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Dr Nicholas Power

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Lecturer in Organic Chemistry
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • School of Life, Health & Chemical Sciences
  • nicholas.power

Research interests

Our research objectives lie in the many facets of supramolecular chemistry, a branch of chemistry that is based on principles of self-organization of small molecules in to well define molecular architectures. These interactions use non-covalent methods such as hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, van der Waals forces, hydrophobic forces, electrostatic forces, cation-pi and pi-pi interactions. Theses are some of the forces at play in complex biological systems. In particular, the development of confined chemical environments through self assembly, such as nano-capsules, afford us an opportunity to systematically study molecular interactions under a significantly less imposing and less complex environment than those of biological systems. This knowledge can help facilitate the design of nano-capsules as molecular conduits for targeted delivery of potent drugs to cancer cells for example. The knowledge generated is used in the design of nanocapsules or ‘ligand halos’ for metal nanoparticles as molecular conduits for targeted delivery for therapeutic or diagnostic approaches.

Some important applications may also include molecular self-assembly, molecular recognition, host-guest chemistry, and crystal engineering to list a few. Our research requires a multidisciplinary approach for investigations. More recently, collaborations have made use of a range of calixarene derivatives and their application in the synthesis of nanomaterials (carbon quantum dots (CQD), graphene quantum dots (GQD), Silver-graphene nano-composites, and MXenes, with diverse properties suitable for ion sensing, antimicrobial activity, oil sequestration for example. Our interest in MXenes and Borophene,has diversified our research and collaborations particularly in respect to water treatment and energy storage.

External collaborations

Prof Satheesh Krishnamurthy (Director of Surrey Ion Beam Center, University of Surrey)

Prof Daniel Assumpcao Bertuol (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil)

Prof Marianny Y Combariza (Industrial University of Santander, Columbia)

Prof Scott J Dalgarno (Heriot-Watt University)

Dr Leigh Fon Jones, (Wolverhampton University)

Prof. Jerry L Atwood (University of Missouri, USA)

 

 

 

Publications

Application of layered Nickel/Indium double hydroxide in the highly efficient removal of crystal violet dye from textile effluent (2024-10)
Santos, Eduardo Teixeira; Power, Nicholas P.; Krishnamurthy, Satheesh; Bertuol, Daniel A. and Tanabe, Eduardo H.
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 12, Article 113952(5)

Efficient Gallium Recovery from Aqueous Solutions Using Polyacrylonitrile Nanofibers Loaded with D2EHPA (2023-09-01)
Segala, Bibiane Nardes; Wenzel, Bruno München; Power, Nicholas P.; Krishnamurthy, Satheesh; Bertuol, Daniel Assumpção and Tanabe, Eduardo Hiromitsu
Metals, 13, Article 1545(9)

Doped MXenes—A new paradigm in 2D systems: Synthesis, properties and applications (2023-07-22)
Dey, Avishek; Varagnolo, Silvia; Power, Nicholas; Vangapally, Naresh; Elias, Yuval; Damptey, Lois; Jaato, Bright N.; Gopalan, Saianand; Golrokhi, Zahra; Sonar, Prashant; Selvaraj, Vimalnath; Aurbach, Doron and Krishnamurthy, Satheesh
Progress in Materials Science, 139, Article 101166

Outstanding visible light photocatalysis using nano-TiO2 hybrids with nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots and/or reduced graphene oxide (2023-05-14)
Baragau, Ioan-Alexandru; Buckeridge, John; Nguyen, Kiem G.; Heil, Tobias; Sajjad, Muhammad Tariq; Thomson, Stuart A. J.; Rennie, Alistair; Morgan, David J.; Power, Nicholas P.; Nicolae, Sabina Alexandra; Titirici, Maria-Magdalena; Dunn, Steve and Kellici, Suela
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11(18) (pp. 9791-9806)

Development of Nylon 6 Nanofibers Modified with Cyanex-272 for Cobalt Recovery (2023)
Chaves, Rebeca Mello; Power, Nicholas P.; Collinson, Simon Robert; Tanabe, Eduardo Hiromitsu and Bertuol, Daniel Assumpção
Environmental Technology, 44(19) (pp. 2900-2912)

In-situ continuous hydrothermal synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles on conductive N-doped MXene nanosheets for binder-free li-ion battery anodes (2022-02-15)
Alli, Uthman; McCarthy, Kieran; Baragau, Ioan-Alexandru; Power, Nicholas P.; Morgan, David J.; Dunn, Steven; Killian, Seamus; Kennedy, Tadhg and Kellici, Suela
Chemical Engineering Journal, 430 Part 4

Surface Functionalized MXenes for Wastewater Treatment—A Comprehensive Review (2022)
Damptey, Lois; Jaato, Bright N.; Ribeiro, Camila Silva; Varagnolo, Silvia; Power, Nicholas P.; Selvaraj, Vimalnath; Dodoo‐Arhin, David; Kumar, R. Vasant; Sreenilayam, Sithara Pavithran; Brabazon, Dermot; Kumar Thakur, Vijay and Krishnamurthy, Satheesh
Global Challenges, 6, Article 2100120(6)

Investigating the effect of N-doping on carbon quantum dots structure, optical properties and metal ion screening (2022)
Nguyen, Kiem Giap; Baragau, Ioan-Alexandru; Gromnicova, Radka; Nicolaev, Adela; Thomson, Stuart A. J.; Rennie, Alistair; Power, Nicholas P.; Sajjad, Muhammad Tariq and Kellici, Suela
Scientific Reports, 12(1) (p 13806)

Poly(vinyl chloride)-supported triazoles grafted onto calix[4]arene for chromium ions extraction (2021-12-30)
Said, Ammar; Dardouri, Mokhtar; Ammari, Fayçel; Ouerghui, Abid; Power, Nicholas and Meganem, Faouzi
Polimery, 66(11-12) (pp. 611-618)

Adenine Quadruplexes Show Surprising Stability: Potential Implications for SARS-CoV-2 (2021-11)
Chapman, Simon; Ghesquiere, Pierre; Perry, Elliot; Taylor, Peter Geoffrey; Power, Nicholas P.; Sansom, Clare E. and Xu, Yao-Zhong
Journal of Computational Biophysics and Chemistry, 20(7) (pp. 675-685)

Efficient Continuous Hydrothermal Flow Synthesis of Carbon Quantum Dots from a Targeted Biomass Precursor for On−Off Metal Ions Nanosensing (2021-02-15)
Baragau, Ioan-Alexandru; Power, Nicholas P.; Morgan, David J.; Lobo, Richard A.; Roberts, Christopher S.; Titirici, Maria-Magdalena; Middelkoop, Vesna; Diaz, Adriana; Dunn, Steven and Kellici, Suela
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 9(6) (pp. 2559-2569)

Continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis of S-functionalised carbon quantum dots for enhanced oil recovery (2021-02-01)
Baragau, Ioan-Alexandru; Lu, Zhen; Power, Nicholas P.; Morgan, David J.; Bowen, James; Diaz, Pedro and Kellici, Suela
Chemical Engineering Journal, 405, Article 126631

Vortex fluidic mediated synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticle/MXene composites (2020-04)
Al-Antaki, Ahmed Hussein Mohammed; Alharbi, Thaar M. D.; Kellici, Suela; Power, Nicholas P.; Lawrance, Warren D. and Raston, Colin L.
ChemNanoMat, 6(4) (pp. 657-662)

Continuous Hydrothermal Flow Synthesis of Blue-Luminescent, Excitation-Independent N-doped Carbon Quantum Dots as Nanosensors (2020)
Baragau, Ioan-Alexandru; Power, Nicholas; Morgan, David John; Heil, Tobias; Lobo, Richard Alvares; Roberts, Christopher S.; Titirici, Magdalena; Dunn, Steve and Kellici, Suela
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8, Article 3270(6)

Continuous flow vortex fluidic-mediated exfoliation and fragmentation of two-dimensional MXene (2020)
Mohammed Al-antaki, Ahmed Hussein; Kellici, Suela; Power, Nicholas; Lawrence, Warren D. and Raston, Colin L.
Royal Society Open Science, 7(5) (p 192255)

Continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis of graphene quantum dots (2018-12-01)
Kellici, Suela; Acord, John; Moore, Katherine E.; Power, Nicholas P.; Middelkoop, Vesna; Morgan, David J.; Heil, Tobias; Coppo, Paolo; Baragau, Ioan-Alexandru and Raston, Colin L.
Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 3(6) (pp. 949-958)

Selective Calixarene Directed Synthesis of MXene Plates, Crumpled Sheets, Spheres and Scrolls (2017-06-16)
Vaughn, Arni; Ball, Jeremy; Heil, Tobias; Morgan, David J.; Lampronti, Giulio I.; Maršalkaitė, Gabija; Raston, Colin L.; Power, Nicholas P. and Kellici, Suela
Chemistry - A European Journal, 23(34) (pp. 8128-8133)

Selective Calixarene-Directed Synthesis of MXene Plates, Crumpled Sheets, Spheres, and Scrolls (2017-06-16)
Vaughn, Arni; Ball, Jeremy; Heil, Tobias; Morgan, David J.; Lampronti, Giulio I.; Maršalkaitė, Gabija; Raston, Colin L.; Power, Nicholas P. and Kellici, Suela
Chemistry - A European Journal, 23(34) (pp. 8128-8133)

Rapid synthesis of graphene quantum dots using a continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis approach. (2017-03-06)
Kellici, Suela; Acord, John; Power, Nicholas P.; Morgan, David J.; Coppo, Paolo; Heil, Tobias and Saha, Basudeb
RSC Advances, 7(24) (pp. 14716-14720)

Calixarene Assisted Rapid Synthesis of Silver-Graphene Nanocomposites with Enhanced Antibacterial Activity (2016-07-27)
Kellici, Suela; Acord, John; Vaughn, Arni; Power, Nicholas P.; Morgan, David J.; Heil, Tobias; Facq, Sébastien P. and Lampronti, Giulio I.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8(29) (pp. 19038-19046)

Protein camouflage in cytochrome c–calixarene complexes (2012-07-01)
McGovern, Róise E.; Fernandes, Humberto; Khan, Amir R.; Power, Nicholas P. and Crowley, Peter B.
Nature Chemistry, 4(7) (pp. 527-533)

Magnetism in metal–organic capsules (2010-03-31)
Atwood, Jerry L.; Brechin, Euan K.; Dalgarno, Scott J.; Inglis, Ross; Jones, Leigh F.; Mossine, Andrew; Paterson, Martin J.; Power, Nicholas P. and Teat, Simon J.
Chemical Communications, 46(20) (pp. 3484-3486)

A family of double-bowl pseudo metallocalix[6]arene discs (2010-03-10)
Meally, Seán T.; McDonald, Cecelia; Karotsis, Georgios; Papaefstathiou, Giannis S.; Brechin, Euan K.; Dunne, Peter W.; McArdle, Patrick; Power, Nicholas P. and Jones, Leigh F.
Dalton Transactions, 39(20) (pp. 4809-4816)

Dimeric nanocapsule induces conformational change (2010-02-28)
Maerz, Andrew K.; Thomas, Haunani M.; Power, Nicholas P.; Deakyne, Carol A. and Atwood, Jerry L.
Chemical Communications, 46(8) (pp. 1235-1237)

Metallo-supramolecular capsules (2008-04-01)
Dalgarno, Scott J.; Power, Nicholas P. and Atwood, Jerry L.
Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 252(8-9) (pp. 825-841)

Rapid formation of metal–organic nano-capsules gives new insight into the self-assembly process (2008-02-27)
Dalgarno, Scott J.; Power, Nicholas P.; Warren, John E. and Atwood, Jerry L.
Chemical Communications(13) (pp. 1539-1541)

Guest and Ligand Behavior in Zinc-Seamed Pyrogallol[4]arene Molecular Capsules (2007-11-08)
Power, Nicholas P.; Dalgarno, Scott J. and Atwood, Jerry L.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 46(45) (pp. 8601-8604)

Ionic dimeric pyrogallol[4]arene capsules (2007-07-26)
Dalgarno, Scott J.; Power, Nicholas P. and Atwood, Jerry L.
Chemical Communications(33) (pp. 3447-3449)

Robust and stable pyrogallol[4]arene molecular capsules facilitated via an octanuclear zinc coordination belt (2007-01-01)
Power, Nicholas P.; Dalgarno, Scott J. and Atwood, Jerry L.
New Journal of Chemistry, 31(1) (pp. 17-20)

Synthesis and structural characterisation of lower rim halogenated pyrogallol[4]arenes: bi-layers and hexameric nano-capsules (2006-08-08)
Dalgarno, Scott J.; Power, Nicholas P.; Antesberger, Jochen; McKinlay, Robert M. and Atwood, Jerry L.
Chemical Communications(36) (pp. 3803-3805)

Procatalytic Ligand Strain. Ionization and Perturbation of 8-Nitroxanthine at the Urate Oxidase Active Site (2005-08-01)
Doll, Charles; Bell, Alasdair F.; Power, Nicholas; Tonge, Peter J. and Tipton, Peter A.
Biochemistry, 44(34) (pp. 11440-11446)

Chloromethyl chlorosulfate: a new, catalytic method of preparation and reactions with some nucleophiles (2004)
Power, Nicholas P.; Bethell, Donald; Proctor, Lee; Latham, Elliot and Dawson, Paul
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2(10) (pp. 1554-1562)

General Base Catalysis in the Urate Oxidase Reaction: Evidence for a Novel Thr−Lys Catalytic Diad (2003-04-01)
Imhoff, Rebecca D.; Power, Nicholas P.; Borrok, M. Jack and Tipton, Peter A.
Biochemistry, 42(14) (pp. 4094-4100)

Organic Nanocapsules (2008-08)
Dalgarno, Scott J.; Power, Nicholas and Atwood, Jerry L.
In: Atwood, Jerry L. and Steed, Jonathan W. eds. Organic Nanostructures (pp. 317-346)
ISBN : 978-3-527-62251-1 | Publisher : Wiley-VCH