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Evaluation of Garofalo creep model for lead-free solder joints in surface mount components

Amalu E., University of Wolverhampton, UK

This investigation employs four hyperbolic sine creep constitutive models to simulate the deformation in Sn[3.0-4.0%]Ag[0.5-1.0%]Cu solder joints of two surface mount components assembled on printed circuit board. These creep models are proposed by Schubert et [...]

Near Infrared Sintering of a cost effective Roll to Roll water purification coating

Mabbett I., Brennan D., Lavery N.P., Charbonneau C.M.E., Khan K., Woods R., Pursglove A.B., Bryant D.T., Watson T.M., Worsley D.A., Swansea University, UK

Near Infrared (NIR)at 250kW/m2 has been shown to sinter titanium dioxide on metal based substrates in just 12.5s. This coupled with a screen printable hybrid titania paste with nano-particulate anatase attached to a mesoporous framework [...]

The Development of an Automated Nano Sampling Handling System for Nanometre Protein Crystallography Experiments

Docker P., Axford D., Prince M., Cordovez B., Kay J., Stuart D., Evans G., Diamond light Source, UK

As the world’s synchrotrons and X-FELs endeavour to meet the need to analyse ever-smaller protein crystals, there grows a requirement for a new technique to present nano-dimensional samples to the beam for X-ray diffraction experiments.The [...]

The application of 3D printing to study microfluidic architecture for ‘on chip’ mixing systems for SRCD and UV spectroscopy

Prince M., Docker P., Burton C., Hussain R., Kay J., Silgardi G., Diamond light Source, UK

Circular dichroism (CD) is the differential absorption of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light. It is a form of spectroscopy used to determine the optical isomerism and secondary structure of molecules, and to study a [...]

The Automation of Protein Crystal Presentation for X Ray Diffraction Experiments using Standing Acoustic Waves in a Microfluidic Chip Environment

Burton C., Docker P., Prince M., Leaper M., Kay J., Stuart D., Evans G., Diamond light Source, UK

As the pressure continues to grow on Diamond and the world’s synchrotrons for higher throughput of diffraction experiments, new and novel techniques are required for presenting these micron dimension crystals to the X ray beam. [...]

Characterisation of THP-1 macrophages as an in vitro model for CD44-targeted therapies

M. Rios de la Rosa J., Tirella A., Gennari A., Tirelli N., University of Manchester, UK

CD44 is the major cell surface receptor of hyaluronic acid (HA) and mediates the response of cells to their cellular microenvironment. Whereas the standard isoform (CD44s) is ubiquitously expressed throughout the body, variant isoforms (CD44v) [...]

Thermally responsive lipid coated superparamagnetic nanoparticles for frequency triggered drug delivery

Patil-Sen Y., Eizadi Sharifabad M., Mercer T., Bond G., Patil-Sen Y., Sen T., University of Central Lancashire, UK

In this abstract, we report a series of novel thermally responsive lipid coated core-shell mesoporous silica-superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as drug delivery vehicles for potential use for cancer therapy under magnetic hyperthermia. Hydrophilic anticancer drug [...]

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