Dr Affar Karimullah

Honorary Research Fellow (School of Chemistry)

email: Affar.Karimullah@glasgow.ac.uk

A3-23, Joseph Black Building, University Place, University of Glasgow

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829

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Number of items: 33.

2025

Tulupova, A. et al. (2025) Light entrapment by plasmonic chiral lock for enhancement of 2D flakes catalytic activity. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 17(22), pp. 32553-32565. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.5c08060) (PMID:40397016) (PMCID:PMC12147081)

Xia, Yuanjie, Li, Haobo, Vaskeviciute, Marija ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4924-4802, Faccio, Daniele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X, Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Heidari, Hadi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8412-8164 and Ghannam, Rami ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6910-9280 (2025) Temperature‐tunable cholesteric liquid crystal optical combiners for extended reality applications. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 7(3), 2400411. (doi: 10.1002/aisy.202400411)

2024

Chaubey, S. K. et al. (2024) Ultrasensitive Raman detection of biomolecular conformation at the attomole scale using chiral nanophotonics. Small, 20(45), 2404536. (doi: 10.1002/smll.202404536)

Xia, Yuanjie, Ahmed, Zubair, Karimullah, Affar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Mottram, Nigel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7265-0059, Heidari, Hadi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8412-8164 and Ghannam, Rami ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6910-9280 (2024) Thermal controlled cholesteric liquid crystal wavelength filter lens for photosensitive epilepsy treatment. Cell Reports Physical Science, 5(9), 102158. (doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.102158)

Kumar, R. et al. (2024) Electromagnetic enantiomer: chiral nanophotonic cavities for inducing chemical asymmetry. ACS Nano, 18(3), pp. 22220-22232. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c05861) (PMID:39107108)

Xia, Yuanjie, Li, Haobo, Vaskeviciute, Marija ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4924-4802, Faccio, Daniele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X, Karimullah, Affar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Heidari, Hadi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8412-8164 and Ghannam, Rami ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6910-9280 (2024) Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Based Reconfigurable Optical Combiner for Head-Mounted Display Application. In: IEEE VR 2024, Orlando, FL, USA, 16-21 Mar 2024, pp. 723-724. ISBN 9798350374490 (doi: 10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00158)

Xia, Yuanjie, Yalagala, Bhavan Prasad, Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Heidari, Hadi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8412-8164 and Ghannam, Rami ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6910-9280 (2024) Beyond flexibility: transparent silver nanowire electrodes on patterned surfaces for reconfigurable devices. Advanced Engineering Materials, 26(1), 2301165. (doi: 10.1002/adem.202301165)

2023

Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) A cross-reactive plasmonic sensing array for drinking water assessment. Environmental Science: Nano, 10(12), pp. 3500-3508. (doi: 10.1039/D3EN00565H) (PMID:38073859)

Wallace, S. et al. (2023) Multiplexed biosensing of proteins and virions with disposable plasmonic assays. ACS Sensors, 8(9), pp. 3338-3348. (doi: 10.1021/acssensors.2c02238) (PMID:37610841) (PMCID:PMC10521139)

Olshtrem, A. et al. (2023) Chiral plasmonic response of 2D Ti3C2Tx flakes: realization and applications. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(30), 2212786. (doi: 10.1002/adfm.202212786)

Kartau, M. et al. (2023) Chiral metafilms and surface enhanced Raman scattering for enantiomeric discrimination of helicoid nanoparticles. Advanced Optical Materials, 11(9), 2202991. (doi: 10.1002/adom.202202991)

Guselnikova, Olga, Elashnikov, Roman, Svorcik, Vaclav, Kartau, Martin, Gilroy, Cameron, Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688, Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829 and Lyutakov, Oleksiy (2023) Coupling of plasmonic hot spots with shurikens for superchiral SERS-based enantiomer recognition. Nanoscale Horizons, 8(4), pp. 499-508. (doi: 10.1039/D3NH00008G) (PMID:36752733)

2022

Tabouillot, V. et al. (2022) Near-field probing of optical superchirality with plasmonic circularly polarized luminescence for enhanced bio-detection. ACS Photonics, 9(11), pp. 3617-3624. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01073) (PMID:36411820)

Gilroy, C., Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, D. J. P., Gadegaard, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Karimullah, A. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829 and Kadodwala, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2022) Superchiral hot-spots in “real” chiral plasmonic structures. Materials Advances, 3(1), pp. 346-354. (doi: 10.1039/D1MA00831E)

Koyroytsaltis-McQuire, Dominic J.P., Gilroy, Cameron, Barron, Laurence D., Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829 and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2022) Detecting antibody–antigen interactions with chiral plasmons: factors influencing chiral plasmonic sensing. Advanced Photonics Research, 3(1), 2100155. (doi: 10.1002/adpr.202100155)

2021

Hajji, M. et al. (2021) A chiral quantum metamaterial for hypersensitive biomolecule detection. ACS Nano, 15(12), pp. 19905-19916. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c07408) (PMID:34846858)

Gilroy, Cameron, McKay, Katie, Devine, Machar, Webster, Robert W.H., Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Karimullah, Affar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Maclaren, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0641-686X and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2021) Active chiral plasmonics: flexoelectric control of nanoscale chirality. Advanced Photonics Research, 2(1), 2000062. (doi: 10.1002/adpr.202000062)

2020

Kakkar, T. et al. (2020) Superchiral near fields detect virus structure. Light: Science and Applications, 9(1), 195. (doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-00433-1) (PMID:33298854) (PMCID:PMC7705013)

Kelly, C. et al. (2020) Controlling the symmetry of inorganic ionic nanofilms with optical chirality. Nature Communications, 11, 5169. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18869-9) (PMID:33057000) (PMCID:PMC7560753)

Rodier, Marion, Keijzer, Chantal, Milner, Joel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295, Karimullah, Affar Shahid ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Barron, Laurence, Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Lapthorn, Adrian J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2197-8134 and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2020) Biomacromolecular charge chirality detected using chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nanoscale Horizons, 5, pp. 336-344. (doi: 10.1039/C9NH00525K)

2019

Gilroy, Cameron, Hashiyada, Shun, Endo, Kensaku, Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Barron, Laurence, Okamoto, Hiromi, Togawa, Yoshihiko and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2019) Roles of superchirality and interference in chiral plasmonic biodetection. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(24), pp. 15195-15203. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02791)

Rodier, Marion, Keijzer, Chantal, Milner, Joel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295, Karimullah, Affar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Barron, Laurence, Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Lapthorn, Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2197-8134 and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2019) Probing specificity of protein-protein interactions with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, pp. 6105-6111. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02288) (PMID:31549842)

2018

Kelly, Christopher, Tullius, Ryan, Lapthorn, Adrian J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2197-8134, Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Cooke, Graeme ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0890-5720, Barron, Laurence D., Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Rotello, Vincent M. and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2018) Chiral plasmonic fields probe structural order of biointerfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(27), pp. 8509-8517. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b03634) (PMID:29909628)

Paterson, Gary W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-048X, Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Smith, Scott G., Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 and MacLaren, Donald A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0641-686X (2018) Symmetry reduction and shape effects in concave chiral plasmonic structures. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(9), pp. 5049-5056. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b12260)

Kelly, Christopher, Khorashad, Larousse Khosravi, Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Barron, Laurence D., Govorov, Alexander O., Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829 and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2018) Controlling metamaterial transparency with superchiral fields. ACS Photonics, 5(2), pp. 535-543. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01071)

2017

Tullius, R. et al. (2017) Superchiral plasmonic phase sensitivity for fingerprinting of protein interface structure. ACS Nano, 11(12), pp. 12049-12056. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b04698) (PMID:29220155)

2016

Jack, Calum, Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Leyman, Ross, Tullius, Ryan, Rotello, Vincent M., Cooke, Graeme ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0890-5720, Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Barron, Laurence D. and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2016) Biomacromolecular stereostructure mediates mode hybridization in chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nano Letters, 16(9), pp. 5806-5814. (doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02549) (PMID:27547978)

Jack, C. et al. (2016) Spatial control of chemical processes on nanostructures through nano-localized water heating. Nature Communications, 7, 10946. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms10946) (PMID:26961708) (PMCID:PMC4792951)

2015

Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Jack, Calum, Tullius, Ryan, Rotello, Vincent M., Cooke, Graeme ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0890-5720, Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Barron, Laurence D. and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2015) Disposable plasmonics: plastic templated plasmonic metamaterials with tunable chirality. Advanced Materials, 27(37), pp. 5610-5616. (doi: 10.1002/adma.201501816)

Paterson, G. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-048X, Karimullah, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Williamson, S. D. R., Kadodwala, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 and MacLaren, D. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0641-686X (2015) Electron energy loss spectroscopy of a chiral plasmonic structure. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 644(1), 012005. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/644/1/012005)

Tullius, Ryan, Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Rodier, Marion, Fitzpatrick, Brian, Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X, Barron, Laurence D., Rotello, Vincent M., Cooke, Graeme ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0890-5720, Lapthorn, Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2197-8134 and Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688 (2015) "Superchiral” spectroscopy: detection of protein higher order hierarchical structure with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(26), pp. 8380-8383. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b04806) (PMID:26102606)

2013

Kadodwala, Malcolm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-5688, Abdulrahman, Nadia, Syme, Christopher D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0913-1141, Jack, Calum, Barron, Laurence D., Karimullah, Affar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829 and Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X (2013) The origin of off–resonance non-linear optical activity of a gold chiral nanomaterial. Nanoscale, 5(24), pp. 12651-12657. (doi: 10.1039/c3nr04746f)

Karimullah, Affar S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Cumming, David R.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7838-8362, Riehle, Mathis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7988-1514 and Gadegaard, Nikolaj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-846X (2013) Development of a conducting polymer cell impedance sensor. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 176, pp. 667-674. (doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.09.075)

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Number of items: 33.

Articles

Chaubey, S. K. et al. (2024) Ultrasensitive Raman detection of biomolecular conformation at the attomole scale using chiral nanophotonics. Small, 20(45), 2404536. (doi: 10.1002/smll.202404536)

Kumar, R. et al. (2024) Electromagnetic enantiomer: chiral nanophotonic cavities for inducing chemical asymmetry. ACS Nano, 18(3), pp. 22220-22232. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c05861) (PMID:39107108)

Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) A cross-reactive plasmonic sensing array for drinking water assessment. Environmental Science: Nano, 10(12), pp. 3500-3508. (doi: 10.1039/D3EN00565H) (PMID:38073859)

Olshtrem, A. et al. (2023) Chiral plasmonic response of 2D Ti3C2Tx flakes: realization and applications. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(30), 2212786. (doi: 10.1002/adfm.202212786)

Hajji, M. et al. (2021) A chiral quantum metamaterial for hypersensitive biomolecule detection. ACS Nano, 15(12), pp. 19905-19916. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c07408) (PMID:34846858)

Kakkar, T. et al. (2020) Superchiral near fields detect virus structure. Light: Science and Applications, 9(1), 195. (doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-00433-1) (PMID:33298854) (PMCID:PMC7705013)

Conference Proceedings

Xia, Yuanjie, Li, Haobo, Vaskeviciute, Marija ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4924-4802, Faccio, Daniele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8397-334X, Karimullah, Affar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8792-9829, Heidari, Hadi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8412-8164 and Ghannam, Rami ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6910-9280 (2024) Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Based Reconfigurable Optical Combiner for Head-Mounted Display Application. In: IEEE VR 2024, Orlando, FL, USA, 16-21 Mar 2024, pp. 723-724. ISBN 9798350374490 (doi: 10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00158)

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2023

Sperling, J. R. , Poursat, B., Savage, L., Christie, I., Cuthill, C., McGuire, K. , Karimullah, A. S. , Robbie, J. , Gauchotte-Lindsay, C. , Peveler, W. J. and Clark, A. W. (2023) A nanoplasmonic sensor array for optical inline drinking water assessment: a pilot study with rural Scottish water treatment works. [Data Collection]

2018

Paterson, G., Karimullah, A. , Smith, S., Kadodwala, M. and MacLaren, D. (2018) Symmetry Reduction and Shape Effects in Concave Chiral Plasmonic Structures. [Data Collection]

2015

Paterson, G., Karimullah, A. , Williamson, S. D. R., Kadodwala, M. and MacLaren, D. (2015) Electron energy loss spectroscopy of a chiral plasmonic structure. [Data Collection]

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