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Professor Iouri Gounko

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry(1922) (Chemistry)
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 igounko@tcd.ie

 3531896 3543


Biography

1982-87 M.Sc (with distinction, major Organometallic Chemistry), Moscow State University 1987-90 Ph.D, Inorganic Chemistry, Moscow State University 1990-93 Lecturer in Chemistry and Materials for Electronics (Bielorussian Techn.University) 1993-94 Postdoctoral Fellow (Royal Society Award), research on organolanthanides, University of Sussex 1994-95 Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Materials for Electronics (Bielorussian Techn. University) 1995-96 Postdoctoral Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Award), research on organosilicon compounds, University of Magdeburg 1996-98 Postdoctoral Researcher, research on organolanthanides (EPSRC), University of Sussex 1999- to date Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin 2002- to date Director of Physics and Chemistry of Advanced Materials.

Research Tags

  Colloids   Composite materials   Diagnostic bioimaging   Drug development and evaluation   Imaging Techniques   Inorganic Chemistry   Nano Biotechnology   Nanotechnology   Nanotubes   Optical materials   Organometallic chemistry   Plastics   Polymers

Research Projects

 Magnetic iron oxide nanowires
 Carbon nanotube organometallics
 Two in one" fluorescent magnetic nanocomposites for biomedical application
 Quantum dots for biomedical applications

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McCarthy, S.A. and Ratkic, R. and Purcell-Milton, F. and Perova, T.S. and Gun'ko, Y.K., Adaptable surfactant-mediated method for the preparation of anisotropic metal chalcogenide nanomaterials, Scientific Reports, 8, (1), 2018, p2860-, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Khort, A. and Podbolotov, K. and Serrano-García, R. and Gun'Ko, Y., One-Step Solution Combustion Synthesis of Cobalt Nanopowder in Air Atmosphere: The Fuel Effect, Inorganic Chemistry, 57, (3), 2018, p1464-1473 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
García, R.S. and Stafford, S. and Gun'ko, Y.K., Recent progress in synthesis and functionalization of multimodal fluorescent-magnetic nanoparticles for biological applications, Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 8, (2), 2018, p172-, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Martynenko, I.V. and Baimuratov, A.S. and Osipova, V.A. and Kuznetsova, V.A. and Purcell-Milton, F. and Rukhlenko, I.D. and Fedorov, A.V. and Gun'Ko, Y.K. and Resch-Genger, U. and Baranov, A.V., Excitation Energy Dependence of the Photoluminescence Quantum Yield of Core/Shell CdSe/CdS Quantum Dots and Correlation with Circular Dichroism, Chemistry of Materials, 30, (2), 2018, p465-471 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Stafford, S. and Garcia, R.S. and Gun'ko, Y.K., Multimodal magnetic-plasmonic nanoparticles for biomedical applications, Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 8, (1), 2018, p97-, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Brennan, L.J. and Purcell-Milton, F. and McKenna, B. and Watson, T.M. and Gun'ko, Y.K. and Evans, R.C., Large area quantum dot luminescent solar concentrators for use with dye-sensitised solar cells, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6, (6), 2018, p2671-2680 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Litvin, A.P. and Babaev, A.A. and Dubavik, A. and Cherevkov, S.A. and Parfenov, P.S. and Ushakova, E.V. and Baranov, M.A. and Andreeva, O.V. and Purcell-Milton, F. and Gun'ko, Y. and Fedorov, A.V. and Baranov, A.V., Strong Enhancement of PbS Quantum Dot NIR Emission Using Plasmonic Semiconductor Nanocrystals in Nanoporous Silicate Matrix, Advanced Optical Materials, 2018, p1701055-, Notes: [cited By 0; Article in Press], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Visheratina, A.K. and Orlova, A.O. and Purcell-Milton, F. and Kuznetsova, V.A. and Visheratin, A.A. and Kundelev, E.V. and Maslov, V.G. and Baranov, A.V. and Fedorov, A.V. and Gun'Ko, Y.K., Influence of CdSe and CdSe/CdS nanocrystals on the optical activity of chiral organic molecules, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6, (7), 2018, p1759-1766 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Purcell-Milton, F. and McKenna, R. and Brennan, L.J. and Cullen, C.P. and Guillemeney, L. and Tepliakov, N.V. and Baimuratov, A.S. and Rukhlenko, I.D. and Perova, T.S. and Duesberg, G.S. and Baranov, A.V. and Fedorov, A.V. and Gun'Ko, Y.K., Induction of Chirality in Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials: Chiral 2D MoS2Nanostructures, ACS Nano, 12, (2), 2018, p954-964 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Sivakumar Balakrishnan, Yurii K Gun'ko, Gerhard F Swiegers and Tatiana S Perova, Investigations Into the Electrochemical Etching Process of P-Type Silicon Using Ethanol-Surfactant Solutions, AIP Conference Proceedings, ICEESM-2017, Lyon, France, 7-9 July 2017, edited by T.S. Perova , 1884, (1), AIP Publisher, 2017, pp030007-1 - 030007-5, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
  

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M. Wojdyla, S. Gallagher, Y.K. Gun'ko, J. M. Kelly, S. J. Quinn, I.P. Clark, G.M. Greetham, M. Towrie and A.W. Parker, Ultrafast Transient Absorption Studies on CdTe and Chiral CdSe Quantum Dots - Central Laser Facility, Annual Report 2008-2009, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 2009, 193-196, Report, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Royal Society Fellowship Award 1993
Alexander von Humboldt Award 1995

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Dr. Gun'ko works in the areas of Organometallic Chemistry, Science of Materials and Nanotechnology. Dr. Gun'ko supervises a research team consisting at present of 8 postgraduate students and 4 postdoctoral research fellows. Dr. Gun'ko has 125 publications in peer reviewed journals and 10 patents. His main research interest and activities are: - magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic liquids for MRI diagnostics, - nanoparticle-drug conjugates, - quantum dots (CdTe) for biomedical applications (biological imaging and drug delivery), - chemical functionalisation of carbon nanotubes, - polyhedral silsesquioxanes and metallasiloxanes.