Publications
Assembly, Growth and Catalytic Activity of Gold Nanoparticles in Hollow Carbon Nanofibres, La Torre, Alessandro; Gimenez-Lopez, Maria; Fay, Michael; Rance, Graham; Solomonsz, William; Chamberlain, Thomas; Brown, Paul; Khlobystov, Andrei, ACS Nano DOI: 10.1021/nn300400z
Interactions of Gold Nanoparticles with the Interior of Hollow Graphitised Carbon Nanofibres La Torre, Alessandro; Fay, Michael; Rance, Graham; Gimenez-Lopez, Maria; Solomonsz, William; Brown, Paul; Khlobystov, Andrei , Small DOI: 10.1002/smll.201102007
Resonant Properties of Sessile Droplets; Contact Angle Dependence of the Resonant Frequency and Width in Glycerol/Water Mixtures, James S. Sharp, Soft Matter, 2012, 8 (2), 399 – 407, DOI: 10.1039/C1SM06916K
Factors affecting the formation of insulin amyloid spherulites, Michael I. Smith, Vito Foderàb, James S. Sharp, Clive J. Roberts, Athene M. Donald, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 89 (2012), 216– 222, DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2011.09.018
The differential effect of apoferritin-PbS nanocomposites on cell cycle progression in normal and cancerous cells, Lyudmila Turyanska, Tracey D. Bradshaw, Mei Li, Philip Bardelang, William C. Drewe, Michael W. Fay, Stephen Mann, Amalia Patane and Neil R. Thomas, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, available online, DOI: 10.1039/c1jm13563e
Tuneable Mechanical Properties in Low Molecular Weight Hydrogels, Lin Chen, Jaclyn Raeburn, Sam Sutton, David G. Spiller, James Williams, James S. Sharp, Peter C. Griffiths, Richard K. Heenan, Stephen M. King, Alison Paul, Steve Furzeland, Derek Atkins and Dave J. Adams, Soft Matter, 2011, 7 (20), 9721 - 9727
Contact Angle Dependence of the Resonant Frequency of Sessile Water Droplets, James S. Sharp, David J. Farmer, and James Kelly, Langmuir, 2011, 27 (15), pp 9367–9371 DOI: 10.1021/la201984y
Imaging the photovoltaic response of PbS-sensitized porous titania, Turyanska, L., Makarovsky, O., Elfurawi, U., Patanè, A., Fay, M. W., Bowers, J. W. and Upadhyaya, H. M. (2011), Phys. Status Solidi A, 208: 2450–2453. doi: 10.1002/pssa.201127066
In situ TEM investigation of <beta>-FeOOH and <alpha>-Fe2O3 nanorods; Trevor P Almeida, Michael W Fay, Yanqiu Zhu and Paul D Brown, in press, available online Physica E doi:10.1016/j.physe.2011.01.016
Effects of Substrate Constraint on Crack Pattern Formation in Thin Films of Colloidal Polystyrene Particles, M. I. Smith and J. S. Sharp, Langmuir, 2011, 27 (13), pp 8009–8017 DOI: 10.1021/la2000624
Contact Angle Dependence of the Resonant Frequency of Sessile Water Droplets, James S. Sharp, David J. Farmer, and JamesKelly, Langmuir, 2011, 27 (15), pp 9367–9371 DOI: 10.1021/la201984y
Imaging the photovoltaic response of PbS-sensitized porous titania, L. Turyanska, O. Makarovsky, U. Elfurawi, A. Patanè, M. W. Fay, J. W. Bowers, H. M. Upadhyaya, Phys. Status Solidi A, DOI - 10.1002/pssa.201127066
Infrared dielectric mirrors based on thin film multilayers of polystyrene and polyvinylpyrrolidone, James Bailey and James S. Sharp, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, 49(10), p 732–739 (2011), DOI: 10.1002/polb.22238
Interfacial reaction in Cu/Sn/Cu system during the transient liquid phase soldering process, J.F. Li, P.A. Agyakwa, C.M. Johnson, Acta Materialia 59 (2011) 1198–1211
Charge transfer dynamics of model charge transfer centers of a multicenter water splitting dye complex on rutile TiO(2)(110) Matthew Weston, Andrew J Britton and James N O'Shea, Journal of Chemical Physics 2011 134 (5) 054705 DOI: 10.1063/1.3549573
Micro-textured surfaces with gradient wetting properties, K.R. Langley and J.S. Sharp, Langmuir, 2010, 26 (23), pp 18349–18356
Parallel Scanning Near-Field Photolithography: The Snomipede, Ehtsham ul Haq, Zhuming Liu, Yuan Zhang, Shahrul A. Alang Ahmad, Lu-Shin Wong, Steven P. Armes, Jamie K. Hobbs, Graham J. Leggett, Jason Micklefield, Clive J. Roberts, John M. R. Weaver, Nano Letters 2010 10 (11), 4375-4380 DOI: 10.1021/nl1018782
Thin Film Polymer Photonics: Spin cast distributed Bragg reflectors and chirped polymer structures J. Bailey and J. S. Sharp, Eur. Phys. J. E 33, 41-49 (2010)
Mg/Ti multilayers: structural, optical and hydrogen absorption properties, A. Baldi, G. K. Palsson, M. Gonzalez-Silveira, H. Schreuders, M. Slaman, J. H. Rector, G. Krishnan,B. J. Kooi, G. S. Walker, M. W. Fay, B. Hjorvarsson,R. J. Wijngaarden, B. Dam, and R. Griessen, Phys. Rev. B 81, 224203 (2010) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.224203
A valve-assisted snapshot approach to understand the hydrothermal synthesis of α-Fe2O3 nanorods, Trevor P Almeida, Michael W Fay, Yanqiu Zhu and Paul D Brown, CrystEngComm, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b925197a (2010)
Transport and encapsulation of gold nanoparticles in carbon nanotubes, Alessandro La Torre, Graham A. Rance, Jaouad El Harfi, Jianing Li, Derek J. Irvine, Paul D. Brown and Andrei N. Khlobystov, Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 1006-1010, DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00035C
“Nanocomposite oxygen reduction electrocatalysts formed using bioderived reducing agents”; Lee Johnson, Wim Thielemans and Darren A. Walsh J. Mater. Chem., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b922423h
Rapid polymorph screening on milligram quantities of pharmaceutical material using phonon-mode Raman spectroscopy, Sarah Al-Dulaimi, Adeyinka Aina and Jonathan Burley, CrystEngComm, 2010
Reversible 100 % Linkage Isomerization in a Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Transformation: Photocrystallographic Identification of the Metastable [Ni(dppe)(eta1-ONO)Cl] Isomer, Mark R. Warren, Simon K. Brayshaw, Andrew L. Johnson, Stefanie Schiffers, Paul R. Raithby, Timothy L. Easun, Michael W. George, John E. Warren, Simon J. Teat, Angewandte Chemie International Edition Volume 48, Issue 31, Date: July 20, 2009, Pages: 5711-5714 doi:10.1002/anie.200901706
Process Map for the Hydrothermal Synthesis of r-Fe2O3 Nanorods, Trevor P. Almeida, Mike Fay, Yanqiu Zhu, and Paul D. Brown, J. Phys. Chem. C, (2009) 10.1021/jp907081j
Tailoring the physical properties of thiol-capped PbS quantum dots by thermal annealing L Turyanska, U Elfurawi, M Li, M W Fay, N R Thomas, Stephen Mann, J H Blokland, P C M Christianen and Amalia Patane, Nanotechnology 20 (2009) 315604 .
"An appraisal of ultramicrotomy, FIBSEM and cryogenic FIBSEM techniques for the sectioning of biological cells on titanium substrates for TEM investigation" Edwards, HK Fay, MW Anderson, SI Scotchford, CA Grant, DM Brown, PD; JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY-OXFORD Volume: 234 Issue: 1 Pages: 16-25 Published: APR 2009 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03152.x
"Fe-Assisted Synthesis of Si Nanowires", Iftikhar Ahmad, Michael Fay, Yongde Xia, Xianghui Hou, Andrew Kennedy and Yanqiu Zhu, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2009, 113 (4), pp 1286-1292 DOI: 10.1021/jp808492t : link
Nanocasting of High Surface Area Mesoporous Ga2O3 and GaN Semiconductor Materials C. West and R. Mokaya, Chem. Mater. 2009, 21, 4080–4086 DOI:10.1021/cm902015f
"Insulin fibril nucleation: The role of prefibrillar aggregates", MI Smith, JS Sharp and CJ Roberts, Biophysical Journal 95(7) 3400-3406 doi: 10.1529/biophysj.108.131482
Examining the cell-biomaterial interface using cryo focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy, ultramicrotomy and transmission electron microscopy, Hannah K Edwards, Samuel Coe, Michael Fay, Susan Anderson, Colin Scotchford, David Grant, and Paul Brown, 8th World Biomaterials Congress, Amsterdam, 28May - 1 June 2008
Commercialising continuous hydrothermal synthesis to produce high quality formulated nanomaterials, E. Lester, H. Hobbs, S. Gordon, NSTI Nanotech Boston MA, 1-5 June 2008
Cryo FIB as applied to the Life Sciences, HK Edwards et al, 4th European FIB & DualBeam UserClub Meeting 2008 7th to 9th April 2008, Eindhoven
Nucleation and Growth of Insulin Fibrils in Bulk Solution and at Hydrophobic Polystyrene Surfaces, M. I. Smith, J. S. Sharp, and C. J. Roberts, Biophysical Journal 93(6) 2143-2151 doi: 10.1529/biophysj.107.105338
Installation of a cryo FIB-SEM and in-situ analysis FEGTEM facility , MW Fay, HK Edwards and PD Brown, Electron Microscopy and Anlaysis Group Conference 2007, Glasgow 3-7 September
Site-specific, cross-sectional imaging of biomaterials and the cell-biomaterial interface using focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy, Hannah K. Edwards, Samuel C. Coe, Ifty Ahmed, Michael W. Fay, Colin A. Scotchford, David M. Grant and Paul D. Brown, Electron Microscopy and Anlaysis Group Conference 2007, Glasgow 3-7 September; 21st European Conference on Biomaterials, Brighton, 9-13 September 2007
Semi-automated structural characterisation of high velocity oxy fuel thermally sprayed WC-Co based coatings, MW Fay, Y Han, DG McCartney, K Korpiola and PD Brown, Electron Microscopy and Anlaysis Group Conference 2007, Glasgow 3-7 September