The Gaia-ESO Survey: detection and characterisation of single-line spectroscopic binaries (2020)
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Merle, T., Van der Swaelmen, M., Van Eck, S., Jorissen, A., Jackson, R. J., Traven, G., Zwitter, T., Pourbaix, D., Klutsch, A., Sacco, G., Blomme, R., Masseron, T., Gilmore, G., Randich, S., Badenes, C., Bayo, A., Bensby, T., Bergemann, M., Biazzo, K., Damiani, F., …Prisinzano, L. (2020). The Gaia-ESO Survey: detection and characterisation of single-line spectroscopic binaries. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 635, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935819

Context. Multiple stellar systems play a fundamental role in the formation and evolution of stellar populations in galaxies. Recent and ongoing large ground-based multi-object spectroscopic surveys significantly increase the sample of spectroscopic b... Read More about The Gaia-ESO Survey: detection and characterisation of single-line spectroscopic binaries.

A second-order asymptotic model for Rayleigh waves on a linearly elastic half plane (2020)
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Wootton, P. T., Prikazchikov, D., & Kaplunov, J. (2020). A second-order asymptotic model for Rayleigh waves on a linearly elastic half plane. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 85(1), 113 - 131. https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxz037

We derive a second-order correction to an existing leading-order model for surface waves in linear elasticity. The same hyperbolic–elliptic equation form is obtained with a correction term added to the surface boundary condition. The validity of the... Read More about A second-order asymptotic model for Rayleigh waves on a linearly elastic half plane.

Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space (2020)
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Prikazchikov, Kaplunov, & Fu. (2020). Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 20190590 - 20190590. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0590

Near-surface resonance phenomena often arise in semi-infinite solids. For instance, when a moving load with a speed v close to the surface wave speed vR is applied to the surface of an elastic half-space, it will give rise to a large-amplitude distur... Read More about Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space.

Spectroscopy of hot ? Doradus and A–F hybrid Kepler candidates close to the hot border of the d Scuti instability strip (2020)
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Smalley. (2020). Spectroscopy of hot ? Doradus and A–F hybrid Kepler candidates close to the hot border of the d Scuti instability strip. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 4518 - 4532. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa399

If ? Dor-type pulsations are driven by the convective blocking mechanism, a convective envelope at a sufficient depth is essential. There are several hot ? Dor and hybrid star candidates in which there should not be an adequate convective envelope to... Read More about Spectroscopy of hot ? Doradus and A–F hybrid Kepler candidates close to the hot border of the d Scuti instability strip.

Broadband optical measurement of AC magnetic susceptibility of magnetite nanoparticles (2020)
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Soucaille, R., Sharifabad, M., Telling, N., & Hicken, R. (2020). Broadband optical measurement of AC magnetic susceptibility of magnetite nanoparticles. Applied Physics Letters, 116(6), 062404 - 062404. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5140362

Characterization of magnetic nanoparticles in solution is challenging due to the interplay between magnetic relaxation and agglomeration. The AC magnetic susceptibility of magnetite nanoparticles in water has been studied using magneto-optical method... Read More about Broadband optical measurement of AC magnetic susceptibility of magnetite nanoparticles.

Weakly nonlinear analysis of localized bulging of an inflated hyperelastic tube of arbitrary wall thickness (2020)
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Fu. (2020). Weakly nonlinear analysis of localized bulging of an inflated hyperelastic tube of arbitrary wall thickness. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 103804 - 103804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2019.103804

A weakly nonlinear analysis is conducted for localized bulging of an inflated hyperelastic cylindrical tube of arbitrary wall thickness. Analytical expressions are obtained for the coefficients in the amplitude equation despite the fact that the prim... Read More about Weakly nonlinear analysis of localized bulging of an inflated hyperelastic tube of arbitrary wall thickness.

Nanostructured large-pore zeolite: the enhanced accessibility of active sites and its effect on the catalytic performance (2020)
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(2020). Nanostructured large-pore zeolite: the enhanced accessibility of active sites and its effect on the catalytic performance. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2019.109805

Zeolites Y, ZSM-5, beta, mordenite and LTL were converted into hierarchical meso-microporous catalysts applying the surfactant templating strategy and the resulting materials were utilised as catalysts for esterification and aldol condensation reacti... Read More about Nanostructured large-pore zeolite: the enhanced accessibility of active sites and its effect on the catalytic performance.

Production and processing of graphene and related materials (2020)
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Backes, C., Abdelkader, A. M., Alonso, C., Andrieux-Ledier, A., Arenal, R., Azpeitia, J., Balakrishnan, N., Banszerus, L., Barjon, J., Bartali, R., Bellani, S., Berger, C., Berger, R., Bernal Ortega, M. M., Bernard, C., Beton, P. H., Beyer, A., Bianco, A., Bøggild, P., Bonaccorso, F., …Garcia-Hernandez, M. (2020). Production and processing of graphene and related materials. 2D Materials, 7(2), Article 022001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab1e0a

We present an overview of the main techniques for production and processing of graphene and related materials (GRMs), as well as the key characterization procedures. We adopt a 'hands-on' approach, providing practical details and procedures as derive... Read More about Production and processing of graphene and related materials.

Upper-ocean Ekman current dynamics: a new perspective (2020)
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Shrira, V., & Almelah, R. B. (2020). Upper-ocean Ekman current dynamics: a new perspective. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 887, Article A24. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.1059

The work examines upper-ocean response to time-varying winds within the Ekman paradigm. Here, in contrast to the earlier works we assume the eddy viscosity to be both time and depth dependent. For self-similar depth and time dependence of eddy viscos... Read More about Upper-ocean Ekman current dynamics: a new perspective.

Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi (2020)
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J. Chaplin, W., M. Serenelli, A., Miglio, A., Morel, T., Mackereth, J. T., Vincenzo, F., Kjeldsen Sarbani Basu, H., H. Ball, W., Stokholm, A., Verma, K., Rørsted Mosumgaard, J., Silva Aguirre, V., Mazumdar, A., Ranadive, P., M. Antia, H., Lebreton, Y., Ong, J., Appourchaux, T., R. Bedding, T., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., …Yıldız, M. (2020). Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi. Nature Astronomy, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0975-9

Over the course of its history, the Milky Way has ingested multiple smaller satellite galaxies. While these accreted stellar populations can be forensically identified as kinematically distinct structures within the Galaxy, it is difficult in general... Read More about Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi.

Surface structural phase transition induced by the formation of metal–organic networks on the Si(111)-v7×v3-In surface (2019)
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Suzuki, T., Lawrence, J., Morbec, J., Kratzer, P., & Costantini, G. (2019). Surface structural phase transition induced by the formation of metal–organic networks on the Si(111)-v7×v3-In surface. Nanoscale, 21790-21798. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NR07074E

We studied the adsorption of 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) on the Si(111)v7×v3 In surface, a known surface superconductor. Scanning tunneling microscopy shows the development of a surface-confined metal–organic network (SMON) where TCNQ mol... Read More about Surface structural phase transition induced by the formation of metal–organic networks on the Si(111)-v7×v3-In surface.

The 2016 January eruption of recurrent Nova LMC 1968 (2019)
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(2019). The 2016 January eruption of recurrent Nova LMC 1968. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 655 - 679. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2960

We present a comprehensive review of all observations of the eclipsing recurrent Nova LMC 1968 in the Large Magellanic Cloud which was previously observed in eruption in 1968, 1990, 2002, 2010, and most recently in 2016. We derive a probable recurren... Read More about The 2016 January eruption of recurrent Nova LMC 1968.

Towards a molecular understanding of the water purification properties of Moringa seed proteins (2019)
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(2019). Towards a molecular understanding of the water purification properties of Moringa seed proteins. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 296-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2019.06.071

Seed extracts from Moringa oleifera are of wide interest for use in water purification where they can play an important role in flocculation; they also have potential as anti-microbial agents. Previous work has focused on the crude protein extract. H... Read More about Towards a molecular understanding of the water purification properties of Moringa seed proteins.

Effects of pre-stretch, compressibility and material constitution on the period-doubling secondary bifurcation of a film/substrate bilayer (2019)
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Cai, Z., & Fu, Y. (2019). Effects of pre-stretch, compressibility and material constitution on the period-doubling secondary bifurcation of a film/substrate bilayer. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 11 -19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2019.05.001

We refine a previously proposed semi-analytical method, and use it to study the effects of pre-stretch, compressibility and material constitution on the period-doubling secondary bifurcation of a uni-axially compressed film/substrate bilayer structur... Read More about Effects of pre-stretch, compressibility and material constitution on the period-doubling secondary bifurcation of a film/substrate bilayer.

Equality, diversity and inclusion perspectives (2019)
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Van Loon. (2019). Equality, diversity and inclusion perspectives. Astronomy and Geophysics, 5.40 - 5.42. https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atz182

An overview of the developments arising from equality, diversity and inclusion events at this year’s National Astronomy Meeting, by Vinesh Maguire-Rajpaul on behalf of the organizers.

Rayleigh-type waves on a coated elastic half-space with a clamped surface (2019)
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Kaplunov, & Prikazchikov. (2019). Rayleigh-type waves on a coated elastic half-space with a clamped surface. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0111

Elastodynamics of a half-space coated by a thin soft layer with a clamped upper face is considered. The focus is on the analysis of localised waves that do not exist on a clamped homogeneous halfspace. Non-traditional effective boundary conditions a... Read More about Rayleigh-type waves on a coated elastic half-space with a clamped surface.

An Ill-posed Cauchy Type Problem for an Elastic Strip (2019)
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(2019). An Ill-posed Cauchy Type Problem for an Elastic Strip. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids,

This study deals with an incorrectly posed, plane elasticity, boundary value problem for a strip. The strip is loaded by a concentrated load of known intensity applied to one side and the displacements on this side are also known. The problem is ther... Read More about An Ill-posed Cauchy Type Problem for an Elastic Strip.

Neuroevolution of Humanoids that Walk Further and Faster with Robust Gaits (2019)
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Channon. (2019). Neuroevolution of Humanoids that Walk Further and Faster with Robust Gaits. Artificial Life, 543 - 550. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00219

Bipedal locomotion requires precise rhythm and balance. Here we demonstrate two fitness-function enhancements applied to OpenAI?s 3D Humanoid-v1 walking task using a replica of Salimans et al.?s evolution strategy (Salimans et al., 2017). The first e... Read More about Neuroevolution of Humanoids that Walk Further and Faster with Robust Gaits.

Detection and characterisation of stellar companions to transiting extrasolar planets through high resolution imaging (2019)
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Evans, D. F. Detection and characterisation of stellar companions to transiting extrasolar planets through high resolution imaging. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413806

Since the discovery over two decades ago of the first `hot Jupiter', there has been persistent debate regarding the formation and origins of this class of planets. Some of the many `migration' theories for hot Jupiters suggest that these planets form... Read More about Detection and characterisation of stellar companions to transiting extrasolar planets through high resolution imaging.

A composite hyperbolic equation for plate extension (2019)
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Kaplunov. (2019). A composite hyperbolic equation for plate extension. Mechanics Research Communications, 64-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2019.06.008

A fourth-order inhomogeneous hyperbolic equation modeling the symmetric motion of a thin elastic plate subject to shear stresses prescribed along its faces is derived. The shortened forms of this equation govern the quasi-front, i.e. dispersive wave-... Read More about A composite hyperbolic equation for plate extension.