Smooth particle hydrodynamics study of surface defect machining for diamond turning of silicon

Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank EPSRC (EP/ K018345/1) and Royal Society-NSFC International Exchange Scheme for providing financial support to this research.

In-situ infrared spectroscopy as a non-invasive technique to study carbon sequestration at high pressure and high temperature

We would like to thank EPSRC for a Doctoral Training Grant (G.A.M) and the Erasmus programme for supporting the study visit to Turin (R.W). We would also like to thank Dr. Federico Cesano for SEM/EDX measurements and for fruitful discussion. Dr. Jo Duncan is thanked for his tremendous insight during XRD interpretation.