Dr Adelina Ilie
Profile
Research Interests
Ilie's research centres on hybrid nano-materials and their applications. This includes systems of inorganic nanowires encapsulated inside nanotubes; new functionalities arising from spatial confinement of the nanowire will lead to applications in nano-electronics, spintronics and electrochemistry. Her distinctive experimental approach combines the application of several techniques (SPM, electronic transport, Raman, TEM) to the same discrete nanostructure. A highlight is the demonstration of a new technique which allows the integration of individual “fragile” biological/molecular nanostructures into devices for the first time. New collaborations with Bath Chemistry aim to couple nanotubes with molecular systems to develop spatially-controlled nanotube-molecular architectures.
Publications
Kazemi Sheikh Shabani, A., Crampin, S. and Ilie, A., 2013. Stacking-dependent superstructures at stepped armchair interfaces of bilayer/trilayer graphene. Applied Physics Letters, 102 (17), 163111.
Ilie, A., Crampin, S., Karlsson, L. and Wilson, M., 2012. Repair and stabilization in confined nanoscale systems: inorganic nanowires within single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nano Research, 5 (12), pp. 833-844.
Jones, G. J., Kazemi, A., Crampin, S., Philips, M. and Ilie, A., 2012. Surface potential variations in graphene induced by nanostructured crystalline ionic substrates. Applied Physics Express, 5 (4), 045103.
Ilie, A., Bendall, J. S., Nagaoka, K., Egger, S., Nakayama, T. and Crampin, S., 2011. Encapsulated inorganic nanostructures: A route to sizable modulated, noncovalent, on-tube potentials in carbon nanotubes. ACS Nano, 5 (4), pp. 2559-2569.
Alshammari, A., Posner, M., Jones, G., Upadhyay, A., Bagby, S., Ilie, A. and Estrela, P., 2011. Graphene-based amperometric and field-effect biosensing with supramolecular protein complexes. In: Electrochem 2011, 2011-09-05 - 2011-09-06, Bath.
Poderys, V., Selskis, A., Ilie, A. and Rotomskis, R., 2010. Ring like TPPS4 J-aggregate structure. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Medical Physics. Vol. 2. 2 ed. Kaunas, Lithuania: Technologija, pp. 62-66.
Egger, S., Ilie, A., Machida, S. and Nakayama, T., 2008. Integration of Individual Nanoscale Structures into Devices Using Dynamic Nanostenciling. In: 2nd IEEE International Nanoelectronics Conference, 2008. INEC 2008. IEE, 158 - 159.
