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Development of Multimodal Imaging Agents for Thrombosis (2025)
Thesis
Gil, H. (2025). Development of Multimodal Imaging Agents for Thrombosis. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5088352

Quantum dots (QDs) are colloidal nanoparticles with unique optical and electronic characteristics attributed to quantum confinement effects, making them ideal for fluorescence imaging of biological systems. This thesis investigates the synthesis and... Read More about Development of Multimodal Imaging Agents for Thrombosis.

Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer (2025)
Journal Article
Ibrahem, M. A., Rasheed, B. G., Canimkurbey, B., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. S. G., & O’Neill, M. (2025). Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer. ACS Omega, 10(3), 2849-2857. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c08801

We investigate the enhancement in the efficiency of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells enabled by plasmonic excitation of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) of different diameters (10, 20, and 30 nm), randomly incorporated within an optical spacing layer of... Read More about Improving the Efficiency of Bulk-heterojunction Solar Cells through Plasmonic Enhancement within a Silver Nanoparticle-Loaded Optical Spacer Layer.

PEGylation of indium phosphide quantum dots prevents quantum dot mediated platelet activation (2024)
Journal Article
Naylor-Adamson, L., Price, T. W., Booth, Z., Leonard, S. V. L., Gallo, J., Tung, L. D., Harvell-Smith, S., Thi Kim Thanh, N., Aslam, Z., Allsup, D., Hondow, N., Chamberlain, T., Schneider, J. E., Naseem, K., Bouillard, J. S. G., Stasiuk, G. J., & Calaminus, S. D. (in press). PEGylation of indium phosphide quantum dots prevents quantum dot mediated platelet activation. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4tb01334d

Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconducting inorganic nanocrystals, that have garnered interest in biological and medical spheres due, to their potential benefits in biomedical imaging and drug-delivery systems. Indium phosphide QDs shelled with zinc sulph... Read More about PEGylation of indium phosphide quantum dots prevents quantum dot mediated platelet activation.

Long-Range and High-Efficiency Plasmon-Assisted Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (2023)
Journal Article
Hamza, A. O., Al-Dulaimi, A., Bouillard, J. S. G., & Adawi, A. M. (2023). Long-Range and High-Efficiency Plasmon-Assisted Förster Resonance Energy Transfer. Journal of physical chemistry. C, 127(44), 21611–21616. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04281

The development of a long-range and efficient Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) process is essential for its application in key enabling optoelectronic and sensing technologies. Via controlling the delocalization of the donor’s electric field... Read More about Long-Range and High-Efficiency Plasmon-Assisted Förster Resonance Energy Transfer.

Magnetic Mode Coupling in Hyperbolic Bowtie Meta-Antennas (2023)
Journal Article
Ebrahimi, S., Muravitskaya, A., Adawi, A. M., Baudrion, A. L., Adam, P. M., & Bouillard, J. S. G. (2023). Magnetic Mode Coupling in Hyperbolic Bowtie Meta-Antennas. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14(35), 7824-7832. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01620

Hyperbolic metaparticles have emerged as the next step in metamaterial applications, providing tunable electromagnetic properties on demand. However, coupling of optical modes in hyperbolic meta-antennas has not been explored. Here, we present in det... Read More about Magnetic Mode Coupling in Hyperbolic Bowtie Meta-Antennas.

Memristor-based LSTM neuromorphic circuits for offshore wind turbine blade fault detection (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Burton, H., Bouillard, J. S., & Kemp, N. Memristor-based LSTM neuromorphic circuits for offshore wind turbine blade fault detection. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 21-25 May 2023, Monterey, CA, USA

The UK offshore wind industry is rapidly growing to meet CO2 emission targets. However, the main drawback of the offshore environment is the increased cost of maintenance. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) show great potential to reduce this cost. Lon... Read More about Memristor-based LSTM neuromorphic circuits for offshore wind turbine blade fault detection.

Organic copolymer lasing from single defect microcavity fabricated using laser patterning (2023)
Journal Article
Claronino, P., Jayaprakash, R., Jessewitsch, T., Kilbride, R. C., Thornber, T., Muravitskaya, A., Oliver, R. D., Scherf, U., Bouillard, J. S. G., Adawi, A. M., & Lidzey, D. G. (2023). Organic copolymer lasing from single defect microcavity fabricated using laser patterning. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, https://doi.org/10.1039/d2tc05360h

Reducing the lasing threshold in optically pumped organic lasers is a necessary component of the drive to develop an organic laser diode, as this may help mitigate the losses associated with electrical contacts and charge injection. In this study we... Read More about Organic copolymer lasing from single defect microcavity fabricated using laser patterning.

Stark Effect Control of the Scattering Properties of Plasmonic Nanogaps (2022)
Journal Article
Pagnotto, D., Muravitskaya, A., Benoit, D. M., Bouillard, J. S. G., & Adawi, A. M. (2023). Stark Effect Control of the Scattering Properties of Plasmonic Nanogaps. ACS Applied Optical Materials, 1(1), 500–506. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.2c00135

The development of actively tunable plasmonic nanostructures enables real-time and on-demand enhancement of optical signals. This is an essential requirement for a wide range of applications such as sensing and nanophotonic devices. Here we show that... Read More about Stark Effect Control of the Scattering Properties of Plasmonic Nanogaps.

Using adsorption kinetics to assemble vertically aligned nanorods at liquid interfaces for metamaterial applications (2022)
Journal Article
Morgan, S. O., Muravitskaya, A., Lowe, C., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. G., Horozov, T. S., Stasiuk, G. J., & Buzza, D. M. (2022). Using adsorption kinetics to assemble vertically aligned nanorods at liquid interfaces for metamaterial applications. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 24, 11000-11013. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp05484h

Vertically aligned monolayers of metallic nanorods have a wide range of applications as metamaterials or in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. However the fabrication of such structures using current top-down methods or through assembly on solid su... Read More about Using adsorption kinetics to assemble vertically aligned nanorods at liquid interfaces for metamaterial applications.

Persistent near-infrared photoconductivity of ZnO nanoparticles based on plasmonic hot charge carriers (2022)
Journal Article
Ibrahem, M. A., Verrelli, E., Cheng, F., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. S. G., & O'Neill, M. (2022). Persistent near-infrared photoconductivity of ZnO nanoparticles based on plasmonic hot charge carriers. Journal of applied physics, 131(10), Article 103103. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0079006

We report on the coupling of ZnO nanoparticles with plasmonic gold nanoislands in a solution-processed photodetector, which results in a clear enhancement in the optical absorption and the electrical responsivity of ZnO nanoparticles, to cover the vi... Read More about Persistent near-infrared photoconductivity of ZnO nanoparticles based on plasmonic hot charge carriers.