Professor John Boland

Professor, Chemistry

Principal Investigator, CRANN

jboland@tcd.ie 3531896 3140 http://www.tcd.ie/Chemistry/staff/people/Boland/index.php

Biography

Prof. Boland received his BSc degree from University College Dublin and PhD from the California Institute of Technology. He is a Professor in the School of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin and Director of the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN). Prof. Boland was previously a researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, and the J.J. Hermans Professor of Chemistry and Applied and Materials Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His current research interests involve the electrical and mechanical properties of nanoscale materials, and molecular recognition and assembly and nanoscale contact formation.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Bellew, A.T. Bell, A.P. McCarthy, E.K. Fairfield, J.A. Boland, J.J., "Programmability of nanowire networks", Nanoscale, 6, (16), 2014, p9632 - 9639Journal Article, 2014, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
McCarthy, E.K. Bellew, A.T. Sader, J.E. Boland, J.J., "Poisson's ratio of individual metal nanowires", Nature Communications, 5, 2014, p11422 - 11429Journal Article, 2014, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
O'Kelly, C. Fairfield, J.A. Boland, J.J., "A single nanoscale junction with programmable multilevel memory", ACS Nano, 8, (11), 2014, p11724 - 11729Journal Article, 2014, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Yue, Y. Bai, Y. Muhammed Basheer, P.A. Boland, J.J. Wang, J.J., "Monitoring the cementitious materials subjected to sulfate attack with optical fiber excitation Raman spectroscopy", Optical Engineering, 52, (10), 2013, p104107-1 - 104107-10Journal Article, 2013, DOI , URL
Naydenov, B. Rungger, I. Mantega, M. Sanvito, S. Boland, J.J., "Single-atom based coherent quantum interference device structure", Nano Letters, 15, (5), 2015, p2881 - 2886Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
C. G. Rocha, C. O'Callaghan, C. Ritter, H. Manning, A. T. Bellew, J. J. Boland and M. S. Ferreira,, "Ultimate Conductivity Performance in Metallic Nanowire Networks", Nanoscale, 7, (30), 2015, p13011 - 13016Journal Article, 2015, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Bell A.P, Fairfield J.A, McCarthy E.K, Mills S, Boland J.J, Baffou G, McCloskey D, "Quantitative study of the photothermal properties of metallic nanowire networks", ACS Nano, 9, (5), 2015, p5551 - 5558Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
A.T. Bellew, Hugh G. Manning, Claudia Gomes da Rocha, Mauro S. Ferreira and John J. Boland. , "Resistance of Single Ag Nanowire Junctions and Their Role in the Conductivity of Nanowire Networks", ACS NANO, 9, (11), 2015, p11422 - 11429Journal Article, 2015, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Peter Gleeson, Kevin Lin, Alexis Potie, Chytra Pawashe, Johann P de Silva, Graham L W Cross and John J Boland, "The effect of device fabrication on quasi-static elastic behaviour of silicon nanocantilever arrays", J. MICROMECH MICROENG, 25 (125007), 2015, p1 - 8Journal Article, 2015, DOI
Ronan Daly, John E. Sader, and John J. Boland, "Taming Self-Organization Dynamics to Dramatically Control Porous Architectures", ACS NANO, 10, (3), 2016, p3087-3092Journal Article, 2016, DOI
Harte NP, Klyubin I, McCarthy EK, Min S, Garrahy SA, Xie Y, Davey GP, Boland JJ, Rowan MJ, Mok KH, Amyloid Oligomers and Mature Fibrils Prepared from an Innocuous Protein Cause Diverging Cellular Death Mechanisms., The Journal of biological chemistry, 290, (47), 2015, p28343 - 28352Journal Article, 2015, DOI , TARA - Full Text
C. O'Callaghan, C. G. Rocha, H. G. Manning, J. J. Boland and M. S. Ferreira, Effective medium theory for the conductivity of disordered metallic nanowire networks, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, (59), 2016, p27564 - 27571Journal Article, 2016, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Prabhava S. N. Barimar, Catherine M. Doyle, Borislav Naydenov, and John J. Boland, Study of the effect of thermal treatment on morphology and chemical composition of silicon-on-insulator, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 34, 2016, p041806-Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
J. A. Fairfield, C. G. Rocha, C. O'Callaghan, M. S. Ferreira and J. J. Boland, Co-percolation to tune conductive behaviour in dynamical metallic nanowire networks, Nanoscale, 8, (43), 2016, p18516 - 18523Journal Article, 2016, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Galanti A, Kotova O, Blasco S, Johnson C.J, Peacock R.D, Mills S, Boland J.J, Albrecht M, Gunnlaugsson T, Exploring the Effect of Ligand Structural Isomerism in Langmuirâ"Blodgett Films of Chiral Luminescent EuIIISelf-Assemblies, Chemistry - A European Journal, 22, (28), 2016, p9709 - 9723Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
Kotova O, Daly R, Dos Santos C.M.G, Kruger P.E, Boland J.J, Gunnlaugsson T, Cross-Linking the Fibers of Supramolecular Gels Formed from a Tripodal Terpyridine Derived Ligand with d-Block Metal Ions, Inorganic Chemistry, 54, (16), 2015, p7735 - 7741Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
Martinez-Calvo M, Kotova O, Mobius M.E, Bell A.P, McCabe T, Boland J.J, Gunnlaugsson T, Healable luminescent self-assembly supramolecular metallogels possessing lanthanide (Eu/Tb) dependent rheological and morphological properties, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137, (5), 2015, p1983 - 1992Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
O'Kelly C.J, Jung S.J, Boland J.J, Metal Nanostructure Synthesis via Surface Energy Driven Growth, Crystal Growth and Design, 16, (12), 2016, p7318 - 7324Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Lee S, Park J.-B, Lee M.-J, Boland J.J, Multilevel resistance in ZnO nanowire memristors enabled by hydrogen annealing treatment, AIP Advances, 6, (12), 2016Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Oliver S.M, Fairfield J.A, Bellew A.T, Lee S, Champlain J.G, Ruppalt L.B, Boland J.J, Vora P.M, Quantum point contacts and resistive switching in Ni/NiO nanowire junctions, Applied Physics Letters, 109, (20), 2016, p203101-Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
O'Kelly C.J, Fairfield J.A, McCloskey D, Manning H.G, Donegan J.F, Boland J.J, Associative Enhancement of Time Correlated Response to Heterogeneous Stimuli in a Neuromorphic Nanowire Device, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2, (6), 2016, p1500458 -Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Jung S.J, O'Kelly C.J, Boland J.J, Position Controlled Growth of Single Crystal Cu3Si Nanostructures, Crystal Growth and Design, 15, (11), 2015, p5355 - 5359Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Barimar, Prabhava S. N., Naydenov, Borislav., Li, Jing., Boland, John J. , Spreading resistance at the nano-scale studied by scanning tunneling and field emission spectroscopy, Applied Physiscs Letters, 110, 2017, p263111-Journal Article, 2017, URL , TARA - Full Text
Mills, S., Sader, J.E., Boland, J.J, "Material characterisation of nanowires with intrinsic stress" , Nanotechnology , 28, (35), 2017Journal Article, 2017, DOI , TARA - Full Text
D. McAteer, IJ Godwin, Z. Ling, A. Harvey, L. He, CS Boland, VV Mayoral, B. Szydlowska, AA Rovetta, C. Backes, MEG Lyons, JN Coleman, Liquid exfoliated Co(OH)2 nanosheets as low cost high performance catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction, Advanced energy materials, 1702965, 2018, p11 pagesJournal Article, 2018, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Manning, Hugh G. and Biswas, Subhajit and Holmes, Justin D. and Boland, John J., Nonpolar Resistive Switching in Ag@TiO2 Core-Shell Nanowires, ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 2017, pnullJournal Article, 2017, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Samuel Torsney, Borislav Naydenov, John J. Boland, Ordering and interactions between Cl adatoms on Cu(111) and their influence on the local electronic properties as measured by STM and STS, Physical Review B, 96, (24), 2017, p245411-1 - 245411-7Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Lin, K.L. and Cross, G.L.W. and Gleeson, P. and De Silva, J.P. and Levander, A. and MuÃ±oz, J.A. and Pawashe, C. and Potie, A. and Theofanis, P. and Boland, J.J. and Kuhn, K.J., Adhesion limits and design criteria for nanorelays, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 63, (1), 2016, p465-470Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL
Zhang, X. and Han, J. and Plombon, J.J. and Sutton, A.P. and Srolovitz, D.J. and Boland, J.J., Nanocrystalline copper films are never flat, Science, 357, (6349), 2017, p397-400Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
Gough, J.J. and McEvoy, N. and O'Brien, M. and Bell, A.P. and McCloskey, D. and Boland, J.B. and Coleman, J.N. and Duesberg, G.S. and Bradley, A.L., Dependence of Photocurrent Enhancements in Quantum Dot (QD)-Sensitized MoS2 Devices on MoS2 Film Properties, Advanced Functional Materials, 28, (13), 2018, p1706149-Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Jakub Jadwiszczak, Colin O'Callaghan, Yangbo Zhou, Daniel S Fox, Eamonn Weitz, Darragh Keane, Conor P. Cullen, Ian O'Reilly, Clive Downing, Aleksey Shmeliov, Pierce Maguire, John J. Gough , Cormac McGuinness , Mauro S. Ferreira, A. Louise Bradley , John J. Boland, Georg S. Duesberg, Valeria Nicolosi & Hongzhou Zhang, Oxide-mediated recovery of field effect mobility in plasma-treated MoS2, Science Advances, 4, (2), 2018, peaao5031-Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Zheng, J.-Y. and Wang, J.J. and Manning, H. and Zhong, C. and Purcell-Milton, F. and Meehan, R.O. and Cunningham, G. and Enright, R. and Gun'ko, Y.K. and Boland, J. and Donegan, J.F., Synthesis of millimeter-size freestanding perovskite nanofilms from single-crystal lead bromide for optoelectronic devices, 2017-January, 2017, pp1-2Conference Paper, 2017, DOI , URL
Boland, C.S. and Khan, U. and Binions, M. and Barwich, S. and Boland, J.B. and Weaire, D. and Coleman, J.N., Graphene-coated polymer foams as tuneable impact sensors, Nanoscale, 10, (11), 2018, p5366-5375Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Sun, H. and Hanlon, D. and Dinh, D.A. and Boland, J.B. and Del Rio Castillo, A.E. and Di Giovanni, C. and Ansaldo, A. and Pellegrini, V. and Coleman, J.N. and Bonaccorso, F., Carbon nanotubes-bridged molybdenum trioxide nanosheets as high performance anode for lithium ion batteries, 2D Materials, 5, (1), 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Hossain, M; Kumar, GS; Prabhava, SNB; McCloskey, D; Acharya, S; Rao, KDM; Boland, JJ., Transparent, Flexible Silicon Nanostructured Wire Networks with Seamless Junctions for High-Performance Photodetector Applications, ACS NANO, 12, (5), 2018, p4727 - 4735Journal Article, 2018, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Borislav Naydenov, Samuel Torsney, Alejandro Santana Bonilla, Mohamed El Garah, Artur Ciesielski,, Andrea Gualandi|, Luca Mengozzi, Pier Giorgio Cozzi, Rafael Gutierrez, Paolo Samorì, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, and John J. Boland, "Self-Assembled Two-Dimensional Supramolecular Networks Characterized by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy in Air and under Vacuum", Langmuir,, 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI
Harvey, A. and Backes, C. and Boland, J.B. and He, X. and Griffin, A. and Szydlowska, B. and Gabbett, C. and Donegan, J.F. and Coleman, J.N., Non-resonant light scattering in dispersions of 2D nanosheets, Nature communications, 9, (1), 2018, p4553Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Hugh G. Manning, Fabio Niosi, Claudia Gomes da Rocha, Allen T. Bellew, Colin O'Callaghan, Subhajit Biswas, Patrick F. Flowers, Benjamin J. Wiley, Justin D. Holmes, Mauro S. Ferreira & John J. Boland , Emergence of winner-takes-all connectivity paths in random nanowire networks, Nature Communications, 9, 2018, pArticle No: 3219Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
C'O'Callaghan, C.G.Rocha, F. Niosi, H.G Manning, J,J Boland and M.S Ferreira , Collective capacitive and memristive responses in random nanowire networks: Emergence of critical connectivity pathways, Journal of Applied Physics , 124, 2018, pArticle Number 152118Journal Article, 2018, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Shaun Mills, Chiara Rotella, Eoin K. McCarthy, David J. Hill, Jing-Jing Wang,, "Solvent-Engineered Stress in Nanoscale Materials", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10, 2018, p44183 - 44189Journal Article, 2018, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Adam G Kelly , VictorVega-Mayoral , John B Boland and Jonathan N Coleman, Whiskey-phase exfoliation: exfoliation and printing of nanosheets using Irish whiskey, 2D Materials, 6, (045036), 2019, p1 - 8Journal Article, 2019, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Boland, J.B. and Harvey, A. and Tian, R. and Hanlon, D. and Vega-Mayoral, V. and Szydlowska, B. and Griffin, A. and Stimpel-Lindner, T. and Jaskaniec, S. and Nicolosi, V. and Duesberg, G. and Coleman, J.N., Liquid phase exfoliation of MoO2 nanosheets for lithium ion battery applications, Nanoscale Advances, 1, (4), 2019, p1560-1570Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Naydenov, B, Torsney, S, Bonilla, AS, Gualandi, A, Mengozzi, L, Cozzi, PG, Gutierrez, R; Cuniberti, G; Boland, JJ., "Mapping Conformational Changes in a Self-Assembled Two-Dimensional Molecular Network by Statistical Analysis of Conductance Images", Physical Review Applied, 11, (3), 2019, pArticle Number 034070Journal Article, 2019, DOI
Manning, HG, da Rocha, CG, O'Callaghan, C, Ferreira, MS, Boland, JJ, "The Electro-Optical Performance of Silver Nanowire Networks", Scientific Reports, 9, 2019, pArticle Number 11550Journal Article, 2019, DOI
Borislav Naydenov, Samuel Torsney, Alejandro Santana Bonilla, Mohamed El Garah, Artur Ciesielski, Andrea Gualandi, Luca Mengozzi, Pier Giorgio Cozzi, Rafael Gutierrez, Paolo Samorì, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, and John J. Boland, Self-Assembled Two-Dimensional Supramolecular Networks Characterized by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy in Air and under Vacuum, Langmuir, 34, 2018, p7698 - 7707Journal Article, 2018, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Borislav Naydenov, Samuel Torsney, Alejandro Santana Bonilla, Andrea Gualandi, Luca Mengozzi, Pier Giorgio Cozzi, Rafael Gutierrez, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, and John J. Boland, Mapping Conformational Changes in a Self-Assembled Two-Dimensional Molecular Network by Statistical Analysis of Conductance Images, PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED, 11, (03), 2019, p034070-1 - 034070-7Journal Article, 2019, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Zheng, JY, Manning, HG, Zhang, YH, Wang, JJ, Purcell-Milton, F, Pokle, A, Porter, SB , Zhong, C, Li, J , Meehan, RO, Enright, R, Gun'ko, YK, Nicolosi, V , Boland, JJ, Sanvito, S, Donegan, JF, "Synthesis of centimeter-size free-standing perovskite nanosheets from single-crystal lead bromide for optoelectronic devices", Scientific Reports, 9, 2019, pArticle Number 11738Journal Article, 2019, DOI
Alialy, S, Gabriel, M, Davitt, F, Holmes, JD, Boland, JJ, "Switching at the contacts in Ge9Sb1Te5 phase-change nanowire devices" , NANOTECHNOLOGY, 30, (33), 2019, pArticle Number 335706Journal Article, 2019, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Sahar Alialy , Koorosh Esteki , Mauro Ferreira , John J. Boland and Claudia Gomes da Rocha , Nonlinear ion drift-diffusion memristance description of TiO2 RRAM devices, Nanoscale Advances, 2020, p1 - 11Journal Article, 2020, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Lebre F, Boland JB, Gouveia P, Gorman AL, Lundahl MLE, I Lynch R, O'Brien FJ, Coleman J, Lavelle EC., Pristine graphene induces innate immune training., Nanoscale, 12, (20), 2020, p11192-11200Journal Article, 2020, DOI
Hugh G. Manning, Patrick F. Flowers, Mutya A. Cruz, Claudia Gomes da Rocha, Colin O' Callaghan, Mauro S. Ferreira, Benjamin J. Wiley, and John J. Boland , The Resistance of Cu Nanowire-Nanowire Junctions & Electro-Optical Modeling of Cu Nanowire Networks , Applied Physical Letters, 116, 2020, p251902Journal Article, 2020, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Boland, J.B. and Tian, R. and Harvey, A. and Vega-Mayoral, V. and Griffin, A. and Horvath, D.V. and Gabbett, C. and Breshears, M. and Pepper, J. and Li, Y. and Coleman, J.N., Liquid phase exfoliation of GeS nanosheets in ambient conditions for lithium ion battery applications, 2D Materials, 7, (3), 2020Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
D. Li, Y. Shi, L. Yang, L. Xiao, D. K. Kehoe, Y. K. Gun'ko, J. J. Boland, J. J. Wang, Microplastic release from the degradation of polypropylene feeding bottles during infant formula preparation, Nature Food, 1, 2020, p746 - 751Journal Article, 2020, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Zhang, C.J. and Liang, M. and Park, S.-H. and Lin, Z. and Seral-Ascaso, A. and Wang, L. and Pakdel, A. and CoileaÃn, C.Ã". and Boland, J. and Ronan, O. and McEvoy, N. and Lu, B. and Wang, Y. and Xia, Y. and Coleman, J.N. and Nicolosi, V., Extra lithium-ion storage capacity enabled by liquid-phase exfoliated indium selenide nanosheets conductive network, Energy and Environmental Science, 13, (7), 2020, p2124-2133Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, Rient Wigchering, Hugh G. Manning, John. J. Boland & Paul K. Hurley, Emulating synaptic response in n- and p-channel MoS2 transistors by utilizing charge trapping dynamics, Scientific Reports, 10, (1), 2020, pArticle number: 12178Journal Article, 2020, TARA - Full Text
Davitt, Fionán; Manning, Hugh G.; Robinson, Fred; Hawken, Samantha L.; Biswas, Subhajit.; Petkov, Nikolay; van Druenen, Mart; Boland, John J.; Reid Gillian; Holmes, Justin D, Crystallographically controlled synthesis of SnSe nanowires: potential in resistive memory devices, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 10, (16), 2020, p2000474 (10 pp).Journal Article, 2020, DOI
Jadwiszczak, J. and Keane, D. and Maguire, P. and Cullen, C.P. and Zhou, Y. and Song, H. and Downing, C. and Fox, D. and McEvoy, N. and Zhu, R. and Xu, J. and Duesberg, G.S. and Liao, Z.-M. and Boland, J.J. and Zhang, H., MoS2 Memtransistors Fabricated by Localized Helium Ion Beam Irradiation, ACS Nano, 13, (12), 2019, p14262-14273Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL
Yunhong Shi, Dunzhu Li, Liwen Xiao*, Daragh Mullarkey, Daniel K. Kehoe, Emmet D. Sheerin, Sebastian Barwich, Luming Yang, Yurii K. Gun'ko, Igor V. Shvets, Matthias E. Möbius, John J. Boland*, Jing Jing Wang* , Real-world natural passivation phenomena can limit microplastic generation in water, Chemical Engineering Journal, 425, 2022Journal Article, 2022, URL , TARA - Full Text
Dunzhu Li, Luming Yang, Rachel Kavanagh, Liwen Xiao, Yunhong Shi, Daniel K Kehoe, Emmet D Sheerin, Yurii K Gun'ko, John J Boland, Jing Jing Wang, Sampling, Identification and Characterization of Microplastics Release from Polypropylene Baby Feeding Bottle during Daily Use, Journal of Visualized Experiments: Jove, 173, 2021Journal Article, 2021, URL , TARA - Full Text
H. G. Manning, C. G. Rocha, C. O'Callaghan, M. S. Ferreira and J. J. Boland, The Electro-Optical Performance of Silver Nanowire Networks, Scientific Reports, 9, 2019, p11550-Journal Article, 2019, URL
K. Esteki, H. G. Manning, E. Sheerin, M. S. Ferreira, J. J. Boland, and C. G. Rocha, Tuning the Electro-Optical Properties of Nanowire Networks, Nanoscale, 13, 2021, p15369-Journal Article, 2021, DOI
Boland, C.S. and Oâ Driscoll, D.P. and Kelly, A.G. and Boland, J.B. and Coleman, J.N., Highly Sensitive Composite Foam Bodily Sensors Based on the g-Putty Ink Soaking Procedure, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, (50), 2021, p60489-60497Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Shi, Y. and Li, D. and Xiao, L. and Sheerin, E.D. and Mullarkey, D. and Yang, L. and Bai, X. and Shvets, I.V. and Boland, J.J. and Wang, J.J., The influence of drinking water constituents on the level of microplastic release from plastic kettles, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 425, (127997), 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Biswas, S., Doherty, J., Galluccio, E., Manning, H. G., Conroy, M., Duffy, R., Bangert, U., Boland, J. J. and Holmes, J. D., 'Stretching the Equilibrium Limit of Sn in Ge1-xSnx Nanowires: Implications for Field Effect Transistors',, ACS Applied Nano Materials, , 4, (2), 2021, p1048 - 1056Journal Article, 2021, DOI
K. Esteki, H. G. Manning, E. Sheerin, M. S. Ferreira, J. J. Boland, and C. G. Rocha. , "Tuning the Electro-Optical Properties of Nanowire Networks", Nanoscale, 13, 2021, p15367 - 15379Journal Article, 2021, TARA - Full Text
Yunhong Shi, Dunzhu Li, Liwen Xiao, Daragh Mullarkey, Daniel K. Kehoe, Emmet D. Sheerin, Sebastian Barwich, Luming Yang, Yurii K. Gun'ko, Igor V. Shvets, Matthias E. Möbius, John J. Boland, Jing Jing Wang, "Real-world natural passivation phenomena can limit microplastic generation in water", Chemical Engineering Journal, 428, (132466), 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
Rakovich, Y. P., Donegan, J. F., Gerlach, M., Bradley, A. L., Connolly, T. M., Boland, J. J., Gaponik, N. and Rogach, A., Observation of coupled cavity modes in photonic molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett, 2004Journal Article, 2004
Boland, J. J., Papadakis, S. J., Falvo, M. R., Snow, E., Fu, Q., Liu, J., Fridman, Y., Superfine, R., Washburn S. , Nanoscale Study of Conduction through Carbon Nanotube Networks, PHYSICAL REVIEW, B 69 (20), (Art. No. 201402 MAY), 2004Journal Article, 2004
Teague, L. C. and Boland, J. J. , DFT Investigation of the Product Distribution following Reaction of 1,3-cyclobutadiene on the Si(100) surface, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, B 108 (23), (JUN 10), 2004, p7827 - 7830Journal Article, 2004
Teague, L. C. and Boland, J. J., Organic Thin Film: Kinetically Controlled Reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadine on Si(100) substrate, Thin Film Solids, 2004Journal Article, 2004
Chen, Dongxue and Boland, John J. , Dimer-Anticorrelation-Induced Stabilization of Adsorbate Clustering on Si(100)-2x1 Surface, Physical Review Letters, 92, (9, March 5), 2004, part. no. 096103Journal Article, 2004
Stadermann, M., Grube H., Boland, John J., Papadakis, S. J., Falvo, M.R., Superfine, R., Washburn, S. , Simultaneous atomic force microscopy measurement of topography and contact resistance of metal films and carbon nanotubes, Review Of Scientific Instruments , 74, (8), 2003, p3653 - 3655Journal Article, 2003
Chen, D. X., Boland, J. J., Steric interaction model of roughening and vacancy reorganization on halogen-terminated Si(100)-2x1 surfaces, Physical Review B , 67, (19), 2003, p195328Journal Article, 2003
Heidelberg, A., Bloess, H., Schultze, J. W., Booth, C. J., Samulski, E. T., and Boland, J. J., Electronic properties of LiMo3Se3-Nanowires and Mo3Se3-nanowire-networks for nanoscale electronic devices, Zeitschrift Fur Physikalische Chemie-International Journal Of Research In Physical Chemistry & Chemical Physics, 217, (5), 2003, p573 - 585Journal Article, 2003
Teague L. C., Boland J. J, STM study of multiple bonding configurations and mechanism of 1,3-cyclohexadiene attachment on Si(100)-2 x 1, Journal Of Physical Chemistry B , 107, (16), 2003, p3820 - 3823Journal Article, 2003
Chen, D. X., Boland, J. J., Spontaneous roughening and vacancy dynamics on Si(100)-2x1 : Cl , SURF SCI , 518, (3 Oct 20), 2002, pL583 - L587Journal Article, 2002
Herrmann, C. F., Chen, D. X. and Boland, John J., Spontaneous roughening: Fundamental limits in Si(100) halogen etch processing, PHYS REV LETT , 89, (9 Aug 26), 2002, art. no. 096102Journal Article, 2002
Chen, D. X., Boland, J. J., Chemisorption-induced disruption of surface electronic structure: Hydrogen adsorption on the Si(100)-2x1 surface, PHYS REV B , 65, (16 (April 15)), 2002, art. no. 165336Journal Article, 2002
Grube, H., Harrison, B. C., Jia, J. F., and Boland, John J., Stability, resolution, and tip-tip imaging by a dual-probe scanning tunneling microscope, REV SCI INSTRUM , 72, (12 (Dec)), 2001, p4388 - 4392Journal Article, 2001
Herrmann, C. F., Boland, John J. , Vacancy dynamics and reorganization on bromine-etched Si(100)-(2x1) surfaces , PHYS REV LETT , 87, (11 (Sept 10)), 2001, p115503Journal Article, 2001
Buehler, E. J. and Boland, John J. , Dimer Preparation that Mimics the Transition State for the Adsorption of H2 on the Si(100)-2x1 Surface, Science, October, 2000Journal Article, 2000
Herrmann, C. F. and Boland, John J., The Role of Repulsive Interactions in Molecular Bromine Adsorption and Patterning of Si(100)-2x1, Surface Science, 460, 2000, p233Journal Article, 2000
Herrmann, C. F. and Boland, John J., Probing Repulsive Interactions on the Si(100)-2x1 Surface by Tip-Induced Excitation, J. Phys. Chem, 103, 1999, p4207Journal Article, 1999
Buehler, E. J. and Boland, John J, Identification of a Novel Hydride Species on the Si(100)-2x1 Surface, Surface Science , 425, 1999, pL363Journal Article, 1999
Boland, John J. and Weaver, J. H., A Surface View of Etching, Physics Today, August, 1998, p34Journal Article, 1998
McEllistrem, M. T., Allgeier, M. and Boland, John J., Dynamics of Dangling Bond Diffusion and Recombination on the Si(100)-2x1 Surface, Science, , 279, 1998, p545Journal Article, 1998
Grube, H. and Boland, John J., Origin of Homoepitaxial Faulted Island Growth on the Si(111) Surface, Surface Science , 407, 1998, p152Journal Article, 1998
Fouchier, M. and Boland, John J., Energy of Si(111) Dimer-Stacking Fault Structures, Phys. Rev, B57, , 1998, p8997Journal Article, 1998
McEllistrem, M. T., Buehler, J., Itchkawitz, B. S. and Boland, John J., Abstraction of Chemisorbed Bromine Atoms on the Si(111) surface by Incident Atoms, J. Chem. Phys, 108, 1998, p7384Journal Article, 1998
M. Fouchier, M., McEllistrem, M. T. and Boland, John J., Novel Adatom-Terminated Steps on the Ge(111)-1x1:Br Surface, Surf. Sci, 385, 1997, pL905Journal Article, 1997
Itchkawitz, B. S., McEllistrem, M. T., Grube, H. and Boland, John J., Role of Dimer-Stacking Fault Structures in Si(111) Etching and Growth , Surf. Sci, 385, 1997, p281Journal Article, 1997
Itchkawitz, B. S., McEllistrem, M. T. and Boland, John J. , Equivalent Step Structures along Inequivalent Crystallographic Directions on Halogen-Terminated Si(111)-1x1 Surfaces, Phys. Rev. Lett, 78, 1997, p98 - 101Journal Article, 1997
Kubby and Boland, John J., Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Semiconductor Surfaces, Surf. Sci, 26, 1996, p61 - 204Journal Article, 1996
Boland, John J., Manipulating Chlorine Atom Bonding on the Si(100)-2x1 with the STM, Science, 262, 1993, p1703 - 1706Journal Article, 1993
Boland, John J, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of the Interaction of Hydrogen with Silicon Surfaces, Adv. Phys, 42, 1993, p129 - 171Journal Article, 1993
Boland, John J. and Parsons, Gregory N., Bond Selectivity in Silicon Film Growth, Science, 256, 1992, p1304 - 1306Journal Article, 1992
Li D; Sheerin ED; Shi Y; Xiao L; Yang L: Boland JJ; Wang JJ, "Alcohol Pre-treatment to Eliminate the Interference of Micro Additive Particles in the Identification of Microplastics Using Raman Spectroscopy"., Environmental science & technology [Environ Sci Technol] , 56, (17), 2022, p12158 - 12168Journal Article, 2022, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Boland, John J. and Parsons, Gregory N, Selective Deposition and Bond Strain Relaxation in Silicon PECVD Using Time Modulated Silane Flow, J. Appl.Phys, 31, 1992, p1743 - 1748Journal Article, 1992
John J. Gough , Niall McEvoy, Maria O'Brien, Alan P. Bell , John McManus, David McCloskey, John B. Boland, Jonathan N. Coleman, Georg S. Duesberg, and A. Louise Bradley, Nonradiative energy transfer and photocurrent enhancements in hybrid quantum dots-MoS2 Devices, ICTON, Bucharest, Romania, 2018, ICTONInvited Talk, 2018
Boland, John J., A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of the Adsorption and Recombinative Desorption of Hydrogen from the Si(100)-2x1 Surface, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., A10, 1992, p2458 - 2464Journal Article, 1992
Boland, John J., Hydrogen as a Probe of Semiconductor Surface Structure: The Ge(111)-c(2x8) Surface, Science, 255, 1992, p186 - 188Journal Article, 1992
Boland, John J., Role of Bond Strain in the Chemistry of Hydrogen on the Si(100) Surface, , Surf. Sci, 261, 1992, p17 - 28Journal Article, 1992
Mills, S., Rotella, C., McCarthy, E.K., Hill, D.J., Wang, J.-J., Donegan, J.F., Cahoon, J.F., Sader, J.E., Boland, J.J., Solvent-Engineered Stress in Nanoscale Materials, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10, (50), 2018, p44183-44189Journal Article, 2018
Boland, John J., Evidence of Pairing and its Role in the Recombinative Desorption of Hydrogen from the Si(100)-2x1 Surface, Phys. Rev. Lett, 67, 1991, p1593 - 1596Journal Article, 1991
Boland, John J., Role of Hydrogen Desorption in the Chemical-Vapor Deposition of Epitaxial Si(100) Films using Disilane, Phys. Rev, B44, 1991, p1383 - 1386Journal Article, 1991
Takamori, Takeshi and Boland, John J. , On Pyrochlore-Type Bismuth Platinum Oxide, J. Cryst. Growth, 112, 1991, p660 - 662Journal Article, 1991
Takamori, Takeshi and Boland, John J., Platinum Erosion during Growth of Sillenite-Type Crystals, , Mater. Sci. Lett, 10, 1991, p972 - 974Journal Article, 1991
Boland, John J., The Importance of Structure and Bonding in Semiconductor Surface Chemistry: Hydrogen on the Si(111)-7x7 Surface, Surf. Sci, 244, 1991, p1 - 14Journal Article, 1991
Boland, John J., The Driving Force Behind the Chemistry of Hydrogen on the Si(111)-7x7 Surface, J. Vac. Sci. Technol, B9, 1991, p764 - 769Journal Article, 1991
Boland, John J., Nature of the Hydride Species on the Hydrogenated Si(111)-7x7 Surface, J. Phys. Chem, 95, 1991, p1521 - 1524Journal Article, 1991
Boland, John J., Structure of the H-Saturated Si(100) Surface, Phys. Rev. Lett, 65, 1990, p3325 - 3328Journal Article, 1990
Boland, John J. and Villarrubia, J. S., Identification of the Products from the Reaction of Chlorine with the Si(111)-7x7 Surface, Science, 248, 1990, p838 - 840Journal Article, 1990
Boland, John J. and Villarrubia, J. S., The Formation of Si(111)1x1-Cl, Phys. Rev, B41, 1990, p9865 - 9870Journal Article, 1990
Takamori, Takeshi., Boland, John J. and Dove, Derek B., Controlled Levitation of a Large Magnet above a Superconductor, Rev. Sci. Instrum, 61, 1990, p1984 - 1986Journal Article, 1990
Takamori, Takeshi., Boland, John J. and Dove, Derek B., Magnetic Field Controlled Levitation and Suspension of a Magnet above and below Type II Superconductors, Appl. Phys. Lett, 55, 1989, p1454 - 1456Journal Article, 1989
Boland, John J. and Villarrubia, J. S, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Si(111)-7x7 Rest-Atom Layer Following Adatom Removal by Reaction with Cl, Phys. Rev. Lett, 63, 1989, p306 - 309Journal Article, 1989
Takamori, Takeshi., Boland, John J., Thermal Decomposition Mechanism of the Triple Carbonate (Ba,Sr,Ca)CO3, J. Appl. Phys, 64, 1988, p2130 - 2133Journal Article, 1988
Boland, John J. and Segredo, Eugenio, Characterization of the Photoresist Residue in Integrated Thermionic Devices, J. Appl. Phys, 64, 1988, p2725 - 2728Journal Article, 1988
Boland, John J. and Segredo, Eugenio, Observation of Apparent Compensation Behavior in Thermionic Electronic Emission, IEEE IEDM, 30.5, 1987, p87 - 701Journal Article, 1987
Boland, John J., Voltage Contrast XPS - A Novel Scheme for Spatially Resolved XPS Studies, Surf. Interface Anal, 10, 1987, p149 - 152Journal Article, 1987
Boland, John J., Spatially Resolved X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies for Device-Type Applications, J. Vac. Sci. Technol, 4B, 1987, p1256 - 1258Journal Article, 1987
Lynes, A.D. and Lovitt, J.I. and Rotella, C. and Boland, J.J. and Gunnlaugsson, T. and Hawes, C.S., Crystal engineering studies of a series of pyridine-3,5-dicarboxamide ligands possessing alkyl ester arms, and their coordination chemistry, Results in Chemistry, 4, (100679), 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
Boland, John J., Halaka, Folim G. and Baldeschwieler, John D., A Novel Scheme for Structure Determination in EXAFS, Chem. Phys. Lett, 129, 1986, p1 - 4Journal Article, 1986
Boland, John J., Halaka, Folim G. and Baldeschwieler, John D, . Possibility of Bond Length Determination Without the Use of Model Compounds or Calculated Phase Shifts, EXAFS and Near Edge Structure III, Springer-Verlag, Berlin??, 1984, p80 - 82Journal Article, 1984
Detection of Ionizing Radiation in, Nuclear Medical Physics, Vol. II, CRC Press , 1985, pp1 - 38, [Boland, John J. and Gamble, Ronald C.]Book Chapter, 1985
Boland, John J., Halaka, Folim G. and Baldeschwieler, John D, . Identification of Neighboring Atoms in Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy, J. Amer. Chem. Soc, 106, 1984, p5408 - 5413Journal Article, 1984
Boland, John J. and Baldeschwieler, John D, The Effect of Thermal Vibrations on Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure II, J. Chem. Phys, 81, 1984, p1145 - 1159Journal Article, 1984
Boland, John J. and Baldeschwieler, John D., The Effect of Thermal Vibrations on Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure I, , J. Chem. Phys, 80, 1984, p3005 - 3017Journal Article, 1984
Boland, John J., Halaka, Folim G. and Baldeschwieler, John D., Data Analysis in Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure: Determination of the Background Absorption and the Threshold Energy, Phys. Rev, B28, 1983, p2921 - 2926Journal Article, 1983
Boland, John J., Crane, Stephen E. and Baldeschwieler, John D., Theory of Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure: Single and Multiple Scattering Formalisms, J. Chem. Phys, 77, 1982, p142 - 153Journal Article, 1982
Filipa Lebre, Damien Hanlon, John B. Boland, Jonathan Coleman, Ed C. Lavelle, Exfoliation in Endotoxin"Free Albumin Generates Pristine Graphene with Reduced Inflammatory Properties, Advanced Biosystems, 2018, p1800102Journal Article, 2018
Luming Yang, Dunzhu Li, Yunhong Shi, Christopher Hill, Rekha Pilliadugula, Laura Page, Jing Jing Wang, John J. Boland, Liwen Xiao, High levels of microparticles release from biodegradable polylactic acid paper cups compared with polyethylene-lined cups, Chemical Engineering Journal, 468, 2023, p143620Journal Article, 2023, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Dunzhu Li, Emmet D. Sheerin, Yunhong Shi, Liwen Xiao, Luming Yang, John Boland, Jing Jing Wang, Alcohol Pretreatment to Eliminate the Interference of Micro Additive Particles in the Identification of Microplastics Using Raman Spectroscopy, Environmental Science & Technology, 56, (17), 2022, p12158--12168Journal Article, 2022, DOI
Gabbett, Cian and Kelly, Adam G. and Coleman, Emmet and Doolan, Luke and Carey, Tian and Synnatschke, Kevin and Liu, Shixin and Dawson, Anthony and O'Suilleabhain, Domhnall and Munuera, Jose and Caffrey, Eoin and Boland, John B. and Sofer, ZdenÄk and Ghosh, Goutam and Kinge, Sachin and Siebbeles, Laurens D. A. and Yadav, Neelam and Vij, Jagdish K. and Aslam, Muhammad Awais and Matkovic, Aleksandar and Coleman, Jonathan N. Coleman, Understanding how junction resistances impact the conduction mechanism in nano-networks, Nature Communications, 15, (1), 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Shi, Y. and Li, D. and Hill, C. and Yang, L. and Sheerin, E.D. and Pilliadugula, R. and Wang, J.J. and Boland, J. and Xiao, L., Micro and nano plastics release from a single absorbable suture into simulated body fluid, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 466, (133559), 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Zhang, X. and Boland, J.J., Core shift controls grain boundary energy scaling in Cu and Al, Acta Materialia, 265, (119606), 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Zhang, X. and Demirel, I. and Boland, J.J., Wedge disclination description of emergent core-shifted grain boundaries at free surfaces, Scripta Materialia, 234, (115562), 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Esteki, K. and Curic, D. and Manning, H.G. and Sheerin, E. and Ferreira, M.S. and Boland, J.J. and Rocha, C.G., Thermo-electro-optical properties of seamless metallic nanowire networks for transparent conductor applications, Nanoscale, 15, (24), 2023, p10394-10411Journal Article, 2023, DOI
Zhang, X. and Boland, J.J., Universal preference for low-energy core-shifted grain boundaries at the surfaces of fcc metals, Physical Review Research, 5, (1), 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
Zhang, X. and Wang, M. and Wang, H. and Upmanyu, M. and Boland, J.J., Restructuring of emergent grain boundaries at free surfaces â" An interplay between core stabilization and elastic stress generation, Acta Materialia, 242, (118432), 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI , URL
Biswas, S. and Doherty, J. and Galluccio, E. and Manning, H.G. and Conroy, M. and Duffy, R. and Bangert, U. and Boland, J.J. and Holmes, J.D., Stretching the Equilibrium Limit of Sn in Ge1- xSnxNanowires: Implications for Field Effect Transistors, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4, (2), 2021, p1048-1056Journal Article, 2021, DOI , URL
Manning, H.G. and Flowers, P.F. and Cruz, M.A. and Rocha, C.G.D. and Callaghan, C.O. and Ferreira, M.S. and Wiley, B.J. and Boland, J.J., The resistance of Cu nanowire-nanowire junctions and electro-optical modeling of Cu nanowire networks, Applied Physics Letters, 116, (25), 2020Journal Article, 2020, DOI , URL
Alialy, S. and Gabriel, M. and Davitt, F. and Holmes, J.D. and Boland, J.J., Switching at the contacts in Ge9Sb1Te5 phase-change nanowire devices, Nanotechnology, 30, (33), 2019Journal Article, 2019, DOI , URL
Manning, H.G. and Biswas, S. and Kumar, S. and Holmes, J.D. and Boland, J.J., Neuromorphic- Inspired Behaviour in Core-Shell Nanowire Networks, 2018-July, (8626353), 2018Conference Paper, 2018, DOI , URL
Mochizuki, S. and Colombeau, B. and Yu, L. and Dube, A. and Choi, S. and Stolfi, M. and Bi, Z. and Chang, F. and Conti, R.A. and Liu, P. and Winstel, K.R. and Jagannathan, H. and Gossmann, H.-J. and Loubet, N. and Canaperi, D.F. and Guo, D. and Sharma, S. and Chu, S. and Boland, J. and Jin, Q. and Li, Z. and Lin, S. and Cogorno, M. and Chudzik, M. and Natarajan, S. and McHerron, D.C. and Haran, B., Advanced Arsenic Doped Epitaxial Growth for Source Drain Extension Formation in Scaled FinFET Devices, 2018-December, (8614543), 2018, pp35.2.1-35.2.4Conference Paper, 2018, DOI , URL
Yue, Y. and Wang, J.J. and Basheer, P.A.M. and Boland, J.J. and Bai, Y., A Raman spectroscopy based optical fibre system for detecting carbonation profile of cementitious materials, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 257, 2018, p635-649Journal Article, 2018, DOI , URL
Mills, S. and Sader, J.E. and Boland, J.J., Material characterisation of nanowires with intrinsic stress, Nanotechnology, 28, (35), 2017Journal Article, 2017, DOI , URL
Li, Dunzhu Li, Peijing Shi, Yunhong Sheerin, Emmet D. Zhang, Zihan Yang, Luming Xiao, Liwen Hill, Christopher Gordon, Conall Ruether, Manuel Pepper, Joshua Sader, John E. Morris, Michael A. Wang, Jing Jing Boland, John J., Stress-induced phase separation in plastics drives the release of amorphous polymer micropollutants into water, 2025Journal Article, 2025, URL
Rakovich, Yu.P.; Gerlach, M.; Bradley, A.L.; Donegan, J.F.; Boland, J.; Connolly, T.; Przyjalgowski, M.; Ryder, A.; Gaponik, N.; Rogach, A.L., Spontaneous emission from semiconductor nanocrystals in coupled spherical microcavities, Physica Status Solidi C, (2), 2005, p858 - 861Journal Article, 2005, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Yu.P. Rakovich, M. Gerlach, A.L. Bradley, J.F. Donegan, T.M. Connolly, J.J.Boland, M.A. Przyjalgowski, A. Ryder, N.Gaponik and A.L. Rogach,, "Confined optical modes in small photonic molecules with semiconductor nanocrystals" , Journal of Applied Physics,, 96, (11), 2004Journal Article, 2004
D. Chen and J.J Boland. , "Spontaneous roughening of low-coverage Si(100)-2x1 : Cl surfaces: Patch formation on submonolayer halogenated Surface. , Phys. Rev B, 70, (20), 2004Journal Article, 2004
T A. Crowley, B. Daly, M. A. Morris, D. Erts, O. Kazakova, J. J. Boland, B. Wu and J. D. Holmes , "Probing the Magnetic Properties of Cobalt-Germanium Nanocable Arrays", J. of Materials Chem. 15 (24):, 15, (24), 2005, p2408 - 2413Journal Article, 2005
Harrison BC, Ryan P, Boland JJ., "STM and DFT study of the Gd wetting layer reconstructions on the Si(001)-2 x 1 surface" , Surface Science. , 582, ((1-3) 10 May), 2005, p79 - 89Journal Article, 2005
Wu B, Heidelberg A, Boland JJ., " Mechanical properties of ultrahigh-strength gold nanowires"., Nature Materials , 4, ((7) July), 2005, p525 - 529Journal Article, 2005
Narushima T, Kinahan NT, Boland JJ., "Simple controlled heating method for a free-standing sample using bimetallic strips" , Review of Scientific Instruments., 76, ((9) 095113 Sep), 2005Journal Article, 2005
Harrison BC, Boland JJ., "Real-time STM study of inter-nanowire reactions: GdSi2 nanowires on Si(100)" , Surface Science , 594, ((1-3) 1 Dec), 2005, p93 - 98Journal Article, 2005
Rusakov KI, Gladyshchuk AA, Rakovich YP, Boland JJ, Donegan JE., "Modification of photon states in photonic molecules with semiconductor nanocrystals." , Optics and Spectroscopy , 99, ((3) September), 2005, p493 - 497Journal Article, 2005
Rakovich YP, Boland JJ, Donegan JE., "Tunable photon lifetime in photonic molecules: a concept for delaying an optical signal"., Optics Letters , 30, ((20) 15 October ), 2005, p2775 - 2777Journal Article, 2005
Stadermann M, Papadakis SJ, Falvo MR and Boland JJ , "Exponential decay of local conductance in single-wall carbon nanotubes"., Physical Review B, 72, ((24): 245406 Dec.), 2005Journal Article, 2005
Bin Wu, Andreas Heidelberg, John J. Boland, XiaoMing Sun, and YaDong Li., Microstructure-hardened silver nanowires, Nano Letters, 6, ((3) March), 2006, p468 - 472Journal Article, 2006
A. Heidelberg, L.T. Ngo, B Wu, J. Sader and J.J. Boland., "A generalized description of the elastic properties of nanowires". , Nano Lett. , 6, ((6) Jun 2006), 2006, p1101 - 1106Journal Article, 2006
B. Naydenov, P. Ryan, L.C. Teague and J.J. Boland., "Contact Formation Dynamics: bond formation between a molecule and metallic probe", Nano Lett , 6, ((8) Aug), 2006, p1752 - 1756Journal Article, 2006
Theis T, Parr D, Binks P, Ying J, Drexler KE, Schepers E , Mullis K , Bai CL, Boland JJ, Langer R, Dobson P , Rao CNR , Ferrari M, nan'o.tech.nol'o.gy n., Nature Nanotechnology (1) 8-10 OCT 2006., (1), (8-10 Oct), 2006Journal Article, 2006
B.Wu and J.J. Boland., "Synthesis and Dispersion of Isolated High Aspect Ratio Gold Nanowires". , J. Coll. Interface Sci. , 303(2) , (611-616 Nov), 2006Journal Article, 2006
B. Naydenov, P.Ryan, L.C. Teague and J.J. Boland. , Measuring the force of interaction between a metallic probe and a single molecule", Phys. Rev. Lett. , 97, ((9) 098304 Sept), 2006Journal Article, 2006, TARA - Full Text
D. Erts, B. Polyakov, B. Daly, M.A. Morris, S. Ellingboe, J. Boland, J.D. Holmes, "High density germanium nanowire assemblies: contact challenges and electrical characterisation", J. Phys. Chem. , B, (110, 820-826.Jan), 2006Journal Article, 2006
L.T. Ngo, D. Almecija, J. E. Sader, B. Daly, J. D. Holmes, D. Erts, and J. J. Boland. , "Ultimate Strength Ge Nanowires". , Nano Lett 2964-2968, , 6, ((12) Dec ), 2006Journal Article, 2006
Narushima T, Kinahan NT , Boland JJ, "Simultaneous scanning tunneling microscopy and stress measurements to elucidate the origins of surface forces", Review of Scientific Instruments, , 78, (5), 2007Journal Article, 2007, DOI , URL
J. Boland , Semiconductor physics - Transport news., Nature 439 (7077): , 671, (Feb ), 2006Journal Article, 2006
J.J. Boland, , "The best of both worlds - a novel approach to macromolecular STM studies". , Surf. Sci. , 602, , (1), 2008, p1 - 2Journal Article, 2008, DOI
Wen, B. M., Huang, Y.Z., Boland J.J., "A simple solvothermal route to controlled diameter geranium nanowires"., Journal of Materials Chemistry, , 18, (17 ), 2008, p2011 - 2015Journal Article, 2008, DOI , URL
Baomei Wen, Yizhong Huang, John J. Boland, "Controllable Growth of ZnO Nanostructures by a simple solvothermal Process",, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, (1), 2008, p106 - 111Journal Article, 2008, DOI , URL
P. Ryan, L. Teague, B. Naydenov, D. Borland and J.J. Boland., "Emergence and Visualisation of an Interface State during Contact Formation with a Single Molecule"., Physical Review Letters, 101, (9 ), 2008Journal Article, 2008, DOI , URL
B. Wen, JE Sader and J.J. Boland, "The Mechanical Properties of ZnO Nanowires" , Phys. Rev. Lett. , 101, (17), 2008Journal Article, 2008, DOI , URL
Xueyan Wu, Jaideep S. Kulkarni, Gillian Collins, Nikolay Petkov, Dorothée Almecija, John J. Boland, Donats Erts and Justin D. Holmes, "Synthesis, Electrical and Mechanical Characterisation of Silicon and Germanium Nanowires" , Chemistry of Materials, 20, (19), 2008, p5954 - 5967Journal Article, 2008, DOI , URL
Birjukovs P, Petkov N, Xu J, Svirksts J, Boland J, Holmes J, Erts D, , "Electrical characterisation of bismuth sulfide nanowire arrays by conductive atomic force microscopy", Journal of Physical Chemistry C,, 112 , (49), 2008, p19680 - 19685Journal Article, 2008, DOI , URL
Shane D. Bergin, Valeria Nicolosi, Philip V. Streich, Silvia Giordani, Zhenyu Sun, Alan H. Windle, Peter Ryan, N. Peter P. Niraj, Zhi-Tao T. Wang, Leslie Carpenter, Werner J. Blau, John J. Boland, James P. Hamilton, Jonathan N. Coleman, Towards Solutions of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Common Solvents, Advanced Materials, 20, (10), 2008, p1876 - 1881Journal Article, 2008, DOI
Yenny Hernandez, Valeria Nicolos1, Mustafa Lotya, Fiona M Blighe, Zhenyu Sun, Sukanta De, IT McGovern, Brendan Holland, Michele Byrne, Yurii Gun'ko, John Boland, Peter Niraj, Georg Duesberg, Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Robbie Goodhue, John Hutchison, Vittorio Scardaci, Andrea C. Ferrari, and Jonathan N Coleman, High yield production of graphene by liquid phase exfoliation of graphite, Nature Nanotechnology , 3, (9), 2008, p563 - 568Journal Article, 2008, DOI
Martin O'Toole and John J. Boland, "A solid-liquid-vapour mechanises for anisotropic silicon etching", Applied Physics Letters , 93, (26), 2008Journal Article, 2008, DOI , URL
De S , Lyons PE , Sorel S, Doherty EM , King PJ, Blau WJ, Nirmalraj PN, Boland JJ, Scardaci V, Joimel J, Coleman JN , Transparent, Flexible, and Highly Conductive Thin Films Based on Polymer - Nanotube Composites, ACS Nano , 3, (3), 2009, p714 - 720Journal Article, 2009, DOI
Peter M Ryan, Lucile Teague and John J. Boland. , "Frontier Orbital Description of the Si(100) Surface: A Route to Symmetry-Allowed and Concerted [2+2] Cycloadditions", J. Amer Chem Soc, 131, (19), 2009, p6768 - 6774Journal Article, 2009, DOI , URL
Andzane J, Petkov N, Livshits AI, Boland JJ, Holmes JD, Erts D, Two-Terminal Nanoelectromechanical Devices Based on Germanium Nanowires, Nano Letters, 9 , (5), 2009, p1824 - 1829Journal Article, 2009, DOI , URL
Dorothee Almecija, David Blond, John E Sader, Jonathan N. Coleman, John J. Boland, Mechanical properties of individual electrospun polymer-nanotube composite nanofibers, Carbon, 47, (9), 2009, p2253 - 2258Journal Article, 2009, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Evelyn Doherty, Sukanta De, Philip E Lyons, Aleksey Shmeliov, Peter N. Nirmalraj, Vittorio Scardaci, Jerome Joimel, Werner J Blau, John J Boland, Jonathan N Coleman, The spatial uniformity and electromechanical stability of transparent, conductive films of single walled nanotubes, Carbon, 47, (10), 2009, p2466 - 2473Journal Article, 2009, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Sukanta De, Thomas M. Higgins, Philip E. Lyons, Evelyn M. Doherty, Peter N. Nirmalraj, Werner J. Blau, John J. Boland and Jonathan N. Coleman , Silver Nanowire Networks as Flexible, Transparent, Conducting Films: Extremely High DC to Optical Conductivity Ratios, ACS Nano, 3, (7), 2009, p1767 - 1774Journal Article, 2009, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Peter N. Nirmalraj, Philip E. Lyons, Sukanta De, Jonathan N. Coleman and John J. Boland, Electrical Connectivity in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Networks, Nano Letters, 9, (11), 2009, 3890Journal Article, 2009, DOI
Hernandez, Y, Nicolosi, V, Lotya, M, Blighe, FM, Sun, ZY, De, S, McGovern, IT, Holland, B, Byrne, M, Gun'ko, YK, Boland, JJ, Niraj, P, Duesberg, G, Krishnamurthy, S, Goodhue, R, Hutchison, J, Scardaci, V, Ferrari, AC, Coleman, JN, High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite, Nature Nanotechnology, 3, 2008, p563 - 568Journal Article, 2008, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Kinahan NT, Meehan DE, Narushima T, Sachert S, Boland JJ, Miki K, Site-Specific Evolution of Surface Stress during the Room-Temperature Oxidation of the Si(111)-(7x7) Surface., Physical Review Letters, 104, (14), 2010Journal Article, 2010, DOI , TARA - Full Text
G. Behan, J. F. Feng, H. Z. Zhang, P. N. Nirmalraj, and J. J. Boland, Effect of sample bias on backscattered ion spectroscopy in the helium ion microscope, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 28, (6), 2010, p1377 - 1380Journal Article, 2010, DOI , TARA - Full Text
P.N. Ryan, A. Verhulst, T. Hantschel Thomas; D. Cott, N.A. Romo and J.J. Boland , "Optimization of multi-walled carbon nanotube - metal contacts by electrical stressing", Nanotechnology, , 21, (4), 2010Journal Article, 2010, DOI
Peter N. Nirmalraj and John J. Boland , "Selective Tuning and Optimisation of the Contacts to Metallic and Semiconducting Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes" , ACS Nano , 4, (7), 2010, p3801 - 3806Journal Article, 2010, DOI , URL
D. Bazou, G. Behan, C. Reid, J.J. Boland, H.Z. Zhang, Imaging of human colon cancer cells using He-Ion scanning microscopy, Journal of Microscopy, 242, (3), 2010, p290 - 294Journal Article, 2010, DOI
J.J. Boland, Flexible Electronics: within touch of artificial skin, Nature Materials, 9, (10), 2010, p790 - 792Journal Article, 2010, DOI
G. Collins, P. Fleming, S. Barth, C. O'Dwyer, J.J. Boland, M.A. Morris, J.D. Holmes, Alkane and Alkanethiol Passivation of Halogenated Ge Nanowires, Chemistry of Materials, 22, (23), 2010, p6370 - 6377Journal Article, 2010, DOI
Peter N. Nirmalraj, Terek Lutz, Shishir Kumer, Georg Duesberg and John J. Boland, Nanoscale Mapping of Electrical Resistivity and Connectivity in Graphene Strips and Networks, Nano Letters, 11, (1), 2011, p16 - 22Journal Article, 2011, DOI
Coleman, JN, Lotya, M, O'Neill, A, Bergin, SD, King, PJ, Khan, U, Young, K, Gaucher, A, De, S, Smith, RJ, Shvets, IV, Arora, SK, Stanton, G, Kim, HY, Lee, K, Kim, GT, Duesberg, GS, Hallam, T, Boland, JJ, Wang, JJ, Donegan, JF, Grunlan, JC, Moriarty, G, Shmeliov, A, Nicholls, RJ, Perkins, JM, Grieveson, EM, Theuwissen, K, McComb, DW, Nellist, PD, Nicolosi, V, "Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials", Science, 331, (6017), 2011, p568-571Journal Article, 2011, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Barth, S., Boland, J.J., Holmes, J.D., "Defect transfer from nanoparticles to nanowires", Nano Letters, 11, (4), 2011, p1550-1555Journal Article, 2011, DOI
O'Neill, A., Khan, U., Nirmalraj, P.N., Boland, J., Coleman, J.N., Graphene dispersion and exfoliation in low boiling point solvents, Journal of Physical Chemistry C , 115, (13), 2011, p5422-5428Journal Article, 2011, DOI
Soon Jung Jung, Tarek Lutz, Markus Boese, Justin D. Holmes, and John J. Boland, Surface Energy Driven Agglomeration and Growth of Single Crystal Metal Wires, Nano Letters, 11, (3), 2011, p1294-1299Journal Article, 2011, DOI
Borislav Naydenov, Mauro Mantega, Ivan Rungger, Stefano Sanvito, and John J. Boland, "Scattered surface charge density: A tool for surface characterization", Physical Review B, 84, (19), 2011, pArticle No: 195321Journal Article, 2011, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Keith J. Fraser and John J. Boland, Modelling of Atomic Imaging and Evaporation in the Field Ion Microscope, Journal of Sensors, 2012, (2012), 2011Journal Article, 2011, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Teague LC, Boland JJ , Kinetically controlled reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene on Si(100), THIN SOLID FILMS, 1-4, (OCT), 2004, p464 - 465Journal Article, 2004
Ryan, P.M, Teague, L.C, Meehan, D.E , Boland, J.J., Stereoselective Cycloaddition of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene on Si(100): A Simple Algorithm for Product Identification Based on Secondary Orbital Interactions, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133, (36), 2011, p14287 - 14292Journal Article, 2011, DOI
Jung, S.J, Lutz, T, Boland J.J. , Anisotropic etching induced by surface energy driven agglomeration, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 29, (5), 2011Journal Article, 2011, DOI , URL
Borislav Naydenov, and John J. Boland, Variable-height scanning tunneling spectroscopy for local density of states recovery based on the 1D-WKB approximation, Physical Review B, 82, (245411), 2010Journal Article, 2010, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
P. Lyons, Philip; S. De, Sukanta; J. Elias, A. Bellew, JJ Boland and JN Coleman, "High Performance Transparent Conductors from Networks of Gold Nanowires", Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2, (24), 2011, p3058 - 3062Journal Article, 2011, DOI , URL
Keith J. Fraser and John J. Boland, "Modelling of Atomic Imaging and Evaporation in the field Ion Microscope", Journal of Sensors, 2012, (2012), 2011, p1 - 8Journal Article, 2011, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Soon Jung Jung, Terek Lutz, Alan P. Bell, Eoin K. McCarthy and John J. Boland, "Free Standing, Single-Crystal Cu3Si Nanowires", J. Crystal Growth & Design, 12, (6), 2012, p3076 - 3081Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL
Oxana Kotova, Ronan Daly, Cidalia M. G. dos Santos, Markus Boese, Paul E. Kruger, John J. Boland, and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, "Europium-Directed Self-Assembly of a Luminescent Supramolecular Gel from a Tripodal Terpyridine-Based Ligand", ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION , 51, (29), 2012, p7208 - 7212Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL
R. Daly, J.E. Sader and J.J. Boland, "Existence of Micrometer-Scale Water Droplets at Solvent/Air Interfaces", Langmuir, 28, (37), 2012, p13218 - 13223Journal Article, 2012, DOI
P.N. Nirmalraj, A.P. Bell , A.T. Bellew, J.A. Fairfield, E.K. McCarthy , C. O Kelly, L/F.C Pereira, S. Sorel , J.N. Coleman, M.S. Ferreira and J.J. Boland, "Manipulating Connectivity and Conductivity in Metallic Nanowire " , Nano Lett, 12, (11), 2012, p5966 - 5971Journal Article, 2012, DOI
Sheridan, JG, Heidelberg, A , Brougham, DF , Nellist, PD , Langford, RM , Boland JJ., "Self-Assembly of LiMo3Se3 Nanowire Networks from Nanoscale Building-Blocks in Solution", LANGMUIR, 28, (43), 2012, p15344 - 15349Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL
Curtis O'Kelly, Soon Jung Jung, Alan P. Bell and John J. Boland, "Single Crystal Iron Nanocube Synthesis via the Surface Energy Driven Growth Method" , NANOTECHNOLOGY, 23, (43), 2012, p1 - 6Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL
M. Mantega, I. Rungger, B. Naydenov, J. J. Boland and S. Sanvito, "Spectroscopic characterization of a single dangling bond on a bare Si(100)-c(4×2) surface for n- and p-type doping", Physical Review B, 86, (3), 2012, pArticle No 035318Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
Daly R, Kotova O, Boese M, Gunnlaugsson T, Boland JJ, "Chemical nano-gardens: growth of salt nanowires from supramolecular self-assembly gels", ACS nano, 7, (6), 2013, p4838-45Journal Article, 2013, DOI
O'Regan, C, Biswas, S, O'Kelly, C, Jung, SJ, Boland, JJ, Petkov, N, Holmes, JD, "Engineering the Growth of Germanium Nanowires by Tuning the Supersaturation of Au/Ge Binary Alloy Catalysts", CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 25, (15), 2013, p3096-3104Journal Article, 2013, DOI
Daly, R, Sader, JE, Boland, JJ, "The dominant role of the solvent-water interface in water droplet templating of polymers", SOFT MATTER, 9, (33), 2013, p7960-7965Journal Article, 2013, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Naydenov, B, Boland, JJ, "Engineering the electronic structure of surface dangling bond nanowires of different size and dimensionality", NANOTECHNOLOGY, 24, (27), 2013, p1 - 7Journal Article, 2013, DOI
J. A. Fairfield, C. Ritter, A. T. Bellew, M. S. Ferreira and J. J. Boland, "Effective Electrode Length Enhances Electrical Activation of Nanowire Networks: Experiment and Simulation", ACS Nano, 8, (9), 2014, p9542 - 9549Journal Article, 2014, DOI , TARA - Full Text
Byrne,Joseph P. J.P., Kitchen,Jonathan A. J.A., Kotova,Oxana V. O.V., Leigh,Vivienne V., Bell,Alan P. A.P., Boland,John J. J.J., Albrecht,Martin M., Gunnlaugsson,Thorfinnur T., "Synthesis, structural, photophysical and electrochemical studies of various d-metal complexes of btp [2,6-bis(1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)pyridine] ligands that give rise to the formation of metallo-supramolecular gels", Dalton Transactions, 43, (1), 2014, p196 - 209Journal Article, 2014, DOI , TARA - Full Text

X Zhang, M Wang, H Wang, M Upmanyu, J Boland, , "Restructuring of emergent grain boundaries at free surfaces-an interplay between core stabilization and elastic stress generation", Research Square, 2022Journal Article, DOI , TARA - Full Text
T A. Crowley, B. Daly, M. A. Morris, D. Erts, O. Kazakova, J. J. Boland, B. Wu and J. D. Holmes , "Probing the Magnetic Properties of Cobalt-Germanium Nanocable Arrays" , J. of Materials Chem. , 15, (24), 2005, p2408 - 2413Journal Article

Research Expertise

Description

Research Funding
***Science Foundation Ireland Future Innovation Prize (2022/23) - 267
***Science Foundation Ireland Future Innovator Prize (2021/22) - 220k
***ERC Proof of Concept Award (TALNET) (2020 -2021) - 150k

***SFI AMBER 2 Research Centre Award 42.2m(2019 - 2024): 127,500 to
PI Grant no: 12/RC/2278_P2. Website www.sfi.ie

*** Intel Research Programme (2020-2021) - 66,694 to PI (Part funded by SFI)

***Science Foundation Ireland PI Award ( 2018 - 2023): 1.8m PI. Grant No: 16/IA/4462 Website: www.sfi.ie

***FP7-2012-Ideas- ERC AdG - COGNET. (2013- 2018): 2.5m.
Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/projects/en

***Science Foundation Ireland ERC Support Programme (2013 - 2017): 300K. Grant no. 13/ERC/12834 The SFI-ERC supplement to ERC-sponsored project (COGNET)

***Science Foundation Ireland PI Award (2013 - 2018): 1.3m PI. Grant No: SFI/IA/1482 Website: www.sfi.ie

***SFI AMBER Research Centre Award 58m(2013 - 2019); 1.1m to PI
Grant no. 12/RC/2278 Website: www.sfi.ie

***Martin Naughton- Notre Dame Funding (2012 - 2016): US$70k.
Website: http://www.thenaughtonfoundation.com

***EU FP7 ICT - 2012 FET 9.6 Molarnet (2012 - 2016) 595k (Collaborator with 5 Partners). Total EU Grant: 4m
Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html

***IRCSET Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012 - 2014) 91k
(IRC-P/D EMP12) Website: www.ircset.ie

***SFI TIDA Feasibility Award 50k(2011 - 2012)

***EU NMP FP7 Award MultiDimension SPM (MDSPM) 360k(2008 -2012)

***IRCSET P/G S/Ship (2007- 2010, Closed): 72k
Grant No: RS/2007/02. Website: www.ircset.ie

***Science Foundation Ireland PI Award (2007 - 2012)3.5m

***Science Foundation Ireland PI Award (2002 - 2006)6.9m

***Prior funding from US NSF and US ONR totalling $2.4m (1994-2001)

*"Mobility Key to Silicon Etching" Chemical & Engineering News, 11, Sept 10, 2001

*"Silicon Surface Key To Energetics Puzzle" Chemical & Engineering News, 78 (47), November 20, 2000

*"Scientists Tone Down Silicon Rockers" Science News 158, 287 (2000)

*"STM Tips Scientists on Atomic Details" C&E News, Feb 16, 1998.

*Top-ten most cited paper in chemistry (Science Watch, 1994)
*"Magical Effects of Hydrogen Atoms on a Surface of Silicon", Science Watch, Jan. 1994.

*"Dissecting Surfaces", by B. Schechter. Research, 3, 8 (1992).

*"The Practical Blind Side of Basic Research" New York Times, March 1992.

*"Hydrogen can peel atoms off layer by layer", by E. Pennisi. Science News, 141, 38 (1992).

*"Silicon Surface Secrets revealed by STM", by D. Robbins. Physics World, 4, 24 (1991)

Recognition

Laureate of the 11th ACSIN Nanoscience Prize (2011), St Petersburg, Russia 2011
Outstanding Technical Innovation Award, IBM, USA (1994) 1992
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research image of the year (2011) 2011
Elected Fellow American Vacuum Society (AVS) (2009) 2009
Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)(2011) 2011
UNC Faculty Award, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, USA (1994) 1994
SFI Researcher of the Year Award (2018) 2018
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Principle Investigator Award , Trinity College Dublin 2007 & 2002 & 2013
Faculty Teaching Award , UNC-Chapel Hill, USA (1996) 1996
Newby McKoy Graduate Research Award , Caltech, USA (1982) 1982
INTEL Outstanding Researcher Award (2017) 23 January 2018
Elected Professorial Fellow, Trinity College Dublin (2008) 2008
IBM Graduate Student Fellowship, Caltech, USA (1982) 1982 - 1984
Ryan Medal Recipient 1st Place Award BSc Hons, UCD (1979) 1979
J.J. Hermans Chair Professorship, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, USA 2000-2002
Elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2010) 2010

Member Surface Science Executive Committee, American Vacuum Society (1999 - 2002) 2002
Member Editorial Board, Institute of Physics, Journal of Physics D (2012-) to date
Member SFI Physical Sciences Steering Committee (2004 -2006) 2006
Referee for: Science, Nature, Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Surface Science,Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of the American Chemical Society
Program Committee, Gordon Research Conference on Electronic Materials (1999) 1999
Chair ACS Regional Meeting, Raleigh, NY, USA (1998) 1998
Member NSF Nanotechnology Panel Review (1996) 1996
Advisory Committee, 5th International Symposium on Surface Science and Nanotechnology, Waseda (2008) 2008
Advisory Committee, 5th International Symposium on Surface Science and Nanotechnology, Omiya (2006) 2006
Chair, 14th International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces, Dublin (ICSFS-14) (2008) 2008
Member Advisory Commitee, 7th Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanostructures, Nara (2003) 2003
Advisory Board Committee, 6th International Symposium on Surface Science, Tokyo (2011) 2011
President, North Carolina Chapter of the Materials Science Society
Member Organizing Committee, 15th International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces, Beijing (2010) 2010
Organising Committee, SOI and SI Nano devices, CRANN, TCD (2014) 2014
AVS Surface Science Division National Program Chair (2003) 2003
Member, Organizing Committee, 4th International Conference on Atomically Controlled Surfaces and Interfaces, Waseda University, Japan (1997) 1997
Program Committee, 13th European Conference on Applications of Surf & Interface Antalya (2009). 2009
Advisory Committee, 13th International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces, Bariloche (2006) 2006
Chair, Surface Science Section, Southeast Regional ACS Meeting (1997) 1997
Member Royal Irish Academy Physical Sciences Committee (2004 - 2007) 2007
National Academic Lead, INSPIRE Nanotechnology Consortium (2008 - 2011) 2011
Co-Chair, 3rd Nanomaterials and NanoManufacturing Conference, Dublin (2007) 2007
Chair, Gordon Conference on Electronic Materials, New Hampshire,NY(1997) 1997
Organising Committee, Flatlands Beyond Graphene (2014) 2014
Advisory Committee, 25th European Conference on Surface Science, Liverpool (2008) 2008
Associate Editor, Journal Vacuum Science and Technology (2006 - to date) to date
Member NSF Materials Science Panel Review (1995) 1995
Member Editorial Board, Nano Research (2008) 2008
International Review Panel for Stacie Molecular Institute, CNR Canada (2004) 2004
Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Formation of Semiconductor Interfaces, Weimar (2009) 2009
Program Committee, 26th European Conference on Surface Science, Parma, Italy (2009) 2009
Program Committee, 13th International Conference on Formation of Semiconductor Interfaces, Prague (2011) 2011
Organizing Committee, 3rd Conference on Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Raleigh, NY (1996) 1996
Program Committee, Atomically Controlled Surtfaces and Interfaces, Tokyo (1999) 1999
Organising Committee, ISCP China-Ireland symposium (2014) 2014
Program Committee, N.C. Flat Panel Display Workshop (1996) 1996
Chair Organizing Committee, SESAPS/MRS Regional Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, USA (1999) 1999
Expert consultant on Industry-Academia Engagement, VinNova, Sweden (2010) 2010

Over 140 invited presentations at universities, research centers and international scientific meetings.
Over 140 invited presentations at universities, research centers and international scientific meetings.
Over 140 invited presentations at universities, research centers and international scientific meetings.
Over 140 invited presentations at universities, research centers and international scientific meetings.