JOURNAL ARTICLES
The following publications are directly linked with this Research Project:
27. S. J. Hunter, E. Csanyi, J. J. S. Tyler, M. A. Newell, M. A. H. Farmer, C. Ma, G. Sanderson, G. J. Leggett, E. C. Johnson and S. P. Armes, "Covalent Capture of Nanoparticle-Stabilized Oil Droplets via Acetal Chemistry Using a Hydrophilic Polymer Brush", Langmuir, 2024, 40, 26735–26741. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c03897
26. A. C. Wood, E. C. Johnson, R. R. R. Prasad, M. V. Sullivan, N. W. Turner, S. P. Armes, S. S. Staniland, J. A. Foster, "Phage Display Against 2D Metal–Organic Nanosheets as a New Route to Highly Selective Biomolecular Recognition Surfaces",
Small, 2024, 2406339. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202406339
25. G. Karchilakis, S. Varlas, E. C. Johnson, O. Norvilaite, M. A. H. Farmer, G. Sanderson, G. J. Leggett, and S. P. Armes, "Capturing Enzyme-Loaded Diblock Copolymer Vesicles Using an Aldehyde-Functionalized Hydrophilic Polymer Brush",
Langmuir, 2024, 40, 14086-14098. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c01561
24. E. Csányi, D. B. Hammond, B. Bower, E. C. Johnson, A. Lishchuk, S. P. Armes, Z. Dong and G. J. Leggett, "XPS Depth-Profiling Studies of Chlorophyll Binding to Poly(cysteine methacrylate) Scaffolds in Pigment-Polymer Antenna Complexes using a Gas Cluster Ion Source”, Langmuir, 2024. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c01361
23. K. I. Albanese, R. Petrenas, F. Pirro, E. A. Naudin, U. Borucu, W. M. Dawson, D. A. Scott, G.. J. Leggett, O. D. Weiner, T. A. A. Oliver and D. N. Woolfson, "Rationally seeded computational protein design of ɑ-helical barrels", Nat. Chem. Biol. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01642-0
22. Y. Sasaki, K. Georgiou, S. Wang, D. G. Bossanyi, R. Jayaprakash, N. Yanai, N. Kimizuka, D. G. Lidzey, A. J. Musser and J. Clark, "Radiative pumping in a strongly coupled microcavity filled with a neat molecular film showing excimer emission", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, 26, 14745–14753. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP00255E
21. H. Buksa, E. C. Johnson, D. H. H. Chan, R. J. McBride, G. Sanderson, R. M. Corrigan, and S. P. Armes, "Arginine-Functional Methacrylic Block Copolymer Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Adsorption onto a Model Planar Substrate", Biomacromolecules 2024, 25, 2990-3000. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.4c00128
20. M. S. Rider, E. C. Johnson, D. Bates , W. P. Wardley, R. H. Gordon , R. D. J. Oliver , S. P. Armes , G. J. Leggett and W. L. Barnes, "Strong coupling in molecular systems: a simple predictor employing routine optical measurements", Nanophotonics 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2023-0879
19. E. Csányi, D. B. Hammond, B. Bower, E. C. Johnson, A. Lishchuk, S. P. Armes, Z. Dong and G. J. Leggett, "XPS Depth-Profiling Studies of Chlorophyll Binding to Poly(cysteine methacrylate) Scaffolds in Pigment-Polymer Antenna Complexes using a Gas Cluster Ion Source", ChemRxiv 2024. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-37f23
18. S. Astier, E. C. Johnson, O. Norvilaite, S. Varlas, G. Sanderson, G. J. Leggett and S. P. Armes, "Controlling adsorption of diblock copolymer nanoparticles onto an aldehyde-functionalized hydrophilic polymer brush via pH modulation", Langmuir 2024, 40, 3667−3676. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03392
17. A. J. Ramadan, W. H. Jeong, R. D. J. Oliver, J. Jiang, A. Dasgupta, Z. Yuan, J. Smith, J. E. Lee, S. G. Motti, O. Gough, Z. Li, L. M. Herz, M. B. Johnston, H. Choi, J. Even, C. Katan, B. R. Lee, and H. J. Snaith, “The role of the organic cation in developing efficient green perovskite LEDs based on quasi‐2D perovskite heterostructures”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 34, 2309653. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202309653
16. D. G. Bossanyi, M. Matthiesen, R. Jayaprakash, S. Bhattacharya, J. Zaumseil and J. Clark, "Singlet fission is incoherent in pristine orthorhombic single crystals of rubrene: no evidence of triplet-pair emission", Faraday Disc. 2024, 250, 162-180. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3FD00150D
15. S. J. Hunter, M. H. A. Elella, E. C. Johnson, L. Taramova, E. E. Brotherton, S. P. Armes, V. V. Khutoryanskiy, M. J. Smallridge, "Mucoadhesive pickering nanoemulsions via dynamic covalent chemistry", J. Coll. Interface Sci. 2023, 651, 334-345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2023.07.162
14. H. Alqurashi, M. Alsharief, M. L. Perciato, B. Raven, K. Ren, and D. W. Lambert, "Message in a bubble: the translational potential of extracellular vesicles", J. Physiol. 2023, 601, 4895-4905. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP282047
13. K. I. Albanese, R. Petrenas, F. Pirro, E. A. Naudin, U. Borucu, W. M. Dawson, D. A. Scott, G. J. Leggett, O. D. Weiner, T. A. A. Oliver, D. N. Woolfson, "Rationally seeded computational protein design", bioRxiv, 2023. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.25.554789v1
12. E. E. Brotherton, D. Josland, C. György, E. C. Johnson, D. H. Chan, M. J. Smallridge, S. P. Armes, "Histidine-Functionalized Diblock Copolymer Nanoparticles Exhibit Enhanced Adsorption onto Planar Stainless Steel", Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2023, 44, 2200903. https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.202200903
11. E. C. Johnson, S. Varlas, O. Norvilaite, T. J. Neal, E. E. Brotherton, G. Sanderson, G. J. Leggett, S. P. Armes, "Adsorption of Aldehyde-Functional Diblock Copolymer Spheres onto Surface-Grafted Polymer Brushes via Dynamic Covalent Chemistry Enables Friction Modification", Chem. Mater. 2023, 35, 6109-6122. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01227
10. G. A. Sutherland, J. P. Pidgeon, H. K. H. Lee, M. S. Proctor, A. Hitchcock, S. Wang, D. Chekulaev, W. C. Tsoi, M. P. Johnson, C. N. Hunter, and J. Clark, “Twisted Carotenoids Do Not Support Efficient Intramolecular Singlet Fission in the Orange Carotenoid Protein”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 6135-6142. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01139
9. H. Jin, M. D. Farrar, J. M. Ball, A. Dasgupta, P. Caprioglio, S. Narayanan, R. D. J. Oliver, F. M. Rombach, B. W. J. Putland, M. B. Johnston, and H. J. Snaith, “Alumina Nanoparticle Interfacial Buffer Layer for Low-Bandgap Lead-Tin Perovskite Solar Cells”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 33, 2303012. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202303012
8. R. Arul , K. Menghrajani, M. S. Rider, R. Chikkaraddy, W. L. Barnes, and J. J. Baumberg, “Raman Probing the Local Ultrastrong Coupling of Vibrational Plasmon Polaritons on Metallic Gratings”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2023, 131, 126902. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04834
7. O. S. Game, T. Thornber, F. Cepero-Mejías, L. C. Infante-Ortega, M. Togay, E. J. Cassella, R. C. Kilbride, R. H. Gordon, N. Mullin, R. C. Greenhalgh, P. J. M. Isherwood, J. M. Walls, J. P. A. Fairclough, and D. G. Lidzey, “Direct Integration of Perovskite Solar Cells with Carbon Fiber Substrates”, Adv. Mater. 2023, 2209950. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202209950
6. E. E. Brotherton, E. C. Johnson, M. J. Smallridge, D. B. Hammond, G. J. Leggett, S. P.Armes. "Hydrophilic aldehyde-functional polymer brushes: synthesis, characterization and potential bioapplications", Macromolecules 2023, 56, 2070–2080. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c02471
5. R. K. Venkatraman, D. Bates, N. Williams, J. Clark, F. Pirro, D. Woolfson, J. Weinstein, G. Leggett, “Protein-chromophore interaction and its influence on the photophysics of chromophore: insights from solvatochromic analysis”, Proceedings of the fifteenth national symposium on radiation and photochemistry 2023, Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences, Mumbai, Jan 2023. https://www.ila.org.in/nls31/download/proceedings/preview?path=NLS-31%2BPapers%2Band%2BThesis%252FCP10-PDF%252FCP10_530_1_manuscript_6320a9561a307_ravi-kumar-venkatraman-paper-submission-nsl-31.pdf
4. M. S. Rider, R. Arul, J. J. Baumberg and W. L. Barnes, “Theory of strong coupling between molecules and surface plasmons on a grating”, Nanophotonics 2022, 11, 3695–3708. https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0301
3. G. A. Sutherland, P. Qian, C. N. Hunter, D. J. K. Swainsbury, A. Hitchcock, "Engineering purple bacterial carotenoid biosynthesis to study the roles of carotenoids in light-harvesting complexes", Methods in Enzymology 2022, 674, 137-184. https://europepmc.org/article/med/36008006
2. A. Lishchuk, E. Csányi, B. Darroch, C. Wilson, A. Nabok, G. J. Leggett, "Active control of strong plasmon–exciton coupling in biomimetic pigment–polymer antenna complexes grown by surface-initiated polymerisation from gold nanostructures", Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 2405–2417. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/sc/d1sc05842h
1. M. S. Rider, W. L. Barnes, "Something from nothing: linking molecules with virtual light", Contemp. Phys. 2021, 62, 217–232. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2022.2101749
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
The following are invited talks given by project staff:
Neutron and Muon Science and User Meeting - University of Warwick, Edwin Johnson, April 2024, ‘Polymer
brushes: What are they for and what use are neutrons?’
Non-equilibrium Physics of Self-assembly - Edinburgh, Dek Woolfson, November 2023
IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference - Paestum, Graham Leggett, October 2023: 'Molecular Photonic Breadboards: Design of Biomimetic Light-Harvesting Structures for Active Control of Quantum Optics'
Symposium on Foldamers - Munich, Germany, Dek Woolfson, September 2023
ACS National Meeting - San Francisco, Graham Leggett, August 2023: 'Programmable Biomimetic Light-Harvesting Systems based on Strong Coupling of Dye-Functionalised Polymer Brushes to Plasmon Modes'.
3rd International Conference on Advanced Polymers, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine - Mauritius, Steve Armes, August 1-4, 2023: 'Aldehyde-functional spheres, worms, vesicles and brushes'
European Intermediate Filaments Meeting - Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Dek Woolfson, June 2023
Microproteins 2023 - Copenhagen, Denmark, Dek Woolfson, June 2023
Molecular Plasmonics - Jena, Germany, Bill Barnes, May 2023: 'Molecular plasmonics and lettuces'
Keystone: Computational Design and Modelling of Proteins - Banff, Canada, Dek Woolfson, March 2023
Advances in Protein Design - Galilee, Israel, Dek Woolfson, October 2022
27th American Peptide Society Symposium - Whistler, Canada, Dek Woolfson, June 2022
4th Protein Engineering Canada Conference - Montreal, Canada, Dek Woolfson, June 2022
ACS National Meeting - San Diego, Graham Leggett, April 2022: 'Design of biomimetic and bioinspired energy transfer pathways using polymer brushes'
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
The following are conference presentations given by project staff:
European Materials Research Society (EMRS) 2024 Spring Meeting - Strasbourg, France, Robert Gordon, May 2024, Contributed talk
American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Conference 2024 - New Orleans, USA, Edwin Johnson, March 2024: ‘Adsorption of Aldehyde-Functional Diblock Copolymer Spheres onto Surface-Grafted Polymer Brushes via Dynamic Covalent Chemistry Enables Friction Modification’
UK Extracellular Vesicle Society 2023 - Ben Raven (Supervisor Dan Lambert), poster presentation, December 2023
14th International Conference on Optical Probes of Hybrid Materials 2023 (OP2023) - Como, Italy, Robert Gordon, September 2023, Contributed talk
British Society for Research on Ageing 2023 - Ben Raven (Supervisor Dan Lambert), poster presentation prize winner, September 2023: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/healthy-lifespan/news/prize-winning-poster-extracellular-vesicles-biomarker-senescence
European Colloid and Interface Society Conference - Naples, Italy, Edwin Johnson, September 2023:'Rational design of polymer-pigment antenna complexes for strong plasmon coupling'
RSC UK Colloids Conference - Liverpool, UK, Edwin Johnson, August 2023:'Rational design of polymer-pigment antenna complexes for strong plasmon coupling'
MOVE 2023 - Ben Raven (Supervisor Dan Lambert), poster presentation, June 2023
10th Chemical Nanoscience Symposium - Newcastle University, Demetris Bates, May 2023:'Towards Improved Molecular Energy Transfer: The Design of α-Helical Barrel Antenna Complexes'
CMAR/CIMA 2023 - Ben Raven (Supervisor Dan Lambert), poster presentation, May 2023
Faraday joint interest group conference 2023 - UK, Rob Gordon, oral presentation in person, April 2023
National Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry 2023 - India, Ravi Kumar Venkatraman, oral presentation, January 2023
International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy 2022 - India, Ravi Kumar Venkatraman, poster presentation, December 2022
UK Extracellular Vesicle Society 2022 - Ben Raven (Supervisor Dan Lambert), poster presentation, December 2022
University of Sydney, Department of Chemistry - Sydney, Edwin Johnson, December 2022:
'Polymer brushes: No job too big too small'
Pacific Polymer Chemistry Conference - Brisbane, Australia, Edwin Johnson, December 2022:'‘Dumbbell’ polymer brushes: understanding the origins of non-monotonic structures'
Pacific Polymer Chemistry Conference - Brisbane, Australia, Edwin Johnson, December 2022:'Polymer brush scaffolds for the immobilization of pigments at interfaces: Interrogating the factors which influence post-polymerization functionalization'
Neutron Scattering Group Early Career Meeting - Abingdon, UK, Edwin Johnson, November 2022:'Robust modelling techniques give confidence in unexpected profiles of copolymer brushes as measured by neutron reflectometry'
University of Newcastle, Department of Chemistry - UK, Edwin Johnson, November 2022: 'Polymer brushes: No job too big too small'
Coiled-coil, fibrous & repeat proteins - Alpbach, Austria, Fabio Pirro, September 2022
European Colloid and Interface Society Conference - Chania, Greece, Edwin Johnson, September 2022:'Interrogating the factors which influence post-polymerization functionalization'
Gordon Research Conference 2022 - Italy, Rob Gordon, poster presentation in person, 2022
British Society for Research on Ageing 2022 - Ben Raven (Supervisor Dan Lambert), poster presentation, September 2022
Symposium on Polymer Colloids - SCI and RSC, London, UK, Edwin Johnson, April 2022:'Controlling the incorporation of reactive dye molecules within polymer brushes'
American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Conference - San Diego, USA, Edwin Johnson, March 2022:'Polymer brush scaffolds for the immobilization of pigments at interfaces: Interrogating the factors which influence post-polymerization functionalization'
International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy 2021 - India, Ravi Kumar Venkatraman, poster presentation, Dec 2021