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Performance modelling of zeolite-based potentiometric sensors (2021)
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Jendrlin, M., Radu, A., Zholobenko, V., & Kirsanov, D. (2022). Performance modelling of zeolite-based potentiometric sensors. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemicall, 356, 131343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2021.131343

Developing simple and cost-effective electrochemical sensors for widespread on-site application is of considerable practical importance in agriculture, environmental monitoring and food science. Among multiple sensing platforms, potentiometry is part... Read More about Performance modelling of zeolite-based potentiometric sensors.

PREPARATION AND APPLICATION OF KOH IMPREGNATED SEPIOLITE AS A SOLID BASE CATALYST FOR BIODIESEL PRODUCTION USING MICROWAVE IRRADIATION (2021)
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Hamdi Karaoglu, M., Zholobenko, V., & Aslan, S. (2021). PREPARATION AND APPLICATION OF KOH IMPREGNATED SEPIOLITE AS A SOLID BASE CATALYST FOR BIODIESEL PRODUCTION USING MICROWAVE IRRADIATION. Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society,

An active basic solid catalyst for biodiesel production was obtained via KOH impregnation onto sepiolite support followed by high temperature calcination.

The transesterification of rapeseed oil over the resulting nanocomposite structure was inves... Read More about PREPARATION AND APPLICATION OF KOH IMPREGNATED SEPIOLITE AS A SOLID BASE CATALYST FOR BIODIESEL PRODUCTION USING MICROWAVE IRRADIATION.

Indium(III) promoted oxidative P-P coupling of silylphosphines (2021)
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Cartlidge, A. J., & Matthews, P. (2022). Indium(III) promoted oxidative P-P coupling of silylphosphines. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 120772 - 120772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2021.120772

The reaction of indium(III) salts with Ph2PSiMe3 and PhP(SiMe3)2 gives rise to a one- and two-electron reductive P-P coupling respectively, with the formation of new P-P bonds resulting in the preparation of (Ph2P)2 and the cyclicoligophosphane compo... Read More about Indium(III) promoted oxidative P-P coupling of silylphosphines.

The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. II. The Star-formation History of Andromeda I Derived from Long-period Variables (2021)
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Van Loon. (2021). The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. II. The Star-formation History of Andromeda I Derived from Long-period Variables. Astrophysical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2d96

An optical monitoring survey in the nearby dwarf galaxies was carried out with the 2.5 m Isaac Newton Telescope. 55 dwarf galaxies and four isolated globular clusters in the Local Group were observed with the Wide Field Camera. The main aims of this... Read More about The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. II. The Star-formation History of Andromeda I Derived from Long-period Variables.

Monitoring of simulated clandestine graves of dismembered victims using UAVs, electrical tomography, and GPR over one year to aid investigations of human rights violations in Colombia, South America (2021)
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Molina, C. M., Vasquez, A., Wisniewski, K., Heaton, V., Pringle, J., Avila, E. F., …Baena, A. (2022). Monitoring of simulated clandestine graves of dismembered victims using UAVs, electrical tomography, and GPR over one year to aid investigations of human rights violations in Colombia, South America. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 67(3), 1060-1071. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14962

In most Latin American countries there are significant numbers of missing people and forced disappearances, over 90,000 in Colombia alone. Successful detection of shallow buried human remains by forensic search teams is difficult in varying terrain a... Read More about Monitoring of simulated clandestine graves of dismembered victims using UAVs, electrical tomography, and GPR over one year to aid investigations of human rights violations in Colombia, South America.

Families and clusters of diffuse interstellar bands: a data-driven correlation analysis (2021)
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Van Loon. (2021). Families and clusters of diffuse interstellar bands: a data-driven correlation analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3546 - 3560. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3651

More than 500 diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) have been observed in astronomical spectra, and their signatures and correlations in different environments have been studied over the past decades to reveal clues about the nature of the carriers. We c... Read More about Families and clusters of diffuse interstellar bands: a data-driven correlation analysis.

Ligand isomerism fine-tunes structure and stability in zinc complexes of fused pyrazolopyridines (2021)
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Swarbrook, A. M., Weekes, R. J., Goodwin, J. W., & Hawes, C. S. (2022). Ligand isomerism fine-tunes structure and stability in zinc complexes of fused pyrazolopyridines. Dalton Transactions, 51(3), 1056-1069. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1dt04007c

Fused-ring pyrazoles offer a versatile platform for derivitization to give finely tuned and functional ligands in coordination assemblies. Here, we explore the pyrazolo[4,3-b]pyridine (HL1) and pyrazolo[3,4-c]pyridine (HL2) backbones and their N-subs... Read More about Ligand isomerism fine-tunes structure and stability in zinc complexes of fused pyrazolopyridines.

TOI-1201 b: A mini-Neptune transiting a bright and moderately young M dwarf (2021)
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Hellier. (2021). TOI-1201 b: A mini-Neptune transiting a bright and moderately young M dwarf. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141587

We present the discovery of a transiting mini-Neptune around TOI-1201, a relatively bright and moderately young early M dwarf (J ˜ 9.5 mag, ~600–800 Myr) in an equal-mass ~8 arcsecond-wide binary system, using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Surve... Read More about TOI-1201 b: A mini-Neptune transiting a bright and moderately young M dwarf.

Reaching new biocatalytic reactivity using continuous flow reactors (2021)
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Cosgrove, S. C., & Mattey, A. P. (2022). Reaching new biocatalytic reactivity using continuous flow reactors. Chemistry - A European Journal, 28(13), https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202103607

The use of flow reactors in biocatalysis has increased significantly in recent years. Chemists have begun to design flow systems that even allow new biocatalytic reactions to take place. This concept article will focus on the design of flow systems t... Read More about Reaching new biocatalytic reactivity using continuous flow reactors.

Constraining the initial conditions of NGC 2264 using ejected stars found in Gaia DR2 (2021)
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Schoettler, C., Richard J., P., & Bruijne, Jos, D. (2022). Constraining the initial conditions of NGC 2264 using ejected stars found in Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3529

Fast, ejected stars have been found around several young star-forming regions, such as the Orion Nebula Cluster. These ejected stars can be used to constrain the initial density, spatial and kinematic substructure when compared to predictions from N-... Read More about Constraining the initial conditions of NGC 2264 using ejected stars found in Gaia DR2.

GJ 367b: A dense, ultrashort-period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star. (2021)
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Hellier. (2021). GJ 367b: A dense, ultrashort-period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star. Science, 1271 - 1275. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3253

Ultrashort-period (USP) exoplanets have orbital periods shorter than 1 day. Precise masses and radii of USP exoplanets could provide constraints on their unknown formation and evolution processes. We report the detection and characterization of the U... Read More about GJ 367b: A dense, ultrashort-period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star..

REDISCUSSION OF ECLIPSING BINARIES. PAPER 7: DELTA SCUTI, GAMMA DORADUS, AND TIDALLY-PERTURBED PULSATIONS IN RR LYNCIS (2021)
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Taylor. (2021). REDISCUSSION OF ECLIPSING BINARIES. PAPER 7: DELTA SCUTI, GAMMA DORADUS, AND TIDALLY-PERTURBED PULSATIONS IN RR LYNCIS. Observatory, 141, 282

RR Lyn is a detached eclipsing binary with a 9.95 d orbit containing two A-stars: one metallic-lined and one possibly metal-poor. We use the light curve from the TESS satellite and two sets of published radial velocity measurements to determine the p... Read More about REDISCUSSION OF ECLIPSING BINARIES. PAPER 7: DELTA SCUTI, GAMMA DORADUS, AND TIDALLY-PERTURBED PULSATIONS IN RR LYNCIS.

Proper motions of OB stars in the far Carina Arm (2021)
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Wright. (2021). Proper motions of OB stars in the far Carina Arm. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4952 - 4968. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2905

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>In large-scale maps of the Galactic disc, the Carina Arm stands out as a clear spiral feature, hosting prominent star clusters and associations rich in massive stars. We study the proper motions of 4199 O and... Read More about Proper motions of OB stars in the far Carina Arm.

TIC 172900988: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet Detected in One Sector of TESS Data (2021)
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Hellier, & Maxted. (2021). TIC 172900988: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet Detected in One Sector of TESS Data. Astronomical Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac223a

We report the first discovery of a transiting circumbinary planet detected from a single sector of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data. During Sector 21, the planet TIC 172900988b transited the primary star and then five days later it t... Read More about TIC 172900988: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet Detected in One Sector of TESS Data.

Solar-Driven Electrochemical CO(2)Reduction with Heterogeneous Catalysts (2021)
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Creissen, C. E., & Fontecave, M. (2021). Solar-Driven Electrochemical CO(2)Reduction with Heterogeneous Catalysts. Laser physics review, 11(43), Article ARTN 2002652. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202002652

The simultaneous mitigation of CO2 emissions and direct generation of value-added chemicals has motivated research in solar-driven electrochemical CO2 reduction. Here, devices incorporating heterogeneous catalysts that operate under bias-free aqueous... Read More about Solar-Driven Electrochemical CO(2)Reduction with Heterogeneous Catalysts.

Constraints on star formation in NGC 2264 (2021)
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Parker, R. J., & Schoettler, C. (2022). Constraints on star formation in NGC 2264. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(1), 1136-1147. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3460

We quantify the spatial distribution of stars for two subclusters centred around the massive/intermediate-mass stars S Mon and IRS 1/2 in the NGC 2264 star-forming region. We find that both subclusters have neither a substructured nor a centrally con... Read More about Constraints on star formation in NGC 2264.

Analysis of Early Science observations with the CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) using pycheops (2021)
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Maxted, P. F. L., Ehrenreich, D., Wilson, T. G., Alibert, Y., Cameron, A. C., Hoyer, S., …Walton, N. A. (2022). Analysis of Early Science observations with the CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) using pycheops. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(1), 77-104. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3371

CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) is an ESA S-class mission that observes bright stars at high cadence from low-Earth orbit. The main aim of the mission is to characterize exoplanets that transit nearby stars using ultrahigh precision photo... Read More about Analysis of Early Science observations with the CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) using pycheops.

Fecht's acid revisited: a spirocyclic dicarboxylate for non-aromatic MOFs (2021)
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Slyusarchuk, V. D., & Hawes, C. S. (2022). Fecht's acid revisited: a spirocyclic dicarboxylate for non-aromatic MOFs. CrystEngComm, 24(3), 484-490. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ce01542g

Spiro[3.3]heptane-2,6-dicarboxylic acid (Fecht's acid, H2SHDC) is examined as a non-aromatic terephthalic acid isostere for the first time. The rigid spirocyclic backbone provides greater steric bulk than conventional aromatic dicarboxylates with con... Read More about Fecht's acid revisited: a spirocyclic dicarboxylate for non-aromatic MOFs.

High-resolution H alpha imaging of the northern Galactic plane and the IGAPS image database (2021)
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Wright. (2021). High-resolution H alpha imaging of the northern Galactic plane and the IGAPS image database. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140950

The INT Galactic Plane Survey (IGAPS) is the merger of the optical photometric surveys IPHAS and UVEX based on data from the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) obtained between 2003 and 2018. It captures the entire northern Galactic plane within the Galact... Read More about High-resolution H alpha imaging of the northern Galactic plane and the IGAPS image database.