Gavin Melaugh
University of Edinburgh
16 Papers
31 Citations
Gavin Melaugh is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biofilm & Chemistry. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 11 publications. Previous affiliations of Gavin Melaugh include Queen's University Belfast.
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Papers
Liquids with permanent porosity
Nicola Giri,Mario G. Del Pópolo,Mario G. Del Pópolo,Gavin Melaugh,Rebecca L. Greenaway,Klaus Rätzke,Tönjes Koschine,Laure Pison,Margarida F. Costa Gomes,Andrew I. Cooper,Stuart L. James +10 more
TL;DR: The results provide the basis for development of a new class of functional porous materials for chemical processes, and a one-step, multigram scale-up route for highly soluble ‘scrambled’ porous cages prepared from a mixture of commercially available reagents are presented.
Role of Multicellular Aggregates in Biofilm Formation
Kasper Nørskov Kragh,Jaime Hutchison,Gavin Melaugh,Christopher A. Rodesney,Aled E. L. Roberts,Yasuhiko Irie,Peter Østrup Jensen,Stephen P. Diggle,Rosalind J. Allen,Vernita Gordon,Thomas Bjarnsholt +10 more
TL;DR: The relative fitness of single cells and preformed aggregates during early development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms is determined and shows how free floating biofilm aggregates can have a profound local effect on biofilm development when attaching to a surface.
Alkylated organic cages: from porous crystals to neat liquids
Nicola Giri,Christine E. Davidson,Gavin Melaugh,Mario G. Del Pópolo,James T. A. Jones,Tom Hasell,Andrew I. Cooper,Peter N. Horton,Michael B. Hursthouse,Stuart L. James +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the melting points of rigid organic iminospherand cages are observed to be as low as 50 °C and a fully Newtonian liquid phase is obtained above 80 °C.
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Shaping the Growth Behaviour of Biofilms Initiated from Bacterial Aggregates.
Gavin Melaugh,Jaime Hutchison,Kasper Nørskov Kragh,Yasuhiko Irie,Aled E. L. Roberts,Thomas Bjarnsholt,Stephen P. Diggle,Vernita Gordon,Rosalind J. Allen +8 more
TL;DR: It is found that the degree of spreading of an aggregate on a surface can play an important role in determining its eventual fate during biofilm development, and initially spread and initially rounded aggregates perform better when competition with surrounding unaggregated bacterial cells is low.
Designing and understanding permanent microporosity in liquids
Gavin Melaugh,Nicola Giri,Christine E. Davidson,Stuart L. James,Mario G. Del Pópolo,Mario G. Del Pópolo +5 more
TL;DR: Simulations identify a candidate "porous liquid" in which 30% of the cages remain empty in the liquid state and chain length and size of terminal chain substituents can be used to tune, within certain margins, the permanence of intramolecular cavities in such neat liquids.
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