Efficient self-emulsification via cooling-heating cycles
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 619
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/ncomms15012
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 15012
- First page
- 15012
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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6
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper is of extreme fundamental interest and simultaneously of industrial importance. For the first time, a non-living system harvests energy from the environmental fluctuations to break itself into droplets – with implications for the origin of life. We also got interest huge pharmaceutical (Shionogi, Kai Stoeber) and chemical companies (Unilever Bill Frith; BASF, Frederic Bauer) who see practical benefits in the three new mechanisms in the field of self-emulsification, first in decades of development. We filed two patents (EP16825542.0, GB1910115.3), started a company, and obtained two translational ERC grants for commercialization and EPSRC fellowship in molecular manufacturing (EP/R028915/1).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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