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The Engineer’s Guide to Materials: An Applications-Focused Introduction to Materials Science (2024)
Book
Voisey, K. T. (2024). The Engineer’s Guide to Materials: An Applications-Focused Introduction to Materials Science. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62937-2

Why do engineers need to know about materials? Metals, polymers, ceramics, composites — what are the key characteristics of each class of material and which is best suited for a given industrial application? How can service conditions change the perf... Read More about The Engineer’s Guide to Materials: An Applications-Focused Introduction to Materials Science.

An experimental demonstration of neuromorphic sensing of chemical species using electro-optical reservoir computing (2024)
Journal Article
Anufriev, G., Furniss, D., Farries, M. C., Seddon, A. B., & Phang, S. (in press). An experimental demonstration of neuromorphic sensing of chemical species using electro-optical reservoir computing. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 27915. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79395-y

A chemical discrimination system based on photonic reservoir computing is demonstrated experimentally for the first time. The system is inspired by the way humans perceive and process visual sensory information. The electro-optical reservoir computin... Read More about An experimental demonstration of neuromorphic sensing of chemical species using electro-optical reservoir computing.

Analytical and computer modelling of a thermo-mechanical vapour compression system for space air conditioning in buildings (2024)
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Al Khiro, H. A., & Boukhanouf, R. (2024). Analytical and computer modelling of a thermo-mechanical vapour compression system for space air conditioning in buildings. Energy Conversion and Management, 323, Article 119252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2024.119252

Air conditioning in buildings is essential for providing indoor thermal comfort, but it imposes a significant electrical power load and carbon footprint, particularly when using traditional vapor compression systems. This study investigates an innova... Read More about Analytical and computer modelling of a thermo-mechanical vapour compression system for space air conditioning in buildings.

A Comparative Study on the Performance of Ice-Source Heat Pumps Versus Other Heat Source Heat Pumps: A Case Study in the UK (2024)
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Mehdipour, R., Garvey, S., Baniamerian, Z., & Cardenas, B. (in press). A Comparative Study on the Performance of Ice-Source Heat Pumps Versus Other Heat Source Heat Pumps: A Case Study in the UK. Renewable Energy,

Eliminating natural gas as a fuel for heating residential and industrial units is crucial for reducing environmental pollutants. The challenge lies in finding alternative heating systems and repurposing existing infrastructures, like gas pipes. This... Read More about A Comparative Study on the Performance of Ice-Source Heat Pumps Versus Other Heat Source Heat Pumps: A Case Study in the UK.

Experiences and perceptions of acute testicular pain, with a focus on reasons for delayed presentation to hospital: a qualitative evidence synthesis (2024)
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Anderson, E., Chaplin, W. J., Turner, C., Johnson, G. D., Blake, H., & Tabner, A. (2024). Experiences and perceptions of acute testicular pain, with a focus on reasons for delayed presentation to hospital: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Emergency Medicine Journal, Article emermed-2024-214125. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2024-214125

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The annual incidence of testicular torsion is approximately 1 in 4000 males under the age of 25. Despite the 97% testicular salvage rate when surgical intervention is within 6 hours of onset, orchidectomy is required in 40% of cases. Thes... Read More about Experiences and perceptions of acute testicular pain, with a focus on reasons for delayed presentation to hospital: a qualitative evidence synthesis.

A novel method for fast and efficient numerical simulation of microwave heating in liquids during mixing (2024)
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Singh, B., Hefford, S., Sanchez-Perez, E., Barter, M., Slocombe, D., Cussen, S., & DIMITRAKIS, G. (in press). A novel method for fast and efficient numerical simulation of microwave heating in liquids during mixing. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,

Microwave-assisted chemical reactions present potentially more sustainable routes for process intensification compared with traditional approaches, due to the reduction of reaction times, temperatures, and side reactions. Despite the common misconcep... Read More about A novel method for fast and efficient numerical simulation of microwave heating in liquids during mixing.

Anchor carbon dots inside NH2-MIL-88B via ship-in-a-bottle strategy for dual signal enhancement in colorimetric-fluorescent sensors (2024)
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Lu, Y., Dong, X., Ji, G., Wang, X., Wang, T., Tang, C., Ola, O., Duan, H., Liu, Q., & Niu, Q. (2025). Anchor carbon dots inside NH2-MIL-88B via ship-in-a-bottle strategy for dual signal enhancement in colorimetric-fluorescent sensors. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 424, Article 136877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2024.136877

The increase in oxytetracycline (OTC) pollution has become a significant risk to ecological stability and human health because of excessive use. Therefore, developing a precise and reliable sensor for trace OTC detection is critical. In this work, a... Read More about Anchor carbon dots inside NH2-MIL-88B via ship-in-a-bottle strategy for dual signal enhancement in colorimetric-fluorescent sensors.

Repeatability and reproducibility of the measurement of prepreg tack following ASTM D8336: Results of a round-robin study (2024)
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Joesbury, A., Endruweit, A., Budelmann, D., Giannis, S., De Focatiis, D., Call, D., Chan, C., Choong, G., Clark, R., Collins, J., Fishpool, D., Garber, J., Ghose, S., Golding, J., Good, S., Jones, B., Meiners, D., Niitsoo, O., Palmer, C., Qian, C., …Yuan, H. (2025). Repeatability and reproducibility of the measurement of prepreg tack following ASTM D8336: Results of a round-robin study. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 188, Article 108561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2024.108561

This study reports the findings from a round robin test exercise investigating ASTM D8336, a method for the measurement of tack of prepregs applicable to automated material placement technologies. Twelve participants tested two prepreg materials in a... Read More about Repeatability and reproducibility of the measurement of prepreg tack following ASTM D8336: Results of a round-robin study.

Efficient approaches for building-integrated photovoltaic modules: Advancements in phase change materials and fin designs (2024)
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Kaplan, S., Sajadian, S., Mahdi, J. M., Mohammed, H. I., Tiji, M. E., Khosravi, K., Sen, S., & Talebizadehsardari, P. (2024). Efficient approaches for building-integrated photovoltaic modules: Advancements in phase change materials and fin designs. Journal of Energy Storage, 103(B), Article 114351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.114351

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) offer a sustainable energy solution yet encounter challenges such as low solar-to-electric conversion efficiency. Furthermore, elevated operating temperatures can degrade BIPV performance and reliability. This... Read More about Efficient approaches for building-integrated photovoltaic modules: Advancements in phase change materials and fin designs.

Preliminary Design of a GNSS Interference Mapping CubeSat Mission: JamSail (2024)
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Cormier, L., Yousif, T., Thompson, S., Arcia Gil, A., Pushparaj, N., Blunt, P., & Cappelletti, C. (2024). Preliminary Design of a GNSS Interference Mapping CubeSat Mission: JamSail. Aerospace, 11(11), Article 901. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11110901

The JamSail mission is an educational CubeSat aiming to design, develop, and demonstrate two new technologies on a small satellite, tentatively scheduled for launch no earlier than 2026. When launched, JamSail will demonstrate the functionality of tw... Read More about Preliminary Design of a GNSS Interference Mapping CubeSat Mission: JamSail.

Drop-on-demand 3D printing of programable magnetic composites for soft robotics (2024)
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Bastola, A., Parry, L., Worsley, R., Ahmed, N., Lester, E., Hague, R., & Tuck, C. (2024). Drop-on-demand 3D printing of programable magnetic composites for soft robotics. Additive Manufacturing Letters, 11, Article 100250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addlet.2024.100250

Soft robotics have become increasingly popular as a versatile alternative to traditional robotics. Magnetic composite materials, which respond to external magnetic fields, have attracted significant interest in this field due to their programmable tw... Read More about Drop-on-demand 3D printing of programable magnetic composites for soft robotics.

A novel dataset of annotated oyster mushroom images with environmental context for machine learning applications (2024)
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Duman, S., Elewi, A., Hajhamed, A., Khankan, R., Souag, A., & Ahmed, A. (2024). A novel dataset of annotated oyster mushroom images with environmental context for machine learning applications. Data in Brief, Article 111074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.111074

State-of-the-art technologies such as computer vision and machine learning, are revolutionizing the smart mushroom industry by addressing diverse challenges in yield prediction, growth analysis, mushroom classification, disease and deformation detect... Read More about A novel dataset of annotated oyster mushroom images with environmental context for machine learning applications.

Experimental and numerical validation of tape-based metasurfaces in guiding high-frequency surface waves for efficient power transfer (2024)
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Suzuki, K., Dang, P. T., Homma, H., Fathnan, A. A., Ashikaga, Y., Tsuchiya, Y., Phang, S., & Wakatsuchi, H. (2024). Experimental and numerical validation of tape-based metasurfaces in guiding high-frequency surface waves for efficient power transfer. Applied Physics Letters, 125(18), Article 181701. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0226667

We present an effective method for transmitting electromagnetic waves as surface waves with a tape-based metasurface design. This design incorporates silver square patches periodically patterned on an adhesive tape substrate. Specifically, our study... Read More about Experimental and numerical validation of tape-based metasurfaces in guiding high-frequency surface waves for efficient power transfer.

Shear Performance of RC Beams Strengthened with High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) Under Static and Fatigue Loading (2024)
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Liu, X., & Thermou, G. E. (2024). Shear Performance of RC Beams Strengthened with High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) Under Static and Fatigue Loading. Materials, 17(21), Article 5227. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17215227

This study experimentally assessed the shear performance of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with U-shaped High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) under static and fatigue loading. Key parameters included HPFRC jacket thickness... Read More about Shear Performance of RC Beams Strengthened with High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (HPFRC) Under Static and Fatigue Loading.

How do we decarbonize one billion vehicles by 2050? Insights from a comparative life cycle assessment of electrifying light-duty vehicle fleets in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom (2024)
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Huo, D., Davies, B., Li, J., Alzaghrini, N., Sun, X., Meng, F., Abdul-Manan, A. F., McKechnie, J., Posen, I. D., & MacLean, H. L. (2024). How do we decarbonize one billion vehicles by 2050? Insights from a comparative life cycle assessment of electrifying light-duty vehicle fleets in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 195, 114390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114390

Electrifying light-duty vehicle fleets is essential to decarbonize road transport, however its efficacy relies on policies targeting country-specific challenges and opportunities. We model and compare fleet-level life cycle GHG emissions for differen... Read More about How do we decarbonize one billion vehicles by 2050? Insights from a comparative life cycle assessment of electrifying light-duty vehicle fleets in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom.

Comparison of rigorous scattering models to accurately replicate the behaviour of scattered electromagnetic waves in optical surface metrology (2024)
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Hooshmand, H., Pahl, T., Hansen, P.-E., Fu, L., Birk, A., Karamehmedović, M., Lehmann, P., Reichelt, S., Leach, R., & Piano, S. (2024). Comparison of rigorous scattering models to accurately replicate the behaviour of scattered electromagnetic waves in optical surface metrology. Journal of Computational Physics, Article 113519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113519

Additive manufacturing of functionalised atomic vapour cells for next-generation quantum technologies (2024)
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Wang, F., Cooper, N., He, Y., Hopton, B., Johnson, D., Zhao, P., Tuck, C. J., Hague, R., Fromhold, T. M., Wildman, R., Turyanska, L., & Hackermueller, L. (2025). Additive manufacturing of functionalised atomic vapour cells for next-generation quantum technologies. Quantum Science and Technology, 10(1), Article 015019. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ad8678

Atomic vapour cells are an indispensable tool for quantum technologies (QT), but potential improvements are limited by the capacities of conventional manufacturing techniques. Using an additive manufacturing (AM) technique—vat polymerisation by digit... Read More about Additive manufacturing of functionalised atomic vapour cells for next-generation quantum technologies.

A multi-scale uncertainty quantification model encompassing minimum-size unit cells for effective properties of plain woven composites (2024)
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Yang, Y.-C., Gou, J.-J., Gong, C.-L., Sun, Y.-E., & Li, S. (2025). A multi-scale uncertainty quantification model encompassing minimum-size unit cells for effective properties of plain woven composites. Composite Structures, Article 118648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2024.118648

The uncertainty quantification is crucial to the high-precision prediction of composites’ effective properties. However, the unclear input uncertainties of multiscale parameters, complex uncertainty propagations of inter-scale correlations, and unaff... Read More about A multi-scale uncertainty quantification model encompassing minimum-size unit cells for effective properties of plain woven composites.

Advancing Carbon Dioxide Capture: Investigation into the Kinetics and Efficiency of Absorption in Molten Calcium Oxide-Chloride (2024)
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Hall, M., Rigby, S. P., & Chen, G. Z. (2024). Advancing Carbon Dioxide Capture: Investigation into the Kinetics and Efficiency of Absorption in Molten Calcium Oxide-Chloride. RSC Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4su00354c

One promising carbon capture technology is the absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) by molten salt, specifically the molten mixture of calcium oxide and chloride (CaO + CaCl2, COC), as it solves some of the key issues with alternative methods, includin... Read More about Advancing Carbon Dioxide Capture: Investigation into the Kinetics and Efficiency of Absorption in Molten Calcium Oxide-Chloride.

Effects of oil palm trunk biochar as filler on physical and mechanical properties of deproteinised and epoxidised natural rubber latex foam (2024)
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Ramli, R., Chai, A. B., Kamaruddin, S., Ho, J. H., Mohd. Rasdi, F. R., De Focatiis, D. S. A., Ong, S. K., & Bachmann, R. T. (2024). Effects of oil palm trunk biochar as filler on physical and mechanical properties of deproteinised and epoxidised natural rubber latex foam. Journal of Rubber Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42464-024-00283-1

Oil palm trunk biochar (OPTB) serves as a flame-retardant additive aimed at enhancing the thermal stability of natural rubber (NR) latex foam. This study explores whether OPTB affects the physical and mechanical properties of specialty NR (SpNR) late... Read More about Effects of oil palm trunk biochar as filler on physical and mechanical properties of deproteinised and epoxidised natural rubber latex foam.