Chemical and Biological Approaches to the Synthesis and Organization of Inorganic Nanomaterials
Outside of work, I am a member of the Bristol University’s Ballroom and Latin team (ranked third in the country!) and was captain of the team last year. Basically I enjoy anything that keeps me active, such as squash and snowboarding.
Mesoscale Architectures from Nanostructured Building Blocks
Calcium carbonate superstructures are synthesized from water-in-oil microemulsions. Novel morphologies with controlled morphology, polymorph and orientation have been obtained. Most interestingly, SEM studies reveal that at w = 40 (where w = [H2O] / [water]), the resulting product consists of stacked arrays of calcite plates with pseudo-hexagonal morphology (see published paper).
Fabrication of Protein/Silica Core-shell Nanoparticles in Microemulsions
Encapsulation of proteins such as ferritin, within a silica coating using a microemulsion-based synthesis.Synthesis of calcium carbonate nanoparticles within a protein cage
Apoferritin, the empty protein shell of the iron-storage protein ferritin, is used as a constrained reaction environment for the synthesis of nanoscale particles of calcium carbonate.Chemical Communications, 19, 2182-2183