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Pre-solar grains from novae and "Born-again giants" (2024)
Book Chapter
Evans, A., & Gehrz, R. (2024). Pre-solar grains from novae and "Born-again giants". In Presolar grains in extra-terrestrial materials. Elsevier

We review the properties of dust formed during classical nova eruptions and the Very Late Thermal Pulses (VLTPs) that occur during the later stages of post-Asymptotic Giant Branch evolution of low-mass stars. In both cases, carbon and hydrocarbon dus... Read More about Pre-solar grains from novae and "Born-again giants".

Structural and ion exchange study of nanostructured materials (2024)
Thesis
Contini, A. (2024). Structural and ion exchange study of nanostructured materials. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/857282

In this thesis, the structural and acidic properties of two zeolites LTL and MAZ are compared and reported. Commercial LTL and MAZ were ion exchanged with metal alkali cations, to obtain the corresponding ion exchanged forms, and characterised by IR... Read More about Structural and ion exchange study of nanostructured materials.

The Complex Star Formation History of the Halo of NGC 5128 (Cen A) (2024)
Journal Article
Aghdam, S. T., Javadi, A., Hashemi, S., Abdollahi, M., van Loon, J. T., Khosroshahi, H., …Saberi, M. (2024). The Complex Star Formation History of the Halo of NGC 5128 (Cen A). Astrophysical Journal, 972(1), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad57c0

NGC 5128 (Cen A) is the nearest giant elliptical galaxy and one of the brightest extragalactic radio sources in the sky, boasting a prominent dust lane and jets emanating from its nuclear supermassive black hole. In this paper, we construct the star... Read More about The Complex Star Formation History of the Halo of NGC 5128 (Cen A).

Identification of Aggregation Pheromone as an Attractant for Odontothrips loti, A Serious Thrips Pest on Alfalfa (2024)
Journal Article
Li, X., Cheng, J., Han, H., Kirk, W. D., O’Brien, M., Wang, L., …Lu, Y. (in press). Identification of Aggregation Pheromone as an Attractant for Odontothrips loti, A Serious Thrips Pest on Alfalfa. Journal of Chemical Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-024-01532-8

Odontothrips loti (Haliday) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is one of the most serious pests on alfalfa, causing direct damage by feeding and indirect damage by transmitting plant viruses. This damage causes significant loss in alfalfa production. Semioche... Read More about Identification of Aggregation Pheromone as an Attractant for Odontothrips loti, A Serious Thrips Pest on Alfalfa.

An adjoint Green’s function approach for thermoacoustic instabilities in a duct with mean flow (2024)
Journal Article
Wei, J., Arabi, S., Pralits, J. O., Bottaro, A., & Heckl, M. A. (2024). An adjoint Green’s function approach for thermoacoustic instabilities in a duct with mean flow. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 593, Article 118673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2024.118673

Thermoacoustic instabilities arise from the feedback between an acoustic field and the unsteady heat released in a burner, yielding self-sustained oscillations. A fundamental framework for modeling thermoacoustic instabilities in systems where a mean... Read More about An adjoint Green’s function approach for thermoacoustic instabilities in a duct with mean flow.

New Wolf–Rayet wind yields and nucleosynthesis of Helium stars (2024)
Journal Article
Higgins, E. R., Vink, J. S., Hirschi, R., Laird, A. M., & Sander, A. A. C. (2024). New Wolf–Rayet wind yields and nucleosynthesis of Helium stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533(1), 1095-1110. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1853

Strong metallicity-dependent winds dominate the evolution of core He-burning, classical Wolf–Rayet (cWR) stars, which eject both H and He-fusion products such as $^{14}$N, $^{12}$C, $^{16}$O, $^{19}$F, $^{22}$Ne, and $^{23}$Na during their evolution.... Read More about New Wolf–Rayet wind yields and nucleosynthesis of Helium stars.

Characterization of the δ Scuti eclipsing binary KIC 4851217 and its tertiary companion as well as detection of tidally tilted pulsations (2024)
Journal Article
Jennings, Z., Southworth, J., Rappaport, S. A., Borkovits, T., Handler, G., & Kurtz, D. W. (in press). Characterization of the δ Scuti eclipsing binary KIC 4851217 and its tertiary companion as well as detection of tidally tilted pulsations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Article stae1879. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1879

Stellar theory enables us to understand the properties of stars at different stages of their evolution, and contributes to other fields of astrophysics such as galactic and exoplanet studies. Assessing the accuracy of stellar theories necessitates hi... Read More about Characterization of the δ Scuti eclipsing binary KIC 4851217 and its tertiary companion as well as detection of tidally tilted pulsations.

Synthesis and characterisation of an iron oxide mesoporous silica nano-composite and its application in removal of methylene blue dye (2024)
Journal Article
Saod, W. M., Oliver, I. W., Contini, A., & Zholobenko, V. (in press). Synthesis and characterisation of an iron oxide mesoporous silica nano-composite and its application in removal of methylene blue dye. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1319, Article 139390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.139390


Globally, effluents from textile industries and other waste streams have the potential to release vast amounts of chemical dyes and related substances into the environment. Treatment of water and waste-water to remove such pollutan... Read More about Synthesis and characterisation of an iron oxide mesoporous silica nano-composite and its application in removal of methylene blue dye.

TOI–757 b: an eccentric transiting mini–Neptune on a 17.5–d orbit (2024)
Journal Article
Alqasim, A., Grieves, N., Rosário, N. M., Gandolfi, D., Livingston, J. H., Sousa, S., …Yee, S. W. (2024). TOI–757 b: an eccentric transiting mini–Neptune on a 17.5–d orbit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1767

We report the spectroscopic confirmation and fundamental properties of TOI$-$757 b, a mini$-$Neptune on a 17.5$-$d orbit transiting a bright star ($V\, =\, 9.7$ mag) discovered by the TESS mission. We acquired high$-$precision radial velocity measure... Read More about TOI–757 b: an eccentric transiting mini–Neptune on a 17.5–d orbit.

Adaptable Synthesis of Chondroitin Sulfate Disaccharide Subtypes Preprogrammed for Regiospecific O‐Sulfation (2024)
Journal Article
Wootton, H. S., Berry, S. S., Ferguson, E. L., Mahon, C. S., & Miller, G. J. (in press). Adaptable Synthesis of Chondroitin Sulfate Disaccharide Subtypes Preprogrammed for Regiospecific O‐Sulfation. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Article e202400587. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202400587

A divergent synthetic route to chondroitin sulfate (CS) disaccharide precursors, including rarer subtypes such as CS‐D, has been developed. From common intermediates, a series of thioglycoside D‐glucosyl donors and 4,6‐O‐benzylidene protected D‐galac... Read More about Adaptable Synthesis of Chondroitin Sulfate Disaccharide Subtypes Preprogrammed for Regiospecific O‐Sulfation.

The Gaia-ESO Survey: 3D dynamics of young groups and clusters from GES and Gaia EDR3 (2024)
Journal Article
Wright, N. J., Jeffries, R. D., Jackson, R. J., Sacco, G. G., Arnold, B., Franciosini, E., …Worley, C. C. (2024). The Gaia-ESO Survey: 3D dynamics of young groups and clusters from GES and Gaia EDR3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533(1), 705–728. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1806

We present the first large-scale 3D kinematic study of ∼2700 spectroscopically-confirmed young stars (< 20 Myr) in 18 star clusters and OB associations (hereafter groups) from the combination of Gaia astrometry and Gaia-ESO Survey spectroscopy... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: 3D dynamics of young groups and clusters from GES and Gaia EDR3.

Shell mergers in the late stages of massive star evolution: new insight from 3D hydrodynamic simulations (2024)
Journal Article
Rizzuti, F., Hirschi, R., Varma, V., Arnett, W. D., Georgy, C., Meakin, C., …Rauscher, T. (in press). Shell mergers in the late stages of massive star evolution: new insight from 3D hydrodynamic simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Article stae1778. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1778

One-dimensional (1D) stellar evolution models are widely used across various astrophysical fields, however they are still dominated by important uncertainties that deeply affect their predictive power. Among those, the merging of independent convecti... Read More about Shell mergers in the late stages of massive star evolution: new insight from 3D hydrodynamic simulations.

Geoforensic search on land (2024)
Journal Article
Pringle, J., Wisniewski, K., Ruffell, A., & Hobson, L. (2024). Geoforensic search on land. Geology Today, 40(4), 146-152. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12485

Forensic geoscientists assist with the investigation of locating and characterizing suspected illegal activities and provide evidence for criminal or civil courts of law. Geoforensic search in terrestrial environments can be challenging, depending on... Read More about Geoforensic search on land.

Applications of geoforensic trace evidence (2024)
Journal Article
Jeffery, A. J., Pirrie, D., Pringle, J. K., Ruffell, A., & Stimpson, I. G. (2024). Applications of geoforensic trace evidence. Geology Today, 40(4), 139-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12484

Geoforensic trace evidence studies can be crucial for law enforcement and civil/criminal prosecution and defence, to test potential links between suspect(s), crime scenes or forensic object(s). In addition, trace geological evidence can be used to id... Read More about Applications of geoforensic trace evidence.

Exploring Staff and Student Perceptions of Learning Resources in Physical Sciences (2024)
Journal Article
Braidwood, N., & Plana, D. (2024). Exploring Staff and Student Perceptions of Learning Resources in Physical Sciences. New Directions in the Teaching of Natural Sciences, 19(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtns.vi19.4468

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a significant diversification of learning resources and teaching methods and in its aftermath different approaches have been taken across science education in HE. Within this work we explored staff and student prefe... Read More about Exploring Staff and Student Perceptions of Learning Resources in Physical Sciences.

Substrate-induced strain in molybdenum disulfide grown by aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition (2024)
Journal Article
Adams, L. J., Matthews, P. D., Morbec, J. M., & Balakrishnan, N. (in press). Substrate-induced strain in molybdenum disulfide grown by aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition. Nanotechnology, 35(39), Article 395602. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ad5dc1

Transition metal dichalcogenides have been extensively studied in recent years because of their fascinating optical, electrical, and catalytic properties. However, low-cost, scalable production remains a challenge. Aerosol-assisted chemical vapor dep... Read More about Substrate-induced strain in molybdenum disulfide grown by aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition.

Early Results from the HUMDRUM Survey: A Small, Earth-mass Planet Orbits TOI-1450A (2024)
Journal Article
Brady, M., Bean, J. L., Seifahrt, A., Kasper, D., Luque, R., Stefánsson, G., …Zambelli, R. (2024). Early Results from the HUMDRUM Survey: A Small, Earth-mass Planet Orbits TOI-1450A. Astronomical Journal, 168(2), Article 67. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad500a

M-dwarf stars provide us with an ideal opportunity to study nearby small planets. The HUnting for M Dwarf Rocky planets Using MAROON-X (HUMDRUM) survey uses the MAROON-X spectrograph, which is ideally suited to studying these stars, to measure precis... Read More about Early Results from the HUMDRUM Survey: A Small, Earth-mass Planet Orbits TOI-1450A.

Exploring a Gemcitabine-Glucose Hybrid as a Glycoconjugate Prodrug (2024)
Journal Article
Porter, J., Noble, A. R., Signoret, N., Fascione, M. A., & Miller, G. J. (in press). Exploring a Gemcitabine-Glucose Hybrid as a Glycoconjugate Prodrug. ACS Omega, 9(29), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c02417

Nucleoside analogues are established treatments for cancer and viral infection. Gemcitabine is a commonly employed nucleoside analogue displaying anticancer properties against a range of tumor types but is rapidly inactivated in vivo. Efforts to bols... Read More about Exploring a Gemcitabine-Glucose Hybrid as a Glycoconjugate Prodrug.