• openAccess   Continuous-flow crystallisation in 3D-printed compact devices 

      Okafor, Obinna; Robertson, Karen; Goodridge, Ruth; Sans, Victor Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)
      A flexible and cost-effective methodology to develop compact flow devices with heat exchange ability is presented here. Additive manufacturing techniques allows the rapid design and manufacturing of modular jacketed flow ...
    • openAccess   Decoupling manufacturing from application in additive manufactured antimicrobial materials 

      Wales, Dominic; Miralles-Comins, Sara; Franco Castillo, Isabel; Cameron, Jamie; Cao, Qun; Karjalainen, Erno; Alves Fernandes, Jesum; Newton, Graham; Mitchell, Scott George; Sans, Victor Royal Society of Chemistry (2021-05-11)
      3D printable materials based on polymeric ionic liquids (PILs) capable of controlling the synthesis and stabilisation of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and their synergistic antimicrobial activity are reported. The ...
    • openAccess   Efficient carbon dioxide hydrogenation to formic acid with buffering ionic liquids 

      Weilhard, Andreas; Argent, Stephen; Sans, Victor Springer Nature (2021-01-11)
      The efficient transformation of CO2 into chemicals and fuels is a key challenge for the decarbonisation of the synthetic production chain. Formic acid (FA) represents the first product of CO2 hydrogenation and can be a ...
    • openAccess   Environmental performance of 3D-Printing polymerisable ionic liquids 

      Gonçalves Maciel, Vinícius; Wales, Dominic; seferin, marcus; Sans, Victor Elsevier (2018-12-28)
      This work presents a “cradle-to-gate” Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of 3D-printing polymerisable ionic liquids (PILs) using digital light projection (DLP). It is based on primary data from environmental emissions, wastewater, ...
    • openAccess   Investigation of pressure drop in 3D replicated open-cell foams: Coupling CFD with experimental data on additively manufactured foams 

      Bracconi, Mauro; Ambrosetti, Matteo; Okafor, Obinna; Sans, Victor; Zhang, Xun; Ou, Xiaoxia; Da Fonte, Claudio Pereira; Fan, Xiaolei; Maestri, Matteo; Groppi, Gianpiero; Tronconi, Enrico Elsevier (2019-12-01)
      Open-cell foams as structured catalyst supports are promising candidates for the design of high throughput catalytic processes. In this contribution, we employ a coupled numerical and experimental approach to assess the ...
    • openAccess   Redox-active hierarchical assemblies of hybrid polyoxometalate nanostructures at carbon surfaces 

      Amin, Sharad; Cameron, Jamie; Cousins, Richard B.; Wrigley, James; Liirò Peluso, Letizia; Sans, Victor; Walsh, Darren; Newton, Graham Royal Society of Chemistry (2022-03-03)
      The self-assembly of hierarchical nanostructures on surfaces is a promising strategy for the development of a wide range of new technologies, such as energy-storage devices and sensors. In this work we show that amphiphilic, ...
    • openAccess   State-of-the-art and limitations in the life cycle assessment of ionic liquids 

      Gonçalves Maciel, Vinícius; Wales, Dominic; seferin, marcus; Ugaya, Cássia; Sans, Victor Elsevier (2019-01-19)
      Even though the development and use of ionic liquids (ILs) has rapidly grown in recent years, in the literature, information addressing the environmental performance of these substances in a life cycle context is comparatively ...