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	Name	Kelly, John Moffat
	Main Department	Fellow Emeritus
	College Title	Fellow Emeritus
	E-mail	jmkelly@tcd.ie
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	Web	http://www.tcd.ie/chemistry/
	Fax	+353 1 671 2826


Biography
Brief Overview of Career 1965 B.Sc. (Chemistry), Manchester University, UK 1967 M.Sc., McMaster University, Canada (Supervisor J.J. McCullough) – 1970 Ph.D. University of London, UK (Supervisor George Porter) 1970-1971 Leverhulme Fellow at the University of West Indies 1971/3 Royal Society Fellow, Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung,Abteilung Photochemie, Mülheim. (Ernst Koerner von Gustorf) 1973 Lecturer in the Physical Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin 1987 Associate Professor in Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin 1989 - 1992 Director of Science of Materials, Trinity College Dublin 1993 - 2000 Head of Chemistry Department, Trinity College Dublin 2000 - 2001 Berkeley Fellow 2006 Professor in Chemistry - Member of the Royal Irish Academy - Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry - Chartered Chemist Research Interests and Track Record Research interests cover areas of photochemistry, fast chemical reactions, and nano- /micro-particles. Current research projects falls intothe following main areas (A) The transient spectroscopy of nucleic acids and photosensitisers. (B) The use of photochemical reagents to carry out site-specific reactions on DNA, in particular those involving photo-induced electron transfer. (C) Silver nanoparticles of defined shape and size for biosensing, antibacterials etc. (D) Synthesis and characterisation of micro metal oxides and metal sulphides for electronic devices

Representations

Details	Date
Chairman of Royal Irish Academy Chemical and Physical Sciences Committee (2007-10) President of the Chemistry Division of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 2005. Founding vice-chairman of the Irish Research Scientists Association

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Member of Royal Society of Chemistry


Awards and Honours

Award	Date
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Berkeley Fellow	2000 - 2001
Leverhulme Fellow at the University of West Indies	1970/1

Description of Research Interests

Research interests cover areas of photochemistry, fast chemical reactions, and nano- /micro-particles. Current research projects falls into the following main areas: (A) Silver nanoparticles of defined shape and size for biosensing. (B) Synthesis and characterisation of micro metal oxides and metal sulphides for electronic devices. (C) The use of photochemical reagents to carry out site-specific reactions on DNA, in particular those involving photo-induced electron transfer. (D) The transient spectroscopy of nucleic acids and photosensitisers.


Research Interests

CHEMISTRY EXCITED-STATE	DNA BINDING MODES	FLASH-PHOTOLYSIS	FLUORESCENCE
LASER FLASH SPECTROSCOPY	MICRO PARTICLES	NANO PARTICLES	NANOCRYSTALS
NUCLEIC-ACIDS	PHOTO SENSITISATION	PHOTOCHEMISTRY	PHOTOCLEAVAGE OF DNA
PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON-TRANSFER	POLYPYRIDYLRUTHENIUM (II) COMPLEXES	SILVER NANOPARTICLES	TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY
Ti02	Zn0

Publications

Peer Reviewed

Synthesis of Anisotropic Noble Metal Nanoparticles in, editor(s)C.D. Geddes , The Role of Plasmonic Engineering in Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence, Weinheim, Wiley –VCH, 2010, pp295-362 , [D. Aherne, D.M. Ledwith and J.M. Kelly]
S. Vasudevan, J. A. Smith, M. Wojdyla, T. McCabe, N. C. Fletcher, S. J. Quinn, and J. M. Kelly, Substituted Dipyridophenazine Complexes of Cr(III): Synthesis, Enantiomeric Resolution and Binding Interactions with Calf Thymus DNA, Dalton Transactions, 39, 2010, p3990-3998 DOI
Damian Aherne, Matthew Gara, John M. Kelly, Yurii K. Gun'ko, From Ag Nanoprisms to Triangular AuAg Nanoboxes, Advanced Functional Materials, 20, (8), 2010, p1329-1338 DOI
Damian Aherne, Denise E. Charles, Margaret E. Brennan-Fournet, John M. Kelly, Yurii K. Gun'ko, Etching-Resistant Silver Nanoprisms by Epitaxial Deposition of a Protecting Layer of Gold at the Edges, Langmuir, 25, (17), 2009, p10165 - 10173 DOI
C. W. Crean, M.P. Lawler, C. Stevenson, R.J.H. Davies, P.H. Boyle and J.M. Kelly, Synthesis of N3- and 2-NH2-substituted 6,7-diphenylpterins and their use as intermediates for the preparation of oligonucleotide conjugates designed to target photooxidative damage on single-stranded DNA representing the bcr-abl chimeric gene, Org. Biomol.Chem., 2, (24), 2004, p3588 - 3601 Url DOI
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