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Metaparticles: Dressing nano-objects with a hyperbolic coating (2018)
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Wang, P., Krasavin, A. V., Viscomi, F. N., Adawi, A. M., Bouillard, J. G., Zhang, L., …Zayats, A. V. (2018). Metaparticles: Dressing nano-objects with a hyperbolic coating. Laser and Photonics Reviews, 12(11), 1800179. https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.201800179

The ability to engineer the optical response of a plasmonic nano‐object is highly desired to achieve better control over light–matter interactions. Due to the sensitivity of plasmon resonances to the surrounding media, isotropic dielectric coating is... Read More about Metaparticles: Dressing nano-objects with a hyperbolic coating.

From photoinduced to dark cytotoxicity via an octahedral cluster hydrolysis (2018)
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Svezhentseva, E. V., Vorotnikov, Y. A., Solovieva, A. O., Pozmogova, T. N., Eltsov, I. V., Ivanov, A. A., …Shestopalov, M. A. (2018). From photoinduced to dark cytotoxicity via an octahedral cluster hydrolysis. Chemistry: a European journal, 24(68), 17915-17920. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201804663

Octahedral molybdenum and tungsten clusters have potential biological applications in photodynamic therapy and bioimaging. However, poor solubility and hydrolysis stability of these compounds hinder their application. The first water-soluble photolum... Read More about From photoinduced to dark cytotoxicity via an octahedral cluster hydrolysis.

Density functional theory for the crystallization of two-dimensional dipolar colloidal alloys (2018)
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Somerville, W. R., Stokes, J. L., Adawi, A. M., Horozov, T. S., Archer, A. J., & Buzza, D. M. (2018). Density functional theory for the crystallization of two-dimensional dipolar colloidal alloys. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 30(40), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/aaddc9

Two-dimensional mixtures of dipolar colloidal particles with different dipole moments exhibit extremely rich self-assembly behaviour and are relevant to a wide range of experimental systems, including charged and super-paramagnetic colloids at liquid... Read More about Density functional theory for the crystallization of two-dimensional dipolar colloidal alloys.

Conjugated, rod-like viologen oligomers: Correlation of oligomer length with conductivity and photoconductivity (2018)
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Chen, L., Vivier, E., Eling, C. J., Babra, T. S., Bouillard, J. S. G., Adawi, A. M., …Greenland, B. W. (2018). Conjugated, rod-like viologen oligomers: Correlation of oligomer length with conductivity and photoconductivity. Synthetic Metals, 241, 31-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2018.03.019

© 2018 An iterative synthesis has been used to produce conjugated, monodisperse, viologen-based aromatic oligomers containing up to 12 aromatic/heterocyclic rings. The methoxy-substituted oligomers were soluble in common organic solvents and could be... Read More about Conjugated, rod-like viologen oligomers: Correlation of oligomer length with conductivity and photoconductivity.

Crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in CH₄ at 400 K (2017)
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Smith, D., Hakeem, M. A., Parisiades, P., Maynard-Casely, H. E., Foster, D., Eden, D., …Proctor, J. E. (2017). Crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in CH₄ at 400 K. Physical Review E, 96(5), Article 052113. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.052113

We report experimental evidence for a crossover between a liquid-like state and a gas-like state in fluid methane (CH₄). This crossover is observed in all of our experiments, up to 397 K temperature; 2.1 times the critical temperature of methane. The... Read More about Crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in CH₄ at 400 K.

Determining molecular orientation via single molecule SERS in a plasmonic nano-gap (2017)
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Marshall, A. R. L., Stokes, J., Viscomi, F. N., Proctor, J. E., Gierschner, J., Bouillard, J. G., & Adawi, A. M. (2017). Determining molecular orientation via single molecule SERS in a plasmonic nano-gap. Nanoscale, 9(44), 17415-17421. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NR05107G

In this work, plasmonic nano-gaps consisting of a silver nanoparticle coupled to an extended silver film have been fully optimized for single molecule Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. The SERS signal was found to be strongly dep... Read More about Determining molecular orientation via single molecule SERS in a plasmonic nano-gap.

Magnetic control of MOF crystal orientation and alignment (2017)
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Cheng, F., Marshall, E. S., Young, A. J., Robinson, P. J., Bouillard, J. S. G., Adawi, A. M., …Chin, J. M. (2017). Magnetic control of MOF crystal orientation and alignment. Chemistry: a European journal, 23(62), 15578-15582. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703812

Most metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) possess anisotropic properties, the full exploitation of which necessitates a general strategy for the controllable orientation of such MOF crystals. Current methods largely rely upon layer-by-layer MOF epitaxy or... Read More about Magnetic control of MOF crystal orientation and alignment.

Dual-modal SERS/fluorescence AuNP probe for mitochondrial imaging (2017)
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Eling, C. J., Price, T. W., Marshall, A. R. L., Narda Viscomi, F., Robinson, P., Firth, G., …Stasiuk, G. J. (2017). Dual-modal SERS/fluorescence AuNP probe for mitochondrial imaging. ChemPlusChem, 82(5), 674-680. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201600593

A novel SERS/fluorescent multimodal imaging probe for mitochondria has been synthesised using 12 nm diameter gold nanoparticles (AuNP) surface functionalised with a rhodamine thiol derivative ligand. The normal pH dependant acidic fluorescence of the... Read More about Dual-modal SERS/fluorescence AuNP probe for mitochondrial imaging.

Excitonic optical Tamm states: a step towards a full molecular-dielectric photonic integration (2016)
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Núnez-Sánchez, S., Lopez-Garcia, M., Murshidy, M. M., Abdel-Hady, A. G., Serry, M., Adawi, A. M., …Barnes, W. L. (2016). Excitonic optical Tamm states: a step towards a full molecular-dielectric photonic integration. ACS Photonics, 3(5), 743-748. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00060

We report the first experimental observation of an excitonic optical Tamm state supported at the interface between a periodic multilayer dielectric structure and an organic dye-doped polymer layer. The existence of such states is enabled by the metal... Read More about Excitonic optical Tamm states: a step towards a full molecular-dielectric photonic integration.

Directive emission of red conjugated polymer embedded within zero index metamaterials (2014)
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Cao, T., Zou, Y., Adawi, A., & Cryan, M. J. (2014). Directive emission of red conjugated polymer embedded within zero index metamaterials. Optics express, 22(19), 22699-22706. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.022699

Abstract: We numerically demonstrate an impedance-matched multilayer stacked fishnet metamaterial that has zero index with flat high transmittance from 600nm to 620nm. The effective refractive index(𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑓) is calculated to be −0.045 + 0.466i and the n... Read More about Directive emission of red conjugated polymer embedded within zero index metamaterials.

Efficient out-coupling and beaming of Tamm optical states via surface plasmon polariton excitation (2014)
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Lopez-Garcia, M., Ho, Y. -. D., Taverne, M. P. C., Chen, L., Murshidy, M. M., Edwards, A. P., …Oulton, R. (2014). Efficient out-coupling and beaming of Tamm optical states via surface plasmon polariton excitation. Applied physics letters, 104(23), 231116. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4882180

We present evidence of optical Tamm states to surface plasmon polariton (SPP) coupling. We experimentally demonstrate that for a Bragg stack with a thin metal layer on the surface, hybrid Tamm-SPP modes may be excited when a grating on the air-metal... Read More about Efficient out-coupling and beaming of Tamm optical states via surface plasmon polariton excitation.

Light emission enhancement using randomly distributed plasmonic nanoparticle arrays (2014)
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Butkus, J., Edwards, A. P., Quacquarelli, F. P., & Adawi, A. M. (2014). Light emission enhancement using randomly distributed plasmonic nanoparticle arrays. Optical materials, 36(9), 1502-1505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2014.04.010

We have fabricated and characterised the optical properties of solution processed randomly distributed gold nanoparticle plasmonic arrays that are coated with a thin-film fluorescent dye. Three times enhancement in the emission intensity of the fluor... Read More about Light emission enhancement using randomly distributed plasmonic nanoparticle arrays.

Plasmonic nanogaps for broadband and large spontaneous emission rate enhancement (2014)
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Edwards, A. P., & Adawi, A. M. (2014). Plasmonic nanogaps for broadband and large spontaneous emission rate enhancement. Journal of applied physics, 115(5), Article ARTN 053101. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4864018

We present the optical properties of a plasmonic nanogap formed between a silver metallic nanoparticle and an extended silver film that shows a strong enhancement in the spontaneous emission rate over the whole visible range. In particular, we use th... Read More about Plasmonic nanogaps for broadband and large spontaneous emission rate enhancement.

Temperature dependence of the upper-branch polariton population in an organic semiconductor microcavity (2011)
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Coles, D. M., Michetti, P., Clark, C., Adawi, A. M., & Lidzey, D. G. (2011). Temperature dependence of the upper-branch polariton population in an organic semiconductor microcavity. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 84(20), 205214-1 - 205214-8. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.205214

We explore the distribution of polaritons along the upper polariton branch of a strongly coupled organic-semiconductor microcavity as a function of temperature following nonresonant optical excitation. Measurements of polariton emission from a high-f... Read More about Temperature dependence of the upper-branch polariton population in an organic semiconductor microcavity.

Spectroscopy and single-molecule emission of a fluorene-terthiophene oligomer (2011)
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Khalil, G. E., Adawi, A. M., Robinson, B., Cadby, A. J., Tsoi, W. C., Kim, J., …Lidzey, D. G. (2011). Spectroscopy and single-molecule emission of a fluorene-terthiophene oligomer. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115(42), 12028-12035. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp206368g

We study the thiophene-based oligomer poly[2,7-(9,9-bis(2′-ethylhexyl)fluorene)-alt-2,5-terthiophene] (PF3T) in solution and when dispersed at low concentration into a polynorbornene matrix. We find that at high concentration in solution the 0–0 elec... Read More about Spectroscopy and single-molecule emission of a fluorene-terthiophene oligomer.

Vibrationally assisted polariton-relaxation processes in strongly coupled organic-semiconductor microcavities (2011)
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Coles, D. M., Michetti, P., Clark, C., Tsoi, W. C., Adawi, A. M., Kim, J. S., & Lidzey, D. G. (2011). Vibrationally assisted polariton-relaxation processes in strongly coupled organic-semiconductor microcavities. Advanced Functional Materials, 21(19), 3691-3696. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201100756

If a semiconductor with an electronic transition that approximates a two-level system is placed within an optical cavity, strong coupling can occur between the confined photons and the semiconductor excitons. This coupling can result in the formation... Read More about Vibrationally assisted polariton-relaxation processes in strongly coupled organic-semiconductor microcavities.

Ultrafast polariton relaxation dynamics in an organic semiconductor microcavity (2011)
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Virgili, T., Coles, D., Adawi, A. M., Clark, C., Michetti, P., Rajendran, S. K., …Lidzey, D. G. (2011). Ultrafast polariton relaxation dynamics in an organic semiconductor microcavity. Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 83(24), 245309. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.245309

We study an organic semiconductor microcavity operating in the strong-coupling regime using fs pump-probe spectroscopy. By probing the induced absorption associated with the one-exciton to two-exciton transition, we are able to characterize the time-... Read More about Ultrafast polariton relaxation dynamics in an organic semiconductor microcavity.

Continuously tuneable optical filters from self-assembled block copolymer blends (2011)
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Parnell, A. J., Pryke, A., Mykhaylyk, O. O., Howse, J. R., Adawi, A. M., Terrill, N. J., & Fairclough, J. P. A. (2011). Continuously tuneable optical filters from self-assembled block copolymer blends. Soft matter, 7(8), 3721. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0sm01320j

We demonstrate that two symmetric high molecular weight diblock copolymers, of differing molecular weights, can be blended together and subsequently shear aligned to form one photonic structure without macrophase separation. The lameller period depen... Read More about Continuously tuneable optical filters from self-assembled block copolymer blends.

A one-dimensional photonic-crystal nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent molecular dye (2010)
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Murshidy, M. M., Adawi, A. M., Fry, P. W., & Lidzey, D. G. (2010). A one-dimensional photonic-crystal nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent molecular dye. Applied physics letters, 97(15), 153303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3497647

We model the optical properties of a SiN based one-dimensional waveguide photonic crystal nanocavity with three tapered air holes as a function of the photonic crystal mirror fill factor using finite difference time domain calculations. We show that... Read More about A one-dimensional photonic-crystal nanocavity incorporating a fluorescent molecular dye.

Transmission properties of plasmonic metamaterial quantum cascade lasers (2010)
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Austin, D., Mullin, N., Bismuto, A., Luxmoore, I., Adawi, A. M., Revin, D. G., …Wilson, L. R. (2010). Transmission properties of plasmonic metamaterial quantum cascade lasers. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 22(16), 1217-1219. https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2010.2052595

We report the results of transmission experiments performed on hybridized plasmonic metamaterial quantum cascade lasers. This device was formed by etching an array of split ring resonators (SRRs) onto the gold coated facet of a laser. Broadband midin... Read More about Transmission properties of plasmonic metamaterial quantum cascade lasers.