Professor Paul O'Brien

Prof. O' Brien commands international reputation for his research for well over 20 years. He has edited 8 books, contributed to ten and is the co-author of ‘The CVD of Compound Semiconductors (Verlag Chemie, 1997). He has published close to 500 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals. Presently, he is editing a new series of books from the RSC on Nanoscience and technology with Professor Sir Harry Kroto. Though originally trained as an inorganic chemist, much of Prof. O' Brien's work has been interdisciplinary. His interest in the toxicity of metal ions over many years, has led to collaborations and publications with toxicologists, pharmacists and clinicians. Much of his current work is at the interface of chemistry with materials science and engineering, involving projects with physicists, computer scientists and electronic and electrical engineers. The range of his research interests were a valuable asset when fostering new activities as Research Dean.

Paul was a visiting Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta 1996-99), and advised Mahanakorn University of Technology (Thailand) on work on materials chemistry. He actively leads a Royal Society Programme to develop research in inorganic chemistry at the University of Zululand in South Africa (ca £400 k). He has advised National bodies in both Portugal and South Africa on aspects of science policy. He has undertaken review work for bodies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and the USA. He has also undertaken strategic reviews of Departments for Vice Chancellors both in the UK and abroad.

• Abdelhady A, Afzaal M, Malik M, O'Brien P. Flow reactor synthesis of CdSe, CdS, CdSe/CdS and CdSeS nanoparticles from single molecular precursor(s). Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2011; 21(46): 18768-18775. eScholarID:145607 | DOI:10.1039/c1jm13590b
• Abdelhady A, Ramasamy K, Malik M, O'Brien P, Haigh S, Raftery J. New routes to copper sulfide nanostructures and thin films. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2011; 21(44): 17888-17895. eScholarID:145622 | DOI:10.1039/c1jm13277f
• Afzaal M, Rosenberg C, Malik M, White A, O'Brien P. Phosphine stabilized copper(I) complexes of dithiocarbamates and xanthates and their decomposition pathways. New Journal of Chemistry. 2011; 35(12): 2773-2780. eScholarID:145619 | DOI:10.1039/c1nj20586b
• Akhtar J, Mehmood R, Malik M, Iqbal N, O'Brien P, Raftery J. A novel single source precursor: bis(N,N-diethyl-N '-naphthoyl-selenoureato)palladium(II) for palladium selenide thin films and nanoparticles. Chemical Communications. 2011; 47(6): 1899-1901. eScholarID:145596 | DOI:10.1039/c0cc03079a
• Akhtar J, Afzaal M, Banski M, Podhorodecki A, Syperek M, Misiewicz J, Bangert U, Hardman S, Graham D, Flavell W, Binks D, Gardonio S, O'Brien P. Controlled Synthesis of Tuned Bandgap Nanodimensional Alloys of PbS(x)Se(1-x). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2011; 133(14): 5602-5609. eScholarID:145604 | DOI:10.1021/ja200750s
• Akhtar J, Afzaal M, Vincent M, Burton N, Hillier I, O'Brien P. Low temperature CVD growth of PbS films on plastic substrates. Chemical Communications. 2011; 47(7): 1991-1993. eScholarID:145613 | DOI:10.1039/c0cc05036a
• Akhtar J, Malik M, Stubbs S, O'Brien P, Helliwell M, Binks D. Morphology-Tailored Synthesis of PbSe Nanocrystals and Thin Films from Bis N,N-diisobutyl-N '-(4-nitrobenzoyl)selenoureato lead(II). European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2011; (19): 2984-2990. eScholarID:145618 | DOI:10.1002/ejic.201100190
• Akhtar J, Afzaal M, Vincent M, Burton N, Raftery J, Hillier I, O'Brien P. Understanding the Decomposition Pathways of Mixed Sulfur/Selenium Lead Phosphinato Complexes Explaining the Formation of Lead Selenide. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2011; 115(34): 16904-16909. eScholarID:145638 | DOI:10.1021/jp2053579
• Akhtar M, Akhter J, Malik M, O'Brien P, Tuna F, Raftery J, Helliwell M. Deposition of iron sulfide nanocrystals from single source precursors. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2011; 21(26): 9737-9745. eScholarID:145601 | DOI:10.1039/c1jm10703h
• Dybowska A, Croteau M, Misra S, Berhanu D, Luoma S, Christian P, O'Brien P, Valsami-Jones E. Synthesis of isotopically modified ZnO nanoparticles and their potential as nanotoxicity tracers. Environmental Pollution. 2011; 159(1): 266-273. eScholarID:145628 | DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2010.08.032
• Hardman S, Graham D, Stubbs S, Spencer B, Seddon E, Fung H, Gardonio S, Sirotti F, Silly M, Akhtar J, O'Brien P, Binks D, Flavell W. Electronic and surface properties of PbS nanoparticles exhibiting efficient multiple exciton generation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2011; 13(45): 20275-20283. eScholarID:145606 | DOI:10.1039/c1cp22330e
• Jia X, Fan H, Afzaal M, Wu X, O'Brien P. Solid state synthesis of tin-doped ZnO at room temperature: Characterization and its enhanced gas sensing and photocatalytic properties. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2011; 193: 194-199. eScholarID:145625 | DOI:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.07.049
• Liu X, Afzaal M, Badcock T, Dawson P, O'Brien P. Conducting ZnO thin films with an unusual morphology: Large flat microcrystals with (0 0 0 1) facets perpendicular to the plane by chemical bath deposition. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 2011; 127(1-2): 174-178. eScholarID:145602 | DOI:10.1016/j.matchemphys.2011.01.054
• Loubert C, O'Brien P, Fernando R, Walton N, Philip S, Addei T, Columb M, Hallworth S. Epidural volume extension in combined spinal epidural anaesthesia for elective caesarean section: a randomised controlled trial. Anaesthesia. 2011; 66(5): 341-347. eScholarID:145611 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06662.x
• Malik S, Mahboob S, Haider N, Malik M, O'Brien P. A colloidal synthesis of CuInSe(2), CuGaSe(2) and CuIn(1-x)Ga(x)Se(2) nanoparticles from diisopropyldiselenophosphinatometal precursors. Nanoscale. 2011; 3(12): 5132-5139. eScholarID:145597 | DOI:10.1039/c1nr10888c
• Oyetunde D, Afzaal M, Vincent M, Hillier I, O'Brien P. Cadmium Sulfide and Cadmium Phosphide Thin Films from a Single Cadmium Compound. Inorganic Chemistry. 2011; 50(6): 2052-2054. eScholarID:145599 | DOI:10.1021/ic102309r
• Ramasamy K, Nejo A, Ziqubu N, Rajasekhar P, Nejo A, Revaprasadu N, O'Brien P. A New Route to Lead Chalcogenide Nanocrystals. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2011; (33): 5196-5201. eScholarID:145595 | DOI:10.1002/ejic.201100829
• Ramasamy K, Malik M, O'Brien P. The chemical vapor deposition of Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) thin films. Chemical Science. 2011; 2(6): 1170-1172. eScholarID:145631 | DOI:10.1039/c0sc00538j
• Ramasamy K, Malik M, Helliwell M, Raftery J, O'Brien P. Thio- and Dithio-Biuret Precursors for Zinc Sulfide, Cadmium Sulfide, and Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Thin Films. Chemistry of Materials. 2011; 23(6): 1471-1481. eScholarID:145635 | DOI:10.1021/cm1030393
• Rhodes R, O'Brien P, Saunders B. Triggered aggregation of PbS nanocrystal dispersions; towards directing the morphology of hybrid polymer films using a removable bilinker ligand. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 2011; 358(1): 151-159. eScholarID:145637 | DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2011.02.069
• Thebo K, Shad H, Raftery J, Malik M, Mahmud T, O'Brien P. Synthesis, characterization and X-ray diffraction of Cu(malonate)(phen)(2) (2)center dot 17H(2)O complex. Journal of Molecular Structure. 2011; 1001(1-3): 12-15. eScholarID:145629 | DOI:10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.05.057
• Thomas P, Fan D, O'Brien P. Interfacial synthesis of pyramidal lead sulfide crystallites with high energy {3 3 1} facets. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 2011; 354(1): 210-218. eScholarID:145612 | DOI:10.1016/j.jcis.2010.10.017
• Thomas P, Albrasi E, Mlondo S, O'Brien P. The Assembly of Metal Nanocrystals into Films Mediated by Amines at the Water-Oil Interface. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2011; 115(30): 14668-14672. eScholarID:145632 | DOI:10.1021/jp204345u
• Afzaal M, Malik M, O'Brien P. Chemical routes to chalcogenide materials as thin films or particles with critical dimensions with the order of nanometres. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2010; 20(20): 4031-4040. eScholarID:145600 | DOI:10.1039/b923898k
• Ahmad K, Afzaal M, Ritch J, Chivers T, O'Brien P. Epitaxial CdTe Rods on Au/Si Islands from a Molecular Compound. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010; 132(17): . eScholarID:145610 | DOI:10.1021/ja1017943
• Ahmad K, Afzaal M, O'Brien P, Hua G, Woollins J. Morphological Evolution of PbSe Crystals via the CVD Route. Chemistry of Materials. 2010; 22(16): 4619-4624. eScholarID:145616 | DOI:10.1021/cm101352p
• Akhtar J, Malik M, O'Brien P, Wijayantha K, Dharmadasa R, Hardman S, Graham D, Spencer B, Stubbs S, Flavell W, Binks D, Sirotti F, El Kazzi M, Silly M. A greener route to photoelectrochemically active PbS nanoparticles. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2010; 20(12): 2336-2344. eScholarID:145598 | DOI:10.1039/b924436k
• Akhtar J, Malik M, O'Brien P, Helliwell M. Controlled synthesis of PbS nanoparticles and the deposition of thin films by Aerosol-Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition (AACVD). Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2010; 20(29): 6116-6124. eScholarID:145605 | DOI:10.1039/c0jm00830c
• Black K, Jones A, Bacsa J, Chalker P, Marshall P, Davies H, Heys P, O'Brien P, Afzaal M, Raftery J, Critchlow G. Investigation of New 2,5-Dimethylpyrrolyl Titanium Alkylamide and Alkoxide Complexes as Precursors for the Liquid Injection MOCVD of TiO(2). Chemical Vapor Deposition. 2010; 16(1-3): 93-99. eScholarID:145615 | DOI:10.1002/cvde.200906818
• Leventis H, O'Mahony F, Akhtar J, Afzaal M, O'Brien P, Haque S. Transient Optical Studies of Interfacial Charge Transfer at Nanostructured Metal Oxide/PbS Quantum Dot/Organic Hole Conductor Heterojunctions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010; 132(8): 2743-2750. eScholarID:145636 | DOI:10.1021/ja909172p
• Malik M, Afzaal M, O'Brien P. Precursor Chemistry for Main Group Elements in Semiconducting Materials. Chemical Reviews. 2010; 110(7): 4417-4446. eScholarID:145623 | DOI:10.1021/cr900406f
• Maneeprakorn W, Malik M, O'Brien P. Developing Chemical Strategies for the Assembly of Nanoparticles into Mesoscopic Objects. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2010; 132(6): . eScholarID:145603 | DOI:10.1021/ja910022q
• Maneeprakorn W, Malik M, O'Brien P. The preparation of cobalt phosphide and cobalt chalcogenide (CoX, X = S, Se) nanoparticles from single source precursors. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2010; 20(12): 2329-2335. eScholarID:145633 | DOI:10.1039/b922804g
• Maseko N, Revaprasadu N, Pullabhotla V, Karthik R, O'Brien P. The influence of the cadmium source on the shape of CdSe nanoparticles. Materials Letters. 2010; 64(9): 1037-1040. eScholarID:145634 | DOI:10.1016/j.matlet.2010.02.002
• Moloto M, Revaprasadu N, Kolawole G, O'Brien P, Malik M, Motevalli M. Synthesis and X-Ray Single Crystal Structures of Cadmium(II) Complexes: CdCl(2) CS(NHCH(3))(2) (2) and CdCl(2)(CS(NH(2))NHC(6)H(5))(4) - Single Source Precursors to CdS Nanoparticles. E-Journal of Chemistry. 2010; 7(4): 1148-1155. eScholarID:145626
• Musetha P, Revaprasadu N, Kolawole G, Pullabhotla R, Ramasamy K, O'Brien P. Homoleptic single molecular precursors for the deposition of platinum and palladium chalcogenide thin films. Thin Solid Films. 2010; 519(1): 197-202. eScholarID:145609 | DOI:10.1016/j.tsf.2010.07.101
• Panneerselvam A, Periyasamy G, Ramasamy K, Afzaal M, Malik M, O'Brien P, Burton N, Waters J, van Dongen B. Factors controlling material deposition in the CVD of nickel sulfides, selenides or phosphides from dichalcogenoimidodiphosphinato complexes: deposition, spectroscopic and computational studies. Dalton Transactions. 2010; 39(26): 6080-6091. eScholarID:145608 | DOI:10.1039/c002928a
• Ramasamy K, Malik M, Helliwell M, Tuna F, O'Brien P. Iron Thiobiurets: Single-Source Precursors for Iron Sulfide Thin Films. Inorganic Chemistry. 2010; 49(18): 8495-8503. eScholarID:145617 | DOI:10.1021/ic1011204
• Ramasamy K, Malik M, O'Brien P, Raftery J. Metal complexes of thiobiurets and dithiobiurets: Novel single source precursors for metal sulfide thin film nanostructures. Dalton Transactions. 2010; 39(6): 1460-1463. eScholarID:145614 | DOI:10.1039/b923179j
• Ramasamy K, Malik M, O'Brien P, Raftery J, Helliwell M. Nickel Sulfide Thin Films from Thio- and Dithiobiuret Precursors. Chemistry of Materials. 2010; 22(23): 6328-6340. eScholarID:145621 | DOI:10.1021/cm102140t
• Ramasamy K, Malik M, Raftery J, Tuna F, O'Brien P. Selective Deposition of Cobalt Sulfide Nanostructured Thin Films from Single-Source Precursors. Chemistry of Materials. 2010; 22(17): 4919-4930. eScholarID:145620 | DOI:10.1021/cm1010345
• Ramasamy K, Maneerprakorn W, Malik M, O'Brien P. Single-molecule precursor-based approaches to cobalt sulphide nanostructures. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society a-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2010; 368(1927): 4249-4260. eScholarID:145627 | DOI:10.1098/rsta.2010.0125
• Ritch J, Chivers T, Ahmad K, Afzaal M, O'Brien P. Synthesis, Structures, and Multinuclear NMR Spectra of Tin(II) and Lead(II) Complexes of Tellurium-Containing Imidodiphosphinate Ligands: Preparation of Two Morphologies of Phase-Pure PbTe from a Single-Source Precursor. Inorganic Chemistry. 2010; 49(3): 1198-1205. eScholarID:145630 | DOI:10.1021/ic9021728
• Ziqubu N, Ramasamy K, Rajasekhar P, Revaprasadu N, O'Brien P. Simple Route to Dots and Rods of PbTe Nanocrystals. Chemistry of Materials. 2010; 22(13): 3817-3819. eScholarID:145624 | DOI:10.1021/cm100636b
• Behrendt J, Afzaal M, Alexander L, Bradley M, Hine A, Nagel D, O'Brien P, Presland K, Sutherland A. Thiol-containing microspheres as polymeric ligands for the immobilisation of quantum dots. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2009; 19(2): 215-221. eScholarID:145591 | DOI:10.1039/b814261k
• Liu X, Afzaal M, Ramasamy K, O'Brien P, Akhtar J. Synthesis of ZnO Hexagonal Single-Crystal Slices with Predominant (0001) and (000(1)over-bar) Facets by Poly(ethylene glycol)-Assisted Chemical Bath Deposition. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009; 131(42): . eScholarID:145584 | DOI:10.1021/ja906992s
• Maneeprakorn W, Nguyen C, Malik M, O'Brien P, Raftery J. Synthesis of the nickel selenophosphinates Ni(Se(2)PR(2))(2) (R = (i)Pr, (t)Bu and Ph) and their use as single source precursors for the deposition of nickel phosphide or nickel selenide nanoparticles. Dalton Transactions. 2009; (12): 2103-2108. eScholarID:145582 | DOI:10.1039/b816903a
• Mlondo S, Revaprasadu N, Christian P, Helliwell M, O'Brien P. Cadmium thiosemicarbazide complexes as precursors for the synthesis of nanodimensional crystals of CdS. Polyhedron. 2009; 28(11): 2097-2102. eScholarID:145558 | DOI:10.1016/j.poly.2009.02.046
• Mlondo S, Thomas P, O'Brien P. Facile Deposition of Nanodimensional Ceria Particles and Their Assembly into Conformal Films at Liquid-Liquid Interface with a Phase Transfer Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009; 131(17): . eScholarID:145564 | DOI:10.1021/ja901126n
• Moloto N, Revaprasadu N, Moloto M, O'Brien P, Raftery J. N,N '-diisopropylthiourea and N,N '-dicyclohexylthiourea zinc(II) complexes as precursors for the synthesis of ZnS nanoparticles. South African Journal of Science. 2009; 105(7-8): 258-263. eScholarID:145571
• Nejo A, Kolawole G, Opoku A, Wolowska J, O'Brien P. Synthesis, characterization and preliminary insulin-enhancing studies of symmetrical tetradentate Schiff base complexes of oxovanadium(IV). Inorganica Chimica Acta. 2009; 362(11): 3993-4001. eScholarID:145583 | DOI:10.1016/j.ica.2009.05.039
• Panneerselvam A, Malik M, O'Brien P, Helliwell M. The Aerosol-Assisted CVD of Silver Films from Single-Source Precursors. Chemical Vapor Deposition. 2009; 15(1-3): 57-63. eScholarID:145585 | DOI:10.1002/cvde.200806729
• Panneerselvam A, Nguyen C, Malik M, O'Brien P, Raftery J. The CVD of silver selenide films from dichalcogenophosphinato and imidodichalcogenodiphosphinatosilver(I) single-source precursors. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2009; 19(3): 419-427. eScholarID:145589 | DOI:10.1039/b812074a
• Ramasamy K, Malik M, O'Brien P, Raftery J. The synthesis and structure of a cadmium complex of dimorpholinodithioacetylacetonate and its use as single source precursor for CdS thin films or nanorods. Dalton Transactions. 2009; (12): 2196-2200. eScholarID:145588 | DOI:10.1039/b816909h
• Safin D, Mdluli P, Revaprasadu N, Ahmad K, Afzaal M, Helliwell M, O'Brien P, Shakirova E, Babashkina M, Klein A. Nanoparticles and Thin Films of Silver from Complexes of Derivatives of N-(Diisopropylthiophosphoryl)thioureas. Chemistry of Materials. 2009; 21(18): 4233-4240. eScholarID:145573 | DOI:10.1021/cm901200h
• Santra P, Viswanatha R, Daniels S, Pickett N, Smith J, O'Brien P, Sarma D. Investigation of the Internal Heterostructure of Highly Luminescent Quantum Dot-Quantum Well Nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009; 131(2): 470-477. eScholarID:145567 | DOI:10.1021/ja8033075
• Shahid M, Mazhar M, Hamid M, O'Brien P, Malik M, Helliwell M, Raftery J. Aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition of Cu-ZnO composite from single source precursors. Dalton Transactions. 2009; (28): 5487-5494. eScholarID:145557 | DOI:10.1039/b903406d
• Shahid M, Mazhar M, Hamid M, Zeller M, O'Brien P, Malik M, Raftery J, Hunter A. Isostructural cage complexes of copper with cadmium or zinc for single source deposition of composite materials. New Journal of Chemistry. 2009; 33(11): 2241-2247. eScholarID:145569 | DOI:10.1039/b9nj00217k
• Shahid M, Mazhar M, O'Brien P, Afzaal M, Raftery J. catena-Poly diethyl(2-hydroxyethyl)ammonium tetra-mu-acetato-kappa(8)O:O '-dicuprate(II)(Cu-Cu) -mu-acetato-kappa(2)O:O ' dichloromethane solvate. Acta Crystallographica Section E-Structure Reports Online. 2009; 65: M163-U476. eScholarID:145559 | DOI:10.1107/s1600536808044048
• Yang J, Hyde J, Wilson J, Mallik K, Sazio P, O'Brien P, Malik M, Afzaal M, Nguyen C, George M, Howdle S, Smith D. Continuous Flow Supercritical Chemical Fluid Deposition of Optoelectronic Quality CdS. Advanced Materials. 2009; 21(41): . eScholarID:145562 | DOI:10.1002/adma.200803751
• Ajibade P, Kolawole G, O'Brien P, Raftery J, Helliwell M. Co(II) and Cu(II) complexes of 2,4-diamino-5-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)pyrimidine. Journal of Coordination Chemistry. 2008; 61(3): 328-340. eScholarID:145561 | DOI:10.1080/00958970701338770
• Aslam F, Graham D, Binks D, Dawson P, Pickett N, O'Brien P, Byeon C, Ko D, Lee J. Electric field dependent photoluminescence studies of nanoparticle sensitized photorefractive polymers. Journal of Applied Physics. 2008; 103(9): eScholarID:145566 | DOI:093702 10.1063/1.2908171
• Bade B, Garje S, Niwate Y, Afzaal M, O'Brien P. Tribenzyltin(IV) chloride Thiosemicarbazones: Novel Single Source Precursors for Growth of SnS Thin Films. Chemical Vapor Deposition. 2008; 14(9-10): 292-295. eScholarID:145592 | DOI:10.1002/cvde.200806687
• Christian P, O'Brien P. Thermodynamic and kinetic control of crystal growth in CdS nanomaterials. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2008; 18(14): 1689-1693. eScholarID:145590 | DOI:10.1039/b717656b
• Fan D, Thomas P, O'Brien P. Pyramidal lead sulfide crystallites with high energy {113} facets. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2008 August; 130(33): 10892-+. eScholarID:1f362 | DOI:10.1021/ja804516q
• Fan D, Thomas P, O'Brien P. Pyramidal lead sulfide crystallites with high energy {113} facets. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2008; 130(33): . eScholarID:145577 | DOI:10.1021/ja804516q
• Fan D, Thomas P, O'Brien P. Synthesis and assembly of Bi2S3 nanoparticles at the water-toluene interface. Chemical Physics Letters. 2008; 465(1-3): 110-114. eScholarID:145581 | DOI:10.1016/j.cplett.2008.09.061
• Hasegawa Y, Adachi T, Tanaka A, Afzaal M, O'Brien P, Doi T, Hinatsu Y, Fujita K, Tanaka K, Kawai T. Remarkable magneto-optical properties of europium selenide nanoparticles with wide energy gaps. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2008; 130(17): 5710-5715. eScholarID:145575 | DOI:10.1021/ja710165m
• Jarvis R, Law N, Shadi L, O'Brien P, Lloyd J, Goodacre R. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering from intracellular and extracellular bacterial locations. Analytical Chemistry. 2008 September; 80(17): 6741-6746. eScholarID:1f269 | DOI:10.1021/ac800838v
• Jarvis R, Johnson H, Olembe E, Panneerselvam A, Malik M, Afzaal M, O'Brien P, Goodacre R. Towards quantitatively reproducible substrates for SERS. Analyst. 2008; 133(10): 1449-1452. eScholarID:1f270 | DOI:10.1039/b800340h
• Jarvis R, Law N, Shadi L, O'Brien P, Lloyd J, Goodacre R. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering from intracellular and extracellular bacterial locations. Analytical Chemistry. 2008; 80(17): 6741-6746. eScholarID:145579 | DOI:10.1021/ac800838v
• Jarvis R, Johnson H, Olembe E, Panneerselvam A, Malik M, Afzaal M, O'Brien P, Goodacre R. Towards quantitatively reproducible substrates for SERS. Analyst. 2008; 133(10): 1449-1452. eScholarID:145593 | DOI:10.1039/b800340h
• Malik M, O'Brien P, Adeogun A, Helliwell M, Raftery J. Synthesis and X-ray single crystal structures of Mo((S2CNBu2)-Bu-n)(4) and Mo2S4(S(2)CNnBu(2))(2) .1/2 H2O. Journal of Coordination Chemistry. 2008; 61(1): 79-84. eScholarID:145580 | DOI:10.1080/00958970701733384
• Mlondo S, Andrews E, Thomas P, O'Brien P. Deposition of hierarchical Cd(OH)(2) anisotropic nanostructures at the water-toluene interface and their use as sacrificial templates for CdO or CdS nanostructures. Chemical Communications. 2008; (24): 2768-2770. eScholarID:1f190 | DOI:10.1039/b806409a
• Mlondo S, Andrews E, Thomas P, O'Brien P. Deposition of hierarchical Cd(OH)(2) anisotropic nanostructures at the water-toluene interface and their use as sacrificial templates for CdO or CdS nanostructures. Chemical Communications. 2008; (24): 2768-2770. eScholarID:145565 | DOI:10.1039/b806409a
• Mlondo S, O'Brien P, Thomas P, Helliwell M, Raftery J, Procter D. Methanolysis of tetraphenylborate (BPh(4)(-)) as a reaction unit in halotris(2,4-pentadianato) complexes of Zr(IV) and Hf(IV). Chemical Communications. 2008; (21): 2456-2458. eScholarID:145572 | DOI:10.1039/b800791h
• Panneerselvam A, Malik M, Afzaal M, O'Brien P, Helliwellt M. The chemical vapor deposition of nickel phosphide or selenide thin films from a single precursor. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2008 February; 130(8): 2420-2421. eScholarID:1f161 | DOI:10.1021/ja078202j
• Panneerselvam A, Nguyen C, Waters J, Malik M, O'Brien P, Raftery J, Helliwell M. Ligand influence on the formation of P/Se semiconductor materials from metal-organic complexes. Dalton Transactions. 2008; (33): 4499-4506. eScholarID:145570 | DOI:10.1039/b802012d
• Panneerselvam A, Malik M, O'Brien P, Raftery J. The CVD of silver sulfide and silver thin films from a homoleptic crystalline single-source precursor. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2008; 18(27): 3264-3269. eScholarID:145587 | DOI:10.1039/b802616e
• Panneerselvam A, Malik M, Afzaal M, O'Brien P, Helliwellt M. The chemical vapor deposition of nickel phosphide or selenide thin films from a single precursor. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2008; 130(8): 2420-2421. eScholarID:145586 | DOI:10.1021/ja078202j
• Robertson S, Chivers T, Akhtar J, Afzaal M, O'Brien P. Nickel(II) complexes of heterodichalcogenido and monochalcogenido imidodiphosphinate ligands: AACVD synthesis of nickel ditelluride. Dalton Transactions. 2008; (48): 7004-7011. eScholarID:1f121 | DOI:10.1039/b814065k
• Robertson S, Chivers T, Akhtar J, Afzaal M, O'Brien P. Nickel(II) complexes of heterodichalcogenido and monochalcogenido imidodiphosphinate ligands: AACVD synthesis of nickel ditelluride. Dalton Transactions. 2008; (48): 7004-7011. eScholarID:145576 | DOI:10.1039/b814065k
• Shahid M, Mazhar M, Malik M, O'Brien P, Raftery J. Fabrication of copper-zinc oxide composite thin films from single source precursor by aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition. Polyhedron. 2008; 27(16): 3337-3342. eScholarID:145563 | DOI:10.1016/j.poly.2008.07.018
• Sher P, Smith J, Dalgarno P, Warburton R, Chen X, Dobson P, Daniels S, Pickett N, O'Brien P. Power law carrier dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystals at nanosecond timescales. Applied Physics Letters. 2008; 92(10): eScholarID:145574 | DOI:101111 10.1063/1.2894193
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