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Professor Iouri Gounko

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry(1922) (Chemistry)
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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.
  Colloids   Composite materials   Diagnostic bioimaging   Drug development and evaluation   Imaging Techniques   Inorganic Chemistry   Nano Biotechnology   Nanotechnology   Nanotubes   Optical materials   Organometallic chemistry   Plastics   Polymers
 Magnetic iron oxide nanowires
 Carbon nanotube organometallics
 Two in one" fluorescent magnetic nanocomposites for biomedical application
 Quantum dots for biomedical applications

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Kuznetsova, V. and Coogan, Ã . and Botov, D. and Gromova, Y. and Ushakova, E.V. and Gun'ko, Y.K., Expanding the Horizons of Machine Learning in Nanomaterials to Chiral Nanostructures, Advanced Materials, 36, (18), 2024, Notes: [cited By 2], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
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
Branzi, L. and Lavet, O. and Gun'ko, Y.K., Ligand induced chirality in In2S3 nanoparticles, Nanoscale, 15, (46), 2023, p18753-18761 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
King, A.M. and Insinna, T. and Wells, C.J.R. and Raby, I.A. and Gun'ko, Y.K. and Davies, G.-L., Magnetically driven preparation of 1-D nano-necklaces capable of MRI relaxation enhancement, Nanoscale Advances, 5, (12), 2023, p3209-3213 , Notes: [cited By 1], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dee, G. and Shayoub, H. and McNeill, H. and Lozano, I.S. and Rafferty, A. and Gun'ko, Y.K., MnFe2O4@SiO2@CeO2 core-shell nanostructures for applications in water remediation, RSC Advances, 13, (16), 2023, p10513-10522 , Notes: [cited By 2], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Barnes, D.D. and Kuznetsova, V. and Visheratina, A. and Purcell-Milton, F. and Baranov, M.A. and Lynch, D.M. and Martin, H. and Gun'ko, Y.K. and Scanlan, E.M., Glycosylated quantum dots as fluorometric nanoprobes for trehalase, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 21, (14), 2023, p2905-2909 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
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
  

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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

  

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Royal Society Fellowship Award 1993
Alexander von Humboldt Award 1995
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.