Journal Publications

2022

• Temperature‐Responsive 4D Liquid Crystal Microactuators Fabricated by Direct Laser Writing by Two‐Photon Polymerization, Small Structures 3, no. 2 (2022): 2100158, Marc del Pozo, Colm Delaney, Marina Pilz da Cunha, Michael G. Debije, Larisa Florea* and Albert PHJ Schenning*, Small Structures 3, no. 2 (2022): 2100158 ; DOI: 10.1002/sstr.202100158

2021

• Direct laser writing of vapour-responsive photonic arrays, Colm Delaney, Jing Qian, Xia Zhang, Radislav Potyrailo, A. Louise Bradley, and Larisa Florea*, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021, 9, 11674-11678; DOI: 10.1039/D1TC01796A 

• Big data and machine learning for materials science, Jose F Rodrigues, Larisa Florea, Maria CF de Oliveira, Dermot Diamond, Osvaldo N Oliveira, Discover Materials, 1.1 (2021): 1-27; DOI: 10.1007/s43939-021-00012-0

2020

• Magnetic movement under the spotlight, Larisa Florea*, Science Robotics, Vol. 5, Issue 49, eabf1503. Read full text here. 

• Direct Laser Writing of Four-Dimensional Structural Color Microactuators Using a Photonic Photoresist, Marc Del Pozo, Colm Delaney, Cees WM Bastiaansen, Dermot Diamond, Albert PHJ Schenning, Larisa Florea*, ACS Nano (2020) 14, 8, 9832–9839.

• Direct Laser Writing to Generate Molds for Polymer Nanopillar Replication, Colm Delaney*, Niamh Geoghegan, Hossam Ibrahim, Mark O’Loughlin, Brian J. Rodriguez, Larisa Florea, Susan M. Kelleher, ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2, no. 8 (2020): 3632-3641.

• 3D Printed Sugar‐Sensing Hydrogels, Danielle Bruen, Colm Delaney, Johnson Chung, Kalani Ruberu, Gordon G. Wallace, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea*, Macromolecular Rapid Communications 41, no. 9 (2020): 1900610.

• Silicon Microcantilever Sensors to Detect the Reversible Conformational Change of a Molecular Switch, Spiropyan, Catherine Grogan, George Amarandei, Shauna Lawless, Fran Pedreschi, Fiona Lyng, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Roberto Raiteri, Larisa Florea*, Sensors 20, no. 3 (2020): 854.

2019 ​

• Dual droplet functionality: Phototaxis and Photopolymerization, Sara Zarghami, Yang Xiao, Pawel Wagner, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, David L Officer*, Klaudia Wagner*, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 11 (2019), 31484-31489.

• Boronic Acid Homopolymers as Effective Polycations for Sugar-Responsive Layer-by-Layer Assemblies, Danielle Bruen, Paula P. Campos, Marystela Ferreira, Dermot Diamond, Colm Delaney, Larisa Florea*, ACS Applied Polymer Materials 1 (2019), 990.

• Paper based electronic tongue–a low-cost solution for the distinction of sugar type and apple juice brand, Cristiane M Daikuzono, Colm Delaney, Aoife Morrin, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea*, Osvaldo N Oliveira*, Analyst 144 (2019) 2827-2832.​

• A survey on Big Data and Machine Learning for Chemistry, Jose F. Rodrigues Jr, Larisa Florea, Maria CF De Oliveira, Dermot Diamond, Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr., arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.10370 (2019).

2018 

• Fluorescent Probes for Sugar Detection, Danielle Bruen, Colm Delaney, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea*, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10 (2018), 38431.

• Fabrication of soft, stimulus-responsive structures with sub-micron resolution via two-photon polymerization of poly (ionic liquid)s, Alexandru Tudor, Colm Delaney, Hongrui Zhang, Alex J Thompson, Vincenzo F Curto, Guang-Zhong Yang, Michael J Higgins, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea*, Materials Today 21 (2018), 807-816.

• Moving Droplets in 3D Using Light, Yang Xiao, Sara Zarghami, Klaudia Wagner, Pawel Wagner, Keith C. Gordon, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond and David L. Officer*, Adv. Mater. 30 (2018) 1801821 (article featured on the front cover).

• Micro-Capillary Coatings Based on Spiropyran Polymeric Brushes for Metal Ion Binding, Detection, and Release in Continuous Flow, Aishling Dunne, Colm Delaney, Aoife McKeon, Pavel Nesterenko, Brett Paull, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea*, Sensors 18, no. 4 (2018): 1083.

• Photoswitchable layer-by-layer coatings based on photochromic polynorbornenes bearing spiropyran side groups, Paula P. Campos, Aishling Dunne, Colm Delaney, Cara Moloney, Simon E. Moulton, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Marystela Ferreira, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea*, Langmuir 34 (2018), 4210–4216.

• Reusable ionogel-based photo-actuators in a lab-on-a-disc, Janire Saez, Tom Glennon, Monika Czugala, Alexandru Tudor, Jens Ducreé, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea, Fernando Benito-Lopez*, Sensors and Actuators B: Chem. 257 (2018), 963-970.

• Driving Flows in Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices with a Cholinium Based Poly Ionic Liquid Hydrogel, Tugce Akyazi, Alexandru Tudor, Dermot Diamond, Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts, Larisa Florea*, Fernando Benito-Lopez*, Sensors and Actuators B: Chem. 261 (2018), 372-378.

2017 

• Glucose Sensing for Diabetes Monitoring: Recent Developments, Danielle Bruen, Colm Delaney, Larisa Florea*, Dermot Diamond, Sensors 17 (2017), 1866-1887.

• Spiropyran Based Hydrogels Actuators− Walking in the Light, Wayne Francis, Aishling Dunne, Colm Delaney, Larisa Florea*, Dermot Diamond, Sensors and Actuators B: Chem. 250 (2017), 608-616.

• Poly(ionic liquid) thermo-responsive hydrogel microfluidic actuators, Alexandru Tudor, Janire Saez, Larisa Florea*, Fernando Benito-Lopez*, Dermot Diamond, Sensors and Actuators B: Chem. 247 (2017): 749-755.

• Impedance spectroscopy for monosaccharides detection using responsive hydrogel modified paper-based electrodes, Cristiane M. Daikuzono, Colm Delaney, Henok Tesfay, Larisa Florea*, Osvaldo Novais Oliveira Jr, Aoife Morrin, Dermot Diamond, Analyst 142 (2017): 1133-1139.

• Electrotactic Ionic Liquid Droplets, Wayne Francis, Klaudia Wagner, Stephen Beirne, David Officer, Gordon Wallace, Larisa Florea*, Dermot Diamond, Sensors and Actuators B: Chem. 239 (2017): 1069-1075.

2016 

• Solvato-Morphologically Controlled, Reversible Photo-Actuated Hydrogels, Operative in Neutral Environments, Aishling Dunne, Colm Delaney, Larisa Florea* and Dermot Diamond, RSC Advances 6 (2016) 83296-83302.

• Microcantilever arrays functionalised with spiropyran photoactive moieties as systems to measure photo-induced surface stress changes, Catherine Grogan, Larisa Florea*, Slavica Koprivica, Silvia Scarmagnani, Luke O’Neill, Fiona Lyng, Fran Pedreschi, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Roberto Raiteri* Sensors and Actuators B: Chem. 237 (2016): 479-486.

• Adaptive coatings based on polyaniline for direct 2D observation of diffusion processes in microfluidic systems, Larisa Florea*, Alain Martin-Mayor, M.Mounir Bou-Ali, Kate Meagher, Dermot Diamond, Mustafa Tutar, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Sensors and Actuators B: Chem. 231 (2016): 744-751.

• Poly (Ionic Liquid) Semi-Interpenetrating Network Multi-Responsive Hydrogels, Alexandru Tudor, Larisa Florea*, Simon Gallagher, John Burns, Dermot Diamond, Sensors 16 (2016) 219.

• Porous self-protonating spiropyran-based NIPAAm gels with improved reswelling kinetics, Bartosz Ziółkowski, Larisa Florea, Jannick Theobald, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Dermot Diamond*, Journal of Materials Science 51 (2016) 1392-1399.

2015 

• Advances in wearable chemical sensor design for monitoring biological fluids, Giusy Matzeu, Larisa Florea*, Dermot Diamond, Sensors and Actuators B: Chem. 211 (2015) 403-418.

• Self-propelled chemotactic ionic liquid droplets, Wayne Francis, Cormac Fay, Larisa Florea*, Dermot Diamond, Chemical Communications 51 (2015) 2342-2344.

2014 

• Photo-Chemopropulsion – Light-Stimulated Movement of Microdroplets, Larisa Florea, Klaudia Wagner, Pawel Wagner, Gordon W. Wallace, David L. Officer, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Dermot Diamond*, Advanced Materials 26 (2014) 7339–7345.

• Swelling and Shrinking Properties of Thermo-Responsive Polymeric Ionic Liquid Hydrogels with Embedded Linear pNIPAAM, Simon Gallagher, Larisa Florea, Kevin J. Fraser and Dermot Diamond*, International Journal of Molecular Sciences 15 (2014) 5337-5349.

• Photoswitchable Ratchet Surface Topographies based on Self-Protonating Spiropyran-NIPAAM Hydrogels, Jelle E. Stumpel, Bartosz Ziółkowski, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond*, Dirk J. Broer, Albertus P. H. J. Schenning, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6 (2014) 7268–7274.

• Self-assembled Solvato-morphologically Controlled Photochromic Crystals, Larisa Florea, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Dermot Diamond*, Chemical Communications 50 (2014) 924-926 (article featured on the front cover).

• Ionic Liquid modulation of swelling and LCST behaviour of N-isopropylacrylamide polymer gels, Simon Gallagher, Andrew Kavanagh, Bartosz Ziółkowski, Larisa Florea, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Kevin J. Fraser and Dermot Diamond*, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16 (2014) 3610-3616.

2013 

• Self-protonating spiropyran-co-NIPAM-co-acrylic acid hydrogels as reversible photoactuators, Bartosz Ziółkowski, Larisa Florea, Jannick Theobald, Fernando Benito-Lopez and Dermot Diamond*, Soft Matter 9 (2013) 8754-8760.

• A merocyanine–based conductive polymer, Klaudia Wagner, Michele Zanoni, Anastasia B. S. Elliott, Pawel Wagner, Robert Byrne, Larisa E. Florea, Dermot Diamond, Keith C. Gordon, Gordon G. Wallace, David L. Officer*, Journal of Material Chemistry (C) 1 (2013) 3913-3916.

• Spiropyran Polymeric Micro-capillary Coatings for Photo-detection of Solvent Polarity, Larisa Florea, Aoife McKeon, Dermot Diamond, Fernando Benito-Lopez*, Langmuir 29 (2013) 2790-2797.

• Temperature and pH triggered release characteristics of water: fluorescein from 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate based ionogels, Simon Gallagher, Andrew Kavanagh, Larisa Florea, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Kevin J. Fraser and Dermot Diamond*, Chemical Communications 49 (2013), 4613-4615.

• Polyaniline Coated Micro-capillaries for Continuous Flow Analysis of Aqueous Solutions, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, Fernando Benito-Lopez*, Analytica Chimica Acta 759 (2013) 1-7 (article featured on the front cover).

• Dynamic pH Mapping in Micro-fluidic Devices by Integrating Adaptive Coatings based on Polyaniline with Image Processing Techniques, Larisa Florea, Cormac Fay, Emer Lahiff, Dermot Diamond, Fernando Benito-Lopez*, Lab Chip 13 (2013) 1079-1085.

2010-2012  

• Photo-responsive Polymeric Structures based on Spiropyran, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, Fernando Benito-Lopez*, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 297 (2012) 1148-1159 (article featured on the cover).

• Synthesis and Characterisation of Spiropyran-polymer Brushes in Micro-capillaries: Towards an Integrated Optical Sensor for Continuous Flow Analysis, Larisa Florea, Alexandre Hennart, Dermot Diamond, Fernando Benito-Lopez*, Sensors and Actuators B: Chem. 175 (2012) 92-99.

• Photo­detection  of  Solvent  Polarities  using  Non­invasive   Coatings  in  Capillaries, Larisa Florea, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Alexandre Hennart, Dermot Diamond*, Procedia Engineering 25 (2011) 1545 – 1548.

• Modified Polyaniline Nanofibres for Ascorbic Acid Detection, Larisa Florea, Emer Lahiff, Dermot Diamond*, MRS Proceedings 2011, 1312, mrsf10-1312-hh09-03, doi:10.1557/opl.2011.672.

• Study of the N-methylcarbamylsuccinamic Acid Synthesis, Palani Adil, Larisa Florea, Evangelos Gerasimou, Carol Csunderlik, Monika Simon*, Revista de Chimie, 61 (2010), 838-840.

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Book Chapters

• Application of Ionic Liquid Materials in Microfluidic Devices, Tugçe Akyazi, Janire Saez, Alexandru Tudor, Colm Delaney, Wayne Francis, Dermot Diamond, Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts, Larisa Florea*, Fernando Benito-Lopez*, in Smart Ionic Liquids, RSC, 2018, 234 - 271, ISBN:978-1-78801-181-5, doi:10.1039/9781788011839.

• Stimuli-controlled fluid control and microvehicle movement in microfluidic channels, Aishling Dunne, Wayne Francis, Colm Delaney, Larisa Florea*, Dermot Diamond, in Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering, Elsevier, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-12-803581-8; doi:10.1016B978-0-12-803581-8.04043-1.

• Opto-smart Systems in Microfluidics, Larisa Florea*, Dermot Diamond, Fernando Benito-Lopez, in ”Research Perspectives on Functional Micro- and Nanoscale Coatings” A. Zuzuarregui, and M.C. Morant-Miñana. IGI Global, 2016. 1-369. Web. 21 Mar. 2016. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-0066-7.

• Wearable Bio and Chemical sensors, Shirley Coyle, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Vincenzo F. Curto, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, Elsevier, 2014, Wearable Sensors - Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications: 65-83.

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Invention Disclosures and Patents

• Patent EP 3024852A1, ‘Photo-responsive spiropyran-based N-isopropylacrylamide gels’, Bartosz Ziolkowski, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond; US20160158754, WO2015011211A1

• GB Patent application ‘Polymerisable quaternerised ammonium boronic acids for optical detection of glucose in hydrogels’, Colm Delaney, Larisa Florea, Danielle Bruen, Dermot Diamond, GB1805226.6.

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Preprints

• A survey on Big Data and Machine Learning for Chemistry, Jose F Rodrigues Jr, Larisa Florea, Maria C F de Oliveira, Dermot Diamond, Osvaldo N Oliveira Jr, 2019, arXiv:1904.10370 [physics.chem-ph].