CURRENT PROJECTS
2D Materials for Next Generation Healthcare Technologies (2D-Health)
This EPSRC programme grant capitalises on the world-leading expertise and research infrastructure on graphene and 2D materials available at The University of Manchester in order to deliver more effective healthcare technologies to patients.
2D materials, such as graphene, are one-atom thick flat crystals. They cover a large range of intriguing properties (from conductive to insulating, from transparent to opaque, from mechanically stiff to very flexible) that can be exploited for the creation of new devices and technologies with a wide range of applications. These newly developed materials and technologies hold great potential for use in biomedicine. In this project they will be exploited for the design and engineering of novel healthcare technologies to develop innovative solutions for specific unmet clinical needs in wound care and management (relevant to diabetes); neural rehabilitation by electrical stimulation (relevant to dementia); cell therapeutics (relevant to ophthalmological and cardiovascular disease); and immunotherapeutics (relevant to cancer).
More info: http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/P00119X/1
THE 2D-HEALTH TEAM
Leader: Prof Kostarelos
Co-investigators: Prof Casiraghi, Prof Nair, Prof Grigorieva, Prof Novoselov, Prof Tirelli, Prof Larrosa, Prof Dryfe and Prof Macdonald
Website: www.2d-health.com
2D materials, such as graphene, are one-atom thick flat crystals. They cover a large range of intriguing properties (from conductive to insulating, from transparent to opaque, from mechanically stiff to very flexible) that can be exploited for the creation of new devices and technologies with a wide range of applications. These newly developed materials and technologies hold great potential for use in biomedicine. In this project they will be exploited for the design and engineering of novel healthcare technologies to develop innovative solutions for specific unmet clinical needs in wound care and management (relevant to diabetes); neural rehabilitation by electrical stimulation (relevant to dementia); cell therapeutics (relevant to ophthalmological and cardiovascular disease); and immunotherapeutics (relevant to cancer).
More info: http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/P00119X/1
THE 2D-HEALTH TEAM
Leader: Prof Kostarelos
Co-investigators: Prof Casiraghi, Prof Nair, Prof Grigorieva, Prof Novoselov, Prof Tirelli, Prof Larrosa, Prof Dryfe and Prof Macdonald
Website: www.2d-health.com
Let's play LEGO with 2D CRYSTALS!
2-Dimensional (2D) atomic crystals are stable materials, which carry many properties which cannot be found in their 3D counterparts.
This class of materials started with graphene - a monolayer of carbon atoms arranged into a hexagonal lattice, with unique electronic, chemical, optical and mechanical properties.
Many of these various materials are structurally similar, but have very different electronic properties, ranging from semiconducting to metallic depending on their exact composition and thickness.
In this project we play LEGO with the crystals, i.e. we assemble the crystals back into 3D structures, so we can make use of all their outstanding properties in a unique material, carefully designed at the nanoscale.
This project aims at designing and constructing materials and device at the nanoscale.
Bringing graphene-based membranes into the real world
The group of Dr Casiraghi is working on a £3.5M research programme to develop the science and technology of graphene-based membranes will kick off in July 2013. Supported by the EPSRC graphene engineering initiative, the project involves researchers from across the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
Membranes – thin films that either allow or prevent the movement of specific molecules or ions – can help provide solutions to many issues that affect us all, from stopping power stations releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, to detecting the chemical signals produced by agricultural pests. No molecules can get through a perfect sheet of graphene (a one-atom thick layer of carbon), but when platelets of graphene are built into more complex structures, highly selective membranes can be generated. The aim is, together with industrial partners, to produce working membranes for applications related to sustainability, energy, health, defence and food security.
THE GRAPHENE MEMBRANE TEAM
Standing: Prof. Peter Budd (Chemistry), Leader.
Seated (left to right): Dr. Rahul Raveendran Nair (Physics & Astronomy), Dr. Cinzia Casiraghi (Chemistry), Dr. Aravind Vijayaraghavan (Computer Science), Dr. Andrey Jivkov (Mech., Aero. & Civil Eng.), Dr Sarah Haigh (Materials), Dr. Paola Carbone (Chem. Eng. & Anal. Sci.), Dr. Stuart Holmes (Chem. Eng. & Anal. Sci.), Prof. Sven Schroeder (Chem. Eng. & Anal. Sci.), Dr. Bruce Grieve (Elec. & Electronic Eng.). Not in picture: Prof. Ian Kinloch (Materials), Dr. Flor Siperstein (Chem. Eng. & Anal. Sci.).
Membranes – thin films that either allow or prevent the movement of specific molecules or ions – can help provide solutions to many issues that affect us all, from stopping power stations releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, to detecting the chemical signals produced by agricultural pests. No molecules can get through a perfect sheet of graphene (a one-atom thick layer of carbon), but when platelets of graphene are built into more complex structures, highly selective membranes can be generated. The aim is, together with industrial partners, to produce working membranes for applications related to sustainability, energy, health, defence and food security.
THE GRAPHENE MEMBRANE TEAM
Standing: Prof. Peter Budd (Chemistry), Leader.
Seated (left to right): Dr. Rahul Raveendran Nair (Physics & Astronomy), Dr. Cinzia Casiraghi (Chemistry), Dr. Aravind Vijayaraghavan (Computer Science), Dr. Andrey Jivkov (Mech., Aero. & Civil Eng.), Dr Sarah Haigh (Materials), Dr. Paola Carbone (Chem. Eng. & Anal. Sci.), Dr. Stuart Holmes (Chem. Eng. & Anal. Sci.), Prof. Sven Schroeder (Chem. Eng. & Anal. Sci.), Dr. Bruce Grieve (Elec. & Electronic Eng.). Not in picture: Prof. Ian Kinloch (Materials), Dr. Flor Siperstein (Chem. Eng. & Anal. Sci.).
Graphene-Organic SuPramolEcular functionaL composites (GOSPEL)
The aim of GOSPEL is the development of new hybrid materials based on the supramolecular interactions of graphene sheets with tailored organic molecules, either small polyaromatics or polymers, for applications in optoelectronics.
Different types of molecules (coronenes, perylenes, long alkanes, poly-phenyleneethynylenes, phthalocyanines, etc.) are known to interact with the surface of graphite forming highly ordered and stable crystalline monolayers on its surface. The orientation of the molecules on the surface is highly specific (i.e. face-on or edge-on), and even the lateral arrangement of the molecules on the surface can be ordered on nanometric scale.
GOSPEL project aims at exploiting this strong interaction to exfoliate low cost-graphite into graphene sheets, by mixing solutions of organic molecules with suspensions of graphite flakes.
More info: http://www.isof.cnr.it/gospel/
Different types of molecules (coronenes, perylenes, long alkanes, poly-phenyleneethynylenes, phthalocyanines, etc.) are known to interact with the surface of graphite forming highly ordered and stable crystalline monolayers on its surface. The orientation of the molecules on the surface is highly specific (i.e. face-on or edge-on), and even the lateral arrangement of the molecules on the surface can be ordered on nanometric scale.
GOSPEL project aims at exploiting this strong interaction to exfoliate low cost-graphite into graphene sheets, by mixing solutions of organic molecules with suspensions of graphite flakes.
More info: http://www.isof.cnr.it/gospel/