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Recent advances to improve curcumin oral bioavailability by Sabet, Saman, Rashidinejad, Ali, Melton, Laurence D., McGillivray, Duncan J.

“…It has widely been agreed that the oral delivery of curcumin, a highly acknowledged health-promoting bioactive compound, is limited mostly due to its low water…”
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Reviewing nanoplastic toxicology: It's an interface problem by Kihara, Shinji, Köper, Ingo, Mata, Jitendra P., McGillivray, Duncan J.

“…Multiple international agencies have recently raised environmental and health concerns regarding plastics in nanoforms (nanoplastics), but there is…”
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Locking the Spiro Carbon in Spirobisindane Using Sulfur and Phosphorus to Form “Olympic Ring”-like Molecules by Ling, Honglei, McGillivray, Duncan J, Jin, Jianyong

“…To improve the rigidity of spirobisindane, it was intramolecularly locked by forming eight-membered rings via sulfur and phosphorus atoms to produce an…”
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Improved radiation dose efficiency in solution SAXS using a sheath flow sample environment by Kirby, Nigel, Cowieson, Nathan, Hawley, Adrian M., Mudie, Stephen T., McGillivray, Duncan J., Kusel, Michael, Samardzic-Boban, Vesna, Ryan, Timothy M.

“…Radiation damage is a major limitation to synchrotron small‐angle X‐ray scattering analysis of biomacromolecules. Flowing the sample during exposure helps to…”
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Detecting polystyrene nanoplastics using filter paper-based surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy by Kihara, Shinji, Chan, Andrew, In, Eugene, Taleb, Nargiss, Tollemache, Cherie, Yick, Samuel, McGillivray, Duncan J

“…This work presents a novel filter paper-based method using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), for detecting polystyrene nanoplastics (PSNPs). The SERS…”
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Soft and Hard Interactions between Polystyrene Nanoplastics and Human Serum Albumin Protein Corona by Kihara, Shinji, van der Heijden, Nadine J, Seal, Chris K, Mata, Jitendra P, Whitten, Andrew E, Köper, Ingo, McGillivray, Duncan J

“…Upon contact with biological fluids, the surface of nanoparticles is surrounded by many types of proteins, forming a so-called “protein corona”. The…”
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Nonlinear Behavior of Gelatin Networks Reveals a Hierarchical Structure by Yang, Zhi, Hemar, Yacine, Hilliou, Loic, Gilbert, Elliot P, McGillivray, Duncan J, Williams, Martin A. K, Chaieb, Sahraoui

“…We investigate the strain hardening behavior of various gelatin networksnamely physical gelatin gel, chemically cross-linked gelatin gel, and a hybrid gel…”
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Active antibacterial coating of cotton fabrics with antimicrobial proteins by Xu, Amy Y., McGillivray, Duncan J., Dingley, Andrew J.

“…The prevention of bacteria colonization by immobilizing proteins with antimicrobial activity onto cotton fabrics was investigated. Such coatings have potential…”
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Boundary lubrication under water by Briscoe, Wuge H, Titmuss, Simon, Klein, Jacob, McGillivray, Duncan J, Tiberg, Fredrik, Thomas, Robert K

“…Boundary lubrication, in which the rubbing surfaces are coated with molecular monolayers, has been studied extensively for over half a century. Such monolayers…”
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Molecular Weight and Charge Density Effects of Guanidinylated Biodegradable Polycarbonates on Antimicrobial Activity and Selectivity by Hae Cho, Chloe A, Liang, Chao, Perera, Janesha, Liu, Jie, Varnava, Kyriakos G, Sarojini, Vijayalekshmi, Cooney, Ralph P, McGillivray, Duncan J, Brimble, Margaret A, Swift, Simon, Jin, Jianyong

“…Six guanidine functionalized aliphatic biodegradable polycarbonates with varying molecular weights and charge densities were synthesized via postsynthesis…”
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Molecularly Engineered Intrinsically Healable and Stretchable Conducting Polymers by Baek, Paul, Aydemir, Nihan, An, Yiran, Chan, Eddie Wai Chi, Sokolova, Anna, Nelson, Andrew, Mata, Jitendra P, McGillivray, Duncan, Barker, David, Travas-Sejdic, Jadranka

“…Advances in stretchable electronics concern engineering of materials with strain-accommodating architectures and fabrication of nanocomposites by embedding a…”
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The Assembly Mechanism and Mesoscale Architecture of Protein–Polysaccharide Complexes Formed at the Solid–liquid Interface by Biswas, Shanta, Melton, Laurence D., Nelson, Andrew R. J., Le Brun, Anton P., Heinrich, Frank, McGillivray, Duncan J., Xu, Amy Y.

“…Protein–polysaccharide composite materials have generated much interest due to their potential use in medical science and biotechnology. A comprehensive…”
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Changes in the orientations of cellulose microfibrils during the development of collenchyma cell walls of celery (Apium graveolens L.) by Chen, Da, Melton, Laurence D., McGillivray, Duncan J., Ryan, Timothy M., Harris, Philip J.

“…Collenchyma cells have thickened primary cell walls and provide mechanical support during plant growth. During their development, these cells elongate and…”
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Geometric Frustration and Long-Range Ordering Induced by Surface Pressure Oscillation in a Langmuir–Blodgett Monolayer of Magnetic Soft Spheres by Makinde, Zainab O, van der Heijden, Nadine J, Clyde, Daniel, Nam, Seong, Brothers, Penelope J, Malmström, Jenny, Granville, Simon, Domigan, Laura J, McGillivray, Duncan J, Williams, David E

“…As a step toward the bottom-up construction of magnonic systems, this paper demonstrates the use of a large-amplitude surface-pressure annealing technique to…”
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Structure of soft and hard protein corona around polystyrene nanoplastics-Particle size and protein types by Kihara, Shinji, Ghosh, Sunandita, McDougall, Daniel R, Whitten, Andrew E, Mata, Jitendra P, Köper, Ingo, McGillivray, Duncan J

“…A major challenge in understanding nanoplastic toxicity (or nanoparticles in general) lies in establishing the causal relationships between its physical…”
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Soluble Amyloid β-Oligomers Affect Dielectric Membrane Properties by Bilayer Insertion and Domain Formation: Implications for Cell Toxicity by Valincius, Gintaras, Heinrich, Frank, Budvytyte, Rima, Vanderah, David J., McGillivray, Duncan J., Sokolov, Yuri, Hall, James E., Lösche, Mathias

“…It is well established that Alzheimer's amyloid β-peptides reduce the membrane barrier to ion transport. The prevailing model ascribes the resulting…”
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Blind Measurement of Receiver System Noise by Kuester, Daniel G., Wunderlich, Adam, McGillivray, Duncan A., Gu, Dazhen, Puls, Audrey K.

“…Tightly packaged receivers pose a challenge for noise measurements. Their only outputs are often diagnostic or benchmark information-"user data" that result…”
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Cellular interactions with polystyrene nanoplastics-The role of particle size and protein corona by Kihara, Shinji, Ashenden, Alexander, Kaur, Manmeet, Glasson, Judith, Ghosh, Sunandita, van der Heijden, Nadine, Brooks, Anna E S, Mata, Jitendra P, Holt, Stephen, Domigan, Laura J, Köper, Ingo, McGillivray, Duncan J

“…Plastic waste is ubiquitously spread across the world and its smaller analogs-microplastics and nanoplastics-raise particular health concerns. While biological…”
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Synthesis and characterization of mono S -lipidated peptide hydrogels: a platform for the preparation of reactive oxygen species responsive materials by Rani, Aakanksha, De Leon-Rodriguez, Luis M, Kavianinia, Iman, McGillivray, Duncan J, Williams, David E, Brimble, Margaret A

“…In this work we report the synthesis of mono lipidated peptides containing a 3-mercaptopropionate linker in the N-terminus by means of a photoinitiated…”
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Examining the role of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) in larval shellfish production in seawater contaminated with heavy metals by McDougall, Daniel R, Chan, Andrew, McGillivray, Duncan J, de Jonge, Martin D, Miskelly, Gordon M, Jeffs, Andrew G

“…•Adding EDTA to incubation seawater significantly increases larval mussel survival•Bioavailability of Cr, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb to mussel larvae is reduced with…”
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