Biography
Larisa studied organic chemistry and chemical engineering at University Politehnica in Timisoara, Romania (B.Sc. Hons). In 2009 she joined the Adaptive Sensors Group at Dublin City University where she earned her Ph.D. in materials chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dermot Diamond. Larisa began her postdoctoral career at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, and in 2016 she achieved a senior position as Team Leader in Materials Chemistry and Microfluidics. In 2018 Larisa was awarded an Irish Research Council Laureate grant and an ERC-Starting grant that enabled her to establish an independent research career in School of Chemistry and AMBER.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Florea, L. and Blasco, E. and Mattoli, V., New Frontiers in Materials and Technologies for 3D Two Photon Polymerization, Advanced Functional Materials, 33, (39), 2023
Alexa Ennis, Deanna Nicdao, Srikanth Kolagatla, Luke Dowling, Yekaterina Tskhe, Alex J. Thompson, Daniel Trimble, Colm Delaney, Larisa Florea, Two-Photon Polymerization of Sugar Responsive 4D Microstructures, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
Qian, J. and Kolagatla, S. and Pacalova, A. and Zhang, X. and Florea, L. and Delaney, C. and Bradley, A.L., TPL-fabricated responsive hydrogel-based micro photonic structures for visible vapor sensing, 12663, (1266304), 2023
Murphy, R.D. and Delaney, C. and Kolagatla, S. and Florea, L. and Hawker, C.J. and Heise, A., Design of Statistical Copolypeptides as Multipurpose Hydrogel Resins in 3D Printing, Advanced Functional Materials, 33, (52), 2023
Donato, S. and Nocentini, S. and Martella, D. and Kolagatla, S. and Wiersma, D.S. and Parmeggiani, C. and Delaney, C. and Florea, L., Liquid Crystalline Network Microstructures for Stimuli Responsive Labels with Multi-Level Encryption, Small, 2023
J. Qian, S. Kolagatla, A. Pacalovas, X. Zhang, L. Florea, A. L. Bradley, and C. Delaney, Responsive spiral photonic structures for visible vapor sensing, pattern transformation and encryption, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
Geoghegan, N. and O'Loughlin, M. and Delaney, C. and Rochfort, K.D. and Kennedy, M. and Kolagatla, S. and Podhorska, L. and Rodriguez, B.J. and Florea, L. and Kelleher, S.M., Controlled degradation of polycaprolactone-based micropillar arrays, Biomaterials Science, 11, (9), 2023, p3077-3091
J. Qian, C. Delaney, L. Florea and A. L. Bradley, Direct laser writing of submicron photonic arrays for vapor responsive sensing, E-MRS 2022, Strasbourg, 1/6/2022, 2022
Dunne, A. and Francis, W. and Delaney, C. and Florea, L. and Diamond, D. and Ramadan, M., Stimuli-Controlled Fluid Control and Microvehicle Movement in Microfluidic Channels, 2021, 128-157pp
Colm Delaney, Jing Qian, Xia Zhang, Radislav Potyrailo, A. Louise Bradley, Larisa Florea, Direct laser writing of vapour-responsive photonic arrays, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9, 2021, p11674 - 11678
Marc del Pozo, Colm Delaney, Marina Pilz da Cunha, Michael G. Debije, Larisa Florea, Albert P. H. J. Schenning, Temperature-Responsive 4D Liquid Crystal Microactuators Fabricated by Direct Laser Writing by Two-Photon Polymerization, Small Structures, 2021, p10.1002/sstr.2
Grogan C., Amarandei G., Lawless S., Pedreschi F., Lyng F., Benito-Lopez F., Raiteri R., Florea L., Silicon microcantilever sensors to detect the reversible conformational change of a molecular switch, Spiropyan, Sensors, 20, (3), 2020
Marc del Pozo, Colm Delaney, Cees W. M. Bastiaansen, Dermot Diamond, Albert P. H. J. Schenning, Larisa Florea, Direct Laser Writing of Four-Dimensional Structural Color Microactuators Using a Photonic Photoresist, ACS Nano, 2020
Delaney, Colm, Geoghegan, Niamh, Ibrahim, Hossam, O'Loughlin, Mark Thomas, Rodriguez, Brian J., Florea, Larisa, Kelleher, Susan M, Direct Laser Writing to Generate Molds for Polymer Nanopillar Replication, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2020
Danielle Bruen, Colm Delaney, Johnson Chung, Kalani Ruberu, Gordon G. Wallace, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea, 3D Printed Sugar-Sensing Hydrogels, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2020
Geoghegan, N. and Delaney, C. and Florea, L. and O'Loughlin, M. and Kelleher, S.M., Two-photon polymerization of masters for polymeric nanopillar replication, 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2020; Virtual, Online, 2020, pp368-369
Florea, L., Magnetic movement under the spotlight, Science Robotics, 5, (49), 2020
del Pozo, M. and Delaney, C. and Bastiaansen, C.W.M. and Diamond, D. and Schenning, A.P.H.J. and Florea, L., Four-dimensional photonic micro-actuators for microfluidics applications, 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2020; Virtual, Online, 2020, pp346-347
Danielle Bruen, Paula P. Campos, Marystela Ferreira, Dermot Diamond, Colm Delaney*, Larisa Florea*, Boronic Acid Homopolymers as Effective Polycations for Sugar-Responsive Layer-by-Layer Assemblies, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 1, (5), 2019, p990 - 996
Daikuzono, Cristiane M., Delaney, Colm, Morrin, Aoife, Diamond, Dermot, Florea, Larisa, Oliveira, Osvaldo N., Paper based electronic tongue: a low-cost solution for the distinction of sugar type and apple juice brand, The Analyst, 144, (8), 2019, p2827-2832
Sara Zarghami, Yang Xiao, Pawel Wagner, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, David L. Officer, Klaudia Wagner, Dual Droplet Functionality: Phototaxis and Photopolymerization, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11, (34), 2019, p31484-31489
Saez J., Glennon T., Czugala M., Tudor A., Ducree J., Diamond D., Florea L., Benito-Lopez F., Reusable ionogel-based photo-actuators in a lab-on-a-disc, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 257, 2018, p963 - 970, p963-970
Yang Xiao, Sara Zarghami, Klaudia Wagner, Pawel Wagner, Keith C. Gordon, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, David L. Officer, Moving Droplets in 3D Using Light, Advanced Materials, 30, (35), 2018, p1801821
Dunne A., Delaney C., McKeon A., Nesterenko P., Paull B., Benito-Lopez F., Diamond D., Florea L., Micro-capillary coatings based on spiropyran polymeric brushes for metal ion binding, detection, and release in continuous flow, Sensors (Switzerland), 18, (4), 2018
Danielle Bruen, Colm Delaney, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea, Fluorescent Probes for Sugar Detection, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018
Akyazi T., Tudor A., Diamond D., Basabe-Desmonts L., Florea L., Benito-Lopez F., Driving flows in microfluidic paper-based analytical devices with a cholinium based poly(ionic liquid) hydrogel, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 261, 2018, p372 - 378, p372-378
Maresova E., Tomecek D., Fitl P., Vlcek J., Novotny M., Fiser L., Havlova S., Hozak P., Tudor A., Glennon T., Florea L., Coyle S., Diamond D., Skalican Z., Hoskovcova M., Vrnata M., Textile chemiresistors with sensitive layers based on polymer ionic liquids: Applicability for detection of toxic gases and chemical warfare agents, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 266, 2018, p830 - 840, p830-840
Akyazi T., Saez J., Tudor A., Delaney C., Francis W., Diamond D., Basabe-Desmonts L., Florea L., Benito-Lopez F., Applications of Ionic Liquid Materials in Microfluidic Devices, RSC Smart Materials, 2018-January, (28), 2018, p234 - 271, p234-271
Paula P. Campos, Aishling Dunne, Colm Delaney, Cara Moloney, Simon E. Moulton, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Marystela Ferreira, Dermot Diamond, Larisa Florea, Photoswitchable Layer-by-Layer Coatings Based on Photochromic Polynorbornenes Bearing Spiropyran Side Groups, Langmuir, 2018
Tudor A., Delaney C., Zhang H., Thompson A.J., Curto V.F., Yang G.-Z., Higgins M.J., Diamond D., Florea L., Fabrication of soft, stimulus-responsive structures with sub-micron resolution via two-photon polymerization of poly(ionic liquid)s, Materials Today, 21, (8), 2018, p807 - 816, p807-816
Wayne Francis, Aishling Dunne, Colm Delaney, Larisa Florea, and Dermot Diamond, Spiropyran Based Hydrogels Actuators- Walking in the Light, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2017
C. M. Daikuzono, C. Delaney, H. Tesfay, L. Florea, O. N. Oliveira, A. Morrin, D. Diamond, Impedance spectroscopy for monosaccharides detection using responsive hydrogel modified paper-based electrodes, The Analyst, 142, (7), 2017, p1133--1139
Holmes R., Yang X.-B., Dunne A., Florea L., Wood D., Tronci G., Thiol-ene photo-click collagen-PEG hydrogels: Impact of water-soluble photoinitiators on cell viability, gelation kinetics and rheological properties, Polymers, 9, (6), 2017
Alexandru Tudor, Janire Saez, Larisa Florea, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Dermot Diamond, Poly (ionic liquid) thermo-responsive hydrogel microfluidic actuators, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2017
Wayne Francis, Klaudia Wagner, Stephen Beirne, David L. Officer, Gordon G. Wallace, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, Electrotactic ionic liquid droplets, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2017
Bruen D., Delaney C., Florea L., Diamond D., Glucose sensing for diabetes monitoring: Recent developments, Sensors (Switzerland), 17, (8), 2017
Grogan, Catherine, Larisa Florea, Slavica Koprivica, Silvia Scarmagnani, Luke O'Neill, Fiona Lyng, Fran Pedreschi, Fernando Benito-Lopez, and Roberto Raiteri, Microcantilever arrays functionalised with spiropyran photoactive moieties as systems to measure photo-induced surface stress changes, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2016
Deignan, J., M. Jacobs, L. Florea, S. Coyle, D. Diamond, M. Pacelli, R. Paradiso, Textile piezoresistive sensors for on-body measurement of spinal extension, SENSORS, 2016 IEEE, 2016
Aishling Dunne, Colm Delaney, Larisa Florea, and Dermot Diamond, Solvato-morphologically controlled, reversible NIPAAm hydrogel photoactuators, RSC Advances, 2016
Dunne, A. and Ardle, S.M. and Hennessy, J. and Florea, L. and Diamond, D., PH and photo-responsive hydrogel actuators, 2016, pp1138-1139
Ziółkowski, Bartosz, Larisa Florea, Jannick Theobald, Fernando Benito-Lopez, and Dermot Diamond, Porous self-protonating spiropyran-based NIPAAm gels with improved reswelling kinetics, Journal of materials science, 2016
Francis, W. and Delaney, C. and Florea, L. and Diamond, D., Self-powered micro-droplets for biomimetic microfluidics, 2016, pp758-759
Florea, Larisa, Alain Martin-Mayor, M. Mounir Bou-Ali, Kate Meagher, Dermot Diamond, Mustafa Tutar, and Fernando Benito-Lopez, Adaptive coatings based on polyaniline for direct 2D observation of diffusion processes in microfluidic systems, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2016
Tudor, Alexandru, Larisa Florea, Simon Gallagher, John Burns, and Dermot Diamond, Poly (Ionic Liquid) Semi-Interpenetrating Network Multi-Responsive Hydrogels, Sensors, 2016
Akyazi, T. and Tudor, A. and Diamond, D. and Basabe-Desmonts, L. and Florea, L. and Benito-Lopez, F., Cholinium based poly ionic liquid hydrogel as negative flow passive pump in paper-based analytical devices, 2016, pp11-12
Opto-Smart Systems in Microfluidics in, 2016, [Florea, Larisa, Dermot Diamond, and Fernando Benito-Lopez]
Tudor, A. and Saez, J. and Florea, L. and Benito-Lopez, F. and Diamond, D., Temperature-controlled poly(ionic liquid) microfluidic valves, 2016, pp1134-1135
Tudor, A. and Gallagher, S. and Florea, L. and Diamond, D., Poly(ionic liquid) based dual responsive smart hydrogels, 2015, pp1542-1544
(ed.), Microcantilever arrays coated with photoactive polymeric brushes as systems to measure photo-induced surface stress changes, 2015
Glennon, T. and Saez, J. and Czugala, M. and Florea, L. and McNamara, E. and Fraser, K.J. and Ducree, J. and Diamond, D. and Benito-Lopez, F., Photo-switchable microvalve in a reusable Lab-on-a-disc, (7180873), 2015, pp109-112
Matzeu, Giusy, Larisa Florea, and Dermot Diamond, Advances in wearable chemical sensor design for monitoring biological fluids, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2015
Aishling Dunne, Larisa Florea, and Dermot Diamond, Solvato-morphologically controlled, reversible photo-actuated hydrogels, operative in neutral environments, Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), 2015 Transducers-2015 18th International Conference on, 2015
Wayne Francis, Cormac Fay, Larisa Florea, and Dermot Diamond, Self-propelled chemotactic ionic liquid droplets, Chemical Communications, 2015
Bartosz ZIOLKOWSKI: Larisa FLOREA, Dermot Diamond, 'Photo-responsive spiropyran-based n-isopropylacrylamide (nipam) gels', HANNA MOORE + CURLEY , WO/2015/011211, 2015
Coyle S., Curto V.F., Benito-Lopez F., Florea L., Diamond D., Wearable Bio and Chemical Sensors, Wearable Sensors: Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications, 2014, p65 - 83, p65-83
Stumpel, Jelle E., Bartosz Ziółkowski, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, Dirk J. Broer, and Albertus PHJ Schenning, Photoswitchable ratchet surface topographies based on self-protonating spiropyran--NIPAAM hydrogels, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2014
Simon Gallagher, Larisa Florea, Kevin J. Fraser, and Dermot Diamond, Swelling and shrinking properties of thermo-responsive polymeric ionic liquid hydrogels with embedded linear pNIPAAM, International journal of molecular sciences, 2014
Gallagher, Simon, Andrew Kavanagh, Bartosz Zíołkowski, Larisa Florea, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Kevin Fraser, and Dermot Diamond, Ionic liquid modulation of swelling and LCST behavior of N-isopropylacrylamide polymer gels, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014
Larisa Florea, Silvia Scarmagnani, Fernando Benito-Lopez, and Dermot Diamond, Self-assembled solvato-morphologically controlled photochromic crystals, Chemical Communications, 2014
Deignan, J. and Florea, L. and Coyle, S. and Diamond, D., Wearable chemical sensing - Optimizing Platforms and sensitivity for real-time sweat analysis, 2014, pp2184-2186
Larisa Florea, Klaudia Wagner, Pawel Wagner, Gordon G. Wallace, Fernando Benito‐Lopez, David L. Officer, and Dermot Diamond, Photo-Chemopropulsion--Light-Stimulated Movement of Microdroplets, Advanced Materials, 2014
Wagner, Klaudia, Michele Zanoni, Anastasia BS Elliott, Pawel Wagner, Robert Byrne, Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, Keith C. Gordon, Gordon G. Wallace, and David L. Officer, A merocyanine-based conductive polymer, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2013
Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, and Fernando Benito-Lopez, Polyaniline coated micro-capillaries for continuous flow analysis of aqueous solutions, Analytica chimica acta, 2013
Gallagher, Simon, Andrew Kavanagh, Larisa Florea, Douglas R. MacFarlane, Kevin J. Fraser, and Dermot Diamond, Temperature and pH triggered release characteristics of water/fluorescein from 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate based ionogels, Chemical Communications, 2013
Ziółkowski, Bartosz, Larisa Florea, Jannick Theobald, Fernando Benito-Lopez, and Dermot Diamond, Self-protonating spiropyran-co-NIPAM-co-acrylic acid hydrogel photoactuators, Soft Matter, 2013
Larisa Florea, Cormac Fay, Emer Lahiff, Thomas Phelan, Noel E. O'Connor, Brian Corcoran, Dermot Diamond, and Fernando Benito-Lopez, Dynamic pH mapping in microfluidic devices by integrating adaptive coatings based on polyaniline with colorimetric imaging techniques, Lab on a Chip, 2013
Larisa Florea, Aoife McKeon, Dermot Diamond, and Fernando Benito-Lopez, Spiropyran polymeric microcapillary coatings for photodetection of solvent polarity, Langmuir, 2013
Larisa Florea, Dermot Diamond, and Fernando Benito‐Lopez, Photo-Responsive Polymeric Structures Based on Spiropyran, Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 2012
, Synthesis and characterisation of spiropyran-polymer brushes in micro-capillaries: Towards an integrated optical sensor for continuous flow analysis, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2012
Larisa Florea, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Alexandre Hennart, and Dermot Diamond, Photo-detection of solvent polarities using non-invasive coatings in capillaries, Procedia Engineering, 2011
Larisa Florea, Emer Lahiff, and Dermot Diamond, Modified polyaniline nanofibres for ascorbic acid detection, 2011
Adil Palani, Larisa Florea, Evangelos Gerasimou, Sabina Nitu, Carol Csunderlik, and Monika Simon, Study of the N-methylcarbamylsuccinamic Acid Synthesis, Revista de Chimie, 2010
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
A. L. Bradley, Responsive spiral photonic structures for visible vapor sensing, pattern transformation and encryption, Biophotonics Seminar, IPIC Tyndall, 16/09/2022, 2022, IPIC
Research Expertise
Description
My research comprises several distinct strands of research in the soft matter realm, including development of new stimuli-responsive polymers, 3D fabrication technologies, micro-fabrication of polymeric actuators & sensors, and development of smart micro-vehicles.Projects
- Title
- Artificial micro-vehicles with life-like behaviour (ChemLife)
- Summary
- The ChemLife project seeks to develop new bio-inspired microscopic vehicles fabricated from stimuli-responsive materials using advanced 3D fabrication technologies. These soft, smart vehicles will be designed to swim or crawl through fluids to actively recognise, sense, and respond to the external environment.
- Funding Agency
- European Commission
- Date From
- 1/10/2018
- Date To
- 30/09/2023
- Title
- Functional & Dynamic 3D Nano- Micro- Devices by Direct Multi-Photon Lithography
- Summary
- 5D NanoPrinting project aims to provide an innovative integrated technological approach, based on two-photon 3D direct printing processes, for the development (prototyping) of functional 3D Nano- MicroDevices (NEMS/MEMS).
- Funding Agency
- European Commission
- Date From
- 01/09/2020
- Date To
- 31/08/2024
- Title
- Smart coatings for medical devices
- Summary
- The objective of the project is the development of stimuli-responsive coatings of adjustable friction coefficient for improved manipulation of medical devices in-vivo.
- Funding Agency
- Industry co-funded project (SFI/AMBER - Stryker)
- Date From
- 1/01/2020
- Date To
- 31/12/2020
- Title
- SFI-AMBER PhD Programme
- Funding Agency
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
- Date From
- 1/10/2018
- Date To
- 30/09/2022
- Title
- The Development of Chemopropulsion-based Fluidic Transport Systems
- Summary
- This project signifies a curious meeting of intriguing chemistry and biomimicry, allowing for the motion of microscopic droplets, which behave like cargo-carrying vesicles found in biology. This work has tremendous implication for the area of molecular diagnostics and biological analysis, as the concept combines the field of droplet microfluidics (possibility for DNA amplification, polymerase chain reaction and sensitive detection of rare mutant DNA) with a precise optical control of the process. Light provides contactless stimulation, biocompatibility and a non-invasive and highly precise control of these vehicles in both time and space.
- Funding Agency
- Australian Research Council
- Date From
- 2015
- Date To
- 2019
Recognition
Representations
Evaluator, several H2020 calls (e.g. H2020-PHC-2014-Stage 1&2, 2020-PHC-2015-Stage 1, H2020-FET OPEN)
Reviewer for several internationally recognised journals: Science Robotics, Lab on a Chip, Sensors and Actuators B, Advanced Materials, among others.
Review Editor, Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering, Elsevier
Awards and Honours
European Research Council Starting Grant
IRC Laureate STG Award Winner
Invent Commercialisation Award, conferred by Dublin City University for the collaboration with UES & GE Global Research
Irish Research Council PhD scholarship award winner - EMBARK Initiative
SFI UREKA Ireland - Undergraduate Research Experience & Knowledge Award Winner
Memberships
Member of European COST Action MP1205 - 'Advances in Optofluidics'