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Donald McNaughton

Donald McNaughton

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Chemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
12440
World Ranking
7816
National Ranking
187

Overview

Donald McNaughton is a researcher affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their work spans the fields of chemistry as well as physics and astronomy, focusing primarily on molecular spectroscopy, advanced chemical physics, and astrophysics.

Their research encompasses a range of specialized topics, including:

  • Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Within their work, spectroscopy serves as a primary subfield, alongside atomic and molecular physics and optics. They have also contributed to domains involving astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric science, and organic chemistry.

McNaughton has published research in several venues, such as:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Laser Congress 2020 (ASSL, LAC)
  • ChemPhysChem
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Submillimeter-wave spectroscopy and the radio-astronomical investigation of propynethial (HC≡CCHS)", 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "The puzzling hyper-fine structure and an accurate equilibrium geometry of succinic anhydride", 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Plasmonic Enhancement of Raman Spectra of Dye Molecules by Silver Nanotriangles", 2020, Laser Congress 2020 (ASSL, LAC)
  • "Determination of the "Privileged Structure" of 8-Hydroxyquinoline", 2021, ChemPhysChem
  • "Determination of the "privileged structure" of 8-hydroxyquinoline", 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jens-Uwe Grabow, Daniel A. Obenchain, Dennis Wachsmuth, Sven Herbers, and Juan Wang.

Best Publications

  • Resonance Raman spectroscopy of red blood cells using near-infrared laser excitation.

    Bayden Robert Wood;Peter Caspers;Gerwin Puppels;Shveta Pandiancherri

  • Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic and Density Functional Theory Study of Adenine Adsorption to Silver Surfaces

    Bernd Giese;Don McNaughton

  • Fourier Transform Infrared microspectroscopy and chemometrics as a tool for the discrimination of cyanobacterial strains

    Mustafa Kansiz;Philip Heraud;Bayden R Wood;Frank R Burden

  • Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectral mapping of the cervical transformation zone, and dysplastic squamous epithelium.

    Bayden Robert Wood;Luis Chiriboga;H Yee;Michael A Quinn

  • FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY AS A NOVEL TOOL TO INVESTIGATE CHANGES IN INTRACELLULAR MACROMOLECULAR POOLS IN THE MARINE MICROALGA CHAETOCEROS MUELLERII (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE)

    Mario Giordano;Mustafa Kansiz;Philip Heraud;John Beardall

  • FTIR microspectroscopic study of cell types and potential confounding variables in screening for cervical malignancies

    Bayden R Wood;Michael A Quinn;Brian Tait;Martin Ashdown

  • Raman excitation wavelength investigation of single red blood cells in vivo

    Bayden R. Wood;Don McNaughton

  • Micro-Raman characterisation of the R to T state transition of haemoglobin within a single living erythrocyte.

    Bayden R Wood;Brian Tait;Donald McNaughton

  • Monitoring the reversible B to A-like transition of DNA in eukaryotic cells using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    Donna R. Whelan;Keith R. Bambery;Philip Heraud;Mark J. Tobin

  • Tautomers of cytosine by microwave spectroscopy

    Ronald D. Brown;Peter D. Godfrey;Donald McNaughton;Anthony P. Pierlot

  • Quantitative Determination of the Biodegradable Polymer Poly(β-hydroxybutyrate) in a Recombinant Escherichia coli Strain by Use of Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariative Statistics

    Mustafa Kansiz;Helen Billman-Jacobe;Donald McNaughton

  • An Investigation into FTIR Spectroscopy as a Biodiagnostic Tool for Cervical Cancer

    Bayden R. Wood;Michael A. Quinn;Frank R. Burden;Donald McNaughton

  • Haemozoin (β-haematin) biomineralization occurs by self-assembly near the lipid/water interface

    T J Egan;Jack Chen;Katherine A de Villiers;Tebogo E Mabotha

  • A portable Raman acoustic levitation spectroscopic system for the identification and environmental monitoring of algal cells.

    Bayden Robert Wood;Philip Robert Heraud;Slobodanka Stojkovic;Danielle Morrison

  • Effects of pre‐processing of Raman spectra on in vivo classification of nutrient status of microalgal cells

    Philip Robert Heraud;Bayden Robert Wood;John Beardall;Donald McNaughton

  • Raman microspectroscopy and imaging provides insights into heme aggregation and denaturation within human erythrocytes.

    Bayden Robert Wood;Larissa Jacinta Hammer;Lara Indrani Davis;Don McNaughton

  • High-resolution Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy of the v6 and Coriolis perturbation allowed v10 modes of ketenimine.

    Michael Bane;Evan Robertson;Christopher Thompson;Dominique Appadoo

  • FTIR investigation of spray-dried milk protein concentrate powders

    Ashwini Kher;Punsandani Udabage;Ian Robert McKinnon;Donald McNaughton

  • Crystal nucleation, growth, and morphology of the synthetic malaria pigment beta-hematin and the effect thereon by quinoline additives: the malaria pigment as a target of various antimalarial drugs.

    Inna Solomonov;Marua Osipova;Yishay Feldman;Carsten Baehtz

  • Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering (TERS) from Hemozoin Crystals within a Sectioned Erythrocyte

    Bayden R Wood;Elena Bailo;Mehdi Asghari Khiavi;Leann Tilley

Frequent Co-Authors

Bayden R. Wood
Bayden R. Wood Monash University
Michael A. Quinn
Michael A. Quinn International Gynaecological Cancer Society
Mary Ann Augustin
Mary Ann Augustin Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Brian D. Tait
Brian D. Tait Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Edouard G. Stanley
Edouard G. Stanley University of Melbourne
Andrew G. Elefanty
Andrew G. Elefanty University of Melbourne
Leann Tilley
Leann Tilley University of Melbourne
Colin J. Barrow
Colin J. Barrow Deakin University
Brian M. Cooke
Brian M. Cooke Monash University
Jack S. Richards
Jack S. Richards ZiP Diagnostics

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