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Research project

A new sensor for detecting mRNA in crops

Staff

Other researchers

Dr Lorraine Williams

Associate Professor
Connect with Lorraine

Email: L.E.Williams@soton.ac.uk

Professor Otto Muskens

Professor of Physics

Research interests

  • Programmable photonic circuits using ultralow loss phase change materials.
  • Infrared metasurfaces for radiative cooling and defence applications.
  • Deep learning and AI enabled nanophotonic design.
Connect with Otto

Email: O.Muskens@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Plants and Food Security

We study the response of plants to the environment at the molecular, whole plant and ecological levels. This includes interactions with nematodes, insects and microbes.

Quantum, Light and Matter Group

Our research group examines the connections between physics, chemistry and engineering.

Research outputs

A SARS-Cov-2 sensor based on upconversion nanoparticles and graphene oxide
Konstantina Alexaki, Maria Eleni Kyriazi, Joshua Greening, Lapatrada Taemaitree, Afaf H. El-Sagheer, Tom Brown, Xunli Zhang, Otto L. Muskens & Antonios G. Kanaras, 2022, RSC Advances, 12(29), 18445-18449
DOI: 10.1039/d2ra03599e
Type: article
An investigation Into the resistance of spherical nucleic acids against DNA enzymatic degradation
Maria Kyriazis, Afaf H El-Sagheer, Igor L. Medintz, Tom Brown & Antonios Kanaras, 2022, Bioconjugate Chemistry, 33(1), 219-225
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.1c00540
Type: article
A method for the growth of uniform silica shells on different size and morphology upconversion nanoparticles
Elena Urena Horno, Maria-Eleni Kyriazi & Antonios Kanaras, 2021, Nanoscale Advances, 3(12), 3522-3529
DOI: 10.1039/d0na00858c
Type: article
A DNA sensor based on upconversion nanoparticles and two-dimensional dichalcogenide materials
Konstantina Alexaki, Davide Giust, Maria-Eleni Kyriazi, Afaf El-Sagheer, Tom Brown, Otto Muskens & Antonios Kanaras, 2021, Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 15(4), 935-943
DOI: 10.1007/s11705-020-2023-9
Type: article
Bactericidal effect of 5-mercapto-2-nitrobenzoic acid-coated silver nanoclusters against multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae
María Isabel Lucío, Maria-Eleni Kyriazi, Joshua Hamilton, Diego Batista, Alexander Sheppard, Elisabeth Sams-Dodd, Maria Victoria Humbert, Irshad Hussain, Myron Christodoulides & Antonios G. Kanaras, 2020, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(25), 27994–28003
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c06163
Type: article