Phd Studentship Available in developing luminescent metal complexes for nanosensors

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Research Interests

Nanoscience: Nanowires based on supramolecular assembly
Imaging: Luminescent nanoparticles as flow trackers, Nanoparticles in cells, Biomolecular labeling
Supramolecular Chemistry: Ligand design of lanthanide architectures, Cyclodextrin chemistry
Bioinorganic Chemistry: DNA recognition by luminescent lanthanide complexes
Coordination Chemistry: Transition metal and lanthanide chemistry

Career

2006– 2007 
EPSRC Discipline Hopping Award with Chemical Engineering

2005– 
Reader in Supramolecular Photochemistry University of Birmingham

2000–2005
Senior Lecturer, Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham

1995–2000 
Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Edinburgh

1994–1995 
Collége de France fellow with Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, ULP Strasbourg, France

1993–1994
Marie Curie fellow with Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, ULP Strasbourg, France

1988–1993
Ph.D. with Prof. Daniel G. Nocera (currently at MIT), Michigan State University, USA

1983–1987 
B.Sc. Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece

Selected Publications

Fully fluorinated imidodiphosphinate shells for visible- and NIR-emitting lanthanides: hitherto unexpected effects of sensitizer fluorination on lanthanide emission properties P.B. Glover, A.P. Bassett, P. Nockemann, B.M. Kariuki, R. Van Deun and Z. Pikramenou   Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13,  6308 - 6320. DOI: 10.1002/chem.200700087 

Functional supramolecular ruthenium cyclodextrin dyes for nanocrystalline solar cells J. Faiz, A. I. Philippopoulos, A. G. Kontos,P. Falaras and Z. Pikramenou Adv. Funct. Mat.2007, 1, 54 – 58. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200600188

Surface-immobilized pyridine-functionalized gamma-cyclodextrin: Alkanethiol co-adsorptionC. T. Mallon, R. J. Forster, A. McNally, E. Campagnoli, Z. Pikramenou and T.E. Keyes Langmuir 2007, 23, 6997-7002. DOI: 10.1021/La070212a

Adsorption Dynamics, Electrochemical and Electrochemiluminescence Properties of Thiolated Ruthenium 2,2´-Bipyridine MonolayersP. Bertoncello, E. T. Kefalas, Z. Pikramenou, P. R. Unwin and R. J. Forster J. Phys. Chem. 2006,110, 10063-10069. DOI: 10.1021/jp057276j

Luminescent nanobeads: attachment of surface reactive Eu(III) complexes to gold nanoparticles D. J. Lewis, T. M. Day, J. V. MacPherson and Z. Pikramenou Chem. Commun. 2006, 1433-1435.                     DOI: 10.1039/b518091k

A Unidirectional Energy Transfer Cascade Process in a Ruthenium Junction Self-Assembled by α- and ß- CyclodextrinsJ. Faiz, R. M. Williams, M. J. J. Pereira Silva, L. De Cola and Z. Pikramenou J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 4520-4521. DOI: 10.1021/ja058541h

Photoactive Metallocyclodextrins: Sophisticated Supramolecular Arrays for the Construction of Light Activated Miniature Devices J. M. Haider and Z. Pikramenou Chem. Soc. Rev. 2005, 34, 120-132. DOI: 10.1002/chin.200521273

Highly Luminescent, Triple- and Quadruple-stranded, Dinuclear Eu, Nd, and Sm(III) Lanthanide Complexes based on Bis-diketonate Ligands A. P. Bassett, S. W. Magennis, P. B. Glover, D. Lewis, N. Spencer, S. Parsons, R. M. Williams, L. De Cola and  Z. Pikramenou J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9413-9424.  DOI: 10.1021/ja048022z

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