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Thank you to all those who attended our stand on Structural Coloring at the Imperial Festival. We had a lot of fun. See you all next year!
I have obtained my Bachelor degree in Physics and Chemistry of Advanced Materials (2007) and a PhD in Physics (2011) from Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. I subsequently moved to the Physics Department of Imperial College London, where I have worked as a Research Associate since 2012. In October 2016, I was awarded the Royal Society University Research Fellowship to work on the use of biomimetic approaches in nanophotonic systems. My other research interests include light-matter interactions, interactions at nano-bio interfaces, functionalisation of nanoparticles and their selective attachment to substrates, and spectroscopic studies of functional nano-bio systems.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Cambiasso J, Grinblat G, Li Y, et al. , 2017, Bridging the gap between dielectric nanophotonics and the visible regime with effectively lossless gallium phosphide antennas, Nano Letters, Vol:17, ISSN:1530-6992, Pages:1219-1225
Nielsen MP, Lafone L, Rakovich A, et al. , 2016, Adiabatic nanofocusing in hybrid gap plasmon waveguides on the silicon-on-insulator platform, Nano Letters, Vol:16, ISSN:1530-6992, Pages:1410-1414
Rakovich A, Albella P, Maier SA, 2015, Plasmonic Control of Radiative Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots Coupled to Plasmonic Ring Cavities, ACS Nano, Vol:9, ISSN:1936-0851, Pages:2648-2658
Rakovich TY, Mahfoud OK, Mohamed BM, et al. , 2014, Highly Sensitive Single Domain Antibody-Quantum Dot Conjugates for Detection of HER2 Biomarker in Lung and Breast Cancer Cells, ACS Nano, Vol:8, ISSN:1936-0851, Pages:5682-5695
Rakovich A, Nabiev I, Sukhanova A, et al. , 2013, Large Enhancement of Nonlinear Optical Response in a Hybrid Nanobiomaterial Consisting of Bacteriorhodopsin and Cadmium Telluride Quantum Dots, ACS Nano, Vol:7, ISSN:1936-0851, Pages:2154-2160
Rakovich A, Sukhanova A, Bouchonville N, et al. , 2010, Resonance Energy Transfer Improves the Biological Function of Bacteriorhodopsin within a Hybrid Material Built from Purple Membranes and Semiconductor Quantum Dots, Nano Letters, Vol:10, ISSN:1530-6984, Pages:2640-2648