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Professor Iouri Gounko

Professor of Inorganic Chemisty(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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Visheratina A.K, Purcell-Milton F, Serrano-García R, Kuznetsova V.A, Orlova A.O, Fedorov A.V, Baranov A.V, Gun'ko Y.K, Chiral recognition of optically active CoFe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles by CdSe/CdS quantum dots stabilised with chiral ligands, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5, (7), 2017, p1692 - 1698, Notes: [Export Date: 28 February 2017], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
B.T. Hogan, S. Dyakov, L.J. Brennan, S. Younesy, Tatiana S. Perova, Yu. K. Gunko, and M.F. Craciun, A. Baldycheva, Dynamic in-situ sensing of fluid-dispersed 2D materials integrated on microfluidic Si chip, Scientific Reports, 7, 2017, p42120-1 - 42120-7, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Recent progress in chiral inorganic nanostructures in, Nanoscience : Volume 3, 2016, pp1- - [Govan J, Gun'ko Y.K], Notes: [Cited By :2 Export Date: 28 February 2017], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Kuznetsova V, Orlova A, Martynenko I, Kundelev E, Maslov V, Fedorov A, Baranov A, Gun'Ko Y, Complexes of photosensitizer and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots passivated with BSA: Optical properties and intracomplex energy transfer, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2016, 2016, pp988738-, Notes: [Export Date: 28 February 2017], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Kolesova E.P, Orlova A.O, Maslov V.G, Gun'Ko Y.K, Cleary O, Baranov A.V, Fedorov A.V, Aggregation of quantum dots in hybrid structures based on TiO2 nanoparticles, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2016, 9884, 2016, Notes: [Export Date: 28 February 2017], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Higgins L.J, Zhang X, Marocico C.A, Murphy G.P, Karanikolas V.K, Gun'Ko Y.K, Lesnyak V, Gaponik N, Susha A.S, Rogach A.L, Parbrook P.J, Bradley A.L, Enhancing Forster nonradiative energy transfer via plasmon interaction, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Photonics Europe 2016, Belgium, 2016, 9884, 2016, 98840P -, Notes: [Export Date: 28 February 2017], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Zheng J.-Y, Wang J.J, Xu H, Purcell-Milton F, Zhong C, Gun'Ko Y.K, Donegan J.F, Fast and scalable synthesis of lead halide perovskite nanowires for tunable room-temperature nanolasers, 2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2016, 2016, 2016, Notes: [Export Date: 23 February 2017], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  URL
Gladkovskaya O, Gun'Ko Y.K, O'Connor G.M, Gogvadze V, Rochev Y, In one harness: The interplay of cellular responses and subsequent cell fate after quantum dot uptake, Nanomedicine, 11, (19), 2016, p2603 - 2615, Notes: [Export Date: 28 February 2017], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Gun'Ko Y.K, Nanoparticles in bioimaging, Nanomaterials, 6, (6), 2016, p105-, Notes: [Export Date: 28 February 2017], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Baimuratov A.S, Tepliakov N.V, Gun'Ko Y.K, Baranov A.V, Fedorov A.V, Rukhlenko I.D, Mixing of quantum states: A new route to creating optical activity, Scientific Reports, 6, (1), 2016, p5-, Notes: [Export Date: 28 February 2017], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  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.