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Evaluation of online project-based induction activities in Forensic Science (2023)
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Cartwright, V. (2023). Evaluation of online project-based induction activities in Forensic Science. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/77pf-h729

A new project-based induction was designed for 2020. The induction was a fully online project for welcoming our first-year students. The aims of the activities were to concentrate on a smooth and successful transition into higher education, intro... Read More about Evaluation of online project-based induction activities in Forensic Science.

Scavenging of Cation Radicals of the Visual Cycle Retinoids by Lutein, Zeaxanthin, Taurine, and Melanin (2023)
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Rozanowska, M., Edge, R., Land, E. J., Navaratnam, S., Sarna, T., & Truscott, T. G. (in press). Scavenging of Cation Radicals of the Visual Cycle Retinoids by Lutein, Zeaxanthin, Taurine, and Melanin. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(1), Article 506. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25010506

In the retina, retinoids involved in vision are under constant threat of oxidation, and their oxidation products exhibit deleterious properties. Using pulse radiolysis, this study determined that the bimolecular rate constants of scavenging cation ra... Read More about Scavenging of Cation Radicals of the Visual Cycle Retinoids by Lutein, Zeaxanthin, Taurine, and Melanin.

Sustainable supercapacitor with a natural rubber-based electrolyte and natural graphite-based electrodes (2023)
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Perera, K., Vidanapathirana, K., Adams, L. J., & Balakrishnan, N. (2023). Sustainable supercapacitor with a natural rubber-based electrolyte and natural graphite-based electrodes. Electrochemical Science Advances, Article e2300025. https://doi.org/10.1002/elsa.202300025

Supercapacitors are at the forefront of energy storage devices due to their ability to fulfill quick power requirements. However, safety and cost are important parameters for their real-world applications. Green materials-based electrodes and electro... Read More about Sustainable supercapacitor with a natural rubber-based electrolyte and natural graphite-based electrodes.

The EDIBLES survey: VII. A survey of C2 and C3 in interstellar clouds (2023)
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Fan, H., Rocha, C. M. R., Cordiner, M., Linnartz, H., Cox, N. L. J., Farhang, A., …Cami, J. (2024). The EDIBLES survey: VII. A survey of C2 and C3 in interstellar clouds. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 681, Article A6. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243910

Context. Small linear carbon chain radicals such as C2 and C3 act as both the building blocks and dissociation fragments of larger carbonaceous species. Their rotational excitation traces the temperature and density of local environments. However, th... Read More about The EDIBLES survey: VII. A survey of C2 and C3 in interstellar clouds.

Evaluating the use of virtual crime scenes to support student understanding of crime scene investigation (2023)
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Handley, G. (2023). Evaluating the use of virtual crime scenes to support student understanding of crime scene investigation. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/3fd5-we15

This project aimed to explore the implementation of a virtual crime scene using the interactive visual platform ThingLink, to support student learning of crime scene investigation. This was necessary to facilitate learning during the national lockdow... Read More about Evaluating the use of virtual crime scenes to support student understanding of crime scene investigation.

Evaluation of Online Team Based Learning: Staff and Student Perspectives (2023)
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Richardson, M., & Plana, D. (2023). Evaluation of Online Team Based Learning: Staff and Student Perspectives. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/a6ck-1t65

With the forced move online during the Covid19 pandemic, Keele chemistry programmes turned to Team Based Learning (TBL) as an active learning method that could be adapted to a virtual environment. TBL is a structured, collaborative form of learni... Read More about Evaluation of Online Team Based Learning: Staff and Student Perspectives.

10 years of curriculum change viewed through the lens of student workload (2023)
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Haxton, K. J. (2023). 10 years of curriculum change viewed through the lens of student workload. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/4czv-h521

The past decade has seen significant changes to the Chemistry course at Keele including two curriculum reviews, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a more gradual evolution of how we teach, particularly including flipped classroom methods. Student workload pr... Read More about 10 years of curriculum change viewed through the lens of student workload.

TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system (2023)
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Osborne, H. L. M., Van Eylen, V., Goffo, E., Gandolfi, D., Nowak, G., Persson, C. M., …Lam, K. W. F. (in press). TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(4), 11138-11157. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3837

We report on the precise radial velocity follow-up of TOI-544 (HD 290498), a bright K star (V=10.8), which hosts a small transiting planet recently discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We collected 122 high-resolution HARPS... Read More about TOI-544 b: a potential water-world inside the radius valley in a two-planet system.

Multiscale effects in tandem CO 2 electrolysis to C 2+ products (2023)
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Cousins, L. S., & Creissen, C. E. (in press). Multiscale effects in tandem CO 2 electrolysis to C 2+ products. Nanoscale, https://doi.org/10.1039/d3nr05547g

CO2 electrolysis is a sustainable technology capable of accelerating global decarbonisation through the production of high-value alternatives to fossil-derived products. CO2 conversion can generate critical multicarbon (C2+) products such as drop-in... Read More about Multiscale effects in tandem CO 2 electrolysis to C 2+ products.

EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (2023)
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Guarcello, M., Flaccomio, E., Albacete-Colombo, J., Almendros-Abad, V., Anastasopoulou, K., Andersen, M., …Zeidler, P. (2023). EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 682, Article A49

Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitationa... Read More about EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey.

Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase (2023)
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Arnott, Z. L. P., Morgan, H. E., Hollingsworth, K., Stevenson, C. M. E., Collins, L. J., Tamasanu, A., …Webb, M. E. (2024). Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase. Angewandte Chemie, Article e202310862. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202310862

Quantitative and selective labelling of proteins is widely used in both academic and industrial laboratories, and catalytic labelling of proteins using transpeptidases, such as sortases, has proved to be a popular strategy for such selective modifica... Read More about Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase.

Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase (2023)
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Arnott, Z. L. P., Morgan, H. E., Hollingsworth, K., Stevenson, C. M. E., Collins, L. J., Tamasanu, A., …Webb, M. E. (2024). Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63(8), Article e202310862. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202310862

Quantitative and selective labelling of proteins is widely used in both academic and industrial laboratories, and catalytic labelling of proteins using transpeptidases, such as sortases, has proved to be a popular strategy for such selective modifica... Read More about Quantitative N‐ or C‐Terminal Labelling of Proteins with Unactivated Peptides by Use of Sortases and a d ‐Aminopeptidase.

TESS Cycle 2 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data (2023)
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Holdsworth, D. L., Cunha, M. S., Lares-Martiz, M., Kurtz, D. W., Antoci, V., Forteza, S. B., …Seager, S. (2024). TESS Cycle 2 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(4), 9548-9580. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3800

We present the results of a systematic search of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) 2-min cadence data for new rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) stars observed during the Cycle 2 phase of its mission. We find seven new roAp stars previously... Read More about TESS Cycle 2 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data.

Conical shell X-ray beam tomosynthesis and micro-computed tomography for microarchitectural characterisation (2023)
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Arnold, E. L., Elarnaut, F., Downes, D., Evans, J. P. O., Greenwood, C., & Rogers, K. D. (in press). Conical shell X-ray beam tomosynthesis and micro-computed tomography for microarchitectural characterisation. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 21480. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48851-6

Bone quality is commonly used to diagnose bone diseases such as osteoporosis, with many studies focusing on microarchitecture for fracture prediction. In this study a bovine distal femur was imaged using both micro-computed tomography (µCT) and tomos... Read More about Conical shell X-ray beam tomosynthesis and micro-computed tomography for microarchitectural characterisation.

Juggling Optoelectronics and Catalysis: The Dual Talents of Bench Stable 1,4‐Azaborinines (2023)
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van Beek, C. M., Swarbrook, A. M., Creissen, C. E., Hawes, C. S., Gazis, T. A., & Matthews, P. D. (2023). Juggling Optoelectronics and Catalysis: The Dual Talents of Bench Stable 1,4‐Azaborinines. Chemistry - A European Journal, 30(8), Article e202301944. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202301944

Boron‐ and nitrogen‐doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (B‐PAHs) have established a strong foothold in the realm of organic electronics. However, their catalytic potential remains largely untapped. In this study, we synthesise and characterise two... Read More about Juggling Optoelectronics and Catalysis: The Dual Talents of Bench Stable 1,4‐Azaborinines.

Optical Monitoring of the Didymos–Dimorphos Asteroid System with the Danish Telescope around the DART Mission Impact (2023)
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Rożek, A., Snodgrass, C., Jørgensen, U. G., Pravec, P., Bonavita, M., Rabus, M., …Castillo Baeza, N. S. (2023). Optical Monitoring of the Didymos–Dimorphos Asteroid System with the Danish Telescope around the DART Mission Impact. The Planetary Science Journal, 4(12), Article 236. https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/ad0a64

The NASA’s Double-Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a unique planetary defence and technology test mission, the first of its kind. The main spacecraft of the DART mission impacted the target asteroid Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the asteroid D... Read More about Optical Monitoring of the Didymos–Dimorphos Asteroid System with the Danish Telescope around the DART Mission Impact.

Magnesium oxide loaded mesoporous silica: Synthesis, characterisation and use in removing lead and cadmium from water supplies (2023)
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Saod, W., Oliver, I., Thompson, D., Holborn, S., Contini, A., Zholobenko, V., & Zholobenko, V. (2023). Magnesium oxide loaded mesoporous silica: Synthesis, characterisation and use in removing lead and cadmium from water supplies. Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring & Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enmm.2023.100817

Water pollution by potentially toxic elements such as cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) is a persistent problem in many parts of the world. It continues to have profound implications for drinking water supplies, wastewater discharge and environmental qualit... Read More about Magnesium oxide loaded mesoporous silica: Synthesis, characterisation and use in removing lead and cadmium from water supplies.

Very massive star models: I. Impact of rotation and metallicity and comparisons with observations (2023)
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Martinet, S., Meynet, G., Ekström, S., Georgy, C., & Hirschi, R. (2023). Very massive star models: I. Impact of rotation and metallicity and comparisons with observations. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 679, Article A137. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347514

Context. In addition to being spectacular objects, very massive stars (VMSs) are suspected to have a tremendous impact on their environment and on cosmic evolution in general. The nucleosynthesis both during their advanced stages and their final expl... Read More about Very massive star models: I. Impact of rotation and metallicity and comparisons with observations.

A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067. (2023)
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Luque, R., Osborn, H. P., Leleu, A., Pallé, E., Bonfanti, A., Barragán, O., …Zingales, T. (in press). A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067. Nature, 623(7989), 932-937. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06692-3

Planets with radii between that of the Earth and Neptune (hereafter referred to as 'sub-Neptunes') are found in close-in orbits around more than half of all Sun-like stars . However, their composition, formation and evolution remain poorly understood... Read More about A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067..