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Publications

2025

Lalaguna, P., Hashiyada, S., Gadegaard, N., Götte, J., Barnett, S., Forbes, K., Tanaka, Y., Kadodwala, M. (2025) Optical activity modulation in chiral metasurfaces via structured light. Nano Letters, (doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c03044)

Tabouillot, V., Landry, J., González-Jiménez, M., Gadegaard, N., Johannessen, C., Wynne, K., Blanch, E. W., Kadodwala, M. (2025) Pseudo-dichroism: nanophotonic induction of chiroptical activity in symmetric molecular systems. Advanced Optical Materials, (doi: 10.1002/adom.202501152)

Zeng, L., Marshall, O., McGrory, R., Clarke, R., Brown, R. J., Kadodwala, M., Thomson, A. R., Sutherland, A. (2025) Synthesis of fluorescent dibenzofuran α-amino acids: conformationally rigid analogues of tyrosine. Organic Letters, 27, pp. 2475-2479. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5c00433)

2024

Chaubey, S. K., Kumar, R., Lalaguna, P. L., Kartau, M., Bianco, S., Tabouillot, V., Thomson, A. R., Sutherland, A., Lyutakov, O., Gadegaard, N., Karimullah, A. S., Kadodwala, M. (2024) Ultrasensitive Raman detection of biomolecular conformation at the attomole scale using chiral nanophotonics. Small, 20, (doi: 10.1002/smll.202404536)

Vella, B., Fsadni, M. H., Pope, T., Giza, M., Angus, F. J., Shmarov, I., Lalaguna, P. L., Cariello, M., Wilson, C., Kadodwala, M., Penfold, T., Docampo, P., Cooke, G. (2024) Overcoming the mobility penalty introduced by dipole disorder in small-molecule HTM films. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 12, pp. 22844-22858. (doi: 10.1039/D4TA00956H)

Giza, M., Kozikov, A., Lalaguna, P. L., Hutchinson, J. D., Verma, V., Vella, B., Kumar, R., Hill, N., Sirbu, D., Arca, E., Healy, N., Milot, R. L., Kadodwala, M., Docampo, P. (2024) Illuminating the devolution of perovskite passivation layers. Small Structures, 5, (doi: 10.1002/sstr.202400234)

Kumar, R., Trodden, B., Klimash, A., Bousquet, M., Chaubey, S. K., Fairbairn, N. J., Russell, B. A., Wynne, K., Karimullah, A. S., Gadegaard, N., Skabara, P. J., Hedley, G. J., Movsesyan, A., Hashiyada, S., Govorov, A. O., Kadodwala, M. (2024) Electromagnetic enantiomer: chiral nanophotonic cavities for inducing chemical asymmetry. ACS Nano, 18, pp. 22220-22232. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c05861)

Lalaguna, P. L., Souchu, P., Mackinnon, N., Crimin, F., Kumar, R., Chaubey, S., Sarguroh, A., McWilliam, A., Ganin, A. Y., MacLaren, D. A., Franke-Arnold, S., Götte, J. B., Barnett, S. M., Gadegaard, N., Kadodwala, M. (2024) Spatial control of 2D nanomaterial electronic properties using chiral light beams. ACS Nano, 18, pp. 20401-20411. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c04506)

Riley, L. M., Marshall, O., Harkiss, A. H., Senn, H. M., Sutherland, A. (2024) Synthesis of β-pyridyl α-amino acids: conformationally sensitive charge transfer-based fluorophores. Organic Letters, 26, pp. 5391-5395. (doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c01951)

Sale, H., Ertekin, Z., Lalaguna, P. L., Kadodwala, M., Symes, M. D. (2024) Evaluating the native oxide of titanium as an electrocatalyst for oxalic acid reduction. Chemical Communications, 60, pp. 6003-6006. (doi: 10.1039/D4CC01176G)

Clarke, R., Zeng, L., Atkinson, B. C., Kadodwala, M., Thomson, A. R., Sutherland, A. (2024) Fluorescent carbazole-derived α-amino acids; structural mimics of tryptophan. Chemical Science, 15, pp. 5944-5949. (doi: 10.1039/D4SC01173B)

Cardwell, P. A., Del Moro, C., Murphy, M. P., Lapthorn, A. J., Hartley, R. C. (2024) Human mitochondrial glutathione transferases: Kinetic parameters and accommodation of a mitochondria-targeting group in substrates. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 104, (doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2024.117712)

Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, D. J.P., Kumar, R., Javorfi, T., Siligardi, G., Gadegaard, N., Kadodwala, M. (2024) Tuning dipolar and multipolar resonances of chiral silicon nanostructures for control of near field superchirality. Nanoscale, 16, pp. 110-122. (doi: 10.1039/d3nr05285k)

2023

Russell, B. A., González-Jiménez, M., Tukachev, N. V.,, Hayes, L.-A., Chowdhury, T., Javornik, U., Mali, G., Tassieri, M., Farnaby, J. H., Senn, H. M., Wynne, K. (2023) A second glass transition observed in single-component homogeneous liquids due to intramolecular vitrification. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, pp. 26061-26067. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c07110)

Wallace, S., Kartau, M., Kakkar, T., Davis, C., Szemiel, A., Samardzhieva, I., Vijayakrishnan, S., Cole, S., De Lorenzo, G., Maillart, E., Gautier, K., Lapthorn, A. J., Patel, A., Gadegaard, N., Kadodwala, M., Hutchinson, E., Karimullah, A. S. (2023) Multiplexed biosensing of proteins and virions with disposable plasmonic assays. ACS Sensors, 8, pp. 3338-3348. (doi: 10.1021/acssensors.2c02238)

Lu, Y., Sen, K., Yong, C., Gunn, D. S. D., Purton, J. A., Guan, J., Desmoutier, A., Abdul Nasir, J., Zhang, X., Zhu, L., Hou, Q., Jackson-Masters, J., Watts, S., Hanson, R., Thomas, H. N., Jayawardena, O., Logsdail, A. J., Woodley, S. M., Senn, H. M., Sherwood, P., Catlow, C. R. A., Sokol, A. A., Keal, T. W. (2023) Multiscale QM/MM modelling of catalytic systems with ChemShell. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25, pp. 21816-21835. (doi: 10.1039/D3CP00648D)

Guan, J., Lu, Y., Sen, K., Abdul Nasir, J., Desmoutier, A. W., Hou, Q., Zhang, X., Logsdail, A. J., Dutta, G., Beale, A. M., Strange, R. W., Yong, C., Sherwood, P., Senn, H. M., Catlow, C. R. A., Keal, T. W., Sokol, A. A. (2023) Computational infrared and Raman spectra by hybrid QM/MM techniques: a study on molecular and catalytic material systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 381, (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2022.0234)

Kartau, M., Skvortsova, A., Tabouillot, V., Chaubey, S. K., Bainova, P., Kumar, R., Burstev, V., Svorcik, V., Gadegaard, N., Im, S. W., Urbanova, M., Lyutakov, O., Kadodwala, M., Karimullah, A. S. (2023) Chiral metafilms and surface enhanced Raman scattering for enantiomeric discrimination of helicoid nanoparticles. Advanced Optical Materials, 11, (doi: 10.1002/adom.202202991)

Guselnikova, O., Elashnikov, R., Svorcik, V., Kartau, M., Gilroy, C., Gadegaard, N., Kadodwala, M., Karimullah, A. S., Lyutakov, O. (2023) Coupling of plasmonic hot spots with shurikens for superchiral SERS-based enantiomer recognition. Nanoscale Horizons, 8, pp. 499-508. (doi: 10.1039/D3NH00008G)

Sarcan, F., Fairbairn, N. J., Zotev, P., Severs-Millard, T., Gillard, D. J., Wang, X., Conran, B., Heuken, M., Erol, A., Tartakovskii, A. I., Krauss, T. F., Hedley, G. J., Wang, Y. (2023) Understanding the impact of heavy ions and tailoring the optical properties of large-area monolayer WS 2 using focused ion beam. npj 2D Materials and Applications, 7, (doi: 10.1038/s41699-023-00386-0)

Gonzalez Jimenez, M., Barnard, T., Russell, B. A., Tukachev, N. V., Javornik, U., Hayes, L.-A., Farrell, A., Guinane, S., Senn, H. M., Smith, A. J., Wilding, M., Mali, G., Nakano, M., Miyazaki, Y., McMillan, P., Sosso, G. C., Wynne, K. (2023) Author Correction: Understanding the emergence of the boson peak in molecular glasses. Nature Communications, 14, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36662-2)

Gonzalez Jimenez, M., Barnard, T., Russell, B. A., Tukachev, N. V., Javornik, U., Hayes, L.-A., Farrell, A. J., Guinane, S., Senn, H. M., Smith, A. J., Wilding, M., Mali, G., Nakano, M., Miyazaki, Y., McMillan, P., Sosso, G. C., Wynne, K. (2023) Understanding the emergence of the boson peak in molecular glasses. Nature Communications, 14, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35878-6)

2022

Tabouillot, V., Kumar, R., Lalaguna, P. L., Hajji, M., Clarke, R., Karimullah, A. S., Thomson, A. R., Sutherland, A., Gadegaard, N., Hashiyada, S., Kadodwala, M. (2022) Near-field probing of optical superchirality with plasmonic circularly polarized luminescence for enhanced bio-detection. ACS Photonics, 9, pp. 3617-3624. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01073)

Gilroy, C., Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, D. J. P., Gadegaard, N., Karimullah, A. S., Kadodwala, M. (2022) Superchiral hot-spots in “real” chiral plasmonic structures. Materials Advances, 3, pp. 346-354. (doi: 10.1039/D1MA00831E)

Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, D. J.P., Gilroy, C., Barron, L. D., Gadegaard, N., Karimullah, A. S., Kadodwala, M. (2022) Detecting antibody–antigen interactions with chiral plasmons: factors influencing chiral plasmonic sensing. Advanced Photonics Research, 3, (doi: 10.1002/adpr.202100155)

2021

Hajji, M., Cariello, M., Gilroy, C., Kartau, M., Syme, C. D., Karimullah, A., Gadegaard, N., Malfait, A., Woisel, P., Cooke, G., Peveler, W. J., Kadodwala, M. (2021) A chiral quantum metamaterial for hypersensitive biomolecule detection. ACS Nano, 15, pp. 19905-19916. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c07408)

Altinolcek, N., Battal, A., Tavasli, M., Cameron, J., Peveler, W. J., Yu, H. A., Skabara, P. J., Fairbairn, N., Hedley, G. J. (2021) A red-orange carbazole-based iridium(III) complex: synthesis, thermal, optical and electrochemical properties and OLED application. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 951, (doi: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2021.122004)

Bellamy, G., Brown, R., Cleland Woods, H., Labrosse, N., Senn, H., Singer, J., Vezza, M. (2021) Togetherness: the central tenet of an effective institutional online pivot. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 9, pp. 82-90. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v9i2.491)

González-Jiménez, M., Ramakrishnan, G., Tukachev, N., Senn, H. M., Wynne, K. (2021) Low-frequency vibrational modes in G-quadruplexes reveal the mechanical properties of nucleic acids. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23, pp. 13250-13260. (doi: 10.1039/D0CP05404F)

Hedley, G. J., Schröder, T., Steiner, F., Eder, T., Hofmann, F. J., Bange, S., Laux, D., Höger, S., Tinnefeld, P., Lupton, J. M., Vogelsang, J. (2021) Picosecond time-resolved photon antibunching measures nanoscale exciton motion and the true number of chromophores. Nature Communications, 12, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21474-z)

Gilroy, C., McKay, K., Devine, M., Webster, R. W.H., Gadegaard, N., Karimullah, A., Maclaren, D., Kadodwala, M. (2021) Active chiral plasmonics: flexoelectric control of nanoscale chirality. Advanced Photonics Research, 2, (doi: 10.1002/adpr.202000062)

2020

Kakkar, T., Keijzer, C., Rodier, M., Bukharova, T., Taliansky, M., Love, A. J., Milner, J. J., Karimullah, A. S., Barron, L. D., Gadegaard, N., Lapthorn, A. J., Kadodwala, M. (2020) Superchiral near fields detect virus structure. Light: Science and Applications, 9, (doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-00433-1)

Kelly, C., MacLaren, D. A., McKay, K., McFarlane, A., Karimullah, A. S., Gadegaard, N., Barron, L. D., Franke-Arnold, S., Crimin, F., Götte, J. B., Barnett, S. M., Kadodwala, M. (2020) Controlling the symmetry of inorganic ionic nanofilms with optical chirality. Nature Communications, 11, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18869-9)

Pala, L., Senn, H. M., Caldwell, S. T., Prime, T. A., Warrington, S., Bright, T. P., Prag, H. A., Wilson, C., Murphy, M., Hartley, R. C. (2020) Enhancing the mitochondrial uptake of phosphonium cations by carboxylic acid incorporation. Frontiers in Chemistry, 8, (doi: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00783)

Walton, F., Bolling, J., Farrell, A., MacEwen, J., Syme, C. D., Gonzalez Jimenez, M., Senn, H. M., Wilson, C., Cinque, G., Wynne, K. (2020) Polyamorphism mirrors polymorphism in the liquid-liquid transition of a molecular liquid. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142, pp. 7591-7597. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c01712)

Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J., Karimullah, A. S., Barron, L., Gadegaard, N., Lapthorn, A. J., Kadodwala, M. (2020) Biomacromolecular charge chirality detected using chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nanoscale Horizons, 5, pp. 336-344. (doi: 10.1039/C9NH00525K)

2019

Dalgarno, P. A., Juan-Colás, J., Hedley, G. J., Piñeiro, L., Novo, M., Perez-Gonzalez, C., Samuel, I. D. W., Leake, M. C., Johnson, S., Al-Soufi, W., Penedo, J. C., Quinn, S. D. (2019) Unveiling the multi-step solubilization mechanism of sub-micron size vesicles by detergents. Scientific Reports, 9, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49210-0)

Scanlan, K., Kanibolotskyy, A. L., Breig, B., Hedley, G. J., Skabara, P. J. (2019) Tetrathiafulvalene-oligofluorene star-shaped systems: new semiconductor materials for fluorescent moisture indicators. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7, pp. 6582-6591. (doi: 10.1039/C9TC00845D)

Henry, M. C., Senn, H. M., Sutherland, A. (2019) Synthesis of functionalized indolines and dihydrobenzofurans by iron and copper catalyzed aryl C-N and C-O bond formation. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84, pp. 346-364. (doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02888)

Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J., Karimullah, A., Barron, L., Gadegaard, N., Lapthorn, A., Kadodwala, M. (2019) Probing specificity of protein-protein interactions with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, pp. 6105-6111. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02288)

Gilroy, C., Hashiyada, S., Endo, K., Karimullah, A. S., Barron, L., Okamoto, H., Togawa, Y., Kadodwala, M. (2019) Roles of superchirality and interference in chiral plasmonic biodetection. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, pp. 15195-15203. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02791)

2018

Hedley, G. J., Steiner, F., Vogelsang, J., Lupton, J. M. (2018) Fluctuations in the emission polarization and spectrum in single chains of a common conjugated polymer for organic photovoltaics. Small, 14, (doi: 10.1002/smll.201804312)

Kelly, C., Tullius, R., Lapthorn, A. J., Gadegaard, N., Cooke, G., Barron, L. D., Karimullah, A. S., Rotello, V. M., Kadodwala, M. (2018) Chiral plasmonic fields probe structural order of biointerfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140, pp. 8509-8517. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b03634)

Klaus, V., Wittmann, S., Senn, H. M., Clark, J. S. (2018) Synthesis of fused tricyclic systems by thermal cope rearrangement of furan-substituted vinyl cyclopropanes. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 16, pp. 3970-3982. (doi: 10.1039/C8OB00924D)

Hedley, G. J., Quarti, C., Harwell, J., Prezhdo, O. V., Beljonne, D., Samuel, I. D. W. (2018) Hot-hole cooling controls the initial ultrafast relaxation in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite. Scientific Reports, 8, (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-26207-9)

Ziessel, R., Stachelek, P., Harriman, A., Hedley, G. J., Roland, T., Ruseckas, A., Samuel, I. D. W. (2018) Ultrafast through-space electronic energy transfer in molecular dyads built around dynamic spacer units. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 122, pp. 4437-4447. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b02415)

Paterson, G. W., Karimullah, A. S., Smith, S. G., Kadodwala, M., MacLaren, D. A. (2018) Symmetry reduction and shape effects in concave chiral plasmonic structures. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122, pp. 5049-5056. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b12260)

Kelly, C., Khorashad, L. K., Gadegaard, N., Barron, L. D., Govorov, A. O., Karimullah, A. S., Kadodwala, M. (2018) Controlling metamaterial transparency with superchiral fields. ACS Photonics, 5, pp. 535-543. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01071)

Marshall, R. J., Lennon, C. T., Tao, A., Senn, H. M., Wilson, C., Fairen-Jimenez, D., Forgan, R. S. (2018) Controlling interpenetration through linker conformation in the modulated synthesis of Sc metal-organic frameworks. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6, pp. 1181-1187. (doi: 10.1039/C7TA09699B)

2017

Tullius, R., Platt, G. W., Khosravi Khorashad, L., Gadegaard, N., Lapthorn, A. J., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G., Barron, L. D., Govorov, A. O., Karimullah, A. S., Kadodwala, M. (2017) Superchiral plasmonic phase sensitivity for fingerprinting of protein interface structure. ACS Nano, 11, pp. 12049-12056. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b04698)

Rugg, G., Senn, H.M. (2017) Formation and structure of the ferryl [Fe=O] in-termediate in the non-haem iron halogenase SyrB2: classical and QM/MM modelling agree. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19, pp. 30107-30119. (doi: 10.1039/C7CP05937J)

Shchepinova, M. M., Cairns, A. G., Prime, T. A., Logan, A., James, A. M., Hall, A. R., Vidoni, S., Arndt, S., Caldwell, S. T., Prag, H. A., Pell, V. A., Krieg, T., Mulvey, J. F., Yadav, P., Cobley, J. N., Bright, T. P., Senn, H. M., Anderson, R. F., Murphy, M. P., Hartley, R. (2017) MitoNeoD: a mitochondria-targeted superoxide probe. Cell Chemical Biology, 24, pp. 1285-1298.e12. (doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.08.003)

Ni, C., Hedley, G., Payne, J., Svrcek, V., McDonald, C., Jagadamma, L. K., Edwards, P., Martin, R., Jain, G., Carolan, D., Mariotti, D., Maguire, P., Samuel, I., Irvine, J. (2017) Charge carrier localised in zero-dimensional (CH3NH3)3Bi2I9 clusters. Nature Communications, 8, (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00261-9)

Roger, I., Wilson, C., Senn, H. M., Sproules, S., Symes, M. D. (2017) An investigation into the unusual linkage isomerization and nitrite reduction activity of a novel tris(2-pyridyl) copper complex. Royal Society Open Science, 4, (doi: 10.1098/rsos.170593)

Hedley, G. J., Steiner, F., Vogelsang, J., Lupton, J. M. (2017) Determining the true optical gap in a high-performance organic photovoltaic polymer using single-molecule spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8, pp. 3494-3499. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01363)

Yang, Y., Rice, B., Shi, X., Brandt, J. R., Correa da Costa, R., Hedley, G. J., Smilgies, D.-M., Frost, J. M., Samuel, I. D. W., Otero-de-la-Roza, A., Johnson, E. R., Jelfs, K. E., Nelson, J., Campbell, A. J., Fuchter, M. J. (2017) Emergent properties of an organic semiconductor driven by its molecular chirality. ACS Nano, 11, pp. 8329-8338. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03540)

Ramakrishnan, G., González-Jiménez, M., Lapthorn, A. J., Wynne, K. (2017) Spectrum of slow and super-slow (picosecond to nanosecond) water dynamics around organic and biological solutes. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8, pp. 2964-2970. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01127)

Paschke, B., Ahmed, S., Milne, S., Lapthorn, A. (2017) Maths Support for Science: A Blended and Online Development Project.

Vithanage, D. A., Matheson, A. B., Pranculis, V., Hedley, G. J., Pearson, S. J., Gulbinas, V., Samuel, I. D.W., Ruseckas, A. (2017) Barrierless slow dissociation of photogenerated charge pairs in high-performance polymer–fullerene solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121, pp. 14060-14065. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04868)

Long, Y., Hedley, G., Ruseckas, A., Chowdhury, M., Roland, T., Serrano, L. A., Cooke, G., Samuel, I. D.W. (2017) Effect of annealing on exciton diffusion in a high performance small molecule organic photovoltaic material. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9, pp. 14945-14952. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b16487)

Wiebeler, C., Plasser, F., Hedley, G. J., Ruseckas, A., Samuel, I. D. W., Schumacher, S. (2017) Ultrafast electronic energy transfer in an orthogonal molecular dyad. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8, pp. 1086-1092. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00089)

Bownes, J., Labrosse, N., Forrest, D., Mactaggart, D., Senn, H., Fischbacher-Smith, M., Jackson, M., McEwan, M., Pringle Barnes, G., Sheridan, N., Biletskaya, T. (2017) Supporting students in the transition to postgraduate taught study in STEM subjects. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 5, pp. 3-11. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v5i2.280)

2016

Hedley, G. J., Ruseckas, A., Samuel, I. D.W. (2016) Light harvesting for organic photovoltaics. Chemical Reviews, 117, pp. 796-837. (doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00215)

Cioncoloni, G., Senn, H. M., Sproules, S., Wilson, C., Symes, M. (2016) The electronic and solvatochromic properties of [Co(L)(bipyridine)2]+ (L = o-catecholato, o-benzenedithiolato) species: a combined experimental and computational study. Dalton Transactions, 45, pp. 15575-15585. (doi: 10.1039/C6DT02807A)

Whitworth, G. L., Harwell, J. R., Miller, D. N., Hedley, G. J., Zhang, W., Snaith, H. J., Turnbull, G. A., Samuel, I. D.W. (2016) Nanoimprinted distributed feedback lasers of solution processed hybrid perovskites. Optics Express, 24, (doi: 10.1364/OE.24.023677)

Rota Martir, D., Hedley, G. J., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M.Z., Escudero, D., Jacquemin, D., Kosikova, T., Philp, D., Dawson, D. M., Ashbrook, S. E., Samuel, I. D.W., Zysman-Colman, E. (2016) Exploring the self-assembly and energy transfer of dynamic supramolecular iridium-porphyrin systems. Dalton Transactions, 45, pp. 17195-17205. (doi: 10.1039/C6DT02619B)

Jack, C., Karimullah, A. S., Leyman, R., Tullius, R., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G., Gadegaard, N., Barron, L. D., Kadodwala, M. (2016) Biomacromolecular stereostructure mediates mode hybridization in chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nano Letters, 16, pp. 5806-5814. (doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02549)

Berger, P., Lapthorn, A. J. (2016) The molecular relationship between antigenic domains and epitopes on hCG. Molecular Immunology, 76, pp. 134-145. (doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2016.06.015)

Denis, J.-C., Ruseckas, A., Hedley, G. J., Matheson, A. B., Paterson, M. J., Turnbull, G. A., Samuel, I. D.W., Galbraith, I. (2016) Self-trapping and excited state absorption in fluorene homo-polymer and copolymers with benzothiadiazole and tri-phenylamine. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18, pp. 21937-21948. (doi: 10.1039/C6CP02059C)

González-Jiminéz, M., Ramakrishnan, G., Harwood, T., Lapthorn, A. J., Kelly, S. M., Ellis, E. M., Wynne, K. (2016) Observation of coherent delocalized phonon-like modes in DNA under physiological conditions. Nature Communications, 7, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms11799)

Pranculis, V., Ruseckas, A., Vithanage, D. A., Hedley, G. J., Samuel, I. D.W., Gulbinas, V. (2016) Influence of blend ratio and processing additive on free carrier yield and mobility in PTB7:PC71BM photovoltaic solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120, pp. 9588-9594. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b01548)

Jack, C., Karimullah, A. S., Tullius, R., Khorashad, L. K., Rodier, M., Fitzpatrick, B., Barron, L. D., Gadegaard, N., Lapthorn, A., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G., Govorov, A. O., Kadodwala, M. (2016) Spatial control of chemical processes on nanostructures through nano-localized water heating. Nature Communications, 7, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms10946)

Sovago, I., Gutmann, M. J., Senn, H. M., Thomas, L. H., Wilson, C. C., Farrugia, L. J. (2016) Electron density, disorder and polymorphism: high-resolution diffraction studies of the highly polymorphic neuralgic drug carbamazepine. Acta Crystallographica. Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials, 72, pp. 39-50. (doi: 10.1107/S2052520615019538)

Bergmann, L., Hedley, G. J., Baumann, T., Brase, S., Samuel, I. D.W. (2016) Direct observation of intersystem crossing in a thermally activated delayed fluorescence copper complex in the solid state. Science Advances, 2, (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1500889)

Berger, P., Lapthorn, A. (2016) Standardization of Epitopes for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) Immunoassays. Current Medicinal Chemistry, 23, pp. 3481-3494. (doi: 10.2174/0929867323666160530145503)

The Chemical Photonics group is small but highly successful in attracting research funding resulting in high impact publications (Nature Chem., Nature Nano., Nature Comm., JACS, Nano Lett., etc.).

Our vision is to build on our success by expanding around our core areas of strength: spectroscopy, (chiral) plasmonics, biophysics, and soft condensed-matter studied using state-of-the-art laser techniques, microscopy, and computer simulations.

Chemical Photonics has strong links with the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, James Watt School of Engineering, and School of Physics & Astronomy, including the Sensors initiative and Quantic, Strathclyde, many international links (Europe, Japan, USA), and make extensive use of the nanofabrication facilities of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre.

The impact of Chemical Photonics is concentrated on the engineering and physical sciences/life sciences interface (“Technology Touching Life”). Our aim is to use the Biomolecular spectroscopy & dynamics Cluster, which was set up jointly with researchers at Strathclyde, as a means to accelerate impact.

We have an on-going collaboration with Roche to develop chiral-plasmonics based sensors whose unprecedented sensitivity to biological structure allows for novel applications in pathology and disease diagnosis. Chemical Photonics develops software (contributions to ChemShell curated by STFC Daresbury Laboratory and licensed to Accelrys), and exploits infrared spectroscopy and advanced data analysis to fight malaria in developing countries such as Tanzania and Burkina Faso.

Research in the Chemical Photonics group

Research in the Chemical Photonics group addresses the physical aspects of chemistry and the chemical aspects of physics.

The group is well funded with about £3.6M in current research grants from EPSRC, a €2.5M ERC Advanced grant, and funding from MRC, Leverhulme, and STFC.

The Chemical Photonics group is particularly strong in spectroscopy ranging from plasmonics to EPR and from ultrafast to the ultraslow. These techniques are used to study a range of exciting chemical physics problems such as biophysics, soft matter, and the interaction of plasmonics with chiral molecules.

Chemical Photonics research is fundamental while addressing global challenges. Technologies are being developed to aid future manufacturing, for example, through research on continuous manufacturing and crystallisation, the development of (chiroptical) sensors, and laser techniques for manufacturing and manipulation. Energy technologies involve, for example, ionic liquids as electrolytes for fuel cells and batteries and synthetic photosynthetic constructs. The work on sensors has additional applications to healthcare technologies (online detection) and addressing global uncertainties through spectroscopic detection of chemicals.

The Chemical Photonics group has extensive international research contacts in the US, Japan, and throughout Europe. We are actively organising international research conferences and our work has led to a string of publications in some of the top journals in chemistry and general science such as Nature Chemistry, Nature Nano, JACS, Nano Letters, Nature Communications, etc.

Collaborators

 

External collaboratorsUniversity of Glasgow collaborators
Sasha Govorov (U. of Ohio)  Brian Smith (IMCSB)
Vince Rotello (UMASS) Dr Donald A MacLaren (Physics)
Wolfram Sander (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) Francesco Baldini (IBAHCM)
Fredros O. Okumu (Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania) Heather Ferguson (IBAHCM)
Neil Hunt (University of York, Physics) Simon Babayan (IBAHCM) 
Richard Buchner (U. Regensburg, Germany)  Professor Jonathan Cooper, FREng, FRSE (Engineering)
Diamond Light Source (DLS)  Lisa Ranford-Cartwright (IIII)
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)  Professor Jonathan Cooper, FREng, FRSE
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) including ISIS Prof Nikolaj Gadegaard
  Richard Cogdell (IMCSB)
  Prof. Roderick Murray-Smith