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Glass wool: a novel support for heterogeneous catalysis (2018)
Journal Article

Heterogeneous catalysis presents significant advantages over homogeneous catalysis such as ease of separation and reuse of the catalyst. Here we show that a very inexpensive, manageable and widely available material – glass wool – can act as a cataly... Read More about Glass wool: a novel support for heterogeneous catalysis.

Production and spectroscopic characterization of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (2018)
Book Chapter

On the real catalytically active species for CO2 fixation into cyclic carbonates under near ambient conditions: dissociation equilibrium of [BMIm][Fe(NO)2Cl2] dependant on reaction temperature (2018)
Journal Article

An imidazolium based iron-containing ionic liquid [BMIm][Fe(NO)2Cl2] (BMIm = 1-n-butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium) has been synthesized for the first time and fully characterized employing a wide range of techniques. The iron-based containing ionic liquid... Read More about On the real catalytically active species for CO2 fixation into cyclic carbonates under near ambient conditions: dissociation equilibrium of [BMIm][Fe(NO)2Cl2] dependant on reaction temperature.

Geometry alone influences stem cell differentiation in a precision 3D printed stem cell niche (2018)
Working Paper

Stem cells within epithelial tissues reside in anatomical structures known as crypts that are known to contribute to the mechanical and chemical milieu important for function. To date, epithelial stem cell therapies have largely ignored the niche and... Read More about Geometry alone influences stem cell differentiation in a precision 3D printed stem cell niche.

Unravelling overlaps and torsion-facilitated coupling using two-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence (2018)
Journal Article

Two-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence (2D-LIF) spectroscopy is employed to identify contributions to fluorescence excitation spectra that arise from both overlapping bands and coupling between zero-order states (ZOSs). Evidence is found for the... Read More about Unravelling overlaps and torsion-facilitated coupling using two-dimensional laser-induced fluorescence.

Biocompatibility and photo-induced antibacterial activity of lignin-stabilized noble metal nanoparticles (2018)
Journal Article

One-pot thermal and photochemical syntheses of lignin-doped silver and gold nanoparticles were developed and their antimicrobial properties were studied against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The nature of the lignin as well as the metal... Read More about Biocompatibility and photo-induced antibacterial activity of lignin-stabilized noble metal nanoparticles.

Synthesis of methacrylate-terminated block copolymers with reduced transesterification by controlled ring-opening polymerization (2018)
Journal Article

This work presents a robust method to achieve the synthesis of low molecular weight polyesters 26 via ring-opening polymerization (ROP) initiated by 2-hydroxyethyl-methacrylate (HEMA) 27 when using triazabicyclodecene (TBD) as catalyst. The effect th... Read More about Synthesis of methacrylate-terminated block copolymers with reduced transesterification by controlled ring-opening polymerization.

New renewably-sourced polyesters from limonene-derived monomers (2018)
Journal Article

The functionalisation of limonene has enabled the synthesis of two renewably-sourced monomers for the formation of terpene-derived polyesters. Three methods for the synthesis of the novel hydroxy-acid 6 are reported and their green-credentials scruti... Read More about New renewably-sourced polyesters from limonene-derived monomers.

Photocatalytic ammonia production enhanced by a plasmonic near-field and hot electrons originating from aluminium nanostructures (2018)
Journal Article

Changes in chemical and ultrastructural composition of ameroid constrictors following in vitro expansion (2018)
Journal Article

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.

Compaction of a zirconium metal–organic framework (UiO-66) for high density hydrogen storage applications (2018)
Journal Article

© The Royal Society of Chemistry. We report a rare case whereby a metal-organic framework (MOF), namely UiO-66, is compacted at high pressure (∼700 MPa or 100 000 psi) resulting in densification and improved total volumetric hydrogen storage capacity... Read More about Compaction of a zirconium metal–organic framework (UiO-66) for high density hydrogen storage applications.

Clean Block Copolymer Microparticles from Supercritical CO 2 : Universal Templates for the Facile and Scalable Fabrication of Hierarchical Mesostructured Metal Oxides (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 American Chemical Society. Metal oxide microparticles with well-defined internal mesostructures are promising materials for a variety of different applications, but practical routes to such materials that allow the constituent structural leng... Read More about Clean Block Copolymer Microparticles from Supercritical CO 2 : Universal Templates for the Facile and Scalable Fabrication of Hierarchical Mesostructured Metal Oxides.

Frost heave in freezing soils: a quasi-static model for ice lens growth (2018)
Journal Article

Frost heave can have a very destructive impact on infrastructure in permafrost regions. The complexity of nanoscale ice-mineral interactions and their relation to the macroscale frost heave phenomenon make ice lens growth modeling an interesting but... Read More about Frost heave in freezing soils: a quasi-static model for ice lens growth.

Active learning in Gaussian process interpolation of potential energy surfaces (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Author(s). Three active learning schemes are used to generate training data for Gaussian process interpolation of intermolecular potential energy surfaces. These schemes aim to achieve the lowest predictive error using the fewest points and th... Read More about Active learning in Gaussian process interpolation of potential energy surfaces.

Strategic single point mutation yields a solvent- and salt-stable transaminase from Virgibacillus sp. in soluble form (2018)
Journal Article

A new transaminase (VbTA) was identified from the genome of the halotolerant marine bacterium Virgibacillus 21D and its expression resulted in the production of an insoluble protein in E. coli. After a single mutation identified through sequence homo... Read More about Strategic single point mutation yields a solvent- and salt-stable transaminase from Virgibacillus sp. in soluble form.

Carboxylic acid functionalized spin-crossover iron(II) grids for tunable switching and hybrid electrode fabrication (2018)
Journal Article

Two carboxyl-substituted iron(II) grids, one protonated, [Fe4(HL)4](BF4)4·4MeCN·AcOEt (1), and the other deprotonated, [Fe4(L)4]·DMSO·EtOH (2), where H2L = 4-{4,5-bis[6-(3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl)pyrid-2-yl]-1H-imidazol-2-yl}benzoic acid, were synthes... Read More about Carboxylic acid functionalized spin-crossover iron(II) grids for tunable switching and hybrid electrode fabrication.

Sustainable synthesis and precise characterisation of bio-based star polycaprolactone synthesised with a metal catalyst and with lipase (2018)
Journal Article

Bio-based building blocks and sustainable synthesis pathways were used to synthesise star-shaped polymers composed of a D-sorbitol core and polycaprolactone arms by ring opening polymerisation (ROP). The use of volatile organic solvents was avoided a... Read More about Sustainable synthesis and precise characterisation of bio-based star polycaprolactone synthesised with a metal catalyst and with lipase.

Protodepalladation as a Strategic Elementary Step in Catalysis (2018)
Journal Article

Protodepalladation is the redox-neutral conversion of a C–Pd(II) bond into a C–H bond via reaction with a Brønsted acid. It is the microscopic reverse of Pd(II)-mediated C–H cleavage. In the context of catalytic reaction development, protodepalladati... Read More about Protodepalladation as a Strategic Elementary Step in Catalysis.

Dimers of acetic acid in helium nanodroplets (2018)
Journal Article

The structural arrangement of small carboxylic acid molecules in the liquid phase remains a controversial topic. Some studies indicate a dominance of the cyclic dimer that prevails in the gas phase, whilst other studies favor short fragments of the i... Read More about Dimers of acetic acid in helium nanodroplets.

Strongly coloured thiocyanate frameworks with perovskite-analogue structures (2018)
Journal Article

We report the first examples of thiocyanate-based analogues of the cyanide Prussian Blue compounds, MIII[Bi(SCN)6], M= Fe, Cr, Sc. These compounds adopt the primitive cubic pcu topology and show strict cation order. Optical absorption measurements sho... Read More about Strongly coloured thiocyanate frameworks with perovskite-analogue structures.