Scott William Sloan OBITUARY
Towards efficient integrated perovskite/organic bulk heterojunction solar cells: interfacial energetic requirement to re...
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Integrated perovskite/organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells have the potential to enhance the efficiency of perovskite solar cells by a simple one‐step deposition of an organic BHJ blend photoactive layer on top of the perovskite absorber. It is found that inverted structure integrated solar cells show significantly increased short‐circuit ...
Search for quark contact interactions and extra spatial dimensions using dijet angular distributions in proton-proton co...
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A search is presented for quark contact interactions and extra spatial dimensions in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV using dijet angular distributions. The search is based on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns collected by the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. Dijet angular distributions are foun...
Averaging multiple facial expressions through subsampling*
When perceivers view multiple facial expressions shown concurrently, they can quickly and precisely extract the mean emotion from the set. Yet it is not clear how many faces in the set contribute to summary judgments, and how the variance among them influences this process. To address these questions, we used the subset manipulation and varied emot...
Catalyst screening for the oxidative coupling of methane : from isothermal to adiabatic operation via microkinetic simul...
A microkinetics-based study was performed on the relevance of conventional isothermal data for the selection of catalysts for oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) in adiabatic reactors. Catalyst performances from isothermal tests in oxygen-lean feeds (CH4/O-2 >= 7) were found to reliably indicate the catalyst ranking for adiabatic operation, which f...
Spin-2 fields and the weak gravity conjecture
Recently, it has been argued that application of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) to spin-2 fields implies a universal upper bound on the cutoff of the effective theory for a single spin-2 field. We point out here that these arguments are largely spurious, because of the absence of states carrying spin-2 Stückelberg U ( 1 ) charge, and because of ...
Autoregulation assessment by direct visualisation of pial arterial blood flow in the piglet brain
Impairment of cerebrovascular autoregulation (CAR) is common after brain injury, although the pathophysiology remains elusive. The mechanisms of vascular dysregulation, their impact on brain function, and potential therapeutic implications are still incompletely understood. Clinical assessment of CAR remains challenging. Observational studies sugge...
High-sensitivity tracing of stable isotope labeled Ag nanoparticles in environmental samples using MC-ICP-MS
Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) are among the most widely used engineered nanomaterials and this warrants further investigation of their behaviour and fate in the environment. To support such work, we developed new techniques for efficient tracing of Ag NPs that are produced from, and hence labelled with, enriched 109 28 Ag (Ag-En). The methods encom...
An investigation of the reduction of TiO2 by Mg in H-2 atmosphere
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Hydrogen assisted magnesiothermic reduction (HAMR) of TiO2 is a promising new process developed recently to produce Ti metal with low cost and less energy consumption. This work focuses on the understanding and optimization of the reduction process to control the quality of the reduced product. TiO2 precursor particles with different relative densi...
Coupled Self-Organized Hydrodynamics and Stokes Models for Suspensions of Active Particles
Published in Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics
We derive macroscopic dynamics for self-propelled particles in a fluid. The starting point is a coupled Vicsek–Stokes system. The Vicsek model describes self-propelled agents interacting through alignment. It provides a phenomenological description of hydrodynamic interactions between agents at high density. Stokes equations describe a low Reynolds...
