Professor Alasdair Clark

  • Professor of Nanoscale Engineering (Biomedical Engineering)

email: Alasdair.Clark@glasgow.ac.uk

Advanced Research Centre, Level 4, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9797-5776

Biography

Alasdair Clark is a Professor of Nanoscale Engineering working in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow. Alasdair leads the Nanophotonic Devices research group. 

Research interests

Website

https://awclarkresearch.wordpress.com/

 

PhD Positions - 2024

If you are interested in studying as a PhD student in my group please follow the links below for more information. 

PhD - Engineered Molecular Surfaces to Gain Insight into the mechanisms of RNA Splicing

PhD - Artificial Taste Buds for industrial, medical, and environmental applications

PhD - Nano-Photonic Metasurfaces for Optical Communications

PhD - Reconfigurable Metasurfaces

PhD - Plasmonics for Security Labelling

PhD - DNA Origami as a self-assembly tool for applications in sensing, therapeutics, and engineering

Contact alasdair.clark@glasgow.ac.uk to apply

 
 

Research Interests

Dr. Clark’s research concentrates on developing novel, nano-engineered devices based on the interaction of light with nano-metals, a field known as plasmonics. Dr. Clark’s group seeks to develop new nanophotonic materials and devices for applications optics, photonics, bio-imaging, sensing, diagnostics, and DNA nanotechnology.

 

Journal Covers

Expertise

Plasmonics, electron-beam lithography, nanolithography, structural colour, molecular nanopatterning, self assembly, nanophotonics, optics, biosensing, biosensors, sensors, molecular assembly, colorimetrics, metamaterials, metasurfaces, synthetic biology, DNA Origami, DNA nano-patterning, DNA nanotechnology, nanomaterials, plasmon, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), structural color.

Publications

Selected publications

Li, Z., Clark, A. W. and Cooper, J. M. (2016) Dual color plasmonic pixels create a polarization controlled nano color palette. ACS Nano, 10(1), pp. 492-498. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05411) (PMID:26631346)

Clark, A. W. , Thompson, D. G., Graham, D. and Cooper, J. M. (2014) Engineering DNA binding sites to assemble and tune plasmonic nanostructures. Advanced Materials, 26(25), pp. 4286-4292. (doi: 10.1002/adma.201400510)

Clark, A.W. and Cooper, J. (2012) Plasmon shaping using protein nanoarrays and molecular lithography to engineer structural color. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 51(15), pp. 3562-3566. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201108007)

Clark, A.W. , Glidle, A., Cumming, D.R.S. and Cooper, J.M. (2009) Plasmonic split-ring resonators as dichroic nanophotonic DNA biosensors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(48), pp. 17615-17619. (doi: 10.1021/ja905910q)

All publications

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Number of items: 40.

2024

Angelucci, S., Chen, Z. , Skvarenina, Ľ., Clark, A. W. , Vallés, A. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2024) Structured light enhanced machine learning for fiber bend sensing. Optics Express, 32(5), pp. 7882-7895. (doi: 10.1364/OE.513829)

Kara, H. et al. (2024) 2′-19F labelling of ribose in RNAs: a tool to analyse RNA/Protein interactions by NMR in physiological conditions. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 11, 1325041. (doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2024.1325041) (PMID:38419689) (PMCID:PMC10899400)

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)

Mcguire, K. et al. (2023) Supramolecular click chemistry for surface modification of quantum dots mediated by Cucurbit[7]uril. ACS Nano, 17(21), pp. 21585-21594. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.3c06601) (PMID:37922402)

Christie, I., Peveler, W. J. and Clark, A. W. (2023) Optimising Cross-Reactive Plasmonic Arrays for Biosensing Applications. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine XX, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2649244)

Onilude, H. A., Santana Vega, M. and Clark, A. W. (2023) Functionalisation of 20 nm Citrate-Coated Gold Nanoparticles Using Perfluorodecanethiol. In: SPIE OPTO 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan-3 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2649965)

Santana Vega, M. et al. (2023) A New Platform for Single Molecule Measurements Using the Fluorous Effect. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging XVI, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2647953)

Govenlock, G., Boehme, L. and Clark, A. W. (2023) Nanoplasmonic Ecosystem Sensors. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment and Environmental Applications XXIII, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2649117)

Sperling, J. R. , Savage, L., Wilson, L. T. , Cuthill, C., Mcguire, K., Robbie, J. , Sloan, W. D. , Gauchotte-Lindsay, C. , Peveler, W. J. and Clark, A. W. (2023) Optical Tastebuds for Water Quality Testing. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment and Environmental Applications XXIII, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2647396)

Zou, J. et al. (2023) Fluorous-directed assembly of DNA origami nanostructures. ACS Nano, 17(1), pp. 752-759. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.2c10727) (PMID:36537902) (PMCID:PMC9835977)

Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) Optical Tastebuds for Water Analysis. In: Applied Industrial Spectroscopy 2023, Munich, Germany, 30 Jul - 03 Aug 2023, ISBN 9781957171241 (doi: 10.1364/AIS.2023.AM2A.6)

2022

Bueno-Alejo, C. J. et al. (2022) Surface passivation with a perfluoroalkane brush improves the precision of single-molecule measurements. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14(44), pp. 49604-49616. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.2c16647) (PMID:36306432) (PMCID:PMC9650645)

2019

Zhang, S., Li, W., Elsayed, M., Tian, P., Clark, A. W. , Wheeler, A. R. and Neale, S. L. (2019) Size-scaling effects for microparticles and cells manipulated by optoelectronic tweezers. Optics Letters, 44(17), pp. 4171-4174. (doi: 10.1364/OL.44.004171) (PMID:31465355)

Macias, G., Sperling, J. R. , Peveler, W. J. , Burley, G. A., Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2019) Whisky tasting using a bimetallic nanoplasmonic tongue. Nanoscale, 11(32), pp. 15216-15223. (doi: 10.1039/C9NR04583J) (PMID:31384879)

Sperling, J. R. , Macias Sotuela, G., Burley, G. A., Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2019) Nanoplasmonic discrimination of organic solvents using a bimetallic optical tongue. In: SPIE BiOS 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2-7 Feb 2019, 108950G. (doi: 10.1117/12.2507275)

2018

Sperling, J. R. , Macias, G., Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2018) Multilayered nanoplasmonic arrays for self-referenced biosensing. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(40), pp. 34774-34780. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b12604) (PMID:30207457)

2017

Zhang, S. et al. (2017) Manufacturing with light – micro-assembly of opto-electronic microstructures. Optics Express, 25(23), pp. 28838-28850. (doi: 10.1364/OE.25.028838)

Heydari, E., Sperling, J. R. , Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2017) Plasmonic color filters as dual-state nanopixels for high-density microimage encoding. Advanced Functional Materials, 27(35), 1701866. (doi: 10.1002/adfm.201701866)

Sperling, J. R. , Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2017) Bridging the gap: rewritable electronics using real-time light-induced dielectrophoresis on lithium niobate. Scientific Reports, 7, 9660. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-09877-9) (PMID:28851963) (PMCID:PMC5575290)

Flynn, G. E., Withers, J. M., Macias, G., Sperling, J. R. , Henry, S. L., Cooper, J. M. , Burley, G. A. and Clark, A. W. (2017) Reversible DNA micro-patterning using the fluorous effect. Chemical Communications, 53(21), pp. 3094-3097. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC00288B) (PMID:28243661) (PMCID:PMC5358500)

2016

Heydari, E., Li, Z., Cooper, J. M. and Clark, A. W. (2016) Polarization switchable two-color plasmonic nano-pixels for creating optical surfaces encoded with dual information states. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 9756, 975619. (doi: 10.1117/12.2209103)

Henry, S. L., Withers, J. M., Singh, I., Cooper, J. M. , Clark, A. W. , Burley, G. A. and Cogdell, R. J. (2016) DNA-directed spatial assembly of photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 14(4), pp. 1359-1362. (doi: 10.1039/c5ob02351c) (PMID:26660647)

Li, Z., Clark, A. W. and Cooper, J. M. (2016) Dual color plasmonic pixels create a polarization controlled nano color palette. ACS Nano, 10(1), pp. 492-498. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05411) (PMID:26631346)

2015

Kashmery, H. A., Thompson, D. G., Dondi, R., Mabbott, S., Graham, D., Clark, A. W. and Burley, G. A. (2015) SERS enhancement of silver nanoparticles prepared by a template-directed triazole ligand strategy. Chemical Communications, 51(65), pp. 13028-13031. (doi: 10.1039/C5CC02883C) (PMID:26179948)

Heydari, E., Thompson, D., Graham, D., Cooper, J. M. and Clark, A. W. (2015) An Engineered Nano-Plasmonic Biosensing Surface for Colorimetric and SERS Detection of DNA-Hybridization Events. In: Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine XII, San Francisco CA, USA, 7-8 Feb 2015, 93400O. (doi: 10.1117/12.2076915)

2014

Kashmery, H. A., Clark, A. W. , Dondi, R., Fallows, A. J., Cullis, P. M. and Burley, G. A. (2014) Defining the structural parameters of tri­azole ligands in the templated synthesis of silver nanoparticles. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2014(28), pp. 4886-4895. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.201402593)

Li, Z., Clark, A. W. and Cooper, J. (2014) Annular nanoplasmonic void arrays as tunable surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates. Applied Physics Letters, 105(3), 033115. (doi: 10.1063/1.4891537)

Clark, A. W. , Thompson, D. G., Graham, D. and Cooper, J. M. (2014) Engineering DNA binding sites to assemble and tune plasmonic nanostructures. Advanced Materials, 26(25), pp. 4286-4292. (doi: 10.1002/adma.201400510)

Neale, S. L. , Witte, C. , Clark, A. W. , Reboud, J. and Cooper, J. M. (2014) Optoelectronic cell lysis. In: Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI, San Diego, CA, USA, 17-21 Aug 2014, p. 916425. (doi: 10.1117/12.2062186)

2013

Clark, A.W. and Cooper, J.M. (2013) Molecularly defined plasmonic engineering to visualize antibody binding events by eye. In: SPIE Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA, 02 Feb 2013, 85970Q-85970Q. (doi: 10.1117/12.2003130)

Singh, I., Wendeln, C., Clark, A.W. , Cooper, J.M. , Ravoo, B.J. and Burley, G.A. (2013) Sequence-selective detection of double-stranded dna sequences using pyrrole–imidazole polyamide microarrays. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(9), pp. 3449-3457. (doi: 10.1021/ja309677h)

2012

Clark, A.W. and Cooper, J. (2012) Plasmon shaping using protein nanoarrays and molecular lithography to engineer structural color. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 51(15), pp. 3562-3566. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201108007)

2011

Clark, A.W. and Cooper, J.M. (2011) Nanogap ring antennae as plasmonically coupled SERRS substrates. Small, 7(1), pp. 119-125. (doi: 10.1002/smll.201001438)

2010

Clark, A. and Cooper, J. (2010) Optical properties of multiple-split nanophotonic ring antennae. Advanced Materials, 22(36), pp. 4025-4029. (doi: 10.1002/adma.201000131)

2009

Clark, A.W. , Glidle, A., Cumming, D.R.S. and Cooper, J.M. (2009) Plasmonic split-ring resonators as dichroic nanophotonic DNA biosensors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(48), pp. 17615-17619. (doi: 10.1021/ja905910q)

Cleary, A., Clark, A. , Glidle, A., Cooper, J.M. and Cumming, D.R.S. (2009) Fabrication of double split metallic nanorings for Raman sensing. Microelectronic Engineering, 86(4-6), pp. 1146-1149. (doi: 10.1016/j.mee.2009.02.008)

2008

Clark, A.W. , Glidle, A., Cumming, D.R.S. and Cooper, J.M. (2008) Nanophotonic split-ring resonators as dichroics for molecular spectroscopy. Applied Physics Letters, 93(2), 023121. (doi: 10.1063/1.2956389)

2007

Sheridan, A.K., Clark, A.W. , Glidle, A., Cooper, J.M. and Cumming, D.R.S. (2007) Fabrication and tuning of nanoscale metallic ring and split-ring arrays. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, 25(6), p. 2628. (doi: 10.1116/1.2794328)

Clark, A.W. , Sheridan, A.K., Glidle, A., Cumming, D.R.S. and Cooper, J.M. (2007) Tuneable visible resonances in crescent shaped nano-split-ring resonators. Applied Physics Letters, 91, (doi: 10.1063/1.2772180)

Sheridan, A.K., Clark, A.W. , Glidle, A., Cooper, J.M. and Cumming, D.R.S. (2007) Multiple plasmon resonances from gold nanostructures. Applied Physics Letters, 90(14), p. 143105. (doi: 10.1063/1.2719161)

This list was generated on Wed Dec 4 05:53:02 2024 GMT.
Number of items: 40.

Articles

Angelucci, S., Chen, Z. , Skvarenina, Ľ., Clark, A. W. , Vallés, A. and Lavery, M. P.J. (2024) Structured light enhanced machine learning for fiber bend sensing. Optics Express, 32(5), pp. 7882-7895. (doi: 10.1364/OE.513829)

Kara, H. et al. (2024) 2′-19F labelling of ribose in RNAs: a tool to analyse RNA/Protein interactions by NMR in physiological conditions. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 11, 1325041. (doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2024.1325041) (PMID:38419689) (PMCID:PMC10899400)

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)

Mcguire, K. et al. (2023) Supramolecular click chemistry for surface modification of quantum dots mediated by Cucurbit[7]uril. ACS Nano, 17(21), pp. 21585-21594. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.3c06601) (PMID:37922402)

Zou, J. et al. (2023) Fluorous-directed assembly of DNA origami nanostructures. ACS Nano, 17(1), pp. 752-759. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.2c10727) (PMID:36537902) (PMCID:PMC9835977)

Bueno-Alejo, C. J. et al. (2022) Surface passivation with a perfluoroalkane brush improves the precision of single-molecule measurements. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14(44), pp. 49604-49616. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.2c16647) (PMID:36306432) (PMCID:PMC9650645)

Zhang, S., Li, W., Elsayed, M., Tian, P., Clark, A. W. , Wheeler, A. R. and Neale, S. L. (2019) Size-scaling effects for microparticles and cells manipulated by optoelectronic tweezers. Optics Letters, 44(17), pp. 4171-4174. (doi: 10.1364/OL.44.004171) (PMID:31465355)

Macias, G., Sperling, J. R. , Peveler, W. J. , Burley, G. A., Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2019) Whisky tasting using a bimetallic nanoplasmonic tongue. Nanoscale, 11(32), pp. 15216-15223. (doi: 10.1039/C9NR04583J) (PMID:31384879)

Sperling, J. R. , Macias, G., Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2018) Multilayered nanoplasmonic arrays for self-referenced biosensing. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(40), pp. 34774-34780. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b12604) (PMID:30207457)

Zhang, S. et al. (2017) Manufacturing with light – micro-assembly of opto-electronic microstructures. Optics Express, 25(23), pp. 28838-28850. (doi: 10.1364/OE.25.028838)

Heydari, E., Sperling, J. R. , Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2017) Plasmonic color filters as dual-state nanopixels for high-density microimage encoding. Advanced Functional Materials, 27(35), 1701866. (doi: 10.1002/adfm.201701866)

Sperling, J. R. , Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2017) Bridging the gap: rewritable electronics using real-time light-induced dielectrophoresis on lithium niobate. Scientific Reports, 7, 9660. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-09877-9) (PMID:28851963) (PMCID:PMC5575290)

Flynn, G. E., Withers, J. M., Macias, G., Sperling, J. R. , Henry, S. L., Cooper, J. M. , Burley, G. A. and Clark, A. W. (2017) Reversible DNA micro-patterning using the fluorous effect. Chemical Communications, 53(21), pp. 3094-3097. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC00288B) (PMID:28243661) (PMCID:PMC5358500)

Heydari, E., Li, Z., Cooper, J. M. and Clark, A. W. (2016) Polarization switchable two-color plasmonic nano-pixels for creating optical surfaces encoded with dual information states. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 9756, 975619. (doi: 10.1117/12.2209103)

Henry, S. L., Withers, J. M., Singh, I., Cooper, J. M. , Clark, A. W. , Burley, G. A. and Cogdell, R. J. (2016) DNA-directed spatial assembly of photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 14(4), pp. 1359-1362. (doi: 10.1039/c5ob02351c) (PMID:26660647)

Li, Z., Clark, A. W. and Cooper, J. M. (2016) Dual color plasmonic pixels create a polarization controlled nano color palette. ACS Nano, 10(1), pp. 492-498. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05411) (PMID:26631346)

Kashmery, H. A., Thompson, D. G., Dondi, R., Mabbott, S., Graham, D., Clark, A. W. and Burley, G. A. (2015) SERS enhancement of silver nanoparticles prepared by a template-directed triazole ligand strategy. Chemical Communications, 51(65), pp. 13028-13031. (doi: 10.1039/C5CC02883C) (PMID:26179948)

Kashmery, H. A., Clark, A. W. , Dondi, R., Fallows, A. J., Cullis, P. M. and Burley, G. A. (2014) Defining the structural parameters of tri­azole ligands in the templated synthesis of silver nanoparticles. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2014(28), pp. 4886-4895. (doi: 10.1002/ejic.201402593)

Li, Z., Clark, A. W. and Cooper, J. (2014) Annular nanoplasmonic void arrays as tunable surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates. Applied Physics Letters, 105(3), 033115. (doi: 10.1063/1.4891537)

Clark, A. W. , Thompson, D. G., Graham, D. and Cooper, J. M. (2014) Engineering DNA binding sites to assemble and tune plasmonic nanostructures. Advanced Materials, 26(25), pp. 4286-4292. (doi: 10.1002/adma.201400510)

Singh, I., Wendeln, C., Clark, A.W. , Cooper, J.M. , Ravoo, B.J. and Burley, G.A. (2013) Sequence-selective detection of double-stranded dna sequences using pyrrole–imidazole polyamide microarrays. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(9), pp. 3449-3457. (doi: 10.1021/ja309677h)

Clark, A.W. and Cooper, J. (2012) Plasmon shaping using protein nanoarrays and molecular lithography to engineer structural color. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 51(15), pp. 3562-3566. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201108007)

Clark, A.W. and Cooper, J.M. (2011) Nanogap ring antennae as plasmonically coupled SERRS substrates. Small, 7(1), pp. 119-125. (doi: 10.1002/smll.201001438)

Clark, A. and Cooper, J. (2010) Optical properties of multiple-split nanophotonic ring antennae. Advanced Materials, 22(36), pp. 4025-4029. (doi: 10.1002/adma.201000131)

Clark, A.W. , Glidle, A., Cumming, D.R.S. and Cooper, J.M. (2009) Plasmonic split-ring resonators as dichroic nanophotonic DNA biosensors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(48), pp. 17615-17619. (doi: 10.1021/ja905910q)

Cleary, A., Clark, A. , Glidle, A., Cooper, J.M. and Cumming, D.R.S. (2009) Fabrication of double split metallic nanorings for Raman sensing. Microelectronic Engineering, 86(4-6), pp. 1146-1149. (doi: 10.1016/j.mee.2009.02.008)

Clark, A.W. , Glidle, A., Cumming, D.R.S. and Cooper, J.M. (2008) Nanophotonic split-ring resonators as dichroics for molecular spectroscopy. Applied Physics Letters, 93(2), 023121. (doi: 10.1063/1.2956389)

Sheridan, A.K., Clark, A.W. , Glidle, A., Cooper, J.M. and Cumming, D.R.S. (2007) Fabrication and tuning of nanoscale metallic ring and split-ring arrays. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, 25(6), p. 2628. (doi: 10.1116/1.2794328)

Clark, A.W. , Sheridan, A.K., Glidle, A., Cumming, D.R.S. and Cooper, J.M. (2007) Tuneable visible resonances in crescent shaped nano-split-ring resonators. Applied Physics Letters, 91, (doi: 10.1063/1.2772180)

Sheridan, A.K., Clark, A.W. , Glidle, A., Cooper, J.M. and Cumming, D.R.S. (2007) Multiple plasmon resonances from gold nanostructures. Applied Physics Letters, 90(14), p. 143105. (doi: 10.1063/1.2719161)

Conference Proceedings

Christie, I., Peveler, W. J. and Clark, A. W. (2023) Optimising Cross-Reactive Plasmonic Arrays for Biosensing Applications. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine XX, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2649244)

Onilude, H. A., Santana Vega, M. and Clark, A. W. (2023) Functionalisation of 20 nm Citrate-Coated Gold Nanoparticles Using Perfluorodecanethiol. In: SPIE OPTO 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan-3 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2649965)

Santana Vega, M. et al. (2023) A New Platform for Single Molecule Measurements Using the Fluorous Effect. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging XVI, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2647953)

Govenlock, G., Boehme, L. and Clark, A. W. (2023) Nanoplasmonic Ecosystem Sensors. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment and Environmental Applications XXIII, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2649117)

Sperling, J. R. , Savage, L., Wilson, L. T. , Cuthill, C., Mcguire, K., Robbie, J. , Sloan, W. D. , Gauchotte-Lindsay, C. , Peveler, W. J. and Clark, A. W. (2023) Optical Tastebuds for Water Quality Testing. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment and Environmental Applications XXIII, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2647396)

Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) Optical Tastebuds for Water Analysis. In: Applied Industrial Spectroscopy 2023, Munich, Germany, 30 Jul - 03 Aug 2023, ISBN 9781957171241 (doi: 10.1364/AIS.2023.AM2A.6)

Sperling, J. R. , Macias Sotuela, G., Burley, G. A., Neale, S. L. and Clark, A. W. (2019) Nanoplasmonic discrimination of organic solvents using a bimetallic optical tongue. In: SPIE BiOS 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2-7 Feb 2019, 108950G. (doi: 10.1117/12.2507275)

Heydari, E., Thompson, D., Graham, D., Cooper, J. M. and Clark, A. W. (2015) An Engineered Nano-Plasmonic Biosensing Surface for Colorimetric and SERS Detection of DNA-Hybridization Events. In: Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine XII, San Francisco CA, USA, 7-8 Feb 2015, 93400O. (doi: 10.1117/12.2076915)

Neale, S. L. , Witte, C. , Clark, A. W. , Reboud, J. and Cooper, J. M. (2014) Optoelectronic cell lysis. In: Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI, San Diego, CA, USA, 17-21 Aug 2014, p. 916425. (doi: 10.1117/12.2062186)

Clark, A.W. and Cooper, J.M. (2013) Molecularly defined plasmonic engineering to visualize antibody binding events by eye. In: SPIE Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA, 02 Feb 2013, 85970Q-85970Q. (doi: 10.1117/12.2003130)

This list was generated on Thu Dec 5 06:27:29 2024 GMT.

Grants

 

  • Industrial Funding, Plasmonic Sensors, Apr 23 - Apr 24. £270k
  • Industrial Funding, Plasmonic Sensors, Feb 22 - Apr 23. £255k
  • Industrial Funding, Plasmonic Sensors, August 21 - Feb 22. £100k
  • EPSRC, "Decentralised Water Technologies", 2021 - 2026, Co-I, £4M 
  • Industrial Funding, Plasmonic Sensors, January-June 2021. £100k
  • University of Sydney - University of Glasgow Partnership Collaboration Awards. In collaboration with Dr. Shelley Wickham. January 2020 - January 2021. £20k
  • BBSRC sLoLa, "How do RNA-Binding Proteins Control Splice Site Selection?", In collaboration the University of Strathclyde and the University of Leicester. April 2020 - April 2025. £4.1M
  • The Leverhulme Trust, "Macromolecular construction of DNA networks using the Fluorous effect", In collaboration with Prof. Glenn Burley, University of Strathclyde. Nov 2018 - Nov 2021. £335k. 
  • Royal Society Research Grant. November 2017 - November 2018. £12k
  • BBSRC Grant, "DNA-directed construction of three-dimensional photosynthetic assemblies" In collaboration with Dr. Glenn Burley, University of Strathclyde, and Prof. Richard Cogdell, University of Glasgow. Oct 2016- June 2020. £844k 
  • EPSRC First Grant. May 2016 - May 2017. £125k.
  • The Leverhulme Trust, "Photonic circuitry using DNA", In collaboration with Dr. Glenn Burley, University of Strathclyde. May 2015 - Nov 2017. £231k.
  • School of Engineering, "Novel Optical Electrical Mechanical Sensory Platform."  In collaboration with Dr Steven Neale and Dr. Manlio Tassieri.  From 11/06/12. £40k.
  • Scottish Crucible Award, Royal Society of Edinburgh, "The Development of a Viral Outbreak Early Warning System for Field and Hospital Use." In collaboration with Dr. Helen Bridle (Heriot Watt) and Dr. William Mackay (UWS). From Jan 2013. £4k
  • Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship, “Plasmon Enhanced Pyroelectrodynamic Nanoscale Trapping and Sensing.”  2011-2016. £594k.



 

Supervision

 

  • Justin Sperling (RA)
  • Hammed Onilude (PhD)
  • Sara Angelucci (PhD)
  • Sara Shadman (PhD)
  • Rebecca Setford (PhD)
  • Hailey Gao (PhD)
  • Fei Teng (PhD)
  • Mirinal Rayappa (PhD) 

 

Alumni:

  • Marina Santana Vega (RA)
  • Badri Aekbote (RA)
  • Sathkumara Narayana Mudalige (RA)
  • Jamie Withers (RA)
  • Gerard Sotuela (RA)
  • Esmaeil Heydari (RA)
  • Sarah Henry (RA)
  • Sia Andresson (RA)
  • Ashley Stammers (RA)
  • Andrew Farthing (PhD)
  • Greig Govenlock (PhD)
  • Iain Christie (PhD)
  • Gabriella Flynn (PhD)
  • Olurotimi Esan (PhD)
  • Zhibo Li (PhD)
  • Jiajia Zou (PhD)
  • Rayappa, Mirinal
    Novel nano-sensor for multiplexed and rapid identification of pathogens using an artificial tongue platform

Teaching

ENG3084/ENG5287 Biomechanics 3/M

ENG5281 Energy in Biological Systems

ENG5044 Integrated Systems Design Project M

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

  • 2011 - 2016: Royal Academy of Engineering, Research Fellowship
  • 2013 - 2016: University of Glasgow, Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Leadership Fellowship

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2016 - present: EPSRC, Review Council

Selected international presentations

  • 2019: FNANO 2019 (invited) (Snowbird, Utah, USA)
  • 2019: META 2019 (invited) (Lisbon, Portugal)
  • 2018: META 2018 (invited) (Mediterranean Sea)
  • 2017: META 2017 (invited) (Seoul, South Korea)
  • 2017: Optofluidics 17 (invited) (Singapore)
  • 2017: Frontiers in Engineering EU-US Symposium (invited) (Davis, CA, USA)
  • 2014: Frontiers in Engineering EU-US Symposium (invited) (Seattle, USA)
  • 2012: Photonic Technologies and Applications (invited) (Berkeley, USA)
  • 2007: Gordon Research Conference, The Physics & Chemistry of Microfluidics (invited) (New Hampshire, USA)

Research datasets

Jump to: 2023 | 2022 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016
Number of items: 7.

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]

2022

Zou, J., Stammers, A. C. , Taladriz-Sender, A., Withers, J., Christie, I., Santana Vega, M., Aekbote, B. , Peveler, W. , Rusling, D., Burley, G. and Clark, A. (2022) Fluorous Directed Assembly of DNA Origami Nanostructures. [Data Collection]

2019

Sperling, J. R. , Macias, G., Neale, S. and Clark, A. (2019) Multilayered Nanoplasmonic Arrays for Self-Referenced Biosensing. [Data Collection]

Sperling, J. , Macias-Sotuela, G., Peveler, W. , Burley, G., Neale, S. and Clark, A. (2019) Whisky tasting using a bimetallic nanoplasmonic tongue. [Data Collection]

2017

Heydari, E., Sperling, J. , Neale, S. and Clark, A. (2017) High density optical storage using plasmonic nano pixels as dual-state data-bits. [Data Collection]

Sperling, J. , Neale, S. and Clark, A. (2017) Bridging the Gap - Rewritable Electronics Using Pyroelectric Tweezing. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)

2016

Flynn, G., Withers, J., Macias-Soteula, G., Cooper, J. , Burley, G., Clark, A., Henry, S. and Sperling, J. (2016) Reversible DNA Micro-patterning Using the Fluorous Effect. [Data Collection]

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