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Photoelectrochemical Imaging System for the Mapping of Cell Surface Charges (2019)
Journal Article
Watkinson. (2019). Photoelectrochemical Imaging System for the Mapping of Cell Surface Charges. Analytical Chemistry, 5896 -5903. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00304

The surface charge of cells affects cell signaling, cell metabolic processes, adherence to surfaces, and cell proliferation. Our understanding of the role of membrane charges is limited due to the inability to observe changes without interfering, che... Read More about Photoelectrochemical Imaging System for the Mapping of Cell Surface Charges.

Synthesis of Nanostructured Catalysts by Surfactant-Templating of Large-Pore Zeolites (2019)
Journal Article
Zholobenko, V., Mordvinova, N., Lebedev, O., Vicente, A., Haslam, J., Al-Ani, A., & fernandez, C. (2019). Synthesis of Nanostructured Catalysts by Surfactant-Templating of Large-Pore Zeolites. RSC advances, 2029-2039. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NA00004F

Zeolites and related crystalline molecular sieves are utilised in a wide range of reactions and processes due to their regular microporous structure, strong acidity, shape selectivity and ion-exchange properties. However, their practical applications... Read More about Synthesis of Nanostructured Catalysts by Surfactant-Templating of Large-Pore Zeolites.

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XXX. Red stragglers in the clusters Hodge 301 and SL 639 (2019)
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Van Loon. (2019). The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XXX. Red stragglers in the clusters Hodge 301 and SL 639. Astronomy and Astrophysics, A128 - A128. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834564

Aims. We estimate physical parameters for the late-type massive stars observed as part of the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Methods. The observational sample comprises 20 candidate re... Read More about The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XXX. Red stragglers in the clusters Hodge 301 and SL 639.

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XXXI. Radial velocities and multiplicity constraints of red supergiant stars in 30 Doradus (2019)
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Van Loon. (2019). The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XXXI. Radial velocities and multiplicity constraints of red supergiant stars in 30 Doradus. Astronomy and Astrophysics, A129 - A129. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834951

Aims. The incidence of multiplicity in cool, luminous massive stars is relatively unknown compared to their hotter counterparts. In this work we present radial velocity (RV) measurements and investigate the multiplicity properties of red supergiants... Read More about The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XXXI. Radial velocities and multiplicity constraints of red supergiant stars in 30 Doradus.

Intracellular Aluminium in Inflammatory and Glial Cells in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A Case Report (2019)
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(2019). Intracellular Aluminium in Inflammatory and Glial Cells in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A Case Report. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16081459

(1) Introduction: In 2006, we reported on very high levels of aluminium in brain tissue in an unusual case of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). The individual concerned had been exposed to extremely high levels of aluminium in their potable water du... Read More about Intracellular Aluminium in Inflammatory and Glial Cells in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A Case Report.

The BEBOP radial-velocity survey for circumbinary planets I. Eight years of CORALIE observations of 47 single-line eclipsing binaries and abundance constraints on the masses of circumbinary planets (2019)
Journal Article
Hellier, & Maxted. (2019). The BEBOP radial-velocity survey for circumbinary planets I. Eight years of CORALIE observations of 47 single-line eclipsing binaries and abundance constraints on the masses of circumbinary planets. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833669

We introduce the BEBOP radial velocity survey for circumbinary planets. We initiated this survey using the CORALIE spectrograph on the Swiss Euler Telescope at La Silla, Chile. An intensive four-year observation campaign commenced in 2013, targeting... Read More about The BEBOP radial-velocity survey for circumbinary planets I. Eight years of CORALIE observations of 47 single-line eclipsing binaries and abundance constraints on the masses of circumbinary planets.

Peptide Cross-Linked Poly (Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogel Films as Biosensor Coatings for the Detection of Collagenase (2019)
Journal Article
Watkinson. (2019). Peptide Cross-Linked Poly (Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogel Films as Biosensor Coatings for the Detection of Collagenase. Sensors, https://doi.org/10.3390/s19071677

Peptide cross-linked poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogel has been widely used for drug delivery and tissue engineering. However, the use of this material as a biosensor for the detection of collagenase has not been explored. Proteases play a key role in t... Read More about Peptide Cross-Linked Poly (Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogel Films as Biosensor Coatings for the Detection of Collagenase.

Investigation of the changes in hydrogen bonding accompanying the structural reorganization at 103 K in ammonium iodate (2019)
Journal Article
Jones. (2019). Investigation of the changes in hydrogen bonding accompanying the structural reorganization at 103 K in ammonium iodate. Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520619000325

Neutron powder diffraction has been used to observe the changes in hydrogen bonding that occur as a function of temperature in ND4IO3 and, thus, determine the structural features that occur during the low-temperature (103 K) phase transition. It is s... Read More about Investigation of the changes in hydrogen bonding accompanying the structural reorganization at 103 K in ammonium iodate.

Signs of accretion in the white dwarf + brown dwarf binary NLTT5306 (2019)
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Maxted. (2019). Signs of accretion in the white dwarf + brown dwarf binary NLTT5306. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2566 - 2574. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz127

We present new XSHOOTER spectra of NLTT5306, a 0.44 ± 0.04 M? white dwarf in a short period (101 min) binary system with a brown dwarf companion that is likely to have previously undergone common envelope evolution. We have confirmed the presence of... Read More about Signs of accretion in the white dwarf + brown dwarf binary NLTT5306.

Disentangling the spatial substructure of Cygnus OB2 from Gaia DR2 (2019)
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Wright. (2019). Disentangling the spatial substructure of Cygnus OB2 from Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1838 -1842. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz117

For the first time, we have explored the spatial substructure of the Cygnus OB2 association using parallaxes from the recent second Gaia data release. We find significant line-of-sight substructure within the association, which we quantify using a pa... Read More about Disentangling the spatial substructure of Cygnus OB2 from Gaia DR2.

Nickel-zeolite composite catalysts with metal nanoparticles selectively encapsulated in the zeolite micropores (2019)
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(2019). Nickel-zeolite composite catalysts with metal nanoparticles selectively encapsulated in the zeolite micropores. Journal of Materials Science, 5399-5411. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-018-03250-5

Metal zeolite composite catalysts have found numerous applications in adsorption, gas separation, petroleum refining and chemical industry. The key issue in the design of these catalysts is the localization of the metal within the zeolite structure.... Read More about Nickel-zeolite composite catalysts with metal nanoparticles selectively encapsulated in the zeolite micropores.

Investigation of the changes in hydrogen bonding accompanying the structural reorganization at 103K in Ammonium iodate (2019)
Journal Article
Jones. (2019). Investigation of the changes in hydrogen bonding accompanying the structural reorganization at 103K in Ammonium iodate. Acta crystallographica. Section B, Structural science, https://doi.org/10.1107/s2052520619000325

Neutron powder diffraction has been used to observe the changes in hydrogen bonding that occur as a function of temperature in ND4IO3, and thus determine the structural features that occur during the low temperature (103 K) phase transition. We sho... Read More about Investigation of the changes in hydrogen bonding accompanying the structural reorganization at 103K in Ammonium iodate.

The use of metabonomic profiling approaches for the investigation of complex food fraud (2019)
Thesis
Sidwick, K. L. (2019). The use of metabonomic profiling approaches for the investigation of complex food fraud. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413093

Food fraud is a challenge in today's expanding global food industry. Recently weaknesses in current testing methods for meat authentication have been exposed. Labels are assumed to accurately describe the contents of meat products, however these can... Read More about The use of metabonomic profiling approaches for the investigation of complex food fraud.

Follow-up observations and characterisation of transiting hot Jupiter exoplanets (2019)
Thesis
Clark, B. J. M. (2019). Follow-up observations and characterisation of transiting hot Jupiter exoplanets. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413092

The discovery of the first hot Jupiter exoplanet more than twenty years ago raised many questions. Such large, hot planets were not predicted to exist so close to their host star. Since then, more than 125 hot Jupiters have been discovered (to date),... Read More about Follow-up observations and characterisation of transiting hot Jupiter exoplanets.

Fundamental properties of M-dwarfs in eclipsing binary star systems (2019)
Thesis
Gill, S. (2019). Fundamental properties of M-dwarfs in eclipsing binary star systems. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413089

The absolute parameters of M-dwarfs in eclipsing binary systems provide important tests for evolutionary models. Those that have been measured reveal significant discrepancies with evolutionary models. There are two problems with M-dwarfs: 1. M-dwarf... Read More about Fundamental properties of M-dwarfs in eclipsing binary star systems.

Enhanced reforming of methane to synthesis gas by co-doped perovskite catalysts (2019)
Thesis
Khazaal, M. H. (2019). Enhanced reforming of methane to synthesis gas by co-doped perovskite catalysts. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413071

Greenhouse gases conversion have become an environmentally friendly way of producing H2 and CO that can be used as a fuel to power solid oxide fuel cells as well as wider industrial applications. The direct conversion of CH4 and CO2 into synthesis ga... Read More about Enhanced reforming of methane to synthesis gas by co-doped perovskite catalysts.

Fundamental parameters of subgiant stars in detached eclipsing binary systems (2019)
Thesis
Evans, J. A. (2019). Fundamental parameters of subgiant stars in detached eclipsing binary systems. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413063

Detailed studies of stars in long-period, detached eclipsing binary systems remain one of the best ways to test stellar evolutionary models. With so many detections of planets outside of the solar system, research has turned to the characterisation o... Read More about Fundamental parameters of subgiant stars in detached eclipsing binary systems.

Correction: Synthesis of nanostructured catalysts by surfactant-templating of large-pore zeolites (2019)
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Al-Ani, A., Haslam, J. J. C., Mordvinova, N. E., Lebedev, O. I., Vicente, A., Fernandez, C., & Zholobenko, V. (in press). Correction: Synthesis of nanostructured catalysts by surfactant-templating of large-pore zeolites. Nanoscale Advances, 1(5), 2041-2041. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9na90019e

Correction for ‘Synthesis of nanostructured catalysts by surfactant-templating of large-pore zeolites’ by Aqeel Al-Ani et al., Nanoscale Adv., 2019, DOI: 10.1039/c9na00004f.

Spectroscopic confirmation of the binary nature of the hybrid pulsator KIC 5709664 found with the frequency modulation method (2019)
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Derekas, A., Murphy, S. J., Dálya, G., Szabó, R., Borkovits, T., Bókon, A., …Mészáros, S. (2019). Spectroscopic confirmation of the binary nature of the hybrid pulsator KIC 5709664 found with the frequency modulation method. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(2), 2129-2136. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz875

We started a program to search for companions around hybrid δ Sct/γ Dor stars with the frequency modulation method using Kepler data. Our best candidate was KIC 5709664, where we could identify Fourier peaks with sidelobes, suggesting binary orbital... Read More about Spectroscopic confirmation of the binary nature of the hybrid pulsator KIC 5709664 found with the frequency modulation method.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: asymmetric expansion of the Lagoon Nebula cluster NGC 6530 from GES and Gaia DR2 (2019)
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Wright, N. J., Jeffries, R. D., Jackson, R. J., Bayo, A., Bonito, R., Damiani, F., …Zaggia, S. (2019). The Gaia-ESO Survey: asymmetric expansion of the Lagoon Nebula cluster NGC 6530 from GES and Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(2), 2477-2493. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz870

The combination of precise radial velocities from multi-object spectroscopy and highly accurate proper motions from Gaia DR2 opens up the possibility for detailed 3D kinematic studies of young star-forming regions and clusters. Here, we perform such... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: asymmetric expansion of the Lagoon Nebula cluster NGC 6530 from GES and Gaia DR2.