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Dónal Leech is affiliated with the National University of Ireland, Galway. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on engineering and materials science, contributing particularly to electrical and electronic engineering, bioengineering, electrochemistry, materials chemistry, and polymers and plastics.

Their main research topics include:

  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Analytical chemistry and sensors
  • Electrochemical analysis and applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Microbial fuel cells and bioremediation
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials

Dónal Leech has published extensively across venues with a concentration in:

  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Electrochimica Acta
  • Advanced Sensor Research

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Electroactive biofilms on surface functionalized anodes: The anode respiring behavior of a novel electroactive bacterium, Desulfuromonas acetexigens," 2020, Water Research
  • "Self-Powered Detection of Glucose by Enzymatic Glucose/Oxygen Fuel Cells on Printed Circuit Boards," 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Electrochemical glucose biosensor based on an osmium redox polymer and glucose oxidase grafted to carbon nanotubes: A design-of-experiments optimisation of current density and stability," 2021, Electrochimica Acta
  • "Tethering zwitterionic polymer coatings to mediated glucose biosensor enzyme electrodes can decrease sensor foreign body response yet retain sensor sensitivity to glucose," 2022, Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • "Aqueous-Eutectic-in-Salt Electrolytes for High-Energy-Density Supercapacitors with an Operational Temperature Window of 100 °C, from −35 to +65 °C," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Tanushree Mandal
  • Wolfgang Schuhmann
  • Anna Lielpētere
  • Kavita Jayakumar
  • Edmond Magner

Best Publications

  • Electrochemical analysis of the interactions of laccase mediators with lignin model compounds

    Robert Bourbonnais;Dónal Leech;Michael G. Paice

  • Enzymatic fuel cells: Recent progress

    Dónal Leech;Paul Kavanagh;Wolfgang Schuhmann

  • The ins and outs of microorganism–electrode electron transfer reactions

    Amit Kumar;Leo Huan-Hsuan Hsu;Paul Kavanagh;Frédéric Barrière

  • Bioelectrochemical Haber-Bosch Process: An Ammonia-Producing H2 /N2 Fuel Cell.

    Ross D. Milton;Ross D. Milton;Rong Cai;Sofiene Abdellaoui;Donal Leech

  • A laccase-glucose oxidase biofuel cell prototype operating in a physiological buffer

    Frédéric Barrière;Paul Kavanagh;Dónal Leech

  • Application of Colloidal Gold in Protein Immobilization, Electron Transfer, and Biosensing

    Songqin Liu;Dónal Leech;Huangxian Ju

  • Nitrogenase bioelectrocatalysis: heterogeneous ammonia and hydrogen production by MoFe protein

    Ross D. Milton;Ross D. Milton;Sofiene Abdellaoui;Nimesh Khadka;Dennis R. Dean

  • Targetting redox polymers as mediators for laccase oxygen reduction in a membrane-less biofuel cell

    Frédéric Barrière;Yvonne Ferry;Dominic Rochefort;Dónal Leech

  • Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms developed under different growth conditions on glassy carbon electrodes: insights using cyclic voltammetry.

    Krishna P. Katuri;Paul Kavanagh;Saravanan Rengaraj;Dónal Leech

  • Characterisation of an antibody coated microcantilever as a potential immuno-based biosensor

    C Grogan;R Raiteri;G.M O'Connor;T.J Glynn

  • Mediated electron transfer in glucose oxidising enzyme electrodes for application to biofuel cells: recent progress and perspectives

    Paul Kavanagh;Dónal Leech

  • Electron transfer mediator systems for bleaching of paper pulp

    D. Rochefort;D. Leech;R. Bourbonnais

  • Three-dimensional microchanelled electrodes in flow-through configuration for bioanode formation and current generation

    Krishna Katuri;M. Luisa Ferrer;María C. Gutiérrez;Ricardo Jiménez

  • Characterization of different FAD-dependent glucose dehydrogenases for possible use in glucose-based biosensors and biofuel cells

    Muhammad Nadeem Zafar;Najat Beden;Dónal Leech;Christoph Sygmund

  • Amperometric determination of epinephrine with an osmium complex and Nafion double-layer membrane modified electrode

    Jing-An Ni;Huang-Xian Ju;Hong-Yuan Chen;Dónal Leech

  • Nanoporous Gold-Based Biofuel Cells on Contact Lenses

    Xinxin Xiao;Till Siepenkoetter;Peter Ó Conghaile;Dónal Leech

  • Characterization of nanoporous gold electrodes for bioelectrochemical applications.

    Micheál D. Scanlon;Urszula Salaj-Kosla;Serguei Belochapkine;Domhnall MacAodha

  • Reagentless mediated laccase electrode for the detection of enzyme modulators.

    Francis Trudeau;Francis Daigle;Dónal Leech

  • Effect of electrolytes on the electrochemical behaviour of 11-(ferrocenylcarbonyloxy)undecanethiol SAMs on gold disk electrodes

    Huangxian Ju;Dònal Leech

  • Microbial analysis of anodic biofilm in a microbial fuel cell using slaughterhouse wastewater

    Krishna P. Katuri;Ann-Marie Enright;Vincent O'Flaherty;Dónal Leech

  • Increasing Redox Potential, Redox Mediator Activity, and Stability in a Fungal Laccase by Computer-Guided Mutagenesis and Directed Evolution

    Ivan Mateljak;Emanuele Monza;Maria Fatima Lucas;Victor Guallar;Victor Guallar

  • Self-powered wireless carbohydrate/oxygen sensitive biodevice based on radio signal transmission

    Magnus Falk;Miguel Alcalde;Philip N. Bartlett;Antonio L. De Lacey

Frequent Co-Authors

Lo Gorton
Lo Gorton Lund University
Roland Ludwig
Roland Ludwig BOKU University
Malcolm R. Smyth
Malcolm R. Smyth Dublin City University
Sergey Shleev
Sergey Shleev Malmö University
Edmond Magner
Edmond Magner University of Limerick
Huangxian Ju
Huangxian Ju Nanjing University
Wolfgang Schuhmann
Wolfgang Schuhmann Ruhr University Bochum
James F. Rusling
James F. Rusling University of Connecticut
Piet N.L. Lens
Piet N.L. Lens University of Galway
Vincent O'Flaherty
Vincent O'Flaherty University of Galway

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