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Dilatonic effect in double field theory cosmology (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, Y. (2022). Dilatonic effect in double field theory cosmology. General Relativity and Gravitation, 54(2), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-022-02898-4

In this article we discuss some aspects of double field theory cosmology with an emphasis on the role played by the dilaton. The cosmological solutions of double field theory equations of motion after coupling a shifted dilaton to them are investigat... Read More about Dilatonic effect in double field theory cosmology.

Experimental determination of the interaction potential between a helium atom and the interior surface of a C60 fullerene molecule (2021)
Journal Article
Bacanu, G. R., Jafari, T., Aouane, M., Rantaharju, J., Walkey, M., Hoffman, G., …Levitt, M. H. (2021). Experimental determination of the interaction potential between a helium atom and the interior surface of a C60 fullerene molecule. Journal of Chemical Physics, 155(14), Article 144302. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0066817

The interactions between atoms and molecules may be described by a potential energy function of the nuclear coordinates. Nonbonded interactions between neutral atoms or molecules are dominated by repulsive forces at a short range and attractive dispe... Read More about Experimental determination of the interaction potential between a helium atom and the interior surface of a C60 fullerene molecule.

Estimation and removal of spurious echo artifacts in single‐voxel MRS using sensitivity encoding (2021)
Journal Article
Berrington, A., Považan, M., & Barker, P. B. (2021). Estimation and removal of spurious echo artifacts in single‐voxel MRS using sensitivity encoding. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 86(5), 2339-2352. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28848

Purpose In localized MRS, spurious echo artifacts commonly occur when unsuppressed signal outside the volume of interest is excited and refocused. In the spectral domain, these signals often overlap with metabolite resonances and hinder accurate q... Read More about Estimation and removal of spurious echo artifacts in single‐voxel MRS using sensitivity encoding.

Imaging Cerebral Blood Flow for Brain Health Measurement (2021)
Book Chapter
Burley, C. V., Mullinger, K. J., Thomas, K. N., Rendeiro, C., Dehghani, H., & Lucas, S. J. (2021). Imaging Cerebral Blood Flow for Brain Health Measurement. In Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology (126-135). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-819641-0.00157-2

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) measures are used in clinical settings to diagnose conditions (e.g., vasospasms, sickle cell disease, stroke, dementia, confirmation of brain death), as well as in research, emerging as potential early biomarkers of declinin... Read More about Imaging Cerebral Blood Flow for Brain Health Measurement.

The Role of Defects on the Performance of Quantum Dot Intermediate Band Solar Cells (2021)
Journal Article
Collazos, L. J., Al Huwayz, M. M., Jakomin, R., Micha, D. N., Dornelas Pinto, L., Kawabata, R. M., …Souza, P. L. (2021). The Role of Defects on the Performance of Quantum Dot Intermediate Band Solar Cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 11(4), 1022-1031. https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2021.3070433

Electrically active defects present in three InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) intermediate band solar cells grown by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy have been investigated. The devices' structures are almost identical, differing only in the growth tempe... Read More about The Role of Defects on the Performance of Quantum Dot Intermediate Band Solar Cells.

Examination of the association between exposure to childhood maltreatment and brain structure in young adults: a machine learning analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Price, M., Albaugh, M., Hahn, S., Juliano, A. C., Fani, N., Brier, Z. M. F., …Garavan, H. (2021). Examination of the association between exposure to childhood maltreatment and brain structure in young adults: a machine learning analysis. Neuropsychopharmacology, 46(11), 1888-1894. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-00987-7

Exposure to maltreatment during childhood is associated with structural changes throughout the brain. However, the structural differences that are most strongly associated with maltreatment remain unclear given the limited number of whole-brain studi... Read More about Examination of the association between exposure to childhood maltreatment and brain structure in young adults: a machine learning analysis.

Universal mobility characteristics of graphene originating from charge scattering by ionised impurities (2021)
Journal Article
Gosling, J. H., Makarovsky, O., Wang, F., Cottam, N. D., Greenaway, M. T., Patanè, A., …Fromhold, T. M. (2021). Universal mobility characteristics of graphene originating from charge scattering by ionised impurities. Communications Physics, 4(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00518-2

Pristine graphene and graphene-based heterostructures can exhibit exceptionally high electron mobility if their surface contains few electron-scattering impurities. Mobility directly influences electrical conductivity and its dependence on the carrie... Read More about Universal mobility characteristics of graphene originating from charge scattering by ionised impurities.

Additively manufactured ultra-high vacuum chamber for portable quantum technologies (2021)
Journal Article
Cooper, N., Coles, L., Everton, S., Maskery, I., Campion, R., Madkhaly, S., …Hackermüller, L. (2021). Additively manufactured ultra-high vacuum chamber for portable quantum technologies. Additive Manufacturing, 40, Article 101898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.101898

© 2021 Additive manufacturing is having a dramatic impact on research and industry across multiple sectors, but the production of additively manufactured systems for ultra-high vacuum applications has so far proved elusive and widely been considered... Read More about Additively manufactured ultra-high vacuum chamber for portable quantum technologies.

Size, shade or shape? The contribution of galaxies of different types to the star-formation history of the Universe from SDSS-IV MaNGA (2021)
Journal Article
Peterken, T., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Merrifield, M., Avila-Reese, V., Boardman, N. F., Sánchez, H. D., …Brownstein, J. R. (2021). Size, shade or shape? The contribution of galaxies of different types to the star-formation history of the Universe from SDSS-IV MaNGA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(3), 3128–3143. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab268

Combined total internal reflection AF spectral-imaging and Raman spectroscopy for fast assessment of surgical margins during breast cancer surgery (2021)
Journal Article
Lizio, M. G., Liao, Z., Shipp, D. W., Boitor, R., Mihai, R., Sharp, J. S., …Notingher, I. (2021). Combined total internal reflection AF spectral-imaging and Raman spectroscopy for fast assessment of surgical margins during breast cancer surgery. Biomedical Optics Express, 12(2), 940-954. https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.411648

The standard treatment for breast cancer is surgical removal mainly through breast conserving surgey (BCS). We developed a new technique based on auto-fluorescence (AF) spectral imaging and Raman spectroscopy for fast intraoperative assessment of exc... Read More about Combined total internal reflection AF spectral-imaging and Raman spectroscopy for fast assessment of surgical margins during breast cancer surgery.

Euclid: Forecast constraints on the cosmic distance duality relation with complementary external probes (2020)
Journal Article
Martinelli, M., Martins, C., Nesseris, S., Sapone, D., Tutusaus, I., Avgoustidis, A., …Zacchei, A. (2020). Euclid: Forecast constraints on the cosmic distance duality relation with complementary external probes. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 644, Article A80. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039078

In metric theories of gravity with photon number conservation, the luminosity and angular diameter distances are related via the Etherington relation, also known as the distance-duality relation (DDR). A violation of this relation would rule out the... Read More about Euclid: Forecast constraints on the cosmic distance duality relation with complementary external probes.

Spin-Induced Black Hole Spontaneous Scalarization (2020)
Journal Article
Dima, A., Barausse, E., Franchini, N., & Sotiriou, T. P. (2020). Spin-Induced Black Hole Spontaneous Scalarization. Physical Review Letters, 125(23), Article 231101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.231101

We study scalar fields in a black hole background and show that, when the scalar is suitably coupled to curvature, rapid rotation can induce a tachyonic instability. This instability, which is the hallmark of spontaneous scalarization in the lineariz... Read More about Spin-Induced Black Hole Spontaneous Scalarization.

A LEGO TM Dynamic Force "Macroscope" (2020)
Journal Article
Taylor, D., Smaje, . H., & Moriarty, P. (2020). A LEGO TM Dynamic Force "Macroscope". American Journal of Physics, 88(11), Article 906. https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0001700

We describe the design, construction, and operation of a LEGO TM model of a dynamic force microscope, using magnetic forces as an analog of interatomic interactions. The "macroscope" provides key insights into the operating principles of frequency mo... Read More about A LEGO TM Dynamic Force "Macroscope".