New paper from Sawsan with Sebastian Barwich (TCD), Andrew Mitchell, and James Rice (both UCD) where we apply bias across our aligned peptide nanotube/metal nanoparticle templates for enhanced sensing and photocatalysis and use a reduced quantum mechanical model to understand the charge transfer process.
Journal Article: Nucleobase sensing using highly-sensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy templates comprising organic semiconductor peptide nanotubes and metal nanoparticles
New paper from Sawsan in collaboration with James Rice was recently published in Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research. We used our process for making aligned peptide nanotube and metal nanoparticle templates to detect adenine, cytosine, thymine, uracil, and guanine at nanomolar concentrations.
New paper in collaboration with Wenxin Wang's group
Qian Xu's paper, Bacterial‐Resistant Single Chain Cyclized/Knotted Polymer Coatings, was recently published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. There's always exciting work coming out of Prof. Wang's group!
Dr. Jason Kilpatrick in Zurich for an invited talk
Jason presented at Zurich Instrument’s 3rd SPM User Meeting hosted by Prof. Christian Degen at ETH Zurich. The activities are covered very nicely in Romain Stomp’s blog.
Rosa Al-Shammari's viva
Rosa getting ready to successfully defend her thesis!
Microscopy Society of Ireland Winter Symposium 2019
Some pictures from the symposium:
Sawsan at her poster
Brian during his presentation
Fengyuan during her presentation
New paper in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
Paper from Sawsan and Fengyuan in collaboration with James Rice: Electric Field-Induced Chemical Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Enhancement from Aligned Peptide Nanotube–Graphene Oxide Templates for Universal Trace Detection of Biomolecules.
COST-supported publication with University of Aveiro in Composites Science and Technology
Journal Article: Quantitative comparison of closed-loop and dual harmonic Kelvin probe force microscopy techniques
Last paper of 2018 is published in AIP's Review of Scientific Instruments where we qualitatively compare standard KPFM with dual harmonic KPFM.
Journal Article: Photoinduced Enhanced Raman from Lithium Niobate on Insulator Template
Paper in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces describing enhanced Raman scattering from lithium niobate-silver nanoparticle templates during and after UV illumination in collaboration with Prof Katia Gallo’s group at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology.
