Rob Lamb

Continuous Flow Copper Laser Ablation Synthesis of Copper(I and II) Oxide Nanoparticles in Water

Ahmed Hussein Mohammed Al-Antaki, Xuan Luo, XiaoFei Duan, Robert N Lamb, Wayne D Hutchison, Warren Lawrance, Colin L Raston

Journal article  |  2019  |  ACS OMEGA

Copper(I) oxide (Cu2O) nanoparticles (NPs) are selectively prepared in high yields under continuous flow in a vortex fluidic devic..

Vortex fluidic mediated transformation of graphite into highly conducting graphene scrolls

Kasturi Vimalanathan, Irene Suarez-Martinez, M Chandramalika R Peiris, Joshua Antonio, Carla de Tomas, Yichao Zou, Jin Zou, Xiaofei Duan, Robert N Lamb, David P Harvey, Thaar MD Alharbi, Christopher T Gibson, Nigel A Marks, Nadim Darwish, Colin L Raston

Journal article  |  2019  |  NANOSCALE ADVANCES

Two-dimensional graphene has remarkable properties that are revolutionary in many applications. Scrolling monolayer graphene with ..

Chemoselective and Continuous Flow Hydrogenations in Thin Films Using a Palladium Nanoparticle Catalyst Embedded in Cellulose Paper

Jessica M Phillips, Muneer Ahamed, XiaoFei Duan, Robert N Lamb, Xianlin Qu, Kun Zheng, Jin Zou, Justin M Chalker, Colin L Raston

Journal article  |  2019  |  ACS APPLIED BIO MATERIALS

Cellulose immobilized palladium (0) nanoparticles (PdNPs) were prepared for the use in scalable catalytic reactions in flow. Prepa..

Shear stress mediated scrolling of graphene oxide

Thaar MD Alharbi, David Harvey, Ibrahim K Alsulami, Nazila Dehbari, Xiaofei Duan, Robert N Lamb, Warren D Lawrance, Colin L Raston

Journal article  |  2018  |  CARBON

Graphene oxide scrolls (GOS) are fabricated in high yield from a colloidal suspension of graphene oxide (GO) sheets under shear st..

Structure and Chemical Organization in Damselfly Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis Wings: A Spatially Resolved FTIR and XRF Analysis with Synchrotron Radiation

Susan Stuhr, Khanh Truong Vi, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Tobias Senkbeil, Yang Yang, Mohammad Al Kobaisi, Vladimir A Baulin, Marco Werner, Sergey Rubanov, Mark J Tobin, Peter Cloetens, Axel Rosenhahn, Robert N Lamb, Pere Luque, Richard Marchant, Elena P Ivanova

Journal article  |  2018  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Insects represent the majority of known animal species and exploit a variety of fascinating nanotechnological concepts. We investi..

Laser irradiated vortex fluidic mediated synthesis of luminescent carbon nanodots under continuous flow

Xuan Luo, Ahmed Hussein Mohammed Al-Antaki, Kasturi Vimalanathan, Jillian Moffatt, Kun Zheng, Yichao Zou, Jin Zou, Xiaofei Duan, Robert N Lamb, Shujun Wang, Qin Li, Wei Zhang, Colin L Raston

Journal article  |  2018  |  REACTION CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING

Carbon nanodots (CDs) with size dependent fluorescence are synthesized from multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) under continuou..

Superhydrophobicity from the Inside

Tomer Simovich, Cameron Ritchie, George Belev, David ML Cooper, Robert N Lamb

Journal article  |  2017  |  Langmuir

The nature of trapped air on submersed ultra-water-repellent interfaces has been investigated. These gaseous layers (plastrons) ca..

Correlating Material Properties with the Wear Behavior of Sol-Gel Derived Superhydrophobic Films

Brendan Dyett, Robert Lamb

Journal article  |  2016  |  ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES

Superhydrophobic films are routinely prepared utilizing sol–gel chemistry; however, their application toward self-cleaning or anti..

Transparent Aluminium Oxide Coatings of Polymer Brushes

Samantha Micciulla, XiaoFei Duan, Julia Strebe, Oliver Loehmann, Robert N Lamb, Regine von Klitzing

Journal article  |  2016  |  ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A novel method for the preparation of transparent Al2O3 coatings of polymers is presented. An environmental-friendly sol-gel metho..

Defining surface properties of fluorous bis(1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-ylmethyl) ethers

Dominic V Francis, Jason B Harper, Simon Gioia, Robert N Lamb, Roger W Read

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF FLUORINE CHEMISTRY

Surface tension measurements and atomic force microscopy have been used to evaluate new bis(1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-ylmethyl) ethers be..