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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

Languages

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Justin Narimbi, Sivakumar Balakrishnan, Tatiana S. Perova, Garret Dee, Gerhard F. Swiegers, Yurii K. Gun'ko, XRD and Spectroscopic investigations of ZIF - microchannel glass plates composites, Materials, 16, (2410), 2023, p1-15 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Coogan I, Doménech N.G, Mc Ginley D, Simonian T, Rafferty A, Fedix Q, Donlon A, Nicolosi V, Gun'ko Y.K, Layered double hydroxide/boron nitride nanocomposite membranes for efficient separation and photodegradation of water-soluble dyes, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11, (23), 2023, p12266 - 12281, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Yunhong Shi, Dunzhu Li, Liwen Xiao*, Daragh Mullarkey, Daniel K. Kehoe, Emmet D. Sheerin, Sebastian Barwich, Luming Yang, Yurii K. Gun'ko, Igor V. Shvets, Matthias E. Möbius, John J. Boland*, Jing Jing Wang* , Real-world natural passivation phenomena can limit microplastic generation in water, Chemical Engineering Journal, 425, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Liu, N.N. and Pyatakov, A.P. and Zharkov, M.N. and Pyataev, N.A. and Sukhorukov, G.B. and Alekhina, Y.A. and Perov, N.S. and Gun'Ko, Y.K. and Tishin, A.M., Optimization of Zn-Mn ferrite nanoparticles for low frequency hyperthermia: Exploiting the potential of superquadratic field dependence of magnetothermal response, Applied Physics Letters, 120, (10), 2022, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Coogan, Ã . and Hughes, L. and Purcell-Milton, F. and Cardiff, S. and Nicolosi, V. and Gun'Ko, Y.K., Two-Dimensional Chiroptically Active Copper Oxide Nanostructures, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126, (44), 2022, p18980-18987 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Doménech, N.G. and Coogan, I. and Purcell-Milton, F. and Casasín García, M.L. and Arjona, A.S. and Cabré, M.B. and Rafferty, A. and McKelvey, K. and Dunne, P. and Gun'ko, Y.K., Partially oxidised boron nitride as a 2D nanomaterial for nanofiltration applications, Nanoscale Advances, 4, (22), 2022, p4895-4904 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Branzi, L. and Purcell-Milton, F. and Cressoni, C. and Back, M. and Cattaruzza, E. and Speghini, A. and Gun'ko, Y.K. and Benedetti, A., Chiral non-stoichiometric ternary silver indium sulfide quantum dots: investigation on the chirality transfer by cysteine, Nanoscale, 14, (33), 2022, p12174-12182 , Notes: [cited By 1], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Liu, N.N. and Pyatakov, A.P. and Saletsky, A.M. and Zharkov, M.N. and Pyataev, N.A. and Sukhorukov, G.B. and Gun'ko, Y.K. and Tishin, A.M., The †field or frequency†dilemma in magnetic hyperthermia: The case of Znâ€"Mn ferrite nanoparticles, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 555, (169379), 2022, Notes: [cited By 4], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Áine Coogan, Yurii K. Gun'ko, Solution-based "bottom-up" synthesis of group VI transition metal dichalcogenides and their applications, Materials Advances, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Kuznetsova, Vera, Osipova, Viktoria, Tkach, Anton, Miropoltsev, Maksim, Kurshanov, Danil, Sokolova, Anastasiia, Cherevkov, Sergei, Zakharov, Viktor, Fedorov, Anatoly, Baranov, Alexander, Gun"ko, Yurii, Lab-on-Microsphere"FRET-Based Multiplex Sensor Platform, Nanomaterials, 11, (1), 2021, p109 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Mates-Torres, E.; García-Melchor, M., Chiroptically active 1D ultrathin AuAg nanostructures, ioChem-BD, 2021, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Martinez-Carmona, Marina; Cela, Carmela; Kuznetsova, Vera A.; Geoghegan, Joan A.; Gun'ko, Yurii K., Enantioselective effect of cysteine functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles in U87 MG and GM08680 human cells and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 9, 2021, p3544-3553 , Notes: [https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/tb/d0tb02532a Martinez-Carmona, Marina; Cela, Carmela; Kuznetsova, Vera A.; Geoghegan, Joan A.; Gun'ko, Yurii K. Enantioselective effect of cysteine functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles in U87 MG and GM08680 human cells and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. J. Mater. Chem. B, 2021, 9, 3544-3553, 10.1039/D0TB02532A], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
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.