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JOURNAL ARTICLES

The following publications are directly linked with this Research Project:

19.     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

18.      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

17.     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

16.     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

15.     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

14.     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

13.     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

12.     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, 2023https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.25.554789v1

11.     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

10.     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

9.     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

8.     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

7.     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

6.     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

5.     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

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 2022674, 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:
Non-equilibrium Physics of Self-assembly - Edinburgh, UK, Dek Woolfson, November 2023
'Molecular Photonic Breadboards: Design of Biomimetic Light-Harvesting Structures for Active Control of Quantum Optics'IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference - Paestum, Graham Leggett, October 2023
Symposium on Foldamers - Munich, Germany, Dek Woolfson, September 2023
'Programmable Biomimetic Light-Harvesting Systems based on Strong Coupling of Dye-Functionalised Polymer Brushes to Plasmon Modes'. ACS National Meeting - San Francisco, Graham Leggett, August 2023.
'Aldehyde-functional spheres, worms, vesicles and brushes'3rd International Conference on Advanced Polymers, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine - Mauritius, Steve Armes, August 1-4, 2023 
European Intermediate Filaments Meeting - Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Dek Woolfson, June 2023
Microproteins 2023 - Copenhagen, Denmark, Dek Woolfson, June 2023
'Molecular plasmonics and lettuces' Molecular Plasmonics - Jena, Germany, Bill Barnes, May 2023
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
'Design of biomimetic and bioinspired energy transfer pathways using polymer brushes' ACS National Meeting - San Diego, Graham Leggett, April 2022

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

The following are conference presentations given by project staff:
UK Extracellular Vesicle Society 2023Ben Raven (Supervisor Dan Lambert), poster presentation, December 2023
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 JohnsonSeptember 2023:
'Rational design of polymer-pigment antenna complexes for strong plasmon coupling'
RSC UK Colloids Conference - Liverpool, UK, Edwin JohnsonAugust 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 Gordonoral 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 JohnsonSeptember 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 JohnsonMarch 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

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

Check back soon to see a list of conferences that we have organised.

OUTREACH

Somerscience Festival - Bruton, UK, Dek Woolfson, May 2023 
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