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The Nanotechnology group at the Materials and Surface Science Institute is led by Dr. Kevin M. Ryan, Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences.  Previous affiliations included Marie Curie Fellowship positions at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and Merck Chemicals Southampton, UK following  BSc and PhD degrees at University College Cork. The group research Interests are in Semiconductor Nanocrystals with emphasis on Synthesis, Assembly and Device Application.

Left to Right :Thomas O Connor, Kevin Ryan, Tadhg Kennedy, Hugh Geaney, Emma Mullane  Claudia Coughlan, Ajay Singh, Dervla Kelly, Shalini Singh. Picture taken at INTEL ERIC conference, Croke Park, October, 2011

Dr Kevin M. Ryan

 

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Vacancies:  3 PhD projects available in the group in 2012 see vacancy tab for details .

08/02/12: Recent publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society Singh et al  134, 2910−2913 (2012) Colloidal Synthesis of Wurtzite Cu2ZnSnS4 Nanorods and their perpendicular Assembly

20/01/12: Some Recent publications: in Journal of Materials Chemistry, Singh et al Controlled semiconductor nanorod assembly from solution: influence of concentration, charge and solvent nature

Chemistry of Materials,

Geaney et al

Germanium Nanowire Growth Directly From Copper Foil by Self Induced Solid Seeding

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16/03/12: Recent publication in ACS NANO available as advance article  Singh et al  ) DOI: 10.1021/nn300331x

        Insight into the 3D Architecture and Quasicrystal Symmetry of Multilayer Nanorod Assemblies from Moiré Interference Patterns

Recent Outputs

April 2012

 

14/04/12  1Oral Presentation and 2 Posters will be presented at MRS Spring  Meeting San Francisco  April 9-13

 

March 2012

 

23/03/12  3 Oral Presentations and 2 Posters will be presented at ACS National Meeting San Diego  March 25-29

 

23/03/12  4 Oral Presentations and 1 Poster presented at Smart Surfaces 2012 solar and Biosensor Applications 6-9 March 2012 

 

01/03/12  Welcome to Christine Krimphove who is joining the group from Munster University of Applied Sciences on a 6 month Erasmus Placement.

 

26/04 /12: Recent publication in Chemical Communications Mullane et al. available as advance article  Article citation: Chem. Commun., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2CC31219K
Title:
Size Controlled Growth of Germanium Nanorods and Nanowires by Solution Pyrolysis Directly on a Substrate