Selected Publications
Devereux, S., Cheung, H., Daly, H., O'Shea, D., Quinn, S. "Multimodal Microscopy Distinguishes Extracellular Aggregation and Cellular Uptake of Single-Walled Carbon Nanohorns", Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 1-10. doi: 10.1002/chem.201801532
Deeney, C., Suxiao, W., Belhout, S. A., Gowen, A., Rodriguez, B. J., Redmond, G., Quinn, S. J. “Templated microwave synthesis of luminescent carbon nanofibers”, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 12907. doi: 10.1039/C7RA13383A
Belhout, S. A., Kim, J.-Y., Hinds, D. T., Owen, N. J., Coulter, J. A., Quinn, S. J. “Multifunctional and robust composite materials comprising gold nanoparticles at a spherical polystyrene particle surface”, Chem Commun, 2016, 52, 14388-14391. doi:10.1039/C6CC07947D
Poynton, F. E., Hall, J. P., Keane, P. M., Schwarz, C., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Gunnlaugsson, T., Cardin, C. J., Cardin, D. J., Quinn, S. J., Long, C., Kelly, J. M. “Direct observation by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy of the bright and the dark excited states of the [Ru(phen)2(dppz)]2+ light-switch compound in solution and when bound to DNA”, Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 3075. doi:10.1039/C5SC04514B
Baptista, F. R., Belhout, S. A., Giordani, S., Quinn, S. J. “Recent developments in carbon nanomaterial sensors”, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 4433-53. doi: 10.1039/C4CS00379A
Hall, J. P., Poynton, F. E., Keane, P. M., Gurung, S. P., Brazier, J. A., Cardin, D. J., Winter, G., Gunnlaugsson, T., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Cardin, C. J., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Monitoring one-electron photo-oxidation of guanine in DNA crystal using ultrafast infrared spectroscopy”, Nat. Chem., 2015, 7, 961-7. doi:10.1038/nchem.2369
Cloonan, S. M., Elmes, R. B. P., Erby, M. L., Bright, S. A., Poynton, F. E., Nolan, D. E., Quinn, S. J., Gunnlaugsson, T., Williams, D. C. “Detailed biological profiling of a photoactivated and apoptosis inducing pdppz Ruthenium(II)polypyridyl complex in cancer cells”, J. Med. Chem., 2015, 58, 4494-4505. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b00451
Keane, P. M., Poynton, F. E., Hall, J. P., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Gunnlaugsson, T., Quinn, S. J., Cardin, C. J., Kelly, J. M. “Reversal of a Single Base-Pair Step Controls Guanine Photo-Oxidation by an Intercalating Ruthenium(II) Dipyridophenazine Complex”, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed., 2015, 54, 8364-8368. doi:org/10.1002/ange.201502608
Devereux, S. J., Keane, P. M., Vasudevan, S., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Cao, Q., Sun, X.-Z., George, M. W., Cardin, C. J., Kane-Maguire, N. A. P., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Study of picosecond processes of an intercalated dipyridophenazine Cr(III) complex bound to defined sequence DNAs using TA and time-resolved infrared methods”, Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 17706. doi: 10.1039/C4DT01989J
Keane, P. M., Wojdyla, M., Doorley, G. W., Kelly, J. M., Parker, A. W., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Magno, L. M., Quinn, S. J. “Long-lived excited states in i-motif DNA studied by picosecond time-resolved IR spectroscopy”, Chem. Commun. (Journal cover and highlighted in LaserLab Europe Magazine), 2014, 21, 2990-2992. doi:10.1039/c3cc46594b
Doorley, G. W., Wojdyla, M., Watson, G. W., Towrie, M., Parker, A. W., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Tracking DNA Excited States by Picosecond-Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy: Signature Band for a Charge-Transfer Excited State in Stacked Adenine-Thymine Systems”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2013, 4, 2739-2744. doi:10.1021/jz401258n
Keane, P. M., Gallagher, S. A., Magno, L. M., Leising, M. J., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Gun'ko, Y. K., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Photophysical studies of CdTe quantum dots in the presence of cationic porphyrins”, Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 13159-66. doi: 10.1039/C2DT30741C
Wojdyla, M., Gallagher, S. A., Moloney, M. P., Gun'ko, Y. K., Kelly, J. M., Magno, L. M., Quinn, S. J., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M. “Picosecond to Millisecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Broad-Band Emitting Chiral CdSe Quantum Dots”, J. Phys. Chem. C., 2012, 116, 16226-16232. doi:10.1021/jp3023088
Keane, P. M. Wojdyla, M. Doorley, G. W., Kelly, J. M., Clark, I. P. Parker, A. W., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Magno, L. M., Quinn, S. J. “Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy of Polymeric Cytosine Nucleic Acids Reveal the Long-lived Species is due to a Localised State”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (Special Issue on Ultrafast dynamics), 2012, 14, 6307-6311. doi: 10.1039/C2CP23774A
Duffy, P. Magno, L. A. Yadavc, R., Roberts, S. K., Ward, A. D., Botchway, S. W., Colavita, P. E., Quinn, S. J. “Incandescent Porous Carbon Microspheres to Light up Cells: Solution Phenomena and Cellular Uptake”, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 432 - 439. doi: 10.1039/C1JM14303D
Ryan, G. J., Elmes, R. B. P., Quinn, S. J., Gunnlaugsson, T. “Synthesis and photophysical evaluations of fluorescent quaternary bipyridyl-1,8-naphthalimide conjugates as nucleic acid targeting agents”, Supramolecular Chemistry, 2012, 24, 175-188. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10610278.2011.638381
Keane, P. M., Wojdyla, M., Doorley, G. W., Watson, G. W., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Parker, A.W., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “A Comparative Picosecond Transient Infrared Study of 1-Methylcytosine and 5'-dCMP That Sheds Further Light on the Excited States of Cytosine Derivatives”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 4212–4215. doi: 10.1021/ja1106089
Elmes, R. B. P., Erby, M., Cloonan, S. M., Quinn, S. J., Williams, D. C., Gunnlaugsson, T. “Quaternarized pdppz: synthesis, DNA-binding and biological studies of a novel dppz derivative that causes cellular death upon light irradiation”, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 686–688. doi:10.1039/C0CC04303F
Doorley, G.W., McGovern, D. A., George, M. W., Towrie, M., Parker, A. W., Kelly, J. M. and Quinn, S. J. “Picosecond Transient Infrared Study of the Ultrafast Deactivation Processes of Electronically Excited B-DNA and Z-DNA Forms of [poly(dGdC)]2”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 123. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200803904
Cathcart, H., Nicolosi, V., Hughes, M., Blau, W. J., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. and Coleman, J. N., “Ordered DNA wrapping switches on Luminescence in Single-walled Nanotube Dispersions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2008, 112, 12734. doi: 10.1021/ja803273s
