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Books & Chapters

Taiwo, A. E., Abayomi, O. O., & Castro Dominguez, B. Essential Oil Extraction, Scalability Concerns, and Process Intensification: A Comprehensive Guide. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA (2025). 226 pp.

Engel, E., Castro Dominguez, B., & Scott, J. L. Green synthesis of bio-based metal–organic frameworks. In: Hunt, A. J., Supanchaiyamat, N., Jetsrisuparb, K., & Knijnenburg, J. T. N. (Eds.), High-Performance Materials from Bio-based Feedstocks. Wiley (2022).

Castro Dominguez, B., & Kazantzis, N. Towards a hydrogen economy: Castro-Dominguez/Kazantzis review 2018.
In: Nuttall, W. J., & Bakenne, A. T. (Eds.), Fossil Fuel Hydrogen: Technical, Economic and Environmental Potential (pp. 43–52). Springer, Switzerland (2020).

Castro Dominguez, B. POLÍMEROS DE FONTES RENOVÁVEIS: Aplicações em Saúde e Meio Ambiente.
Biblioteca da Área de Engenharia e Arquitetura (BAE) – UNICAMP (2020). 161 pp.

List of Publications

2026

Sun, X., Raninga, V., Hage, C., & Castro Dominguez, B., Electrosprayed co-crystals of levofloxacin for inhalation: A strategy for excipient-free dry powder antibiotics. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 688, 126454 (2026).

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2025

Jafari, M., Tzirtzipi, C., Molaei Aghdam, A., Mikaeili Chahartagh, N., & Castro Dominguez, B. AI-assisted prediction and optimization of micropollutants removal with forward osmosis membranes. Journal of Membrane Science, 733, 124346 (2025).

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Lightfoot, J. C., Battell, W., Castro Dominguez, B., & Herdes, C. Designing porous molecularly imprinted polymers via simulation of pre-polymerisation mixtures: A case study with trinitrotoluene. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 10(12), 1051–1059 (2025).

 

Al, G. A., Jafari, M., Martinez Hernandez, U., Leese, H., & Castro Dominguez, B. Infrared-driven polymer intelligence. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 7(12), e202500427 (2025).

 

Guler Gencer, F., Leese, H., Castro Dominguez, B., Ding, Y., & Chuck, C. J. Integrated chemical and biochemical treatments to produce protein and microbial lipid food ingredients from ryegrass. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 13(25), 9588–9598 (2025).

 

Sadare, O., Zoumpouli, L., Chew, J., Wenk, J., Castro Dominguez, B., & Mattia, D. Lignin- and cellulose-derived sustainable nanofiltration polyelectrolyte membranes. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 13(5), 2060–2071 (2025).

 

Berri, N., Moise, S., Keirouz, A., Jennings, A., Castro Dominguez, B., & Leese, H. S. Repurposing laboratory plastic into functional fibrous scaffolds via green electrospinning for cell culture and tissue engineering applications. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (2025, in press).

 

Kurhan, S., Ding, Y., Guler Gencer, F., et al., & Castro Dominguez, B. The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 380(1935) (2025).

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2024

Guler Gencer, F., Leese, H., Castro Dominguez, B., & Chuck, C. Converting perennial ryegrass into lipid using the oleaginous yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima. Industrial Crops & Products, 222, 119990 (2024).

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Keirouz, A., Galiano, F., Russo, F., et al., & Castro Dominguez, B. Cyrene-enabled green electrospinning of nanofibrous graphene-based membranes for water desalination via membrane distillation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 12(49), 17713–17725 (2024).

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Olalere, O., Guler Gencer, F., Chuck, C., Leese, H., & Castro Dominguez, B. Mechanochemical extraction of edible proteins from moor grass. RSC Mechanochemistry, 375–385 (2024).

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Alkandari, S. H., Ching, M., Lightfoot, J. C., et al., & Castro Dominguez, B. Recycling and 3D-printing biodegradable membranes for gas separation: Toward a membrane circular economy. ACS Applied Engineering Materials, 2(6), 1515–1525 (2024).

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Reed, M. R., Beldon, E. R., Kazantzis, N. K., Timko, M. T., & Castro Dominguez, B. Thermodynamic and economic analysis of a deployable and scalable process to recover monomer-grade styrene from waste polystyrene. Chemical Engineering Journal, 492, 152079 (2024).

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2023

Lightfoot, J., Castro Dominguez, B., Buchard, A., & Parker, S. C. A molecular dynamics approach to modelling oxygen diffusion in PLA and PLA–clay nanocomposites. Materials Advances, 4(10), 2281–2291 (2023).

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Alkandari, S. H., Lightfoot, J., Castro Dominguez, B., & Battell, W. Asymmetric membranes for gas separation: Interfacial insights and manufacturing. RSC Advances, 13(21), 14198–14209 (2023).

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Alkandari, S. H., & Castro Dominguez, B. Electro-casting for superior gas separation membrane performance and manufacturing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15(48), 56600–56611 (2023).

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Wilkinson, M. R., Castro Dominguez, B., Wilson, C. C., & Martinez Hernandez, U. Low-cost, autonomous microscopy using deep learning and robotics: A crystal morphology case study. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 126, 106985 (2023).

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Wilkinson, M., Pereira Diaz, L., Vassileiou, A. D., et al., & Castro Dominguez, B. Predicting pharmaceutical powder flow from microscopy images using deep learning. Digital Discovery, 2(2), 459–470 (2023).

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Earlier Publications

A full list of publications (including work prior to 2023) is available via: Google Scholar / University of Bath Research Portal

Conferences & Posters

Aljalamdeh, R., Bolhuis, A., Jones, M., & Castro Dominguez, B. Development of inhaled dry powder fluconazole and investigation of the effectiveness in the eradication of Candida albicans biofilms. Conference Poster, April 2024.

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Lightfoot, J., Castro Dominguez, B., & Alkandari, S. Modelling ZIF interfaces in polymer composites. Conference Poster, May 2023.

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Castro Dominguez, B., Wilkinson, M., Scott, S., Exposito, A. J., Martinez Hernandez, U., Reis, N., & Connolly, A. Intelligent micromixer design. Peer-reviewed Conference Poster, May 2022.

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Gröls, J., Tasso Guaraldo, T., Herdes, C., Mattia, D., & Castro Dominguez, B. Effect of metal oxide foams as additives during the crystallization of pharmaceuticals. Peer-reviewed Conference Abstract, July 2022.

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Wilkinson, M., Martinez Hernandez, U., & Castro Dominguez, B. Images as molecular descriptors for materials discovery.
Conference Abstract, May 2022.

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Gröls, J., & Castro Dominguez, B. Intelligent design of solid-state mechanochemical transformations for supramolecular structures.
Peer-reviewed Conference Abstract, May 2022.

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Alkandari, S., Perera, S., & Castro Dominguez, B. Electrohydrodynamic emission as a manufacturing technology for the fabrication of mixed matrix membranes. Peer-reviewed Conference Poster, December 2021.

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Al-Ani, A., Wilson, C., & Castro Dominguez, B. Engineering a new access route to metastable polymorphs with electrical confinement for enhanced pharmaceutical properties. Peer-reviewed Conference Poster, April 2019.

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Cronin, P., Castro Dominguez, B., Schaller, B., Moroney, K., Croker, D., Walker, G., & Albadarin, A. Determination of flow and compressibility properties of pharmaceutical powders: Effect of fines and high drug loading. Peer-reviewed Conference Abstract, October 2018.

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Schaller, B., Moroney, K., Castro Dominguez, B., Cronin, P., Croker, D., & Walker, G. Systematic approach to high dosage formulation development for continuous direct compression. Peer-reviewed Conference Abstract, October 2018.

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Ma, R., Castro Dominguez, B., Dixon, A. G., & Ma, Y. H. Three-dimensional CFD model of a multitube Pd/Au membrane module for hydrogen purification. In: AIChE Annual Meeting 2015 – Separations Division Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp. 63–65 (2015).

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