Electromagnetic Nanoparticles for Sensing and Medical Diagnostic Applications
Journal Article
La Spada, L., & Vegni, L. (2018)
Electromagnetic Nanoparticles for Sensing and Medical Diagnostic Applications. Materials, 11(4), 603. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11040603
A modeling and design approach is proposed for nanoparticle-based electromagnetic devices. First, the structure properties were analytically studied using Maxwell’s equations....
Rheometrical aspects of the viscoelastic dispersion of shear waves in gel-like mechanical networks
Journal Article
Williams, P., & Williams, R. (1998)
Rheometrical aspects of the viscoelastic dispersion of shear waves in gel-like mechanical networks. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 78(2-3), 203-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-0257%2898%2900066-4
A modified form of the Gross-Marvin ladder model is used to simulate gelation processes in which α, the viscoelastic stress relaxation exponent in the Gel Equation, can be var...
Rheometrical Studies of Blood Clot Formation by Oscillatory Shear, Thromboelastography, Sonoclot Analysis and Free Oscillation Rheometry
Journal Article
Evans, P. A., Hawkins, K. M., Lawrence, M. J., Williams, P. R., & Williams, R. L. (2008)
Rheometrical Studies of Blood Clot Formation by Oscillatory Shear, Thromboelastography, Sonoclot Analysis and Free Oscillation Rheometry. AIP conference proceedings, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2964777
We report studies of the coagulation of samples of whole human blood by oscillatory shear techniques, including Fourier Transform Mechanical Spectroscopy (FTMS). These techniq...
The Influence of Particles’ Aspect Ratio on the Shear Behaviour of Granular Materials
Conference Proceeding
Xie, Y. H., Yang, Z. X., & Barreto, D. (2017)
The Influence of Particles’ Aspect Ratio on the Shear Behaviour of Granular Materials. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods. , (253-264). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1926-5_29
The mechanical response of granular material depends both on the material properties (e.g. stiffness, anisotropy, permeability, etc.) and particle geometry (shape, roughness, ...
Disastrous performance of NanoCote/Aqua Based antimicrobial paint in a hospital setting
Journal Article
Ramsden, J., Reid, M., Whatley, V., & Dancer, S. (2016)
Disastrous performance of NanoCote/Aqua Based antimicrobial paint in a hospital setting. Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, 16(3), 131-136. https://doi.org/10.4024/16ra16a.jbpc.16.03
Attempts are being made to incorporate copper into clear varnish in order to coat environmental surfaces in hospitals with the long-term goal of reducing healthcare-acquired i...
The teaching of thermodynamics today.
Book
Bartlett, R., & Kubie, J. (2015)
The teaching of thermodynamics today. In M. W. Collins, R. C. Dougal, C. Koenig, & I. S. Ruddock (Eds.), Kelvin, Thermodynamics and the Natural World; WIT Transactions on State of the Art in Science and Engineering, 261-271. WITPRESS LTD. doi:10.2495/978-1-84564-149-8/011
Although there are several robust theories of ‘thermodynamics’ operating very successfully over a range of different disciplines, for example, biology, chemistry, geoscience, ...
A New Ab Initio Approach to the Development of High Temperature Superconducting Materials
Journal Article
Turner, P., & Nottale, L. (2016)
A New Ab Initio Approach to the Development of High Temperature Superconducting Materials. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 29(12), 3113-3118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-016-3756-z
We review recent theoretical developments, which suggest that a set of shared principles underpin macroscopic quantum phenomena observed in high temperature superconducting ma...
Rheometrical detection of incipient blood clot formation by Fourier transform mechanical spectroscopy
Journal Article
Evans, P. A., Hawkins, K., Williams, P. R. & Williams, R. L. (2007)
Rheometrical detection of incipient blood clot formation by Fourier transform mechanical spectroscopy. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. 148(1-3), 122-126. doi:10.1016/j.jnnfm.2007.04.020. ISSN 0377-0257
We report a study of the coagulation of whole blood by oscillatory shear Fourier transform mechanical spectroscopy. The results include the first identification of the Gel Poi...
A study of gelatin gelation by Fourier transform mechanical spectroscopy
Journal Article
Hawkins, K., Lawrence, M., Williams, P. R. & Williams, R. L. (2007)
A study of gelatin gelation by Fourier transform mechanical spectroscopy. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. 148(1-3), 127-133. doi:10.1016/j.jnnfm.2007.05.016. ISSN 0377-0257
This paper reports the results of experiments which were designed to test the hypothesis that the recording of anomalous values of rheological exponents in the gelation of gel...
Shear wave dispersion in mechanically self-similar gel networks
Journal Article
Williams, P. R., & Williams, R. L. (1998)
Shear wave dispersion in mechanically self-similar gel networks. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 31(9), 1083
A study of viscoelastic shear wave dispersion in a simulated gelation process involving mechanically self-similar nodal networks is reported. The network formed at the gel poi...