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Professor Iouri Gounko

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry(1922) (Chemistry)
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Professor Iouri Gounko

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry(1922) (Chemistry)
SNIAM

 igounko@tcd.ie

 3531896 3543


1982-87 M.Sc (with distinction, major Organometallic Chemistry), Moscow State University 1987-90 Ph.D, Inorganic Chemistry, Moscow State University 1990-93 Lecturer in Chemistry and Materials for Electronics (Bielorussian Techn.University) 1993-94 Postdoctoral Fellow (Royal Society Award), research on organolanthanides, University of Sussex 1994-95 Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Materials for Electronics (Bielorussian Techn. University) 1995-96 Postdoctoral Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Award), research on organosilicon compounds, University of Magdeburg 1996-98 Postdoctoral Researcher, research on organolanthanides (EPSRC), University of Sussex 1999- to date Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin 2002- to date Director of Physics and Chemistry of Advanced Materials.
  Colloids   Composite materials   Diagnostic bioimaging   Drug development and evaluation   Imaging Techniques   Inorganic Chemistry   Nano Biotechnology   Nanotechnology   Nanotubes   Optical materials   Organometallic chemistry   Plastics   Polymers
Project Title
 Magnetic iron oxide nanowires
From
01/10/05
To
30/09/08
Summary
Funding Agency
SFI
Programme
RFP
Person Months
72
Project Title
 Carbon nanotube organometallics
From
01/10/05
To
30/09/08
Summary
Funding Agency
SFI
Programme
RFP
Person Months
72
Project Title
 Two in one" fluorescent magnetic nanocomposites for biomedical application
From
01/10/04
To
30/09/07
Summary
Funding Agency
SFI
Programme
Basic Research Grants
Person Months
72
Project Title
 Quantum dots for biomedical applications
From
01/10/02
To
30/06/05
Summary
Funding Agency
Enterprise Ireland
Programme
RIF
Person Months
48

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Basic Basic Basic
German Medium Medium Medium
Russian Fluent Fluent Fluent
Bai, Xue and Wu, Lingzhi and Magan, John J. and Jennings, Brian and Zhou, Wei and Wang, Shenghao and Gun'ko, Yurii K. and Wang, Gaozhong, Dense and Nanoporous Glasses as Host Matrices to Grow Quantum Dots for Optical and Photonic Applications, Small, 21, (9), 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 3; All Open Access, Green Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Branzi, Lorenzo and Fitzsimmons, Lucy and Chunin, Igor and Shvets, Igor and Gun'ko, Yurii K., Unveiling Chirality in MoS2 Nanosheets: A Breakthrough in Phase Engineering for Enhanced Chiroptical Properties, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 64, (8), 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 1], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Branzi, Lorenzo and Martyn, Joseph and Fitzsimmons, Lucy and Gun'ko, Yurii K., Chirality in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanostructures, Chemistry - A European Journal, 31, (35), 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kuznetsova, V. and Coogan, Ã . and Botov, D. and Gromova, Y. and Ushakova, E.V. and Gun'ko, Y.K., Expanding the Horizons of Machine Learning in Nanomaterials to Chiral Nanostructures, Advanced Materials, 36, (18), 2024, Notes: [cited By 2], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Branzi, Lorenzo and Fitzsimmons, Lucy and Gun'ko, Yurii K., Bottom-up Synthesis of Highly Chiral 1T Molybdenum Disulfide Nanosheets, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 63, (41), 2024, Notes: [Cited by: 5; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Justin Narimbi, Sivakumar Balakrishnan, Tatiana S. Perova, Garret Dee, Gerhard F. Swiegers, Yurii K. Gun'ko, XRD and Spectroscopic investigations of ZIF - microchannel glass plates composites, Materials, 16, (2410), 2023, p1-15 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Coogan I, Doménech N.G, Mc Ginley D, Simonian T, Rafferty A, Fedix Q, Donlon A, Nicolosi V, Gun'ko Y.K, Layered double hydroxide/boron nitride nanocomposite membranes for efficient separation and photodegradation of water-soluble dyes, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11, (23), 2023, p12266 - 12281, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Branzi, L. and Lavet, O. and Gun'ko, Y.K., Ligand induced chirality in In2S3 nanoparticles, Nanoscale, 15, (46), 2023, p18753-18761 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
King, A.M. and Insinna, T. and Wells, C.J.R. and Raby, I.A. and Gun'ko, Y.K. and Davies, G.-L., Magnetically driven preparation of 1-D nano-necklaces capable of MRI relaxation enhancement, Nanoscale Advances, 5, (12), 2023, p3209-3213 , Notes: [cited By 1], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dee, G. and Shayoub, H. and McNeill, H. and Lozano, I.S. and Rafferty, A. and Gun'ko, Y.K., MnFe2O4@SiO2@CeO2 core-shell nanostructures for applications in water remediation, RSC Advances, 13, (16), 2023, p10513-10522 , Notes: [cited By 2], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Mates-Torres, E.; García-Melchor, M., Chiroptically active 1D ultrathin AuAg nanostructures, ioChem-BD, 2021, Dataset, PUBLISHED
Martinez-Carmona, Marina; Cela, Carmela; Kuznetsova, Vera A.; Geoghegan, Joan A.; Gun'ko, Yurii K., Enantioselective effect of cysteine functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles in U87 MG and GM08680 human cells and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 9, 2021, p3544-3553 , Notes: [https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/tb/d0tb02532a Martinez-Carmona, Marina; Cela, Carmela; Kuznetsova, Vera A.; Geoghegan, Joan A.; Gun'ko, Yurii K. Enantioselective effect of cysteine functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles in U87 MG and GM08680 human cells and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. J. Mater. Chem. B, 2021, 9, 3544-3553, 10.1039/D0TB02532A], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
M. Wojdyla, S. Gallagher, Y.K. Gun'ko, J. M. Kelly, S. J. Quinn, I.P. Clark, G.M. Greetham, M. Towrie and A.W. Parker, Ultrafast Transient Absorption Studies on CdTe and Chiral CdSe Quantum Dots - Central Laser Facility, Annual Report 2008-2009, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 2009, 193-196, Report, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Royal Society Fellowship Award 1993
Alexander von Humboldt Award 1995
Dr. Gun'ko works in the areas of Organometallic Chemistry, Science of Materials and Nanotechnology. Dr. Gun'ko supervises a research team consisting at present of 8 postgraduate students and 4 postdoctoral research fellows. Dr. Gun'ko has 125 publications in peer reviewed journals and 10 patents. His main research interest and activities are: - magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic liquids for MRI diagnostics, - nanoparticle-drug conjugates, - quantum dots (CdTe) for biomedical applications (biological imaging and drug delivery), - chemical functionalisation of carbon nanotubes, - polyhedral silsesquioxanes and metallasiloxanes.