Tyndall celebrated the winners and finalists of the 2020 Postgraduate Publication of the Year competition today. Despite a challenging year, our students achieved outstanding discoveries and results as part of their PhD projects, some even opening major new possibilities in their field.
Congratulations to our joint winners Djordje Dangić (now Dr Dangić) and Marcelo Saito Nogueira. Ðjordje Dangić’s paper was entitled “Giant thermoelectric power factor in charged ferroelectric domain walls of GeTe with Van Hove singularities” and Marcelo Nogueira’s paper entitled “Evaluation of wavelength ranges and tissue depth probed by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for colorectal cancer detection”.
Dr Fatima Gunning, Senior Staff Researcher & Head of Graduate Studies at Tyndall, praised the entries, saying:
"This year we had twice as many submissions for the Postgraduate Research Publication of Year. Besides lockdowns and restricted access to labs, our students excelled in their research outcomes. We also noted a number of students with exceptional publications at very early stages in their PhDs, and we couldn’t let this pass in blank, so we created a new award - the Rising Talent Award. Congratulations to all!"
Well done to all involved and congratulations to all our winners and finalists this year.
(Left to Right)
Arbresha Muriqi, Djordje Dangić, Cara-Lena Nies, Eoghan Vaughan,
Marcelo Saito Nogueira, Rita Mullins, Shane Garvey, Simone Varo.
Winners
Djordje Dangić; Stephen Fahy; Ivana Savic, “Giant thermoelectric power factor in charged ferroelectric domain walls of GeTe with Van Hove singularities”, npj Comput Mater 6, 195 (2020).
Marcelo Saito Nogueira; Siddra Maryam; Michael Amissah; Huihui Lu; Noel Lynch; Shane Killeen; Micheal O’Riordain; and Stefan Andersson-Engels, “Evaluation of wavelength ranges and tissue depth probed by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for colorectal cancer detection”, Sci Rep 11, 798 (2021).
Runners-up
Shane Garvey; Justin D. Holmes; Y. S. Kim; and Brenda Long, “Vapor-Phase Passivation of Chlorine-Terminated Ge (100) Using Self-Assembled Monolayers of Hexanethiol”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020 12 (26), 29899-29907
Simone Varo; Xin Li; Gediminas Juska; Iman Ranjbar Jahromi; Agnieszka M. Gocalinska; Andrea Di Falco; Emanuele Pelucchi, “Planar Semiconductor Membranes with Brightness Enhanced Embedded Quantum Dots via Electron Beam Induced Deposition of 3D Nanostructures: Implications for Solid State Lighting”, ACS Applied Nano Materials 2020 3 (12), 12401-12407
Rising Talent
Arbresha Muriqi and Michael Nolan, “First principles study of reactions in alucone growth: the role of the organic precursor”, Dalton Trans., 2020,49, 8710-8721
Eoghan Vaughan, Cathal Larrigy, Micheal Burke, Labrini Sygellou, Aidan J. Quinn, Costas Galiotis, and Daniela Iacopino, “Visible Laser Scribing Fabrication of Porous Graphitic Carbon Electrodes: Morphologies, Electrochemical Properties, and Applications as Disposable Sensor Platforms”, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2020 2 (10), 3279-3288
Cara-Lena Nies, Michael Nolan, “DFT calculations of the structure and stability of copper clusters on MoS2”, Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 391–406.
Rita Mullins, Suresh Kondati Natarajan, Simon D. Elliott, and Michael Nolan, “Self-Limiting Temperature Window for Thermal Atomic Layer Etching of HfO2 and ZrO2 Based on the Atomic-Scale Mechanism”, Chemistry of Materials 2020 32 (8), 3414-3426