RAFT miniemulsion polymerisation of benzyl methacrylate using a non-ionic surfactant affords latexes with controllable molar mass, narrow mass distributions and tuneable particle diameter.

An artificially intelligent flow-reactor platform equipped with online NMR and GPC enables autonomous polymerisation optimisation utilising a machine learning algorithm to map the trade-off between monomer conversion dispersity.

Through the co-polymerisation of dicyandiamide and barbituric acid precursors, a series visible light active carbon nitride photocatalysts has been prepared characterized, their photocatalytic activity evaluated....

Monodisperse cholesteric liquid crystal microspheres exhibit spherically symmetric Bragg reflection, generating, via photonic cross communication, dynamically tuneable multi-coloured patterns. These patterns, uniquely defined by the particular sphere arrangement, could render cholesteric microspheres very useful in countless security applications, as tags to identify and authenticate their carr...

An experimental evaluation was made of the efficacy of an unflanged cup, an ogee-flanged cup and the Exeter pressuriser in the pressurisation of acetabular cement. Only a very modest injection pressure could be generated through an unflanged socket and even this was readily lost as the socket "bottomed out". The ogee-flanged socket gave a consistently high injection pressure which could be main...

Molecular imprinting is a methodology used to create recognition sites in synthetic polymers by copolymerising a functional and a cross-linking monomer in the presence of the target analyte. This imprint molecule acts as a molecular template by the interaction with the complementary groups of the functional monomer and arranges the cross-linker to resemble the molecular shape. In the pre-polyme...

Biomembranes shown to behave like elastic sheets, can also suffer plastic deformations. Neutron scattering experiments on partially polymerised wrinkled membranes revealed that when a critical degree of polymerisation is crossed, the wrinkled membranes do not resume their spherical shapes. Instead they remain wrinkled and rigid while their non-polymerised counterparts resume their spherical flo...

Vacuum metal deposition (VMD) has been previously demonstrated as an effective development technique for latent fingerprints, and in some cases has been shown to enhance prints developed with cyanoacrylate (superglue) fuming. This work utilises scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to investigate the interactions of the two development techniques when applied to latent fingerprints on low density ...

New permethylindenyl-phenoxide (PHENI*) ansa -metallocene titanium complexes immobilised on inorganic solid supports are highly effective catalysts for ethylene polymerisation capable of producing disentangled ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene.

In this paper we report the first use of Al(III) salalen complexes for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide. Polylactides with narrow polydispersities (PDIs range from 1.04-1.65) and moderate degrees of stereoselectivity were formed. Eight salalen Al(III) complexes have been prepared and fully characterised by solution-state NMR spectroscopy and, where appropriate, single crystal X-ra...