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List of works by Colette McDonagh

A Camera Phone-Based UV-Dosimeter for Monitoring the Solar Disinfection (SODIS) of Water

A Prospective Study of the Use of the [Os(tpy)2]2+ (tpy = 2,2′;6′:2″-Terpyridine) Core as Signalling Scaffolding for the Development of Chemical Sensors

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A chemical quenching- and physical blocking-based method to minimize process-mediated aggregation of antibody-crosslinked nanoparticles for imaging application

scientific article published in November 2013

A rapid, topographical platelet activation assay.

scientific article published in August 2013

A structural study of the sol-gel process by optical fluorescence and decay time spectroscopy

An integrated centrifugo-opto-microfluidic platform for arraying, analysis, identification and manipulation of individual cells

scientific article published in January 2015

Application of niobium enriched ormosils as thermally stable coatings for aerospace aluminium alloys

scholarly article by P.C. Rajath Varma et al published May 2011 in Surface & Coatings Technology

At-line bioprocess monitoring by immunoassay with rotationally controlled serial siphoning and integrated supercritical angle fluorescence optics

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Baking Powder Actuated Centrifugo-Pneumatic Valving for Automation of Multi-Step Bioassays

Biocompatibility and Bioimaging Application of Carbon Nanoparticles Synthesized by Phosphorus Pentoxide Combustion Method

Characterisation of porosity and sensor response times of sol–gel-derived thin films for oxygen sensor applications

Characterisation of sol-gel glasses using optical probes

Controlled deposition of sol–gel sensor material using hemiwicking

Corrosion Protection Properties of Various Ligand Modified Organic Inorganic Hybrid Coating on AA 2024-T3

Corrosion protection of AA 2024-T3 aluminium alloys using 3, 4-diaminobenzoic acid chelated zirconium–silane hybrid sol–gels

Cyanine5-doped silica nanoparticles as ultra-bright immunospecific labels for model circulating tumour cells in flow cytometry and microscopy.

scientific article published on 10 December 2016

Demonstration of a surface plasmon-coupled emission (SPCE)-based immunoassay in the absence of a spacer layer

scientific article published on 25 July 2010

Demonstration of surface plasmon-coupled emission using solid-state electrochemiluminescence

article published in 2011

Dendrimer driven self-assembly of SPR active silver-gold nanohybrids

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

Development and characterisation of integrated microfluidics on waveguide-based photonic platforms fabricated from hybrid materials

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Development of a fluorescence lifetime-based sol–gel humidity sensor

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Development of a multi-analyte integrated optical sensor platform for indoor air-quality monitoring

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Development of a multianalyte optical sol–gel biosensor for medical diagnostic

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Development of a sol–gel photonic sensor platform for the detection of biofilm formation

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Development of an integrated optic oxygen sensor using a novel, generic platform

scientific article published on 12 November 2004

Dextran-coated silica nanoparticles for calcium-sensing

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Direct spray deposition of silver nanoparticle films for biosensing applications

scholarly article in RSC Advances, vol. 5 no. 77, 2015

Effect of organic chelates on the performance of hybrid sol–gel coated AA 2024-T3 aluminium alloys

Enhanced Fluorescence-Based Optical Sensor Performance Using a Simple Optical Collection Strategy

Enhancing the analytical performance of immunoassays that employ metal-enhanced fluorescence

scientific article published on 13 December 2009

Experimental and theoretical evaluation of surface plasmon-coupled emission for sensitive fluorescence detection

scientific article published in September 2008

Experimental and theoretical studies of the optimisation of fluorescence from near-infrared dye-doped silica nanoparticles.

scientific article published on 10 October 2008

Exploiting Nanobiophotonics for Enhanced Optical Biosensor Platforms

Fabrication and performance evaluation of highly sensitive hybrid sol-gel-derived oxygen sensor films based on a fluorinated precursor.

scientific article published on 31 March 2010

Fibre optic chemical sensors based on evanescent wave interactions in sol-gel-derived porous coatings

Fluorescence Lifetime Analysis and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Elucidate the Internal Architecture of Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

From particle to platelet: optimization of a stable, high brightness fluorescent nanoparticle based cell detection platform

scientific article published on 29 October 2012

Graphene-doped photo-patternable ionogels: tuning of conductivity and mechanical stability of 3D microstructures

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High efficiency ring-lens supercritical angle fluorescence (SAF) detection for optimum bioassay performance

scientific article published on September 2013

High performance optical ratiometric sol–gel-based pH sensor

Highly sensitive C-reactive protein (CRP) assay using metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF)

Highly sensitive detection of C-reactive protein using a novel dissolution approach in a dye-doped silica nanoparticle-based fluorescence immunoassay

Hybrid zirconium sol-gel thin films with high refractive index

scholarly article published 9 June 2011

Influence of hybrid organic–inorganic sol–gel matrices on the photophysics of amino-functionalized UV-sensitizers

Inhibition of neuroblastoma tumor growth by targeted delivery of microRNA-34a using anti-disialoganglioside GD2 coated nanoparticles

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Intracellular pH-sensing using core/shell silica nanoparticles.

scientific article published on July 2014

Intracellular sensing and cell diagnostics using fluorescent silica nanoparticles

Investigating the colloidal stability of fluorescent silica nanoparticles under isotonic conditions for biomedical applications

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

LED-based fibre optic oxygen sensor using sol-gel coating

Label-Free Optical Characterization Methods for Detecting Amine Silanization-Driven Gold Nanoparticle Self-Assembly

scientific article published on 05 August 2011

Low loss optical channel waveguides for the infrared range using niobium based hybrid sol–gel material

scholarly article by A. Gorin et al published April 2011 in Optics Communications

Microwave bonding of poly(methylmethacrylate) microfluidic devices using a conductive polymer

Mid-infrared Raman sources using spontaneous Raman scattering in germanium core optical fibers

Multivalent linkers for improved covalent binding of oligonucleotides to dye-doped silica nanoparticles.

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Novel Multiparametric Approach to Elucidate the Surface Amine-Silanization Reaction Profile on Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles

scientific article published on 11 November 2010

Novel hybrid optical sensor materials for in-breath O(2) analysis

scientific article published on 28 November 2007

Novel hybrid sol-gel materials for smart sensor windows

Novel polymer platform for enhanced biochip performance

Novel tantalum based photocurable hybrid sol–gel material employed in the fabrication of channel optical waveguides and three-dimensional structures

scholarly article by M. Oubaha et al published January 2011 in Applied Surface Science

Optical chemical pH sensors

scientific article published on 02 December 2013

Optical chemical sensors

scientific article published on 30 January 2008

Optical detection of magnetic resonance in MgO:Cr3+. I. Octahedral and orthorhombic site symmetries

Optical detection of magnetic resonance of FA and F centres in CaO:Mg

Optical properties of high refractive index thin films processed at low-temperature

Optical properties of micro-patterned silver nanoparticle substrates

scientific article published on 10 October 2009

Optimisation of Plasmonic Enhancement of Fluorescence for Optical Biosensor Applications

Optimization of Nanoparticle Size for Plasmonic Enhancement of Fluorescence

Optimization of Plasmonic Enhancement of Fluorescence on Plastic Substrates

scientific article published on 05 September 2008

Optimization of size, morphology and colloidal stability of fluorescein dye-doped silica NPs for application in immunoassays

scientific article

Phase fluorometric dissolved oxygen sensor

article published in 2001

Photo-patternable hybrid ionogels for electrochromic applications

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Plasmonic enhancement of fluorescence for sensor applications

Plasmonic enhancement of fluorescence for sensor applications

Plasmonic enhancement using core-shell nanoparticles

Protein Integrated, Functionally Active Silver Nanoplanar Structures for Enhanced SPR

Ratiometric fluorescence-based dissolved carbon dioxide sensor for use in environmental monitoring applications.

scientific article published on 9 September 2010

Sensing Performance of a Refractometric Optical Sensor Platform Based on Multimode Interference Couplers

Signal enhancement of surface plasmon-coupled emission (SPCE) with the evanescent field of surface plasmons on a bimetallic paraboloid biochip

scientific article published on 24 December 2010

Silica nanoparticles for cell imaging and intracellular sensing

scientific article published on 10 October 2013

Sol-gel based optical carbon dioxide sensor employing dual luminophore referencing for application in food packaging technology

scientific article published in November 2002

Structural and Optical Characterisation of an Erbium/Ytterbium Doped Hybrid Material Developed via a Nonhydrolytic Sol-Gel Route

Surface plasmon-coupled emission (SPCE)-based immunoassay using a novel paraboloid array biochip

scientific article published on 28 October 2009

Synthesis and Characterization of a Noble Metal Enhanced Optical Nanohybrid (NEON): A High Brightness Detection Platform Based on a Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticle

scientific article published on 17 May 2012

Synthesis and characterization of model silica–gold core–shell nanohybrid systems to demonstrate plasmonic enhancement of fluorescence

scientific article published on 23 July 2012

Synthesis and characterization of monodisperse, mesoporous, and magnetic sub-micron particles doped with a near-infrared fluorescent dye

Synthesis, Stabilization, and Functionalization of Silver Nanoplates for Biosensor Applications

Synthesis, tailoring and characterization of silica nanoparticles containing a highly stable ruthenium complex

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

Temperature-corrected pressure-sensitive paint measurements using a single camera and a dual-lifetime approach

The development and characterisation of novel hybrid sol–gel-derived films for optical pH sensing

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Ultrasensitive microarray bioassays using cyanine5 dye-doped silica nanoparticles

scientific article published on 17 October 2016