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Extracting an Empirical Intermetallic Hydride Design Principle from Limited Data via Interpretable Machine Learning (2019)
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Witman, M., Ling, S., Grant, D. M., Walker, G. S., Agarwal, S., Stavila, V., & Allendorf, M. D. (2020). Extracting an Empirical Intermetallic Hydride Design Principle from Limited Data via Interpretable Machine Learning. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(1), 40-47. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02971

An open question in the metal hydride community is whether there are simple, physics-based design rules that dictate the thermodynamic properties of these materials across the variety of structures and chemistry they can exhibit. While black box mach... Read More about Extracting an Empirical Intermetallic Hydride Design Principle from Limited Data via Interpretable Machine Learning.

Discharge of a composite metal foam/phase change material to air heat exchanger for a domestic thermal storage unit (2019)
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Talebizadeh Sardari, P., Giddings, D., Grant, D., Gillott, M., & Walker, G. S. (2020). Discharge of a composite metal foam/phase change material to air heat exchanger for a domestic thermal storage unit. Renewable Energy, 148, 987-1001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.10.084

This paper evaluates the discharging mechanism in a PCM (phase change material) to air heat exchanger for the purpose of space heating using a composite of copper foam and PCM. The composite system is modelled with both 2-D and 3-D computational flui... Read More about Discharge of a composite metal foam/phase change material to air heat exchanger for a domestic thermal storage unit.

Impact of Serum Source on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenic Differentiation in Culture (2019)
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Popov, A., Scotchford, C., Grant, D., & Sottile, V. (2019). Impact of Serum Source on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenic Differentiation in Culture. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20(20), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20205051

Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) show promise for musculoskeletal repair applications. Animal-derived serum is extensively used for MSC culture as a source of nutrients, extracellular matrix proteins and growth factors. However, the routine use of... Read More about Impact of Serum Source on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenic Differentiation in Culture.

Numerical study of a multiple-segment metal foam-PCM latent heat storage unit: Effect of porosity, pore density and location of heat source (2019)
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Sardari, P. T., Mohammed, H. I., Giddings, D., walker, G. S., Gillott, M., & Grant, D. (2019). Numerical study of a multiple-segment metal foam-PCM latent heat storage unit: Effect of porosity, pore density and location of heat source. Energy, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.116108

This study numerically investigates the performance of the melting process for a PCM based heat storage system under the effect of different variables in a vertical container with a copper metal foam. Different cases were studied and compared includi... Read More about Numerical study of a multiple-segment metal foam-PCM latent heat storage unit: Effect of porosity, pore density and location of heat source.

Improved phosphate‐based glass fiber performance achieved through acid etch/polydopamine treatment (2019)
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Parsons, A. J., Felfel, R. M., Wadge, M. D., & Grant, D. M. (2020). Improved phosphate‐based glass fiber performance achieved through acid etch/polydopamine treatment. International Journal of Applied Glass Science, 11(1), 35-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijag.13672

Phosphate based glass fibres (PGF) are of interest as reinforcements for degradable implants, but have seen limited application due to their rapid loss of strength when subjected to aqueous conditions. Previous studies have utilised heat treatments t... Read More about Improved phosphate‐based glass fiber performance achieved through acid etch/polydopamine treatment.

Numerical modelling of phase change material melting process embedded in porous media: Effect of heat storage size (2019)
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Talebizadeh Sardari, P., Walker, G. S., Gillott, M., Grant, D., & Giddings, D. (2019). Numerical modelling of phase change material melting process embedded in porous media: Effect of heat storage size. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957650919862974

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of enclosure size in latent heat thermal energy storage systems embedded in a porous medium for domestic usage of latent heat thermal energy storage heat exchangers. A 2-D rectangular enclosure is consi... Read More about Numerical modelling of phase change material melting process embedded in porous media: Effect of heat storage size.

Layered Al2O3-SiO2 and Al2O3-Ta2O5 thin-film composites for high dielectric strength, deposited by pulsed direct current and radio frequency magnetron sputtering (2019)
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Hanby, B. V., Stuart, B. W., Gimeno-Fabra, M., Moffat, J., Gerada, C., & Grant, D. M. (2019). Layered Al2O3-SiO2 and Al2O3-Ta2O5 thin-film composites for high dielectric strength, deposited by pulsed direct current and radio frequency magnetron sputtering. Applied Surface Science, 492, 328-336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.06.202

Multilayer thin films have the potential to act as high dielectric strength insulation for wire and microelectronics. In this study, films consisting of 2, 4 or 8 layers, composed of Al2O3 with SiO2 or Ta2O5, were prepared via pulsed direct current a... Read More about Layered Al2O3-SiO2 and Al2O3-Ta2O5 thin-film composites for high dielectric strength, deposited by pulsed direct current and radio frequency magnetron sputtering.

Modelling a kinetic deviation of the magnesium hydrogenation reaction at conditions close to equilibrium (2019)
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Adams, M., Grant, D. M., Stuart, A., & Walker, G. S. (2019). Modelling a kinetic deviation of the magnesium hydrogenation reaction at conditions close to equilibrium. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44(55), 29123-29131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.04.036

A model has been derived for the magnesium hydrogenation reaction at conditions close to equilibrium. The reaction mechanism involves an adsorption element, where the model is an extension of the Langmuir adsorption model. The concept of site availab... Read More about Modelling a kinetic deviation of the magnesium hydrogenation reaction at conditions close to equilibrium.

Porous phosphate-based glass microspheres show biocompatibility, tissue infiltration and osteogenic onset in an ovine bone defect model (2019)
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McLaren, J. S., Macri-Pellizzeri, L., Zakir Hossain, K. M., Patel, U., Grant, D. M., Scammell, B. E., …Sottile, V. (2019). Porous phosphate-based glass microspheres show biocompatibility, tissue infiltration and osteogenic onset in an ovine bone defect model. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(17), 15436–15446. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b04603

Phosphate-based glasses (PBG) are bioactive and fully degradable materials with tailorable degradation rates. PBGs can be produced as porous microspheres through a single-step process, using changes in their formulation and geometry to produce varyin... Read More about Porous phosphate-based glass microspheres show biocompatibility, tissue infiltration and osteogenic onset in an ovine bone defect model.

Integrated multi-assay culture model for stem cell chondrogenic differentiation (2019)
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Prosser, A., Scotchford, C., Roberts, G., Grant, D., & Sottile, V. (2019). Integrated multi-assay culture model for stem cell chondrogenic differentiation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20040951

Recent osteochondral repair strategies highlight the promise of mesenchymal progenitors, an accessible stem cell source with osteogenic and chondrogenic potential, used in conjunction with biomaterials for tissue engineering. For this, regenerative m... Read More about Integrated multi-assay culture model for stem cell chondrogenic differentiation.

In vitro cellular testing of Strontium/Calcium substituted phosphate glass discs and microspheres shows potential for bone regeneration (2019)
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Patel, U., Macri-Pellizzeri, L., Hossain, K. M. Z., Scammell, B. E., Grant, D. M., Scotchford, C. A., …Sottile, V. (2019). In vitro cellular testing of Strontium/Calcium substituted phosphate glass discs and microspheres shows potential for bone regeneration. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 13(3), 396-405. https://doi.org/10.1002/term.2796

Phosphate glasses (PBG) are ideal materials for regenerative medicine strategies since their composition, degradation rates and ion release profiles can easily be controlled. Strontium has previously been found to simultaneously affect bone resorptio... Read More about In vitro cellular testing of Strontium/Calcium substituted phosphate glass discs and microspheres shows potential for bone regeneration.