School of Engineering and Materials Science: Recent submissions
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On the suitability of thermogravimetric balances for the study of biomass pyrolysis
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Modelling of a soft sensor for exteroception and proprioception in a pneumatically actuated soft robot
(2019-07-17)© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. Soft sensors are crucial to enable feedback in soft robots. Soft capacitive sensing is a reliable technology that can be embedded into soft pneumatic robots for obtaining proprioceptive ... -
Mixing in flows past confined microfluidic cylinders: Effects of pin and fluid interface offsetting
(Elsevier BV, 2020-10)Inserting obstacles such as cylindrical pins in a micromixer has the potential to significantly enhance scalar transport and improve species mixing between two co-flowing streams. However, it remains unclear how the mixing ... -
High Thermoelectric Performance in SnTe Nanocomposites with All-Scale Hierarchical Structures.
(2020-05-20)SnTe has attracted considerable attention as an environmentally friendly thermoelectric material. The thermoelectric figure of merit ZT value is related to low thermal conductivity that can be successfully realized using ... -
Heat and mass transfer and thermodynamic analysis of power-law fluid flow in a porous microchannel
(Springer, 2020-01-01)Transfer of heat and mass and thermodynamic irreversibilities are investigated in a porous, parallel-plate microreactor in which the working fluid is non-Newtonian. The investigated microreactor features thick flat walls ... -
The role of fullerenes in the environmental stability of polymer:fullerene solar cells
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018-01-10)Environmental stability is a common challenge for the commercialisation of low cost, encapsulation-free organic opto-electronic devices. Understanding the role of materials degradation is the key to address this challenge, ... -
Origin and evolution of eukaryotic transcription factors
(Elsevier, 2019-07-20)Transcription factors (TFs) have a central role in genome regulation directing gene transcription through binding specific DNA sequences. Eukaryotic genomes encode a large diversity of TF classes, each defined by unique ... -
Evolution of DNA Methylome Diversity in Eukaryotes
(Elsevier, 2020-03-13)Cytosine DNA methylation (5mC) is a widespread base modification in eukaryotic genomes with critical roles in transcriptional regulation. In recent years, our understanding of 5mC has changed because of advances in 5mC ... -
Recurrent acquisition of cytosine methyltransferases into eukaryotic retrotransposons
(Nature, 2018-04-09)Transposable elements are in a constant arms race with the silencing mechanisms of their host genomes. One silencing mechanism commonly used by many eukaryotes is dependent on cytosine methylation, a covalent modification ... -
Enhanced ductility of nanomaterials through cooperative dislocation emission from cracks and grain boundaries
(Elsevier, 2020-08-10)An analytical model is established to explore the cooperative mechanism between the dislocation emission from cracks and grain boundaries driven by grain boundary sliding in deformed nanocrystalline materials. In our model, ... -
Characterization of aggregate behaviors of torrefied biomass as a function of reaction severity
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Carbon Dots in Solar-to-Hydrogen Conversion
(Elsevier, 2020-05-18)Solar hydrogen production from catalytic water splitting is one of the many options available to help generate clean power and alleviate the threatening environmental concerns stemming from the use of fossil fuels. During ... -
Evaluating the resilience of superhydrophobic materials using the slip-length concept
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018-03-14)The drive to introduce superhydrophobic materials into real-world applications requires the development of robust and effective surfaces. Efforts to formulate a collective understanding of the design approaches required ... -
Capture of a functionally active methyl-CpG binding domain by an arthropod retrotransposon family
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2019-08)The repressive capacity of cytosine DNA methylation is mediated by recruitment of silencing complexes by methyl-CpG binding domain (MBD) proteins. Despite MBD proteins being associated with silencing, we discovered that a ... -
Convergent evolution of a vertebrate-like methylome in a marine sponge
(Nature, 2019-10)Vertebrates have highly methylated genomes at CpG positions, whereas invertebrates have sparsely methylated genomes. This increase in methylation content is considered a major regulatory innovation of vertebrate genomes. ... -
Boosting the Thermoelectric Performance of Calcium Cobaltite Composites through Structural Defect Engineering.
(2020-05-13)Misfit-layered Ca3Co4O9 as a p-type semiconductor is difficult to commercialize because of its relatively poor performance. Here, Ca2.7-xLa x Ag0.3Co4O9/Ag composites prepared by spark plasma sintering were systematically ... -
An Efficient, "Burn in" Free Organic Solar Cell Employing a Nonfullerene Electron Acceptor.
(Wiley, 2017-09)A comparison of the efficiency, stability, and photophysics of organic solar cells employing poly[(5,6-difluoro-2,1,3-benzothiadiazol-4,7-diyl)-alt-(3,3'″-di(2-octyldodecyl)-2,2';5',2″;5″,2'″-quaterthiophen-5,5'″-diyl)] ... -
Ambipolar Transport in Solution-Synthesized Graphene Nanoribbons
(ACS, 2016-04-26)Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with robust electronic band gaps are promising candidate materials for nanometer-scale electronic circuits. Realizing their full potential, however, will depend on the ability to access GNRs ...
