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
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, 5(9), 102158. (doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.102158)
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., 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
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, 5(9), 102158. (doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.102158)
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., 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]