Dr Affar Karimullah
- Honorary Research Fellow (School of Chemistry)
email:
Affar.Karimullah@glasgow.ac.uk
A3-23, Joseph Black Building, University Place, University of Glasgow
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829Publications
2024
Kumar, R. et al. (2024) Electromagnetic enantiomer: chiral nanophotonic cavities for inducing chemical asymmetry. ACS Nano, 18(3), pp. 22220-22232. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c05861) (PMID:39107108)
Chaubey, S. K. et al. (2024) Ultrasensitive Raman detection of biomolecular conformation at the attomole scale using chiral nanophotonics. Small, (doi: 10.1002/smll.202404536) (Early Online Publication)
Xia, Y., Li, H., Vaskeviciute, M. , Faccio, D. , Karimullah, A. , Heidari, H. and Ghannam, R. (2024) Futuristic head-mounted displays: cholesteric liquid crystal-based optical combiner for extended reality applications. Advanced Intelligent Systems, (Accepted for Publication)
Xia, Y., Li, H., Vaskeviciute, M. , Faccio, D. , Karimullah, A. , Heidari, H. and Ghannam, R. (2024) Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Based Reconfigurable Optical Combiner for Head-Mounted Display Application. In: IEEE VR 2024, Orlando, FL, USA, 16-21 Mar 2024, pp. 723-724. ISBN 9798350374490 (doi: 10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00158)
Xia, Y., Ahmed, Z., Karimullah, A. , Mottram, N. , Heidari, H. and Ghannam, R. (2024) Thermal controlled cholesteric liquid crystal wavelength filter lens for photosensitive epilepsy treatment. Cell Reports Physical Science, (Accepted for Publication)
Xia, Y., Yalagala, B. P., Karimullah, A. S. , Heidari, H. and Ghannam, R. (2024) Beyond flexibility: transparent silver nanowire electrodes on patterned surfaces for reconfigurable devices. Advanced Engineering Materials, 26(1), 2301165. (doi: 10.1002/adem.202301165)
2023
Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) A cross-reactive plasmonic sensing array for drinking water assessment. Environmental Science: Nano, 10(12), pp. 3500-3508. (doi: 10.1039/D3EN00565H) (PMID:38073859)
Wallace, S. et al. (2023) Multiplexed biosensing of proteins and virions with disposable plasmonic assays. ACS Sensors, 8(9), pp. 3338-3348. (doi: 10.1021/acssensors.2c02238) (PMID:37610841) (PMCID:PMC10521139)
Olshtrem, A. et al. (2023) Chiral plasmonic response of 2D Ti3C2Tx flakes: realization and applications. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(30), 2212786. (doi: 10.1002/adfm.202212786)
Kartau, M. et al. (2023) Chiral metafilms and surface enhanced Raman scattering for enantiomeric discrimination of helicoid nanoparticles. Advanced Optical Materials, 11(9), 2202991. (doi: 10.1002/adom.202202991)
Guselnikova, O., Elashnikov, R., Svorcik, V., Kartau, M., Gilroy, C., Gadegaard, N. , Kadodwala, M. , Karimullah, A. S. and Lyutakov, O. (2023) Coupling of plasmonic hot spots with shurikens for superchiral SERS-based enantiomer recognition. Nanoscale Horizons, 8(4), pp. 499-508. (doi: 10.1039/D3NH00008G) (PMID:36752733)
2022
Tabouillot, V. et al. (2022) Near-field probing of optical superchirality with plasmonic circularly polarized luminescence for enhanced bio-detection. ACS Photonics, 9(11), pp. 3617-3624. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01073) (PMID:36411820)
Gilroy, C., Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, D. J. P., Gadegaard, N. , Karimullah, A. S. and Kadodwala, M. (2022) Superchiral hot-spots in “real” chiral plasmonic structures. Materials Advances, 3(1), pp. 346-354. (doi: 10.1039/D1MA00831E)
Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, D. J.P., Gilroy, C., Barron, L. D., Gadegaard, N. , Karimullah, A. S. and Kadodwala, M. (2022) Detecting antibody–antigen interactions with chiral plasmons: factors influencing chiral plasmonic sensing. Advanced Photonics Research, 3(1), 2100155. (doi: 10.1002/adpr.202100155)
2021
Hajji, M. et al. (2021) A chiral quantum metamaterial for hypersensitive biomolecule detection. ACS Nano, 15(12), pp. 19905-19916. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c07408) (PMID:34846858)
Gilroy, C., McKay, K., Devine, M., Webster, R. W.H., Gadegaard, N. , Karimullah, A. , Maclaren, D. and Kadodwala, M. (2021) Active chiral plasmonics: flexoelectric control of nanoscale chirality. Advanced Photonics Research, 2(1), 2000062. (doi: 10.1002/adpr.202000062)
2020
Kakkar, T. et al. (2020) Superchiral near fields detect virus structure. Light: Science and Applications, 9(1), 195. (doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-00433-1) (PMID:33298854) (PMCID:PMC7705013)
Kelly, C. et al. (2020) Controlling the symmetry of inorganic ionic nanofilms with optical chirality. Nature Communications, 11, 5169. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18869-9) (PMID:33057000) (PMCID:PMC7560753)
Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. S. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. J. and Kadodwala, M. (2020) Biomacromolecular charge chirality detected using chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nanoscale Horizons, 5, pp. 336-344. (doi: 10.1039/C9NH00525K)
2019
Gilroy, C., Hashiyada, S., Endo, K., Karimullah, A. S. , Barron, L., Okamoto, H., Togawa, Y. and Kadodwala, M. (2019) Roles of superchirality and interference in chiral plasmonic biodetection. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(24), pp. 15195-15203. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02791)
Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. and 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) (PMID:31549842)
2018
Kelly, C., Tullius, R., Lapthorn, A. J. , Gadegaard, N. , Cooke, G. , Barron, L. D., Karimullah, A. S. , Rotello, V. M. and Kadodwala, M. (2018) Chiral plasmonic fields probe structural order of biointerfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(27), pp. 8509-8517. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b03634) (PMID:29909628)
Paterson, G. W. , Karimullah, A. S. , Smith, S. G., Kadodwala, M. and MacLaren, D. A. (2018) Symmetry reduction and shape effects in concave chiral plasmonic structures. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(9), 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. and Kadodwala, M. (2018) Controlling metamaterial transparency with superchiral fields. ACS Photonics, 5(2), pp. 535-543. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01071)
2017
Tullius, R. et al. (2017) Superchiral plasmonic phase sensitivity for fingerprinting of protein interface structure. ACS Nano, 11(12), pp. 12049-12056. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b04698) (PMID:29220155)
2016
Jack, C., Karimullah, A. S. , Leyman, R., Tullius, R., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G. , Gadegaard, N. , Barron, L. D. and Kadodwala, M. (2016) Biomacromolecular stereostructure mediates mode hybridization in chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nano Letters, 16(9), pp. 5806-5814. (doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02549) (PMID:27547978)
Jack, C. et al. (2016) Spatial control of chemical processes on nanostructures through nano-localized water heating. Nature Communications, 7, 10946. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms10946) (PMID:26961708) (PMCID:PMC4792951)
2015
Karimullah, A. S. , Jack, C., Tullius, R., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G. , Gadegaard, N. , Barron, L. D. and Kadodwala, M. (2015) Disposable plasmonics: plastic templated plasmonic metamaterials with tunable chirality. Advanced Materials, 27(37), pp. 5610-5616. (doi: 10.1002/adma.201501816)
Paterson, G. W. , Karimullah, A. , Williamson, S. D. R., Kadodwala, M. and MacLaren, D. A. (2015) Electron energy loss spectroscopy of a chiral plasmonic structure. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 644(1), 012005. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/644/1/012005)
Tullius, R., Karimullah, A. S. , Rodier, M., Fitzpatrick, B., Gadegaard, N. , Barron, L. D., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G. , Lapthorn, A. and Kadodwala, M. (2015) "Superchiral” spectroscopy: detection of protein higher order hierarchical structure with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(26), pp. 8380-8383. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b04806) (PMID:26102606)
2013
Kadodwala, M. , Abdulrahman, N., Syme, C. D. , Jack, C., Barron, L. D., Karimullah, A. and Gadegaard, N. (2013) The origin of off–resonance non-linear optical activity of a gold chiral nanomaterial. Nanoscale, 5(24), pp. 12651-12657. (doi: 10.1039/c3nr04746f)
Karimullah, A. S. , Cumming, D. R.S. , Riehle, M. and Gadegaard, N. (2013) Development of a conducting polymer cell impedance sensor. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 176, pp. 667-674. (doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.09.075)
Articles
Kumar, R. et al. (2024) Electromagnetic enantiomer: chiral nanophotonic cavities for inducing chemical asymmetry. ACS Nano, 18(3), pp. 22220-22232. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c05861) (PMID:39107108)
Chaubey, S. K. et al. (2024) Ultrasensitive Raman detection of biomolecular conformation at the attomole scale using chiral nanophotonics. Small, (doi: 10.1002/smll.202404536) (Early Online Publication)
Xia, Y., Li, H., Vaskeviciute, M. , Faccio, D. , Karimullah, A. , Heidari, H. and Ghannam, R. (2024) Futuristic head-mounted displays: cholesteric liquid crystal-based optical combiner for extended reality applications. Advanced Intelligent Systems, (Accepted for Publication)
Xia, Y., Ahmed, Z., Karimullah, A. , Mottram, N. , Heidari, H. and Ghannam, R. (2024) Thermal controlled cholesteric liquid crystal wavelength filter lens for photosensitive epilepsy treatment. Cell Reports Physical Science, (Accepted for Publication)
Xia, Y., Yalagala, B. P., Karimullah, A. S. , Heidari, H. and Ghannam, R. (2024) Beyond flexibility: transparent silver nanowire electrodes on patterned surfaces for reconfigurable devices. Advanced Engineering Materials, 26(1), 2301165. (doi: 10.1002/adem.202301165)
Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) A cross-reactive plasmonic sensing array for drinking water assessment. Environmental Science: Nano, 10(12), pp. 3500-3508. (doi: 10.1039/D3EN00565H) (PMID:38073859)
Wallace, S. et al. (2023) Multiplexed biosensing of proteins and virions with disposable plasmonic assays. ACS Sensors, 8(9), pp. 3338-3348. (doi: 10.1021/acssensors.2c02238) (PMID:37610841) (PMCID:PMC10521139)
Olshtrem, A. et al. (2023) Chiral plasmonic response of 2D Ti3C2Tx flakes: realization and applications. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(30), 2212786. (doi: 10.1002/adfm.202212786)
Kartau, M. et al. (2023) Chiral metafilms and surface enhanced Raman scattering for enantiomeric discrimination of helicoid nanoparticles. Advanced Optical Materials, 11(9), 2202991. (doi: 10.1002/adom.202202991)
Guselnikova, O., Elashnikov, R., Svorcik, V., Kartau, M., Gilroy, C., Gadegaard, N. , Kadodwala, M. , Karimullah, A. S. and Lyutakov, O. (2023) Coupling of plasmonic hot spots with shurikens for superchiral SERS-based enantiomer recognition. Nanoscale Horizons, 8(4), pp. 499-508. (doi: 10.1039/D3NH00008G) (PMID:36752733)
Tabouillot, V. et al. (2022) Near-field probing of optical superchirality with plasmonic circularly polarized luminescence for enhanced bio-detection. ACS Photonics, 9(11), pp. 3617-3624. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01073) (PMID:36411820)
Gilroy, C., Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, D. J. P., Gadegaard, N. , Karimullah, A. S. and Kadodwala, M. (2022) Superchiral hot-spots in “real” chiral plasmonic structures. Materials Advances, 3(1), pp. 346-354. (doi: 10.1039/D1MA00831E)
Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, D. J.P., Gilroy, C., Barron, L. D., Gadegaard, N. , Karimullah, A. S. and Kadodwala, M. (2022) Detecting antibody–antigen interactions with chiral plasmons: factors influencing chiral plasmonic sensing. Advanced Photonics Research, 3(1), 2100155. (doi: 10.1002/adpr.202100155)
Hajji, M. et al. (2021) A chiral quantum metamaterial for hypersensitive biomolecule detection. ACS Nano, 15(12), pp. 19905-19916. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c07408) (PMID:34846858)
Gilroy, C., McKay, K., Devine, M., Webster, R. W.H., Gadegaard, N. , Karimullah, A. , Maclaren, D. and Kadodwala, M. (2021) Active chiral plasmonics: flexoelectric control of nanoscale chirality. Advanced Photonics Research, 2(1), 2000062. (doi: 10.1002/adpr.202000062)
Kakkar, T. et al. (2020) Superchiral near fields detect virus structure. Light: Science and Applications, 9(1), 195. (doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-00433-1) (PMID:33298854) (PMCID:PMC7705013)
Kelly, C. et al. (2020) Controlling the symmetry of inorganic ionic nanofilms with optical chirality. Nature Communications, 11, 5169. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18869-9) (PMID:33057000) (PMCID:PMC7560753)
Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. S. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. J. and Kadodwala, M. (2020) Biomacromolecular charge chirality detected using chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nanoscale Horizons, 5, pp. 336-344. (doi: 10.1039/C9NH00525K)
Gilroy, C., Hashiyada, S., Endo, K., Karimullah, A. S. , Barron, L., Okamoto, H., Togawa, Y. and Kadodwala, M. (2019) Roles of superchirality and interference in chiral plasmonic biodetection. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(24), pp. 15195-15203. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02791)
Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. and 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) (PMID:31549842)
Kelly, C., Tullius, R., Lapthorn, A. J. , Gadegaard, N. , Cooke, G. , Barron, L. D., Karimullah, A. S. , Rotello, V. M. and Kadodwala, M. (2018) Chiral plasmonic fields probe structural order of biointerfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(27), pp. 8509-8517. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b03634) (PMID:29909628)
Paterson, G. W. , Karimullah, A. S. , Smith, S. G., Kadodwala, M. and MacLaren, D. A. (2018) Symmetry reduction and shape effects in concave chiral plasmonic structures. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(9), 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. and Kadodwala, M. (2018) Controlling metamaterial transparency with superchiral fields. ACS Photonics, 5(2), pp. 535-543. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01071)
Tullius, R. et al. (2017) Superchiral plasmonic phase sensitivity for fingerprinting of protein interface structure. ACS Nano, 11(12), pp. 12049-12056. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b04698) (PMID:29220155)
Jack, C., Karimullah, A. S. , Leyman, R., Tullius, R., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G. , Gadegaard, N. , Barron, L. D. and Kadodwala, M. (2016) Biomacromolecular stereostructure mediates mode hybridization in chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nano Letters, 16(9), pp. 5806-5814. (doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02549) (PMID:27547978)
Jack, C. et al. (2016) Spatial control of chemical processes on nanostructures through nano-localized water heating. Nature Communications, 7, 10946. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms10946) (PMID:26961708) (PMCID:PMC4792951)
Karimullah, A. S. , Jack, C., Tullius, R., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G. , Gadegaard, N. , Barron, L. D. and Kadodwala, M. (2015) Disposable plasmonics: plastic templated plasmonic metamaterials with tunable chirality. Advanced Materials, 27(37), pp. 5610-5616. (doi: 10.1002/adma.201501816)
Paterson, G. W. , Karimullah, A. , Williamson, S. D. R., Kadodwala, M. and MacLaren, D. A. (2015) Electron energy loss spectroscopy of a chiral plasmonic structure. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 644(1), 012005. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/644/1/012005)
Tullius, R., Karimullah, A. S. , Rodier, M., Fitzpatrick, B., Gadegaard, N. , Barron, L. D., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G. , Lapthorn, A. and Kadodwala, M. (2015) "Superchiral” spectroscopy: detection of protein higher order hierarchical structure with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(26), pp. 8380-8383. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b04806) (PMID:26102606)
Kadodwala, M. , Abdulrahman, N., Syme, C. D. , Jack, C., Barron, L. D., Karimullah, A. and Gadegaard, N. (2013) The origin of off–resonance non-linear optical activity of a gold chiral nanomaterial. Nanoscale, 5(24), pp. 12651-12657. (doi: 10.1039/c3nr04746f)
Karimullah, A. S. , Cumming, D. R.S. , Riehle, M. and Gadegaard, N. (2013) Development of a conducting polymer cell impedance sensor. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 176, pp. 667-674. (doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.09.075)
Conference Proceedings
Xia, Y., Li, H., Vaskeviciute, M. , Faccio, D. , Karimullah, A. , Heidari, H. and Ghannam, R. (2024) Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Based Reconfigurable Optical Combiner for Head-Mounted Display Application. In: IEEE VR 2024, Orlando, FL, USA, 16-21 Mar 2024, pp. 723-724. ISBN 9798350374490 (doi: 10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00158)
Research datasets
2023
Sperling, J. R. , Poursat, B., Savage, L., Christie, I., Cuthill, C., McGuire, K. , Karimullah, A. S. , Robbie, J. , Gauchotte-Lindsay, C. , Peveler, W. J. and Clark, A. W. (2023) A nanoplasmonic sensor array for optical inline drinking water assessment: a pilot study with rural Scottish water treatment works. [Data Collection]
2018
Paterson, G., Karimullah, A. , Smith, S., Kadodwala, M. and MacLaren, D. (2018) Symmetry Reduction and Shape Effects in Concave Chiral Plasmonic Structures. [Data Collection]
2015
Paterson, G., Karimullah, A. , Williamson, S. D. R., Kadodwala, M. and MacLaren, D. (2015) Electron energy loss spectroscopy of a chiral plasmonic structure. [Data Collection]