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From scrap metal to highly efficient electrodes: harnessing the nanotextured surface of swarf for effective utilisation of Pt and Co for hydrogen production (2024)
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Thangamuthu, M., Kohlrausch, E., Li, M., Speidel, A., Clare, A. T., Plummer, R., …Alves Fernandes, J. (2024). From scrap metal to highly efficient electrodes: harnessing the nanotextured surface of swarf for effective utilisation of Pt and Co for hydrogen production. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ta00711e

Hydrogen is considered to be the key element to achieving climate neutrality, leading to a massive demand for electrocatalysts. This work explores the transformation of metal waste into active and stable electrode materials for water splitting by mod... Read More about From scrap metal to highly efficient electrodes: harnessing the nanotextured surface of swarf for effective utilisation of Pt and Co for hydrogen production.

Recent enterprises in high-rate monolithic photo-electrochemical energy harvest and storage devices (2023)
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Turner, D., Li, M., Grant, D., & Ola, O. (2023). Recent enterprises in high-rate monolithic photo-electrochemical energy harvest and storage devices. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 38, Article 101243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coelec.2023.101243

Solar energy is set to play a major role in decarbonising the economy and creating a zero-emissions future. However, there is a need to store this abundant energy and, in many instances, supply that energy at a high rate. With large expense and effic... Read More about Recent enterprises in high-rate monolithic photo-electrochemical energy harvest and storage devices.

Membrane stretching based creep damage analytical solutions for thin disc small punch problem (2022)
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Ragab, R., Liu, T., Li, M., & Sun, W. (2022). Membrane stretching based creep damage analytical solutions for thin disc small punch problem. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 165, Article 104928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2022.104928

The small punch creep test (SPCT) presents a novel miniaturized testing technique popularly used to characterise creep and damage properties of high-temperature materials. Due to the complex non-linear deformation behaviour in the SPCT, a mechanistic... Read More about Membrane stretching based creep damage analytical solutions for thin disc small punch problem.

Supramolecular Proton Conductors Self-Assembled by Organic Cages (2022)
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Yang, Z., Zhang, N., Lei, L., Yu, C., Ding, J., Li, P., …Zhang, S. (2022). Supramolecular Proton Conductors Self-Assembled by Organic Cages. JACS Au, 2(4), 819-826. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.1c00556

Proton conduction is vital for living systems to execute various physiological activities. The understanding of its mechanism is also essential for the development of state-of-the-art applications, including fuel-cell technology. We herein present a... Read More about Supramolecular Proton Conductors Self-Assembled by Organic Cages.

Requirements for and Challenges in Developing Improved Creep Ductility-based Constitutive Models for Tempered Martensitic CSEF Steels (2022)
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Ragab, R., Parker, J., Li, M., Liu, T., Morris, A., & Sun, W. (2022). Requirements for and Challenges in Developing Improved Creep Ductility-based Constitutive Models for Tempered Martensitic CSEF Steels. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 17, 3337-3360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2022.02.047

Creep fracture behaviour of tempered martensitic steels is generally governed by the process of cavity nucleation, growth and coalescence into microcracks. Therefore, creep ductility, which can be treated as material resistance to damage, has a criti... Read More about Requirements for and Challenges in Developing Improved Creep Ductility-based Constitutive Models for Tempered Martensitic CSEF Steels.

A miniaturized thin-plate low cycle fatigue test method at elevated temperature (2022)
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Li, M., Maskill, S., Wen, Z., Yue, Z., & Sun, W. (2022). A miniaturized thin-plate low cycle fatigue test method at elevated temperature. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, 45(5), 1361-1378. https://doi.org/10.1111/ffe.13665

This study aims to develop a high-temperature low cycle fatigue test method using a nonstandard miniature thin-plate specimen in order to characterize the cyclic viscoplasticity behavior of a component material. For demonstration, fully reversed stra... Read More about A miniaturized thin-plate low cycle fatigue test method at elevated temperature.

Modelling of a Grade 91 power plant pressurised header weldment under ultra super-critical creep conditions (2021)
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Ragab, R., Parker, J., Li, M., Liu, T., & Sun, W. (2021). Modelling of a Grade 91 power plant pressurised header weldment under ultra super-critical creep conditions. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 192, Article 104389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpvp.2021.104389

This paper is concerned with the creep-damage modelling of a Grade 91 pressurised header, which was observed to undergo in-service cracking in the weldments. A multi-axial creep damage model of Kachanov type, with a single state damage variable, has... Read More about Modelling of a Grade 91 power plant pressurised header weldment under ultra super-critical creep conditions.

Morphology and Defect Control of Metal Halide Perovskite Films for High-Performance Optoelectronics (2020)
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Lei, L., Li, M., Grant, D. M., Yang, S., Yu, Y., Watts, J. A., & Amabilino, D. B. (2020). Morphology and Defect Control of Metal Halide Perovskite Films for High-Performance Optoelectronics. Chemistry of Materials, 32(14), 5958–5972. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c00798

Delicate morphology and defect control are crucial for high-performance optoelectronics. For metal halide perovskites, antisolvent precipitation is the most common process to realize the control and develop the state-of-art devices. However, the solu... Read More about Morphology and Defect Control of Metal Halide Perovskite Films for High-Performance Optoelectronics.

Assessment of potential service-life performance for MarBN steel power plant header under flexible thermomechanical operations (2020)
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Benaarbia, A., Morris, A., Li, M., & Sun, W. (2020). Assessment of potential service-life performance for MarBN steel power plant header under flexible thermomechanical operations. International Journal of Fatigue, 135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2020.105565

This paper is concerned with the service-life assessment of 9Cr steels superheater outlet steam header subjected to realistic subcritical and future ultra-super critical flexible operating conditions. The proposed methodology is achieved via a combin... Read More about Assessment of potential service-life performance for MarBN steel power plant header under flexible thermomechanical operations.

A CO2?Tolerant Perovskite Oxide with High Oxide Ion and Electronic Conductivity (2019)
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Li, M., Niu, H., Druce, J., Téllez, H., Ishihara, T., Kilner, J. A., …Rosseinsky, M. J. (2020). A CO2‐Tolerant Perovskite Oxide with High Oxide Ion and Electronic Conductivity. Advanced Materials, 32(4), Article 1905200. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201905200

Mixed ionic–electronic conductors (MIECs) that display high oxide ion conductivity (σo) and electronic conductivity (σe) constitute an important family of electrocatalysts for a variety of applications including fuel cells and oxygen separation membr... Read More about A CO2?Tolerant Perovskite Oxide with High Oxide Ion and Electronic Conductivity.