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Benchmarking TERS and TEPL probes: towards a reference sample for quantification of near-field enhancement factors in gap and non-gap modes (2025)
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Kerfoot, J., Legge, E. J., Collins, A., Chauhan, J., Rossnagel, K., Beton, P. H., Mellor, C. J., Pollard, A. J., Rance, G. A., & George, M. W. (2025). Benchmarking TERS and TEPL probes: towards a reference sample for quantification of near-field enhancement factors in gap and non-gap modes. Analyst, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5AN00456J

Benchmarking the near-field signal enhancement attained using plasmonic metal-coated atomic force microscopy (AFM) probes for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) and tip-enhanced photoluminescence (TEPL) measurements is challenging given the absen... Read More about Benchmarking TERS and TEPL probes: towards a reference sample for quantification of near-field enhancement factors in gap and non-gap modes.

Flexible Selenium Nanowires with Tuneable Electronic Bandgaps (2025)
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Cull, W. J., Ramasse, Q. M., Biskupek, J., Rance, G. A., Cardillo‐Zallo, I., Weare, B. L., Fay, M. W., Roy Whitney, R., Scammell, L. R., Alves Fernandes, J., Kaiser, U., Patanè, A., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2025). Flexible Selenium Nanowires with Tuneable Electronic Bandgaps. Advanced Materials, Article 2501821. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202501821

Manipulating semiconductor properties without altering their chemical composition holds promise for electronic and optical materials. However, linking atomic positions in nanomaterials to their functional properties is challenging due to their polydi... Read More about Flexible Selenium Nanowires with Tuneable Electronic Bandgaps.

Supramolecular Conductive Hydrogels With Homogeneous Ionic and Electronic Transport (2025)
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O'Neill, S. J., Ashizawa, M., McLean, A. M., Serrano, R. R., Shimura, T., Agetsuma, M., Tsutsumi, M., Nemoto, T., Parmenter, C. D., McCune, J. A., Malliaras, G. G., Matsuhisa, N., & Scherman, O. A. (2025). Supramolecular Conductive Hydrogels With Homogeneous Ionic and Electronic Transport. Advanced Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202415687

Mechanically resilient hydrogels with ion-electron mixed transport properties effectively bridge biology with electronics. An ideal bioelectronic interface can be realized through introducing electronically conductive polymers into supramolecular hyd... Read More about Supramolecular Conductive Hydrogels With Homogeneous Ionic and Electronic Transport.

A new model of endotracheal tube biofilm identifies combinations of matrix-degrading enzymes and antimicrobials able to eradicate biofilms of pathogens that cause ventilator-associated pneumonia (2024)
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Walsh, D., Parmenter, C., Bakker, S. E., Lithgow, T., Traven, A., & Harrison, F. (2024). A new model of endotracheal tube biofilm identifies combinations of matrix-degrading enzymes and antimicrobials able to eradicate biofilms of pathogens that cause ventilator-associated pneumonia. Microbiology, 170(8), Article 001480. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001480

Ventilator-associated pneumonia is defined as pneumonia that develops in a patient who has been on mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hours through an endotracheal tube. It is caused by biofilm formation on the indwelling tube, which introduces... Read More about A new model of endotracheal tube biofilm identifies combinations of matrix-degrading enzymes and antimicrobials able to eradicate biofilms of pathogens that cause ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Evaluation of cell disruption technologies on magnetosome chain length and aggregation behaviour from Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MSR-1 (2023)
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Masó-Martínez, M., Fryer, B., Aubert, D., Peacock, B., Lees, R., Rance, G. A., Fay, M. W., Topham, P. D., & Fernández-Castané, A. (2023). Evaluation of cell disruption technologies on magnetosome chain length and aggregation behaviour from Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MSR-1. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 11, Article 1172457. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1172457

Magnetosomes are biologically-derived magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) naturally produced by magnetotactic bacteria (MTB). Due to their distinctive characteristics, such as narrow size distribution and high biocompatibility, magnetosomes represent an at... Read More about Evaluation of cell disruption technologies on magnetosome chain length and aggregation behaviour from Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MSR-1.

An inkjet-printable fluorescent thermal sensor based on CdSe/ZnS quantum dots immobilised in a silicone matrix (2022)
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Birchall, L., Foerster, A., Rance, G. A., Terry, A., Wildman, R. D., & Tuck, C. J. (2022). An inkjet-printable fluorescent thermal sensor based on CdSe/ZnS quantum dots immobilised in a silicone matrix. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 347, Article 113977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2022.113977

The drive towards device miniaturisation in fields such as microfluidics or microelectronics has established a need for non-intrusive, in situ temperature sensing, which is difficult to implement and manufacture in devices. Inkjet... Read More about An inkjet-printable fluorescent thermal sensor based on CdSe/ZnS quantum dots immobilised in a silicone matrix.

Structure-Activity Relationships of Benzenesulfonamide-Based Inhibitors towards Carbonic Anhydrase Isoform Specificity (2016)
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Bhatt, A., Mahon, B. P., Cruzeiro, V. W. D., Cornelio, B., Laronze-Cochard, M., Ceruso, M., Sapi, J., Rance, G. A., Khlobystov, A. N., Fontana, A., Roitberg, A., Supuran, C. T., & McKenna, R. (2017). Structure-Activity Relationships of Benzenesulfonamide-Based Inhibitors towards Carbonic Anhydrase Isoform Specificity. ChemBioChem, 18(2), 213-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201600513

Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are implicated in a wide range of diseases, including the upregulation of isoforms CA IX and XII in many aggressive cancers. However, effective inhibition of disease-implicated CAs should minimally affect the ubiquitously ex... Read More about Structure-Activity Relationships of Benzenesulfonamide-Based Inhibitors towards Carbonic Anhydrase Isoform Specificity.

Chemical reactions confined within carbon nanotubes (2016)
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Miners, S. A., Rance, G. A., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2016). Chemical reactions confined within carbon nanotubes. Chemical Society Reviews, 45(17), 4727-4746. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cs00090h

In this critical review, we survey the wide range of chemical reactions that have been confined within carbon nanotubes, particularly emphasising how the pairwise interactions between the catalysts, reactants, transition states and products of a part... Read More about Chemical reactions confined within carbon nanotubes.

Ag-catalysed cutting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (2016)
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La Torre, A., Rance, G. A., Miners, S. A., Lucas, C. H., Smith, E. F., Fay, M. W., Zoberbier, T., Giménez-López, M. C., Kaiser, U., Brown, P. D., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2016). Ag-catalysed cutting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Nanotechnology, 27(17), 175604. https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/27/17/175604

In this work, the cutting of carbon nanotubes is investigated using silver nanoparticles deposited on arc discharge multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The composite is subsequently heated in air to fabricate shortened multi-walled nanotubes. Complementar... Read More about Ag-catalysed cutting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes.

Interactions of carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles: the effects of solvent dielectric constant and temperature on controlled assembly of superstructures (2014)
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A. Rance, G., & N. Khlobystov, A. (2014). Interactions of carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles: the effects of solvent dielectric constant and temperature on controlled assembly of superstructures. Dalton Transactions, 43(20), 7400-7406. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3dt53372g

The effects of solvent dielectric constant and temperature on the non-covalent interactions between gold nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes have been explored. Our experiments have shown that fewer nanoparticles are adsorbed onto nanotubes in high di... Read More about Interactions of carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles: the effects of solvent dielectric constant and temperature on controlled assembly of superstructures.