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A folded [2 x 2] metallo-supramolecular grid from a bis-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligand (2017)
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Barry, D. E., Hawes, C. S., Byrne, J. P., la Cour Poulsen, B., Ruether, M., O'Brien, J. E., & Gunnlaugsson, T. (2017). A folded [2 x 2] metallo-supramolecular grid from a bis-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligand. Dalton Transactions, 6464 -6472. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7DT01533J

A flexible ditopic ligand 1 containing two N,N,O-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide chelating pockets is reported and the formation of multimetallic architectures is explored in the solid and the solution phase. The self-assembled ZnII comp... Read More about A folded [2 x 2] metallo-supramolecular grid from a bis-tridentate (1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-picolinamide (tzpa) ligand.

The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata (2017)
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Drijfhout. (2017). The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata. Scientific reports, 1933 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01667-7

Cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) have been successfully used in the field of forensic entomology for identifying and ageing forensically important blowfly species, primarily in the larval stages. However in older scenes where all other entomological evid... Read More about The potential use of cuticular hydrocarbons and multivariate analysis to age empty puparial cases of Calliphora vicina and Lucilia sericata.

Kinematic control of extreme jump angles in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. (2017)
Journal Article
Collings. (2017). Kinematic control of extreme jump angles in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. Journal of Experimental Biology, 1894 - 1904. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.144279

The kinematic flexibility of frog hindlimbs enables multiple locomotor modes within a single species. Prior work has extensively explored maximum performance capacity in frogs; however, the mechanisms by which anurans modulate performance within loco... Read More about Kinematic control of extreme jump angles in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata..

Inverse dynamic modelling of jumping in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. (2017)
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Collings. (2017). Inverse dynamic modelling of jumping in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata. Journal of Experimental Biology, 1882 - 1893. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.155416

Although the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata, is secondarily a walker/runner, it retains the capacity for multiple locomotor modes, including jumping at a wide range of angles (nearly 70 deg). Using simultaneous hind limb kinematics and sin... Read More about Inverse dynamic modelling of jumping in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata..

Towards Medical Diagnostics Using Hyperspectral X-ray scatter (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Greenwood, C., Rogers, K., Wilson, M., Lyburn, I., Evans, P., & Davies, G. (2017). Towards Medical Diagnostics Using Hyperspectral X-ray scatter.

This pilot study builds from a recent international, programme that showed, for the first time, the clinical value of new biomarkers to predict fracture risk in osteoporotic patients. The research indicated several potential, high impact routes towar... Read More about Towards Medical Diagnostics Using Hyperspectral X-ray scatter.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters (2017)
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Jeffreson, S., Sanders, J., Evans, N., Williams, A., Gilmore, G., Bayo, A., …Zaggia, S. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(4), 4740 -4762. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1152

We present a family of self-consistent axisymmetric rotating globular cluster models which are fitted to spectroscopic data for NGC 362, NGC 1851, NGC 2808, NGC 4372, NGC 5927 and NGC 6752 to provide constraints on their physical and kinematic proper... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: dynamical models of flattened, rotating globular clusters.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I (2017)
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Sacco, G., Spina, L., Randich, S., Palla, F., Parker, R., Jeffries, R., …Zaggia, S. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 601, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629698

Investigating the physical mechanisms driving the dynamical evolution of young star clusters is fundamental to our understanding of the star formation process and the properties of the Galactic field stars. The young (~2 Myr) and partially embedded c... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I.

Light-induced unfolding and refolding of supramolecular polymer nanofibres. (2017)
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Adhikari, B., Yamada, Y., Yamauchi, M., Wakita, K., Lin, X., Aratsu, K., …Shimizu, N. (2017). Light-induced unfolding and refolding of supramolecular polymer nanofibres. Nature communications, 8, Article 15254. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15254

Unlike classical covalent polymers, one-dimensionally (1D) elongated supramolecular polymers (SPs) can be encoded with high degrees of internal order by the cooperative aggregation of molecular subunits, which endows these SPs with extraordinary prop... Read More about Light-induced unfolding and refolding of supramolecular polymer nanofibres..

The SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy program: the life-cycle of dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Point source classification - III (2017)
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Jones, O., Woods, P., Kemper, F., Kraemer, K., Sloan, G., Srinivasan, S., …Volk, K. (2017). The SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy program: the life-cycle of dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Point source classification - III. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(3), 3250 -3282. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1101

The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on the Spitzer Space Telescope observed nearly 800 point sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), taking over 1000 spectra. 197 of these targets were observed as part of the SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy program; the re... Read More about The SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy program: the life-cycle of dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Point source classification - III.

Harnessing open-source technology for low-cost automation in synthesis: flow chemical deprotection of silyl ethers using a homemade autosampling system. (2017)
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O'Brien, M., Konings, L., Martin, M., & Heap, J. (2017). Harnessing open-source technology for low-cost automation in synthesis: flow chemical deprotection of silyl ethers using a homemade autosampling system. Tetrahedron Letters, 2409-2413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2017.05.008

An inexpensive homemade 3-axis autosampler was used to facilitate the automation of an acid catalysed flow chemical desilylation reaction. Harnessing open-source software technologies (Python, OpenCV), an automated computer-vision controlled liquid-l... Read More about Harnessing open-source technology for low-cost automation in synthesis: flow chemical deprotection of silyl ethers using a homemade autosampling system..

The Gaia-ESO Survey: the present-day radial metallicity distribution of the Galactic disc probed by pre-main-sequence clusters ??? (2017)
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Jeffries. (2017). The Gaia-ESO Survey: the present-day radial metallicity distribution of the Galactic disc probed by pre-main-sequence clusters ???. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201630078

Context. The radial metallicity distribution in the Galactic thin disc represents a crucial constraint for modelling disc formation and evolution. Open star clusters allow us to derive both the radial metallicity distribution and its evolution over t... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: the present-day radial metallicity distribution of the Galactic disc probed by pre-main-sequence clusters ???.

The formation of EL CVn-type binaries (2017)
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Maxted. (2017). The formation of EL CVn-type binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1874 -1889. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx115

EL CVn-type binaries are eclipsing binaries that contain an A- or F-type dwarf star and a very low mass (~0.2?M?) helium white dwarf precursor (proto-He WD). A number of such objects have been discovered in the Wide Angle Search for Planets and Keple... Read More about The formation of EL CVn-type binaries.

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIII. The orbital obliquity of three close-in massive planets hosted by dwarf K-type stars: WASP-43, HAT-P-20 and Qatar-2 (2017)
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Esposito, M., Covino, E., Desidera, S., Mancini, L., Nascimbeni, V., Zanmar Sanchez, R., …Turner, O. (2017). The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIII. The orbital obliquity of three close-in massive planets hosted by dwarf K-type stars: WASP-43, HAT-P-20 and Qatar-2. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 601, Article A53. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629720

Context. The orbital obliquity of planets with respect to the rotational axis of their host stars is a relevant parameter for the characterization of the global architecture of planetary systems and a key observational constraint to discriminate betw... Read More about The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIII. The orbital obliquity of three close-in massive planets hosted by dwarf K-type stars: WASP-43, HAT-P-20 and Qatar-2.

Starspots on WASP-107 and pulsations of WASP-118 (2017)
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Močnik, T., Hellier, C., Anderson, D., Clark, B., & Taylor, J. (2017). Starspots on WASP-107 and pulsations of WASP-118. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(2), 1622 - 1629. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx972

By analysing the K2 short-cadence photometry, we detect starspot occultation events in the light curve of WASP-107, the host star of a warm-Saturn exoplanet. WASP-107 also shows a rotational modulation with a period of 17.5 ± 1.4 d. Given that the ro... Read More about Starspots on WASP-107 and pulsations of WASP-118.

A Modular Approach to Inorganic Phosphazane Macrocycles (2017)
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Plajer, A. J., García‐Rodríguez, R., Benson, C. G., Matthews, P. D., Bond, A. D., Singh, S., …Wright, D. S. (2017). A Modular Approach to Inorganic Phosphazane Macrocycles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56(31), 9087-9090. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201702558

Inorganic macrocycles, based on non-carbon backbones, present exciting synthetic challenges in the systematic assembly of inorganic molecules, as well as new avenues in host–guest and supramolecular chemistry. Here we demonstrate a new high-yielding... Read More about A Modular Approach to Inorganic Phosphazane Macrocycles.

A high spectral resolution map of the nuclear emitting regions of NGC 7582 (2017)
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(2017). A high spectral resolution map of the nuclear emitting regions of NGC 7582. Astronomy & Astrophysics, A135 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201630322

We present the results of the spatial and spectral analysis of the deep (~200 ksec) Chandra HETG observation of the changing look AGN NGC7582. During this observation NGC7582 was in a highly obscured state. Therefore, we considered also a short Suzak... Read More about A high spectral resolution map of the nuclear emitting regions of NGC 7582.

Multichannel Luminescent Lanthanide Polymers as Ratiometric Sensors for D2O (2017)
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Hawes, C. S., & Gunnlaugsson, T. (2017). Multichannel Luminescent Lanthanide Polymers as Ratiometric Sensors for D2O. Chem, 2(4), 463-465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2017.03.010

Luminescent sensors for ions and molecules have found numerous applications in areas such as biology, medicine, security, and environmental monitoring. However, designing portable sensors for differentiating similar chemical species, such as D2O in H... Read More about Multichannel Luminescent Lanthanide Polymers as Ratiometric Sensors for D2O.

Properties of CO$_2$ clathrate hydrates formed in the presence of MgSO$_4$ solutions with implications for icy moons (2017)
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Safi, E., Thompson, S., Evans, A., Day, S., Murray, C., Parker, J., …Van Loon, J. T. (2017). Properties of CO$_2$ clathrate hydrates formed in the presence of MgSO$_4$ solutions with implications for icy moons. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 600(A88), https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629791

There is evidence to suggest that clathrate hydrates have a significant effect on the surface geology of icy bodies in the Solar System. However the aqueous environments believed to be present on these bodies are likely to be saline rather than pure... Read More about Properties of CO$_2$ clathrate hydrates formed in the presence of MgSO$_4$ solutions with implications for icy moons.

Addition of phenylisocyanate to 3, 5-diphenyl-1, 2-dithiolium-4-olate gives a thioketone (2017)
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(2017). Addition of phenylisocyanate to 3, 5-diphenyl-1, 2-dithiolium-4-olate gives a thioketone. Tetrahedron Letters, 1425 -1427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2017.02.076

The Type B mesoionic heterocycle, 3,5-diphenyl-1,2-dithiolium-4-olate, reacts with phenylisocyanate producing a thioketone derivative rather than a pseudo-semi-conjugated heterocyclic mesomeric betaine. The structure of the thioketone product was con... Read More about Addition of phenylisocyanate to 3, 5-diphenyl-1, 2-dithiolium-4-olate gives a thioketone.