2015

Journal Publications

– R.B. Vasani, N. Janardanan, B. Prieto-Simón, A. Cifuentes-Rius, S.J. Bradley, E. Moore, T. Kraus N. H. Voelcker. Microwave heating of poly(n-isopropylacrylamide)-conjugated gold nanoparticles for temperature-controlled display of concanavalin A, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7 (2015), 27755-27764.

– T.M. Guinan, P. Kirkbride, C.B. Della Vedova, S.G. Kershaw, H. Kobus, N.H. Voelcker. Direct detection of illicit drugs from biological fluids by desorption/ionization mass spectrometry with nanoporous silicon microparticles , Analyst, 140 (2015), 7926-7933.

– E.J. Szili, F.J. Harding, S.H. Hong, F. Herrmann, N.H. Voelcker, R.D. Short . The hormesis effect of plasma-elevated intracellular ROS on HaCaT cells, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 48 (2015), -.

– T.M. Guinan, O.J.R. Gustafsson, G. McPhee, H. Kobus, N.H. Voelcker. Silver coating for high-mass-accuracy imaging mass spectrometry of fingerprints on nanostructured silicon, Analytical Chemistry, 87 (2015), 11195-11202.

– B. Delalat, V.C. Sheppard, S.R. Ghaemi, S. Rao, C.A. Prestidge, G. McPhee, M.L. Rogers, J.F. Donoghue, V. Pillay, T.G. Johns, N. Kröger, N.H. Voelcker. Targeted drug delivery using genetically engineered diatom biosilica, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/ncomms9791.

– R. Elnathan, B. Delalat, D. Brodoceanu, H. Alhmoud, F.J. Harding, K. Buehler, A. Nelson, L. Isa, T. Kraus, N.H. Voelcker. Maximizing transfection efficiency of vertically aligned silicon nanowire arrays, Advanced Functional Materials, 25 (2015), 7215-7225.

– R. Elnathan, L. Isa, D. Brodoceanu, A. Nelson, F.J. Harding, B. Delalat, T. Kraus, N.H. Voelcker. Versatile particle-based route to engineer vertically aligned silicon nanowire arrays and nanoscale pores, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7 (2015), 23717-23724.

– S. Chandrasekaran, S.J.P. McInnes, T.J. Macdonald, T. Nann, N.H. Voelcker. Porous silicon nanoparticles as a nanophotocathode for photoelectrochemical water splitting, RSC Advances, 5 (2015), 85978-85982.

– R. Guo, S. Zhou, Y. Li, X. Li, L. Fan, N.H. Voelcker. Rhodamine-Functionalized Graphene Quantum Dots for Detection of Fe3+ in Cancer Stem Cells, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7 (2015), 23958-23966.

– M. Rey, R. Elnathan, R. Ditcovski, K. Geisel, M. Zanini, M.A. Fernandez-Rodriguez, V.V. Naik, A. Frutiger, W. Richtering, T. Ellenbogen, N.H. Voelcker, L. Isa. Fully tunable silicon nanowire arrays fabricated by soft nanoparticle templating, Nano Letters, 16 (2015), 157-163.

– A. Malysheva, E. Lombi, N.H. Voelcker. Bridging the divide between human and environmental nanotoxicology, Nature Nanotechnology, 10 (2015), 835-844.

– S. Chandrasekaran, T. Nann, N.H. Voelcker. Nanostructured silicon photoelectrodes for solar water electrolysis, Nano Energy, 17 (2015), 308-322.

– M.H. Kafshgari, M. Alnakhli, B. Delalat, S. Apostolou, F. J. Harding, E. Mäkilä, J. J. Salonen, B. J. Kuss, N.H. Voelcker. Small interfering RNA delivery by polyethylenimine-functionalised porous silicon nanoparticles, Biomaterials Science,  3 (2015), 1555-1565.

– Y.D. Irani, Y. Tian, M. Wang, S. Klebe, S.J. McInnes, N.H. Voelcker, J.L. Coffer, K.A. Williams. A novel pressed porous silicon-polycaprolactone composite as a dual-purpose implant for the delivery of cells and drugs to the eye, Experimental Eye Research, 139 (2015), 123-131.

– M.H. Kafshgari, N.H. Voelcker, F.J. Harding. Applications of zero-valent silicon nanostructures in biomedicine, Nanomedicine, 10 (2015), 2553-2571.

– J.L. Whittaker, N.K. Dutta, R. Knott, G. McPhee, N.H. Voelcker, C. Elvin, A. Hill, N.R. Choudhury. Tunable thermoresponsiveness of resilin via coassembly with rigid biopolymers, Langmuir, 31 (2015), 8882-8891.

– A. Malysheva, A. Ivask, C. Hager, G. Brunetti, E.R. Marzouka, E. Lombi, N.H. Voelcker. Sorption of silver nanoparticles to laboratory plastic during (eco)toxicological testing, Nanotoxicology, doi: 10.3109/17435390.2015.1084059

– D. Rudd, M. Ronci, M.R. Johnston, T. Guinan, N.H. Voelcker, K. Benkendorff. Mass spectrometry imaging reveals new biological roles for choline esters and Tyrian purple precursors in muricid molluscs, Scientific Reports, 5 (2015), 13408-.

– S. Chandrasekaran, T.J. Macdonald, A.R. Gerson, N. Thomas, N.H. Voelcker. Boron-doped silicon diatom frustules as a photocathode for water splitting, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7 (2015), 17381-17387.

– S.R. Ghaemi, B. Delalat, X. Cetó, F.J. Harding, J. Tuke, N.H. Voelcker. Synergistic influence of Collagen I and BMP 2 drives osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells: a cell microarray analysis, Acta Biomaterialia,  doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2015.07.027.

– S.N.A. Jenie, B. Prieto-Simon, N.H. Voelcker. Development of L-lactate dehydrogenase biosensor based on porous silicon resonant microcavities as fluorescence enhancers, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 74 (2015), 637-643.

– M.J. Sweetman, S.J.P. McInnes, R.B. Vasani, T. Guinan, A. Blencowe, N.H. Voelcker. Rapid, metal-free hydrosilanisation chemistry for porous silicon surface modification , Chemical Communications, 51 (2015), 10640-10643.

– M. Alba, B. Delalat, P. Formentín, M.L. Rogers, L.F. Marsal, N.H. Voelcker. Silica nanopills for targeted anticancer drug delivery, Small, 11 (2015), 4626-4631.

– R.B. Vasani, D. Losic, A. Cavallaro, N.H. Voelcker. Fabrication of stimulus-responsive diatom biosilica microcapsules for antibiotic drug delivery, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 3 (2015), 4325-4329.

– B. Delalat, A. Mierczynska, S. Rasi Ghaemi, A. Cavallaro, F.J. Harding, K. Vasilev, N.H. Voelcker. Materials displaying neural growth factor gradients and applications in neural differentiation of embryoid body cells, Advanced Functional Materials,  25 (2015), 2737-2744.

– T.D. Michl, B.R. Coad, M. Doran, M. Osiecki, M. Hasanzadeh Kafshgari, N.H. Voelcker, A. Hüsler, K. Vasilev, H.J. Griesser . Nitric oxide releasing plasma polymer coating with bacteriostatic properties and no cytotoxic side effects , Chemical Communications, 51 (2015), 7058-7060.

– A. Ivask, N.H. Voelcker,S.A. Seabrook, M. Hor, J.K. Kirby, M. Fenech, T.P. Davis, P.C. Ke. DNA melting and genotoxicity induced by silver nanoparticles and graphene, Chemical Research in Toxicology, 28 (2015), 1023-1035.

– S.J.P. McInnes, C.T. Turner, S.A. Al-Bataineh, M.J.I. Airaghi Leccardi, Y. Irani, K.A. Williams, A.J. Cowin, N.H. Voelcker. Surface engineering of porous silicon to optimise therapeutic antibody loading and release, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 3 (2015), 4123-4133.

– F.S. Herwahyu Krismastuti, H. Bayat, N.H. Voelcker, H. Schönherr. Real time monitoring of layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte deposition and bacterial enzyme detection in nanoporous anodized aluminum oxide, Analytical Chemistry , 87 (2015), 3856-3863.

– D. Rudd, K. Benkendorff, N.H. Voelcker. Solvent separating secondary metabolites directly from biosynthetic tissue for surface-assisted laser desorption ionisation mass spectrometry, Marine Drugs, 13 (2015), 1410-1431.

– N. Mehmood, A. Hariz, S. Templeton, N.H. Voelcker. A flexible and low power telemetric sensing and monitoring system for chronic wound diagnostics, BioMedical Engineering Online, 14 (2015), 17.

– M.H. Kafshgari, B. Delalat, W.Y. Tong, F.J. Harding, M. Kaasalainen, J. Salonen, N.H. Voelcker. Oligonucleotide delivery by chitosan-functionalized porous silicon nanoparticles, Nano Research, 8 (2015), 2033-2046.

– D. Brodoceanu, R. Elnathan, B. Prieto-Simón, B. Delalat, T. Guinan, E. Kroner, N.H. Voelcker, T. Kraus. Dense arrays of uniform submicron pores in silicon and their applications, 2015, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7 (2015), 1160-1169.

– T. Guinan, C. Della Vedova, H. Kobus, N. H. Voelcker. Mass spectrometry imaging of fingerprint sweat on nanostructured silicon, Chemical Communications, 51 (2015), 6088-6091.

– C.T. Turner, S.J.P. McInnes, N.H. Voelcker, A.J. Cowin. Therapeutic potential of inorganic nanoparticles for the delivery of monoclonal antibodies, Journal of Nanomaterials, 2015 (2015), 11pages.

– H. Alhmoud, B. Delalat, R. Elnathan, A. Cifuentes-Rius, A. Chaix, M.L. Rogers, J.O. Durand, N.H. Voelcker. Porous silicon nanodiscs for targeted drug delivery, Advanced Functional Materials, 25 (2015), 1137-1145.

– B. Prieto-Simon, N.M. Bandaru, C. Saint, N.H. Voelcker. Tailored carbon nanotube immunosensors for the detection of microbial contamination, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 67 (2015), 642-648.

– T. Guinan, M. Ronci, R. Vasani, H. Kobus, N.H. Voelcker. Comparison of the performance of different silicon-based SALDI substrates for illicit drug detection, Talanta, 132 (2015), 494-502.

– P.Y. Wang, L.R. Clements, H. Thissen, W.B. Tsai, N.H. Voelcker. Screening rat mesenchymal stem cell attachment and differentiation on surface chemistries using plasma polymer gradients, Acta Biomaterialia, 11 (2015), 58-67.

– M.H. Kafshgari, F.J. Harding, N.H. Voelcker. Insights into cellular uptake of nanoparticles, Current Drug Delivery, 12 (2015), 63-77.

– T. Guinan, P. Kirkbride, P.E. Pigou, M. Ronci, H. Kobus, N.H. Voelcker. Surface-assisted laser desorption ionisation mass spectrometry techniques for application in forensics, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, 34 (2015), 627-640.

Book & Chapter

– A. Dalilottojari,W.Y. Tong, S.J.P. McInnes, N.H. Voelcker. Biocompatibility and Bioactivity of Porous Silicon, in: Porous Silicon: From Formation to Application: Biomedical and Sensor Applications, editor: G. Korotcenkov, CRC Press, 2015.