ORCID Profile
0000-0002-6786-7720
Current Organisation
University of Nottingham
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Publisher: The Electrochemical Society
Date: 03-2022
Abstract: Adding redox activity into ionic liquids (ILs) extends their practical roles beyond an inert ionic conductor or electrolyte for applications in electrochemical energy storage. Especially for supercapatteries, redox ILs are desirable because they can contribute to increasing the charge storage capacity by merging the capacitive and Nernstian storage mechanisms without compromising their intrinsic wide potential windows. Several prospects of redox ILs are identified and discussed for optimising performance in supercapatteries.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 08-2007
DOI: 10.1021/JP072803F
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 20-06-2022
Abstract: The potential and research surrounding metal hydride (MH) based thermal energy storage is discussed, focusing on next generation thermo-chemical energy storage (TCES) for concentrated solar power. The site availability model to represent the reaction mechanisms of both the forward and backward MH reaction is presented, where this model is extrapolated to a small pilot scale reactor, detailing how a TCES could function/operate in a real-world setting using a conventional shell & tube reactor approach. Further, the important parameter of effective thermal conductivity is explored using an innovative multi-scale model, to providing extensive and relevant experimental data useful for reactor and system design. Promising high temperature MH material configurations may be tuned by either destabilisation, such as using additions to Ca and Sr based hydrides, or by stabilisation, such as fluorine addition to NaH, MgH 2 , or NaMgH 3 . This versatile thermodynamic tuning is discussed, including the challenges in accurately measuring the material characteristics at elevated temperatures (500 –700 °C). Attention to scale up is explored, including generic design and prototype considerations, and an ex le of a novel pilot-scale pillow-plate reactor currently in development where materials used are discussed, overall tank design scope and system integration.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-09-2007
DOI: 10.1007/S10735-007-9142-1
Abstract: Any biomaterial implanted within the human body is influenced by the interactions that take place between its surface and the surrounding biological milieu. These interactions are known to influence the tissue interface dynamic, and thus act to emphasize the need to study cell-surface interactions as part of any biomaterial design process. The work described here investigates the relationship between human osteoblast attachment, spreading and focal contact formation on selected surfaces using immunostaining and digital image processing for vinculin, a key focal adhesion component. Our observations show that a relationship exists between levels of cell attachment, the degree of vinculin-associated plaque formation and biocompatibility. It also suggests that cell adhesion is not indicative of how supportive a substrate is to cell spreading, and that cell spreading does not correlate with focal contact formation.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-03-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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