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21 items found for 2026 [total: 429]
High-throughput serial tomography using an automated sample-changing robot Journal Of Visualized Experiments, Jul 2026 DOI: 10.3791/68273
Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders Current Biology, 7 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.06.019
Beech latewood density as a proxy for temperature reconstruction Science Advances, 12 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aee1305
The embryonic origins of site-specific arthritis Nature Immunology, 570 June 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41590-026-02542-2
Journal Paper DIAD-Dual Imaging and Diffraction Beamline I13-2-Diamond Manchester Imaging open access
Bone fragility persists in long-term bisphosphonate-treated oim mice despite sex-specific changes in bone quality Acta Biomaterialia, 217 June 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2026.04.054
Journal Paper I13-2-Diamond Manchester Imaging
Systematic disruption of zebrafish fibrillin genes identifies a translational zebrafish model for Marfan syndrome Jacc: Basic To Translational Science, 11 May 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2026.101543
Crab spider vision improves their prey capture despite low visual system investment Royal Society Open Science, 13 May 2026 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.260045
Implications of manufacturing-induced variation in tow architecture on the damage behaviour of braided composite tubes under torsion Composites Part B: Engineering, 126 May 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2026.113782
Revealing hierarchical intervertebral disc biomechanics through multimodal x-ray imaging May 2026
Thesis DIAD-Dual Imaging and Diffraction Beamline I13-2-Diamond Manchester Imaging I22-Small angle scattering & Diffraction
Structural and transcriptomic alterations underlying the progression of aortic dissection in Fbn1G234D/G234D mice Scientific Reports, Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-50847-x
Time-lapse synchrotron imaging of CO2 flow in a reservoir-caprock complex system: implications for geological CO2 sequestration Spe Journal, 251 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.2118/233373-PA
Journal Paper I13-2-Diamond Manchester Imaging
Effect of fixative solutions in long-term bone preservation Biology, 15 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.3390/biology15070567
Innovative P(3HB)/carbon-based material composites for bone tissue regeneration: Biocompatibility, thermo-mechanical, and structural insights Materials Today Advances, 29 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtadv.2025.100657
The complex evolution of elasticity during metamorphic transformation Mar 2026 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-4517
Synchrotron tomography-based inversion pipeline for estimating elastic properties for rat vertebral endplate finite element models Acta Biomaterialia, 391 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2026.03.032
3D/4D printing of electromagnetic field-assisted multifunctional polymer composites Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-28820-3.00014-7
Book Chapter I13-2-Diamond Manchester Imaging
Pressure-induced ossicular alterations in the oim mouse model of brittle bone disease do not cause hearing loss Hearing Research, 247 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2026.109561
Predicting the formation of mud cracks in Li-ion battery electrodes during the drying process with in situ X-ray computed tomography Ees Batteries, 24 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.1039/D5EB00201J
Sequential buckling mechanics of the ermine moth's aeroelastic tymbal: an origami-like creased shell analogue Journal Of The Royal Society Interface, 23 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2025.0864
Operando X-ray computed tomography reveals the role of interfacial nucleation nanolayers in suppressing mechanical failure in zero-excess lithium all-solid-state batteries Small, 11 Jan 2026 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202512284
Tumor-associated macrophages enhance peripheral nerve tumor infiltration and spinal cord repair Immunity, 31 Jan 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.12.016
- Shashidhara Marathe, Malte Storm, Kaz Wanelik, Huw Shorthouse, Nickie Griffin, Anjali Goswami, Gavin R. Broad, Ben Price, Oliver Kippax-Chui, Christoph Rau, "High-throughput serial tomography using an automated sample-changing robot", Journal Of Visualized Experiments (2026), DOI: 10.3791/68273
- Atal Pande, Lucille Rose, Sam J. England, Imran Rahman, Ricardo Pérez-De La Fuente, Andrew J. Bodey, Kaz Wanelik, Christian M. Schlepütz, Jonathan Günther, Christoph Rau, Alexander Blanke, Lauren Sumner-Rooney, "Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders", Current Biology, 7 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.06.019
- Louis Verschuren, Vladimir Matskovsky, Matthieu N Boone, Pieter De Frenne, Tom De Mil, Kristof Haneca, Shashidhara Marathe, Charlotte Pearson, Christoph Rau, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Joris Van Acker, Kris Vandekerkhove, Kaz Wanelik, Julia Weidemüller, Valerie Trouet, Jan Van Den Bulcke, "Beech latewood density as a proxy for temperature reconstruction", Science Advances, 12 (2026), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aee1305
- Sarah Davidson, Davide Simone, Kathrin Jansen, Max Cowan, Caio Machado, Ian Reekie, Ananya Bhalla, Rowie Borst, Cesar Prada Medina, Joshua Bull, Zhi Yi Wong, Sarah Hill, Micon Garvilles, Sam Pledger, Patricia Reis Nisa, Nora Rebecca Schwingen, Dylan Windell, Moustafa Attar, Catherine Disney, Andrew J. Bodey, Alissa Parmenter, Helen Byrne, Sharif Ahmed, Shashidhara Marathe, Peter Lee, Chris Mahony, Adam P. Croft, Stephen Sansom, Mark C. Coles, Christopher D. Buckley, "The embryonic origins of site-specific arthritis", Nature Immunology, 570 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41590-026-02542-2
- Asier Munoz, Aimar Silvan, Alessandra Carriero, "Bone fragility persists in long-term bisphosphonate-treated oim mice despite sex-specific changes in bone quality", Acta Biomaterialia, 217, 378 - 393 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2026.04.054
- Karo De Rycke, Marina Horvat, Lisa Caboor, Petra Vermassen, Griet De Smet, Sophie Lobbestael, Marta Santana Silva, Wouter Steyaert, Matthias Van Impe, Patrick Segers, Julie De Backer, Patrick Sips, "Systematic disruption of zebrafish fibrillin genes identifies a translational zebrafish model for Marfan syndrome", Jacc: Basic To Translational Science, 11 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2026.101543
- S. Jake England, Lucille Rose, Vanessa Penna-Gonçalves, Marie E. Herberstein, Lauren Sumner-Rooney, "Crab spider vision improves their prey capture despite low visual system investment", Royal Society Open Science, 13 (2026), DOI: 10.1098/rsos.260045
- Dongze He, Yuan Chai, Jiduo Zhang, Mohammad Islam, Leonard Turpin, Kaz Wanelik, Valeriy Titarenko, Elizabeth E. Evans, Zihan Song, Timothy L. Burnett, Kali Babu Katnam, Prasad Potluri, Philip J. Withers, "Implications of manufacturing-induced variation in tow architecture on the damage behaviour of braided composite tubes under torsion", Composites Part B: Engineering, 126 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2026.113782
- [Thesis] Alissa L. Parmenter, "Revealing hierarchical intervertebral disc biomechanics through multimodal x-ray imaging" (2026)
- Md Al Amin Sheikh, Kenichi Kimura, Eri Motoyama, Keiichi Asano, Violette Deleeuw, Patrick Sips, Chiho Tokunaga, Hiroko Matsunaga, Sachiko Kanki, Shigeki Koizumi, Kaori Sugiyama, Julie De Backer, Lynn Y. Sakai, Haruko Takeyama, Yuji Hiramatsu, Haruka Ozaki, Hiromi Yanagisawa, "Structural and transcriptomic alterations underlying the progression of aortic dissection in Fbn1G234D/G234D mice", Scientific Reports (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-50847-x
- Ke Wang, Kevin G. Taylor, Jianpeng Wang, Ying Gao, Jingyue Hao, Ziyu Zhang, Ziheng Wang, Lin Ma, "Time-lapse synchrotron imaging of CO2 flow in a reservoir-caprock complex system: implications for geological CO2 sequestration", Spe Journal, 251, 1 - 16 (2026), DOI: 10.2118/233373-PA
- Victoria Gulimova, Yuriy S. Krivonosov, Inna Bukreeva, Alexey Buzmakov, Olga Junemann, Victor Asadchikov, Sergey Saveliev, "Effect of fixative solutions in long-term bone preservation", Biology, 15 (2026), DOI: 10.3390/biology15070567
- Mahendra P. Raut, Andrea Mele, Nicholas T. H. Farr, Caroline S. Taylor, David A. Gregory, Jingqiong Zhang, Yufeng Lai, Annabelle Fricker, Jon Willmott, Candice Majewski, Lyudmila Mihaylova, Cornelia Rodenburg, Ipsita Roy, "Innovative P(3HB)/carbon-based material composites for bone tissue regeneration: Biocompatibility, thermo-mechanical, and structural insights", Materials Today Advances, 29 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.mtadv.2025.100657
- [Conference Paper] Damien Freitas, James Gilgannon, Danielle Duggins, Ian Butler, Roberto Rizzo, Leonard Turpin, Bengang Chen, Christina Reinhard, Neil Bourne, "The complex evolution of elasticity during metamorphic transformation" (2026), DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-4517
- Jishizhan Chen, Alissa Parmenter, Aikta Sharma, Elis Newham, Eral Bele, Sebastian Marussi, Andrew A. Pitsillides, Nick J. Terrill, Christopher Mitchell, Himadri S. Gupta, Peter Lee, "Synchrotron tomography-based inversion pipeline for estimating elastic properties for rat vertebral endplate finite element models", Acta Biomaterialia, 391 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2026.03.032
- [Book Chapter] Hamed Yazdani Nezhad, "3D/4D printing of electromagnetic field-assisted multifunctional polymer composites" (2026), DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-28820-3.00014-7
- Maialen Ugarteburu, Luis Cardoso, Christoph Rau, Claus-Peter Richter, Alessandra Carriero, "Pressure-induced ossicular alterations in the oim mouse model of brittle bone disease do not cause hearing loss", Hearing Research, 247 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2026.109561
- Will J. Dawson, Andrew R. T. Morrison, Simon M. Tonge, Matthew P. Jones, Myles Kofi Coke, Isabel C. Antony, Kaz Wanelik, Vyacheslav Kachkanov, Partha P. Paul, Bratislav Lukić, Robert S. Young, Zifa Zuhair, James Parker, Inez Kesuma, Gargi Giri, Liam Bird, Alexander J. E. Rettie, Rhodri Jervis, James B. Robinson, Denis Cumming, Thomas S. Miller, Paul R. Shearing, "Predicting the formation of mud cracks in Li-ion battery electrodes during the drying process with in situ X-ray computed tomography", Ees Batteries, 24 (2026), DOI: 10.1039/D5EB00201J
- Hernaldo Mendoza Nava, Marc W. Holderied, Alberto Pirrera, Rainer M. J. Groh, "Sequential buckling mechanics of the ermine moth's aeroelastic tymbal: an origami-like creased shell analogue", Journal Of The Royal Society Interface, 23 (2026), DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2025.0864
- Linfeng Xu, James Le Houx, Vyachesl Kachkanov, Jinsong Zhang, Robin N. Wullich, Matthias Fankhauser, Kaspar Löffel, Thomas J. Schmidt, Mario El Kazzi, "Operando X-ray computed tomography reveals the role of interfacial nucleation nanolayers in suppressing mechanical failure in zero-excess lithium all-solid-state batteries", Small, 11 (2026), DOI: 10.1002/smll.202512284
- Sissi Dolci, Loris Mannino, Eros Rossi, Emanuela Bottani, Francesca Ciarpella, Nicola Piazza, Isabel Karkossa, Marzia Di Chio, Benedetta Savino, Benedetta Lucidi, Giulia Pruonto, Ilaria Barone, Alessandra Campanelli, Francesca Cersosimo, Elisa Setten, Stefano Gianoli, Zulkifal Malik, Giuseppe Busetto, Alex Pezzotta, Alessandra Castagna, Nicolò Martinelli, Silvia Ferretti, Federico Boschi, Adam Doherty, Maria Teresa Scupoli, Chiara Cavallini, Giorgio Malpeli, Alessia Amenta, Ludovica Sagripanti, Vincenzo Silani, Patrizia Cristofori, Eugenio Scanziani, Marco Sandri, Anna Pistocchi, Patrizia Bossolasco, Marco Endrizzi, Kristin Schubert, Guido Francesco Fumagalli, Massimo Locati, Francesco Bifari, Ilaria Decimo, "Tumor-associated macrophages enhance peripheral nerve tumor infiltration and spinal cord repair", Immunity, 31 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.12.016
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