Research project

A new sensor for detecting mRNA in crops

Research groups:

Plants and Food Security
Lead researchers:

Professor Antonios Kanaras
Other researchers:

Dr Lorraine Williams
Research funder:

Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Antonios Kanaras MSc, PhD, FRSC, FRSB, FInstP, FHEA

Professor

Connect with Antonios

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Dr Lorraine Williams

Associate Professor

Connect with Lorraine

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Plants and Food Security

We study the response of plants to the environment at the molecular, whole plant and ecological levels. This includes interactions with nematodes, insects and microbes.

Quantum, Light and Matter Group

Our research group examines the connections between physics, chemistry and engineering.

Research outputs

A SARS-Cov-2 sensor based on upconversion nanoparticles and graphene oxide

Konstantina Alexaki, Maria Eleni Kyriazi, Joshua Greening, Lapatrada Taemaitree, Afaf H. El-Sagheer, Tom Brown, Xunli Zhang, Otto L. Muskens & Antonios G. Kanaras, 2022, RSC Advances, 12(29), 18445-18449

DOI: 10.1039/d2ra03599e

Type: article

An investigation Into the resistance of spherical nucleic acids against DNA enzymatic degradation

Maria Kyriazis, Afaf H El-Sagheer, Igor L. Medintz, Tom Brown & Antonios Kanaras, 2022, Bioconjugate Chemistry, 33(1), 219-225

DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.1c00540

Type: article

A method for the growth of uniform silica shells on different size and morphology upconversion nanoparticles

Elena Urena Horno, Maria-Eleni Kyriazi & Antonios Kanaras, 2021, Nanoscale Advances, 3(12), 3522-3529

DOI: 10.1039/d0na00858c

Type: article

A DNA sensor based on upconversion nanoparticles and two-dimensional dichalcogenide materials

Konstantina Alexaki, Davide Giust, Maria-Eleni Kyriazi, Afaf El-Sagheer, Tom Brown, Otto Muskens & Antonios Kanaras, 2021, Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 15(4), 935-943

DOI: 10.1007/s11705-020-2023-9

Type: article

Bactericidal effect of 5-mercapto-2-nitrobenzoic acid-coated silver nanoclusters against multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae

María Isabel Lucío, Maria-Eleni Kyriazi, Joshua Hamilton, Diego Batista, Alexander Sheppard, Elisabeth Sams-Dodd, Maria Victoria Humbert, Irshad Hussain, Myron Christodoulides & Antonios G. Kanaras, 2020, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(25), 27994–28003

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c06163

Type: article