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Professor Paula Colavita

Professor in (Chemistry)
CHEMISTRY BUILDING
      
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Professor Paula Colavita

Professor in (Chemistry)
CHEMISTRY BUILDING

 colavitp@tcd.ie

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  AMORPHOUS CARBON   Analytical chemistry   CARBON   Carbon nanostructures   Electrochemistry   Environmental Chemistry   FUNCTIONALIZATION   MATERIALS SCIENCE   NANOPARTICLES   NANOSCALE   NANOSPHERES   Spectroscopy   Surface chemistry
Project Title
 Advancing the green transition via novel electrode materials for valorisation processes
From
01/09/2020
To
30/06/2025
Summary
Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Programme
19/FFP/6761
Project Type
SFI Investigator Project
Project Title
 Nano2H2: Nano-electrocatalysts for sustainable hydrogen production from bio-resources
From
01/09/2022
To
31/08/2027
Summary
Fundamental research project
Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Programme
21/FFP-A/9161
Project Type
Partnership Grant
Project Title
 Rational design of amorphous carbon materials for the control of interfacial charge transfer and catalytic properties
From
10/07/2014
To
09/07/2019
Summary
Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Programme
13/CDA/2213
Project Type
Career Development Programme
Project Title
 Novel porous transition metal carbides as sustainable catalysts in energy-related applications
From
01/09/2023
To
31/08/2026
Summary
Postgraduate Studentship for Ms. Lua Henderson
Funding Agency
Irish Research Council
Programme
GOIPG/2023/4653
Project Type
Fundamental Research
Person Months
36
Project Title
 HiBriCarbon - Mixed Biotic and abiotic functionalysed electrodes for Plant Microbial Fuel Cells applications
From
03/09/2018
To
02/09/2020
Summary
Funding Agency
H2020
Programme
MSCA-IF-EF-ST Proposal No. 799175
Project Type
Marie Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship
Person Months
24

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Details Date From Date To
American Chemical Society 2004 present
Royal Society of Chemistry 2009 present
Sarra Knani, Riad Ahmed Boughezal, Baptiste Cibron, Frédéric Barrière, Corinne Lagrost, Muriel Escadeillas, Ludivine Rault, Maida Costa de Oliveira, Paula E. Colavita, James A. Behan, Sustainable nanocarbons via biocatalysis of C-F bond cleavage by electroactive bacteria, Carbon, 247, 2026, p121053 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Christian Schröder, Hugo Nolan, Lua Henderson, Paula E. Colavita, Study of the Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Benzaldehyde and Furfural at Heterostructured MoS2/N-Carbon Thin-Film Electrodes, ACS Electrochemistry, 2, (1), 2026, p136-145 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Christian Schröder, Lua Henderson, Filippo Pota, Kiaya Doyle, Paula E. Colavita, Dataset for Modulating the Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Benzaldehyde on Cu@C Electrode Materials, Colavita Group, Trinity College Dublin, 2025, Dataset, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Maida A. Costa de Oliveira, Runbo Zhang, Christian Schröder, Filippo Pota, Marc Brunet Cabré, Kim McKelvey, Paula E. Colavita, Dataset for Synergistic effects of surface chemistry and porosity in vanadium redox reactions: from smooth thin films to high surface area carbon electrodes, Colavita Group, Trinity College Dublin, 2025, Dataset, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Cabré, M. B.; Schröder, C.; Pota, F.; de Oliveira, M. A. C.; Nolan, H.; Henderson, L.; Brazel, L.; Spurling, D.; Nicolosi, V.; Martinuz, P.; Longhi, M.; Amargianou, F.; Bärmann, P.; Petit, T.; McKelvey, K.; Colavita, P. E., Carbon Thin-Film Electrodes as High-Performing Substrates for Correlative Single Entity Electrochemistry, Small Methods, 9, (1), 2025, p2400639-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Nolan, H.; Zen, F.; Gençer, A.; Henderson, L.; Kelly, M.; Pota, F.; Schröder, C.; Scanlan, E. M.; Colavita, P. E., Functional organic adlayers for controlling the adhesion strength of electrolessly deposited copper on super-engineering plastics, Applied Surface Science, 682, (161700), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Costa de Oliveira, M. A.; Brunet Cabré, M.; Schröder, C.; Nolan, H.; Pota, F.; Behan, J. A.; Barrière, F.; McKelvey, K.; Colavita, P. E., Single-Entity Electrochemistry of N-Doped Graphene Oxide Nanostructures for Improved Kinetics of Vanadyl Oxidation, Small, 21, (3), 2025, p2405220-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Pota, F.; Costa de Oliveira, M.; Schröder, C.; Brunet Cabré, M.; Nolan, H.; Rafferty, A.; Jeannin, O.; Camerel, F.; Behan, J.; Barrière, F.; Colavita, P. E., Porous N-Doped Carbon-encapsulated Iron as Novel Catalyst Architecture for the Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Benzaldehyde, ChemSusChem, 18, (1), 2025, pe202400546-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Julian Carolan, Martin Jakubec, Neubi F Xavier Jr, Adam Pestana Motala, Ersilia Bifulco, Jon Aars, Magnus Andersen, Anne Lisbeth Schmidt, Marc Brunet Cabré, Vikaramjeet Singh, Paula E Colavita, Espen Werdal Selfors, Marco Sacchi, Shane O"Reilly, Øyvind Halskau, Manish K Tiwari, Richard G Hobbs, Bodil Holst, Anti-icing properties of polar bear fur, Science Advances, 11, (5), 2025, peads7321 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Maida A. Costa de Oliveira, Runbo Zhang, Christian Schröder, Filippo Pota, Marc Brunet Cabré, Kim McKelvey, Paula E. Colavita, Synergistic effects of surface chemistry and porosity in vanadium redox reactions: from smooth thin films to high surface area carbon electrodes, Carbon, 245, 2025, p120853 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

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Paula E. Colavita; Siyu Yu; Robert Bogdanowicz, Preface: Advances and perspectives in carbon materials and technologies for energy and sustainability applications, Diamond and Related Materials, 155, 2025, p112314 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Filippo Pota, Maida Aysla Costa de Oliveira,Christian Schröder,Aran Rafferty, Clara De Castro, Ludivine Rault, James A. Behan, Frédéric Barrière, Paula E. Colavita, Dataset of the manuscript Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of unsaturated organics using Mo and W porous carbon-encapsulated nanostructures: impact of metal type on properties and performances, Trinity College Dublin, 2024, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Maida Costa de Oliveira, Christian Schröder, Marc Brunet-Cabré, Hugo Nolan, Antoni Forner-Cuenca, Tatiana S. Perova, Kim McKelvey, Paula E. Colavita, Dataset associated to Effects of N-functional groups on the electron transfer kinetics of VO2+/VO2+ at carbon: Decoupling morphology from chemical effects using model systems, Colavita Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin, 2023, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Electrocatalysis at Nanocarbons: Model Systems and Applications in Energy Conversion in, editor(s)N. Yang, G. Zhao and J. Foord , Nanocarbon Electrochemistry, Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2020, pp201 - 249, [Domínguez, C., Behan, J.A. and Colavita, P.E.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
P. Duffy, L. M. Magno, R. Yadav, S. Roberts, A. D. Ward, S. W. Botchway, P. E. Colavita and S. J. Quinn, Incandescent Porous Carbon Microspheres to Light up Cells: Solution Phenomena and Cellular Uptake, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Reports, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , 2011, Report, COMPLETED
Duffy, P., Murphy, D., Soldi, L., Cullen, R.J., Colavita, P.E., Iron based nanomaterials for reductive remediation of pollutants, Meteau 2010; 4th International Conference - Metals and Related Substances in Water, Kristianstad, Sweden, October 13-15, 2010, 2010, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Duffy, P., Cullen, R.J., Murphy, D., Soldi, L., and Colavita, P. E., New composite materials for reductive remediation of pollutants, Meteau 2009; 3rd International Conference - Metals and Related Substances in Water, Ioannina, Greece, October 21-23, 2009, 2009, pp41 - 49, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Copper coated self-assembled monolayers: alkanethiols and prospective molecular wires in, editor(s)Lakowicz, J.R. Geddes, C.D. , Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Radiative Decay Engineering, New York, Springer, 2005, pp275 - 300, [P. E. Colavita, P. Miney, L. Taylor, M. Doescher, A. Molliet, J. Reddic, J. Zhou, D. Pearson, D. Chen and M. L. Myrick], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Annual Award for Chemistry (Eva Philbin Public Lecture Series) 2021
Guy Lipscomb Award for Excellence in Chemistry & Biochemistry for Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student April 6, 2005
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, awarded by NSF August 2001
Joseph B. Bouknight Teaching Award 2000 and 2001
Peyton Teague Graduate Fellowship 2000
Dean's Fellowship 2000