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In collaboration with colleagues from University of York, and elsewhere, we have helped to develop techniques for analysing sequences of collagen in ancient bone which shed light on important phylogenetic relationships that were previously inaccessible using traditional DNA dating techniques.Link to full paper is http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature142…

Anastasiia Mikhalchan has now returned to her home in Russia, after her short post doctoral appointment in MML.Anastasiia Mikhalchan accomplished much1 during her few months with us, and we wish her well as her career develops.  1. Epoxy composites with aligned assemblies of carbon nanotubes.  Mikhalchan, A., Gspann, T. and Windle A.H. Paper presen…

We hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and will have a happy 2015. We would like to welcome two new members: Peter and Chunlei, to the MML group.Mr Peter Vanya joined the group as a MPhil student. He obtained his BSc in theoretical physics from Imperial College. His project is funded jointly by EPSRC and Johnson Matthey with the aim of…

A new paper, jointly first-authored by James Elliott, is published online in Angewandte Chemie, and selected by Editor as Hot Paper. In this work, we demonstrate a new way to make paracetamol powder in such a way that tablets can be produced by direct compaction without any binders or additives. Angewandte Chemie is the premier journal of the Germ…

A new paper by J Terrones, A H Windle, and J A Elliott published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.This new paper, published in the open access journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, develops a series of simple mathematical models to explain phenomena reported in two previous papers.ABSTRACT: Yarn-like carbon nanotube (…

For the second consecutive month, the Department of Materials Science has selected a paper authored by people from our lab as the research paper of the month.This time, it was the paper titled "Electric Field-Modulated Non-Ohmic Behavior of Carbon Nanotube Fibers in Polar Liquids" authored by Jeronimo Terrones, James A Elliott, Juan J Vilatela*, an…

A new paper by T. Gspann, F. Smail and A. Windle was presented at the Faraday Discussions in the Royal Society of Chemistry, London.Optimisation of the single-step process for spinning CNT fibres requires agility in a multi-dimensional parameter space, so one tends to find parameter ‘islands’ where spinning is possible while exploration tends to fo…

The Department of Materials Science has selected a paper co-authored by MML's James Elliott as the research paper of the month of September.The paper, written in collaboration with the Active and Intelligent Materials Lab and published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, describes the synthesis and properties of a novel hybrid material that co…

PDRA position available (deadline 1st September)A PDRA position concerned with the modelling of spray coating of pharmaceutical tablets by the Discrete Element Method (DEM) is available under the supervision of Dr James Elliott. For further details, and how to apply (deadline 1st September 2014), please see:http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJH777/research…

"Electric Field-Modulated Non-Ohmic Behavior of Carbon Nanotube Fibers in Polar Liquids" - A new paper by J. Terrones, J. A. Elliott, J. J. Vilatela, and A. H. Windle.This article, published in ACS Nano, discusses how electric fields modify the internal bundle structure of carbon nanotube yarn-like fibres and how this structural re-arrangement resu…

We welcome a new postdoctoral research associate to the group.Sergio Estravís is from Spain and joins our group as a postdoctoral research associate . He has a background studying polymeric foams, from fabrication to characterisation and modelling. He will carry out research on polymeric nanofoams under the supervision of Dr. James Elliott.

A hybrid tabulation-scaling implementation of Thornton and Ning's plastic–adhesive particle contact theory.A new paper by Jonathan Loh, William Ketterhagen and James Elliott.Abstract: "Two novel implementations of the Thornton and Ning (TN) plastic–adhesive particle contact theory for use in numerical simulations using the discrete element method (…

We welcome a new summer student to the group.Augusto is an Engineering Physics undergraduate from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He has come to do research  and stay to investigate the mechanical and electrical properties of carbon nanotube fibres and their composites. Augusto has previous experience working with carbine and molybdenum …

A new paper on cellulose by Mudrika Khandelwal and Alan Windle was published in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.A study of the structure of cellulose microfibrils from three different sources (bacterial, nata de coco, and tunicate) published in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules."The organisation of poly-g…

A new paper by Mudrika Khandelwal and Alan Windle discusses the origin of chiral interactions between cellulose nanowhiskers.Mudrika Khandelwal (alumna of MML and currently assistant professor in IIT Hyderabad) and Alan Windle (MML) have recently published a paper in the journal "Carbohydrate Polymers". The article, titled "Origin of chiral interac…