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Professor Paula Colavita

Professor in (Chemistry)
CHEMISTRY BUILDING

 colavitp@tcd.ie

 3531896 3562


Research Tags

  AMORPHOUS CARBON   Analytical chemistry   CARBON   Carbon nanostructures   Electrochemistry   Environmental Chemistry   FUNCTIONALIZATION   MATERIALS SCIENCE   NANOPARTICLES   NANOSCALE   NANOSPHERES   Spectroscopy   Surface chemistry

Research Projects

 Advancing the green transition via novel electrode materials for valorisation processes
 Rational design of amorphous carbon materials for the control of interfacial charge transfer and catalytic properties
 HiBriCarbon - Mixed Biotic and abiotic functionalysed electrodes for Plant Microbial Fuel Cells applications
 FREMAB - Environmentally friendly carbon cathode electrocatalysts for metal-air batteries
 Structure-activity studies of amorphous carbon materials for electroanalytical and fuel cell applications

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Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
American Chemical Society 2004 present
Royal Society of Chemistry 2009 present
Nolan, H. and Zen, F. and Gençer, A. and Henderson, L. and Kelly, M. and Pota, F. and Schröder, C. and Scanlan, E.M. and 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, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Filippo Pota, Maida A. Costa de Oliveira, Christian Schröder, Marc Brunet Cabré, Hugo Nolan, Aran Rafferty, Olivier Jeannin, Franck Camerel, James A. Behan, Frédéric Barrière, and Paula E. Colavita, Dataset for Porous N-Doped Carbon-encapsulated Iron as Novel Catalyst Architecture for the Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Benzaldehyde, Trinity College Dublin, 2024, Dataset, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Maida Costa de Oliveira, Christian Schröder, Marc Brunet-Cabré, Hugo Nolan, Antoni Forner-Cuenca, Tatiana S. Perova, Kim McKelvey, Paula E. Colavita, Effects of N-functional groups on the electron transfer kinetics of VO2+/VO2+ at carbon: Decoupling morphology from chemical effects using model systems, Electrochimica Acta, 475, (143640), 2024, p11 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Cabré, M.B. and Schröder, C. and Pota, F. and de Oliveira, M.A.C. and Nolan, H. and Henderson, L. and Brazel, L. and Spurling, D. and Nicolosi, V. and Martinuz, P. and Longhi, M. and Amargianou, F. and BÀrmann, P. and Petit, T. and McKelvey, K. and Colavita, P.E., Carbon Thin-Film Electrodes as High-Performing Substrates for Correlative Single Entity Electrochemistry, Small Methods, 2024, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
de Oliveira, M.A.C. and Brunet Cabré, M. and Schröder, C. and Nolan, H. and Pota, F. and Behan, J.A. and BarriÚre, F. and McKelvey, K. and Colavita, P.E., Single-Entity Electrochemistry of N-Doped Graphene Oxide Nanostructures for Improved Kinetics of Vanadyl Oxidation, Small, 2024, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Pota, F. and Costa de Oliveira, M.A. and Schröder, C. and Brunet Cabré, M. and Nolan, H. and Rafferty, A. and Jeannin, O. and Camerel, F. and Behan, J.A. and BarriÚre, F. and Colavita, P.E., Porous N-Doped Carbon-encapsulated Iron as Novel Catalyst Architecture for the Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Benzaldehyde, ChemSusChem, 2024, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Brunet Cabre, M. and Spurling, D. and Martinuz, P. and Longhi, M. and Schröder, C. and Nolan, H. and Nicolosi, V. and Colavita, P.E. and McKelvey, K., Isolation of pseudocapacitive surface processes at monolayer MXene flakes reveals delocalized charging mechanism, Nature Communications, 14, (1), 2023, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Hugo Nolan, MoS2/carbon heterostructured catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction: N-doping modulation of substrate effects in acid and alkaline electrolytes, CARBON, 202, (Part 2), 2023, p70 - 80, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Hinds, D.T. and Belhout, S.A. and Colavita, P.E. and Ward, A.D. and Quinn, S.J., Microsphere-supported gold nanoparticles for SERS detection of malachite green, Materials Advances, 2023, p19220-19225 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
MP Browne, C Dominguez, C Kaplan, MEG Lyons, E Fonda, PE Colavita, Probing changes in the local structure of active bimetallic Mn/Ru oxides during oxygen evolution, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 6, 2023, phttps://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem , Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.3c01585], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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de Oliveira, M.A.C. and Brunet Cabré, M. and Schröder, C. and Nolan, H. and Pota, F. and Behan, J.A. and Barriÿre, F. and McKelvey, K. and Colavita, P.E, Dataset for Single-Entity Electrochemistry of N-Doped Graphene Oxide Nanostructures for Improved Kinetics of Vanadyl Oxidation, Trinity College Dublin, 2024, Dataset, 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

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
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