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Materials Science
Ireland
2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
80
Citations
35351
World Ranking
2651
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Yurii K. Gun'ko is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Their research is situated primarily within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry and related subfields.

The scientist's work spans a variety of specialized topics, including:

  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery

Gun'ko has published extensively in journals such as:

  • Nanomaterials
  • Nanoscale
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Several recent papers demonstrate the thematic range and focus of their research. These include:

  • "Microplastic release from the degradation of polypropylene feeding bottles during infant formula preparation," published in 2020 in Nature Food
  • "Recent progress and future prospects in development of advanced materials for nanofiltration," published in 2020 in Materials Today Communications
  • "Ligand-induced chirality and optical activity in semiconductor nanocrystals: theory and applications," published in 2020 in Nanophotonics
  • "Solution-based "bottom-up" synthesis of group VI transition metal dichalcogenides and their applications," published in 2020 in Materials Advances
  • "Expanding the Horizons of Machine Learning in Nanomaterials to Chiral Nanostructures," published in 2024 in Advanced Materials

Frequent collaborators of Gun'ko include:

  • Finn Purcell-Milton
  • Lorenzo Branzi
  • Daniel K. Kehoe
  • Vera Kuznetsova
  • Garret Dee

Best Publications

  • High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite

    Yenny Hernandez;Valeria Nicolosi;Mustafa Lotya;Fiona M Blighe

  • Small but strong: A review of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube–polymer composites

    Jonathan N. Coleman;Umar Khan;Werner J. Blau;Yurii K. Gun’ko

  • Mechanical Reinforcement of Polymers Using Carbon Nanotubes

    Jonathan N. Coleman;Umar Khan;Yurii K. Gun'ko

  • Recent Advances in Research on Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Composites

    Michele T. Byrne;Yurii K. Gun'ko

  • High Performance Nanotube‐Reinforced Plastics: Understanding the Mechanism of Strength Increase

    J. N. Coleman;M. Cadek;R. Blake;V. Nicolosi

  • Multifunctional Magnetic-fluorescent Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications

    Serena A Corr;Yury P Rakovich;Yurii K Gun’ko

  • Theory of Photoinjection of Hot Plasmonic Carriers from Metal Nanostructures into Semiconductors and Surface Molecules

    Alexander O. Govorov;Hui Zhang;Yurii K. Gun’ko

  • Oxygen radical functionalization of boron nitride nanosheets.

    Toby Sainsbury;Amro Satti;Peter May;Zhiming Wang

  • Microplastic release from the degradation of polypropylene feeding bottles during infant formula preparation

    Dunzhu Li;Yunhong Shi;Luming Yang;Liwen Xiao

  • Application of semiconductor quantum dots in bioimaging and biosensing.

    I. V. Martynenko;I. V. Martynenko;A. P. Litvin;F. Purcell-Milton;A. V. Baranov

  • Photogeneration of hot plasmonic electrons with metal nanocrystals: Quantum description and potential applications

    Alexander O. Govorov;Hui Zhang;Hilmi Volkan Demir;Hilmi Volkan Demir;Yurii K. Gun’ko

  • Recent Advances in the Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles as a Support for Homogeneous Catalysts

    Joseph Govan;Yurii K. Gun'ko

  • A Magnetic-Nanoparticle-Supported 4-N,N-Dialkylaminopyridine Catalyst: Excellent Reactivity Combined with Facile Catalyst Recovery and Recyclability†

    Ciarán Ó Dálaigh;Serena A. Corr;Yurii Gun'ko;Stephen J. Connon

  • Nonfunctionalized nanocrystals can exploit a cell's active transport machinery delivering them to specific nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments.

    Igor Nabiev;Siobhan Mitchell;Anthony Davies;Yvonne Williams

  • Chiral highly luminescent CdS quantum dots

    Mícheál P. Moloney;Yurii K. Gun'ko;John M. Kelly

  • A Generic Organometallic Approach toward Ultra-Strong Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites

    Rowan Blake;Yurii K. Gun'ko;Jonathan Coleman;Martin Cadek

  • Chiral nanoparticle assemblies: circular dichroism, plasmonic interactions, and exciton effects

    Alexander O. Govorov;Yurii K. Gun'ko;Joseph M. Slocik;Valérie A. Gérard

  • Colloidal quantum dots for optoelectronics

    A. P. Litvin;I. V. Martynenko;F. Purcell-Milton;A. V. Baranov

  • ZnO Nanostructures for Drug Delivery and Theranostic Applications.

    Marina Martínez-Carmona;Yurii Gun’ko;María Vallet-Regí

  • Magnetic core-shell nanoparticles for drug delivery by nebulization

    Navin Kumar Verma;Kieran Crosbie-Staunton;Amro Satti;Shane Gallagher

  • Carbon Nanomaterials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications: A Bright Future

    Lorcan J. Brennan;Michele T. Byrne;Mazhar Bari;Yurii K. Gun'ko

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Donegan
John F. Donegan Trinity College Dublin
Ivan D. Rukhlenko
Ivan D. Rukhlenko University of Sydney
Jonathan N. Coleman
Jonathan N. Coleman Trinity College Dublin
John Kelly
John Kelly University College London
Frank T. Edelmann
Frank T. Edelmann Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Andrey L. Rogach
Andrey L. Rogach City University of Hong Kong
Stephen J. Connon
Stephen J. Connon Trinity College Dublin
Alexander O. Govorov
Alexander O. Govorov Ohio University

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