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Pickford, Tom; Heeley, Ellen and Wan, Chaoying (2024). High ferroelectric performance of poly (vinylidene difluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) - based membranes enabled by electrospinning and multilayer lamination. Polymer, 312, article no. 127627.

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Xia, Tian; Wemyss, Alan M.; Salehiyan, Reza; Heeley, Ellen L.; Hu, Xiao; Tang, Fengzai; Sun, Yuchen; Hughes, Darren J.; McNally, Tony and Wan, Chaoying (2023). Effective and Fast-Screening Route to Evaluate Dynamic Elastomer-Filler Network Reversibility for Sustainable Rubber Composite Design. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 11(50) pp. 17857–17869.

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Heeley, Ellen; Smith, Jessica; Wan, Chaoying; Huband, Steven; Brambley, E and Hughes, Darren (2023). Revisiting stress-oscillation in cold drawing of poly(ethylene terephthalate). Polymer, 285, article no. 126364.

Wemyss, Alan M.; Marathianos, Arkadios; Heeley, Ellen L.; Ekeocha, James; Morishita, Yoshihiro; di Ronza, Raffaele; Bernal, M. Mar; Haddleton, David M. and Wan, Chaoying (2022). Oligomeric Curing Activators Enable Conventional Sulfur-Vulcanized Rubbers to Self-Heal. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 4(10) pp. 7868–7877.

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Hu, Xiao; Zhang, Runan; Wemyss, Alan M.; Elbanna, Mohamed A.; Heeley, Ellen L.; Arafa, Mustafa; Bowen, Chris; Wang, Shifeng; Geng, Xueyu and Wan, Chaoying (2022). Tuning triboelectric and energy harvesting properties of dielectric elastomers via dynamic ionic crosslinks. Materials Advances(10) pp. 4213–4226.

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Rovera, Cesare; Luti, Simone; Pazzagli, Luti; Heeley, Ellen L.; Wan, Chaoying; Romano, Diego and Farris, Stefano (2022). Enzymatic hydrolysis of bacterial cellulose in the presence of a non-catalytic cerato-platanin protein. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 139(14), article no. 51886.

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Amoroso, Lorena; Heeley, Ellen L.; Ramadas, Sivaram Nishal and McNally, Tony (2020). Crystallisation behaviour of composites of HDPE and MWCNTs: The effect of nanotube dispersion, orientation and polymer deformation. Polymer, 201, article no. 122587.

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Heeley, Ellen L.; Billimoria, Kharmen; Parsons, Nathan; Figiel, Łukasz; Keating, Elspeth M.; Cafolla, Conor T.; Crabb, Eleanor M. and Hughes, Darren J. (2020). In-situ uniaxial drawing of poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA): Following the crystalline morphology development using time-resolved SAXS/WAXS. Polymer, 193, article no. 122353.

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Pickford, Tom; Gu, Xu; Heeley, Ellen and Wan, Chaoying (2019). Effects of an ionic liquid and processing conditions on the ß-polymorph crystal formation in poly(vinylidene fluoride). CrystEngComm, 21(36) pp. 5418–5428.

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Heeley, Ellen; El Aziz, Youssef; Ellingford, Christopher; Jetybayeva, Albina; Wan, Chaoying; Crabb, Eleanor; Taylor, Peter G. and Bassindale, Alan (2019). Self-assembly of fluoride-encapsulated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) nanocrystals. CrystEngComm, 21(4) pp. 710–723.

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Wan, Chaoying; Heeley, Ellen L.; Zhou, Yutao; Wang, Shifeng; Cafolla, Conor T.; Crabb, Eleanor M. and Hughes, Darren J. (2018). Stress-oscillation behaviour of semi-crystalline polymers: the case of poly(butylene succinate). Soft Matter, 14(45) pp. 9175–9184.

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Billimoria, Kharmen; Heeley, Ellen L.; Parsons, Nathan and Figiel, Łukasz (2018). An investigation into the crystalline morphology transitions in poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) under uniaxial deformation in the quasi-solid-state regime. European Polymer Journal, 101 pp. 127–139.

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Heeley, Ellen L.; Hughes, Darren J.; Crabb, Eleanor M.; Bowen, James; Bikondoa, Oier; Mayoral, Beatriz; Leung, Sandy and McNally, Tony (2017). The formation of a nanohybrid shish-kebab (NHSK) structure in melt-processed composites of poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). Polymer, 117 pp. 208–219.

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Heeley, Ellen L.; Hughes, Darren J.; Crabb, Eleanor M.; Bowen, James; Bikondoa, Oier; Mayoral, Beatriz and McNally, Tony (2017). Confirmation of a Nanohybrid Shish-Kebab (NHSK) Structure in Composites of PET and MWCNTs. Journal of Polymer Science. Part B: Polymer Physics, 55(2) pp. 132–137.

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Heeley, Ellen L.; Hughes, Darren J.; Crabb, Eleanor; Kershaw, Matthew; Shebanova, Olga; Leung, Sandy and McNally, Tony (2016). Structure evolution in poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) - Multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) composite films during in-situ uniaxial deformation. Polymer, 92 pp. 239–249.

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Heeley, E. L.; Hughes, D. J.; Taylor, P. G. and Bassindale, A. R. (2015). Crystallization and morphology development in polyethylene-octakis(n-octadecyldimethylsiloxy)octasilsesquioxane nancomposite blends. RSC Advances, 5(44) pp. 34709–34719.

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Heeley, Ellen L.; Hughes, Darren J.; El Aziz, Youssef; Taylor, Peter G. and Bassindale, Alan R. (2014). Morphology and crystallization kinetics of polyethylene/long alkyl-chain substituted Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS) nanocomposite blends: a SAXS/WAXS study. European Polymer Journal, 51 pp. 45–56.

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Hughes, D; Koukovini-Platia, E and Heeley, Ellen (2014). Residual stress in a laser welded EUROFER blanket module assembly using non-destructive neutron diffraction techniques. Fusion Engineering and Design, 89(2) pp. 104–108.

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Heeley, E. L.; Gough, T.; Hughes, D. J.; Bras, W.; Rieger, J. and Ryan, A. J. (2013). Effect of processing parameters on the morphology development during extrusion of polyethylene tape: an in-line Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) study. Polymer, 54(24) pp. 6580–6588.

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Heeley, Ellen L.; Hughes, Darren J.; El Aziz, Youssef; Williamson, Ian; Taylor, Peter G. and Bassindale, Alan R. (2013). Properties and self-assembled packing morphology of long alkyl-chained substituted polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) cages. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15 pp. 5518–5529.

Heeley, Ellen L.; Hughes, Darren J.; El Aziz, Youssef; Taylor, Peter and Bassindale, Alan R. (2013). Linear long alkyl chain substituted POSS cages: the effect of alkyl chain length on the self-assembled packing morphology. Macromolecules, 46(12) pp. 4944–4954.

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Hughes, D.J.; Heeley, E. L. and Curfs, C. (2011). A non-destructive method for the measurement of residual strains in semi-crystalline polymer components. Materials Letters, 65(3) pp. 530–533.

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Hanley, T.; Sutton, D.; Heeley, E.; Moad, G. and Knott, R. (2007). A small-angle X-ray scattering study of the effect of chain architecture on the shear-induced crystallization of branched and linear poly(ethylene terephthalate). Journal of Applied Crystallography, 40(Supp.) pp. 599–604.

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Heeley, Ellen L.; Fernyhough, Christine M.; Graham, Richard S.; Olmsted, Peter D.; Inkson, Nathanael J.; Embery, John; Groves, David J.; McLeish, Tom C.B.; Morgovan, Ariana C.; Meneau, Florian; Bras, Wim and Ryan, Anthony J. (2006). Shear-Induced Crystallization in blends of Model Linear and Long-Chain Branched Hydrogenated Polybutadienes. Macromolecules, 39(15) pp. 5058–5071.

Heeley, E.L.; Gough, T.; Bras, W.; Gleeson, A.J.; Coates, P.D. and Ryan, A.J. (2005). Polymer processing: Using synchrotron radiation to follow structure development in commercial and novel polymer materials. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 238(1-4) pp. 21–27.

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Heeley, Ellen L.; Poh, C. Kit; Li, Wu; Maidens, Anna; Bras, Wim; Dolbyna, Igor P.; Gleeson, Anthony J.; Terrill, Nicolas J.; Fairclough, Patrick A.; Olmsted, Peter D.; Ristic, Rile R.; Hounslow, Micheal J. and Ryan, Anthony J. (2003). Are metastable, precrystallisation, density-fluctuations a universal phenomena? Faraday Discussions, 122 pp. 343–361.

Bras, W.; Dolbnya, I.P.; Detollenaere, D.; van Tol, R.; Malfois, M.; Greaves, G.N.; Ryan, A.J. and Heeley, E. (2003). Recent experiments on a small-angle/wide-angle X-ray scattering beam line at the ESRF. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 36(3) pp. 791–794.

Heeley, E.L.; Maidens, A.V.; Olmsted, P.D.; Bras, W.; Dolbyna, I.P.; Fairclough, J.P.A.; Terrill, N.J. and Ryan, A.J. (2003). Early stages of crystallization in Isotactic Polypropylene. Macromolecules, 36(10) pp. 3656–3665.

Heeley, Ellen L.; Morgovan, Ariana C.; Bras, Wim; Dolbyna, Igor P.; Gleeson, Anthony J. and Ryan, Anthony J. (2002). Shear-induced crystallization of polyethylene studied by small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS) techniques. PhysChemComm, 5(23) pp. 158–160.