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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., Terry, A., Wildman, R., & Tuck, C. (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.

Controlled oxidative cutting of carbon nanotubes catalysed by silver nanoparticles (2014)
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A. Miners, S., A. Rance, G., La Torre, A., M. Kenny, S., & N. Khlobystov, A. (2014). Controlled oxidative cutting of carbon nanotubes catalysed by silver nanoparticles. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2(39), 8357-8363. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4tc01334d

A systematic comparison of different methods for the cutting of carbon nanotubes has shown that oxidation catalysed by silver nanoparticles is a superior method for the efficient procurement of short carbon nanotubes with minimal introduction of side... Read More about Controlled oxidative cutting of carbon nanotubes catalysed by silver nanoparticles.

Regioselective control of aromatic halogenation reactions in carbon nanotube nanoreactors (2013)
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Miners, S. A., A. Rance, G., & N. Khlobystov, A. (2013). Regioselective control of aromatic halogenation reactions in carbon nanotube nanoreactors. Chemical Communications, 5586-5588. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3cc42414f

The use of single-walled carbon nanotubes as effective nanoreactors for preparative chemical reactions has been demonstrated for the first time. Extreme spatial confinement of reactant molecules inside nanotubes has been shown to drastically affect b... Read More about Regioselective control of aromatic halogenation reactions in carbon nanotube nanoreactors.

Chemistry at the Nanoscale: Synthesis of an N@C60-N@C60 Endohedral Fullerene Dimer (2012)
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J. Farrington, B., Jevric, M., A. Rance, G., Ardavan, A., N. Khlobystov, A., A. D. Briggs, G., & Porfyrakis, K. (2012). Chemistry at the Nanoscale: Synthesis of an N@C60-N@C60 Endohedral Fullerene Dimer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51(15), 3587-3590. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201107490

Rattling the cage: The rapid one-pot double 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of the rare endohedral fullerene N@C60 to an oligo(p-phenylene polyethylene) bis(aldehyde) using a novel amino acid derivative as an anchoring group is reported. The metho... Read More about Chemistry at the Nanoscale: Synthesis of an N@C60-N@C60 Endohedral Fullerene Dimer.

Assembly, growth, and catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles in hollow carbon nanofibers (2012)
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La Torre, A., Giménez-López, M. D. C., Fay, M. W., Rance, G. A., Solomonsz, W. A., Chamberlain, T. W., Brown, P. D., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2012). Assembly, growth, and catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles in hollow carbon nanofibers. ACS Nano, 6(3), 2000-2007. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn300400z

Graphitized carbon nanofibers (GNFs) act as efficient templates for the growth of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) adsorbed on the interior (and exterior) of the tubular nanostructures. Encapsulated AuNPs are stabilized by interactions with the step-edges... Read More about Assembly, growth, and catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles in hollow carbon nanofibers.