti-6Al-4V. Tensile and strain controlled LCF tests were performed at roo... Read More about On the Microstructural Evolution and Failure Mechanism in Laser Powder Bed Fusioned Ti-6Al-4V during Low Cycle Fatigue at Room and Elevated Temperatures.

Highly Aligned Ni-Decorated GO–CNT Nanostructures in Epoxy with Enhanced Thermal and Electrical Properties (2022)
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Hu, C., Zhang, H., Neate, N., Fay, M., Hou, X., Grant, D., & Xu, F. (2022). Highly Aligned Ni-Decorated GO–CNT Nanostructures in Epoxy with Enhanced Thermal and Electrical Properties. Polymers, 14(13), Article 2583. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14132583

In this study, graphene oxide–carbon nanotubes nanostructures decorated with nickel nanoparticles (NiGNT) were prepared through the molecular-level-mixing method, followed by a reduction process, and then applied as reinforcements to enhance the epox... Read More about Highly Aligned Ni-Decorated GO–CNT Nanostructures in Epoxy with Enhanced Thermal and Electrical Properties.

Enhanced thermal and electrical properties by Ag nanoparticles decorated GO-CNT nanostructures in PEEK composites (2021)
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Hu, C., Liu, T., Neate, N., Fay, M., Hou, X., Grant, D., & Xu, F. (2022). Enhanced thermal and electrical properties by Ag nanoparticles decorated GO-CNT nanostructures in PEEK composites. Composites Science and Technology, 218, Article 109201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2021.109201

A nanostructure of graphene oxide (GO) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) decorated with silver nanoparticles (AgGNT) has been prepared via a molecular-level-mixing (MLM) method followed by a subsequent freeze-drying and reduction process. The obtained well... Read More about Enhanced thermal and electrical properties by Ag nanoparticles decorated GO-CNT nanostructures in PEEK composites.

Electric Field Induced Biomimetic Transmembrane Electron Transport Using Carbon Nanotube Porins (2021)
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Hicks, J. M., Yao, Y.-C., Barber, S., Neate, N., Watts, J. A., Noy, A., & Rawson, F. J. (2021). Electric Field Induced Biomimetic Transmembrane Electron Transport Using Carbon Nanotube Porins. Small, 17(32), Article 2102517. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202102517

Cells modulate their homeostasis through the control of redox reactions via transmembrane electron transport systems. These are largely mediated via oxidoreductase enzymes. Their use in biology has been linked to a host of systems including reprogram... Read More about Electric Field Induced Biomimetic Transmembrane Electron Transport Using Carbon Nanotube Porins.

Efficient dye-removal via Ni-decorated graphene oxide-carbon nanotube nanocomposites (2020)
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Hu, C., Le, A. T., Pung, S. Y., Stevens, L., Neate, N., Hou, X., Grant, D., & Xu, F. (2021). Efficient dye-removal via Ni-decorated graphene oxide-carbon nanotube nanocomposites. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 260, Article 124117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2020.124117

The nickel nanoparticles decorated graphene oxide-carbon nanotubes nanocomposite has been prepared through a novel molecular-level-mixing method followed by a freeze-drying and subsequent reduction process. The resulting products showed a well-disper... Read More about Efficient dye-removal via Ni-decorated graphene oxide-carbon nanotube nanocomposites.

Flame spheroidisation of dense and porous Ca2Fe2O5 microspheres (2020)
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Molinar Díaz, J., Samad, S. A., Steer, E., Neate, N., Constantin, H., Islam, M. T., Brown, P. D., & Ahmed, I. (2020). Flame spheroidisation of dense and porous Ca2Fe2O5 microspheres. Materials Advances, 1(9), 3539-3544. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ma00564a

Compositionally uniform magnetic Ca2Fe2O5 (srebrodolskite) microspheres created via a rapid, single-stage flame spheroidisation (FS) process using magnetite and carbonate based porogen (1:1 Fe3O4:CaCO3) feedstock powders, are described. Two types of... Read More about Flame spheroidisation of dense and porous Ca2Fe2O5 microspheres.

On the microstructural evolution in 12% Cr turbine steel during low cycle fatigue at elevated temperature (2019)
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Rae, Y., Guo, X., Benaarbia, A., Neate, N., & Sun, W. (2020). On the microstructural evolution in 12% Cr turbine steel during low cycle fatigue at elevated temperature. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 773, Article 138864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2019.138864

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. In order to better understand the physical process of deformation and cyclic softening a 12% Cr martensitic stainless steel FV566 has been cyclically tested at high temperature in strain control. Increase in temperature was found... Read More about On the microstructural evolution in 12% Cr turbine steel during low cycle fatigue at elevated temperature.

Evolution of carbon nanotubes and their metallurgical reactions in Al-based composites in response to laser irradiation during selective laser melting (2019)
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Aboulkhair, N. T., Simonelli, M., Salama, E., Rance, G., Neate, N. C., Tuck, C. J., Esawi, A. M., & Hague, R. J. (2019). Evolution of carbon nanotubes and their metallurgical reactions in Al-based composites in response to laser irradiation during selective laser melting. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 765, Article 138307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2019.138307

Aluminium-based composites reinforced with carbon nanotubes are widely sought for their outstanding metallurgical and structural properties that largely depend on the manufacturing route. In this work, the process-structure-property relationship for... Read More about Evolution of carbon nanotubes and their metallurgical reactions in Al-based composites in response to laser irradiation during selective laser melting.

Investigation on time-dependent wetting behavior of Ni-Cu-P ternary coating (2018)
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Wang, J., Liu, J., Neate, N. C., Bai, M., Xu, F., Hussain, T., Scotchford, C., & Hou, X. (2018). Investigation on time-dependent wetting behavior of Ni-Cu-P ternary coating. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 765, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.06.239

Hydrophobic metallic coatings have attracted increasing interest in the recent years due to their excellent mechanical durability. But the wetting behavior and hydrophobic mechanism of metallic coatings are far from clear. In this work, Ni-Cu-P terna... Read More about Investigation on time-dependent wetting behavior of Ni-Cu-P ternary coating.

Yb3+ doping effects on thermal conductivity and thermal expansion of Yttrium aluminium garnet (2016)
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Wang, J., Xu, F., Wheatley, R., Neate, N. C., & Hou, X. (2016). Yb3+ doping effects on thermal conductivity and thermal expansion of Yttrium aluminium garnet. Ceramics International, 42(12), 14228-14235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2016.06.034

Yttrium Aluminium Garnet (YAG) is an attractive candidate as thermal barrier material used for turbine blade in aero engines, due to its relatively low thermal conductivity, low oxygen diffusivity and good phase stability at high temperature. YAG has... Read More about Yb3+ doping effects on thermal conductivity and thermal expansion of Yttrium aluminium garnet.

Dy3+-doped selenide chalcogenide glasses: influence of Dy3+ dopant-aditive and containment (2016)
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Furniss, D., Tang, Z., Barney, E., Neate, N. C., Benson, T., & Seddon, A. (2016). Dy3+-doped selenide chalcogenide glasses: influence of Dy3+ dopant-aditive and containment. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 99(7), 2283-2291. https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.14218

This work reports on process‐induced impurities in rare‐earth ion: Dy3+‐doped selenide chalcogenide glasses, which are significant materials for active photonic devices in the mid‐infrared region. In particular, the effect of contamination from t... Read More about Dy3+-doped selenide chalcogenide glasses: influence of Dy3+ dopant-aditive and containment.

Investigation of La3+ Doped Yb2Sn2O7 as new thermal barrier materials (2015)
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Wang, J., Xu, F., Wheatley, R. J., Choy, K.-L., Neate, N. C., & Hou, X. (2015). Investigation of La3+ Doped Yb2Sn2O7 as new thermal barrier materials. Materials and Design, 85, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2015.07.022

Low thermal conductivity is one of the key requirements for thermal barrier coating materials. From the consideration of crystal structure and ion radius, La3+ Doped Yb2Sn2O7 ceramics with pyrochlore crystal structures were synthesised by sol-gel met... Read More about Investigation of La3+ Doped Yb2Sn2O7 as new thermal barrier materials.

Toward Mid-Infrared, Subdiffraction, Spectral-Mapping of Human Cells and Tissue: SNIM (Scanning Near-Field Infrared Microscopy) Tip Fabrication (2015)
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Neate, N., Fay, M., Parmenter, C., Athanasiou, G. S., Ernst, J., Furniss, D., Benson, T. M., Chauhan, J., Middleton, J., Parmenter, C. D., Fay, M. W., Neate, N. C., Shiryaev, V., Churbanov, M. F., & Seddon, A. B. (2016). Toward Mid-Infrared, Subdiffraction, Spectral-Mapping of Human Cells and Tissue: SNIM (Scanning Near-Field Infrared Microscopy) Tip Fabrication. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(4), 1212-1219. https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2015.2496786

Scanning near-field infrared microscopy (SNIM) potentially enables subdiffraction, broadband mid-infrared (MIR:3–25-μm wavelength range) spectral-mapping of human cells and tissue for real-time molecular sensing, with prospective use in disease diagn... Read More about Toward Mid-Infrared, Subdiffraction, Spectral-Mapping of Human Cells and Tissue: SNIM (Scanning Near-Field Infrared Microscopy) Tip Fabrication.

Mid-infrared photoluminescence in small-core fiber of praseodymium-ion doped selenide-based chalcogenide glass (2015)
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Tang, Z., Furniss, D., Fay, M., Sakr, H., Sójka, L., Neate, N., Weston, N., Sujecki, S., Benson, T. M., & Seddon, A. B. (2015). Mid-infrared photoluminescence in small-core fiber of praseodymium-ion doped selenide-based chalcogenide glass. Optical Materials Express, 5(4), 870-886. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.5.000870

© 2015 Optical Society of America. Rare earth (RE)-ion doped chalcogenide glasses are attractive for mid-infrared (MIR) fiber lasers for operation >4 μm. Our prior modeling suggests that praseodymium (Pr) is a suitable RE-ion dopant for realizing a s... Read More about Mid-infrared photoluminescence in small-core fiber of praseodymium-ion doped selenide-based chalcogenide glass.

The local environment of Dy3+in selenium-rich chalcogenide glasses (2014)
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Barney, E. R., Tang, Z., Seddon, A., Furniss, D., Sujecki, S., Benson, T. M., Neate, N., & Gianolio, D. (in press). The local environment of Dy3+in selenium-rich chalcogenide glasses. RSC Advances, 4(80), https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA07192A

The environment of Dy3+ is investigated when it is added as DyCl3 or Dy foil into two base glasses, Ge16.5As19−xGaxSe64.5, where x = 3 or 10 at%, at doping levels between 0 and 3000 parts per million by weight (ppmw) Dy3+. Extended X-ray Absorption F... Read More about The local environment of Dy3+in selenium-rich chalcogenide glasses.