Assessment of the household energy demand underpinning the case for solar photovoltac investment in Africa is the subject of a new paper.

Potential of households’ solar PV consumption in South Africa, Silas K. Mulaudzi, Steve Bull and Rudzani A. Makhado, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (2021) 1-10.

Our work on the combined effects of fatigue loading on the lifetime of materials for offshore structures is now published. This is part of ongoing work on the development of tidal turbines for renewable energy generation.

Fatigue Damage Analysis of GFRP Composites Using Digital Image Correlation, H.I Gonabadi, A. Oila, A. Yadav and S.J. Bull, J. Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 7 (2021) 25-40.

Our work of reducing chemomechanical effects by ion beam treatments has bow been published:

Investigation of Chemomechanical Effects on Sapphire Surfaces Modified by Ion- implantation-induced Carbon Impurities, A. Yadav, N. Moharrami and S.J. Bull, J. Bio- Tribo-corrosion., (2021) 7:52.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40735-021-00490-y.

Congratulations to Aumber Abbas who has just got a paper published in Scientific Reports for his work on using biomass waste (spent tea) to make graphene quantum dots. For more information see:

Abbas, A., Tabish, T.A., Bull, S.J. et al. High yield synthesis of graphene quantum dots from biomass waste as a highly selective probe for Fe³⁺ sensing. Sci Rep 10, 21262 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78070-2

Our work on additive layer manufacturing is finally out.

The effect of processing parameters on the mechanical characteristics of PLA produced by a 3D FFF printer, H. Gonabadi, A. Yadav and S.J. Bull, Int. J. Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 111 (2020) 695-709.

Our work on climate change adaptation in agriculture has led to a paper in Sustainability (Sustainability 2020, 12, 1928; doi:10.3390/su12051928) on Using CFD Modelling to Relate Pig Lying Locations to Environmental Variability in Finishing Pens