Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Improving the mechanical properties of metallic materials via combined structural and compositional gradients
Published 2025Overcoming the strength‑ductility trade‑off remains a central challenge in structural alloys. We demonstrate a scalable dual‑gradient structure in Cu–Al alloys that couples a compositional gradient with a near‑surface ...Open AccessThesis -
Hereditary phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma in SDHB pathogenic variant carriers: clinical outcomes, surveillance strategies and economic evaluation
Published 2025Phaeochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGL) are rare neuroendocrine tumours. Around 10-15% are caused by germline variants in the succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) gene family. Carriers of SDHB pathogenic variants (PVs) face ...Open AccessThesis -
Interactions between organic matter and minerals for soil carbon sequestration
Published 2026The processes and mechanisms that govern soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration are a central focus of environmental research because their critical influence in soil function and climate regulation. Soil mineral mediated ...Open AccessThesis -
Adorned Hands: Male Identities and Ring Wearing in the Italian Quattrocento
Published 2025Focused on the fifteenth century, "Adorned Hands" considers different typologies of historic rings with the purpose of revealing the context in which they were crafted, collected, and gifted in the Italian city-states. ...Open AccessThesis -
Ekphrasis // Ekphrasis The Early Modernism of Art, Post-Internet
Published 2026The thesis is an initial attempt toward recontextualisation of contemporary art according to its historiological, theological and ideological underpinnings, taking a longer view of history than is currently countenanced ...Open AccessThesis