Here we report some of our first studies on the synthesis and characterisation of metal free luminescent nanomaterials, their optical properties and incorporation into functional electroluminescent devices.

Copyright The Author(s). Climate change exacerbates natural hazards and continuously challenges the performance of transport infrastructure. To avoid disruption, climate resilience and sustainable adaptation of infrastructure are of paramount importance. The purpose of this paper is to put forward a&#...

Copyright © The Author(s). Apart from security issues, war-torn societies and countries face immense challenges to rebuilding damaged critical infrastructure. Existing post-conflict recovery frameworks mainly focus on social impacts and mitigation. Also, existing frameworks for resilience to natural hazar...

Copyright © 2020 The Author. This article examines from different angles the memory and postmemory of the Allied liberation and consequent occupation of Italy in the years 1943-1947 by selecting and “reading” a series of objects among the Imperial War Museum holding. The relevance&...

Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). In this study, a methodology is proposed that can identify and characterise the extent of thermal degradation that takes place in rapid high-temperature processing of PEEK and CF-PEEK. Initially, their decomposition mechanisms are examined in air with the...

Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. Although there are some multi-sensor methods for measuring the straightness and tilt errors of a linear slideway, they need to be further improved in some aspects, such as suppressing measurement noise and reducing precondition. In this paper, a new&...