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Micronisation of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to achieve desirable quality attributes for formulation preparation and drug delivery remains a major challenge in the pharmaceutical sciences. It is therefore important that the relationships between crystal structure, t…

Slow crack growth (SCG) is a time-dependent brittle-type failure that polyethylene (PE) pipes suffer from when under low stress levels. In order to achieve a required lifetime of minimum 50 years, a deep understanding of material's properties is needed. The general accepted mech…

Water ice is a fundamental planetary building block and ubiquitous in the outer solar system. On Ocean worlds like Europa, convecting ice may transport material from a subsurface ocean (a potential habitat) to the surface, depositing ices and salts. Evaluating the habitability o…

Glass is infinitely variable. This complexity stands as a promising technology for the 21st century since the need for environmentally friendly materials has reached a critical point due to climate change. However, such a wide range of variability makes new glass compositions di…