Biography
Dr Peter Dunne completed an honours degree in chemistry at the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2005. He remained in NUIG to carry out his PhD research, exploring a patented process for the generation of highly soluble metal oxide nanoparticles under the supervision of Prof. Des Cunningham. From 2010 to 2012 he worked in the group of Prof. Richard Walton at the University of Warwick, synthesising supported metal oxide-mesoporous silica nanocomposites for the catalytic abatement of pollutants. Subsequently he joined the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Nottingham as a postdoctoral fellow on the EU FP7 funded SHYMAN project under Prof. Ed Lester. Here he developed continuous-flow hydrothermal and solvothermal routes to a wide variety of inorganic nanomaterials. In 2016 Peter took up his post as Assistant Professor in Inorganic Energy Materials at Trinity College Dublin.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Regan, Annie, O'Donoghue, John, Poree, Carl, Dunne, Peter W., Introducing Materials Science: Experimenting with Magnetic Nanomaterials in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory, Journal of Chemical Education, 100, (6), 2023, p2387-2393
GarcÃa Doménech N, Purcell-Milton F, Sanz Arjona A, CasasÃn GarcÃa M.-L, Ward M, Cabré M.B, Rafferty A, McKelvey K, Dunne P, Gunâ ko Y.K, High-Performance Boron Nitride Based Membranes for Water Purification, Nanomaterials, 12, (3), 2022
Doménech, N.G. and Coogan, I. and Purcell-Milton, F. and CasasÃn GarcÃa, M.L. and Arjona, A.S. and Cabré, M.B. and Rafferty, A. and McKelvey, K. and Dunne, P. and Gun'ko, Y.K., Partially oxidised boron nitride as a 2D nanomaterial for nanofiltration applications, Nanoscale Advances, 4, (22), 2022, p4895-4904
Bathe A.S, Sanz Arjona A, Regan A, Wallace C, Nerney C.R, O'Donoghue N, Crosland J.M, Simonian T, Walton R.I, Dunne P.W, Solvothermal synthesis of soluble, surface modified anatase and transition metal doped anatase hybrid nanocrystals, Nanoscale Advances, 4, (24), 2022, p5343 - 5354
Donnelly Fearghal C, Purcell-Milton Fin, Dunne Peter W, Rulikowska Aleksandr, Alguacil Victo, Gun'ko Yurii K, Luminescent calcium carbonate micro "bow ties", Materials Today Communications, 20, 2019, p100590-
Caramazana, P., Dunne, P., Gimeno-Fabra, M., McKechnie, J., Lester, E., A review of the environmental impact of nanomaterial synthesis using continuous flow hydrothermal synthesis, Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 12, 2018, p57-62
Vitova, T., Pidchenko, I., Biswas, S., Beridze, G., Dunne, P.W., Schild, D., Wang, Z., Kowalski, P.M., Baker, R.J., Dehydration of the Uranyl Peroxide Studtite, [UO
Clark, I., Dunne, P.W., Gomes, R.L., Lester, E., Continuous hydrothermal synthesis of Ca
Donnelly F. C., Purcell-Milton F., Framont V., Cleary O., Dunne P. W., Gun'ko Y. K., Synthesis of CaCO3 nano- and micro-particles by dry ice carbonation , Chem. Commun. , 53 , (49 ), 2017, p6657 - 6660
Caramazana-Gonzalez P., Dunne P. W., Gimeno-Fabra M., Zilka M., Ticha M., Stieberova B., Freiberg F., McKechnie J., Lester E. H., Assessing the life cycle environmental impacts of titania nanoparticle production by continuous flow solvo/hydrothermal syntheses , Green Chem. , 19 , (6 ), 2017, p1536 - 1547
Dunne P.W, Starkey C.L, Munn A.S, Sikder M, Luebben O, Shvets I, Lester E.H, Transition metal doped anatase nanocrystals: Continuous-flow hydrothermal synthesis and photocatalytic activity, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 4, (3), 2016, p2665 - 2670
P. W. Dunne, E. Lester and R. I. Walton, Towards scalable and controlled synthesis of metal-organic framework materials using continuous flow reactors, React. Chem. Eng., 2016
Peter W. Dunne, Chris L. Starkey, Alexis S. Munn, Selina V.Y. Tang, Olaf Luebben, Igor Shvets, Alan G. Ryder, Yannick Casamayou-Boucau, Liam Morrison, Edward H. Lester, Bench- and Pilot-Scale Continuous-Flow Hydrothermal Production of Barium Strontium Titanate Nanopowders, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2015
Dunne, P.W., Munn, A.S., Starkey, C.L., Lester, E.H., The sequential continuous-flow hydrothermal synthesis of molybdenum disulphide, Chemical Communications, 51, (19), 2015, p4048-4050
Munn, A.S., Dunne, P.W., Tang, S.V.Y., Lester, E.H., Large-scale continuous hydrothermal production and activation of ZIF-8, Chemical Communications, 51, (64), 2015, p12811-12814
Fonseca De Lima, J., Harunsani, M.H., Martin, D.J., Kong, D., Dunne, P.W., Gianolio, D., Kashtiban, R.J., Sloan, J., Serra, O.A., Tang, J., Walton, R.I., Control of chemical state of cerium in doped anatase TiO
Dunne, P.W., Munn, A.S., Starkey, C.L., Huddle, T.A., Lester, E.H., Continuous-flow hydrothermal synthesis for the production of inorganic nanomaterials, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 373, (2057), 2015
Gimeno-Fabra, M., Hild, F., Dunne, P.W., Walton, K., Grant, D.M., Irvine, D.J., Lester, E.H., Continuous synthesis of dispersant-coated hydroxyapatite plates, CrystEngComm, 17, (32), 2015, p6175-6182
Dunne, P.W., Starkey, C.L., Gimeno-Fabra, M., Lester, E.H., The rapid size- and shape-controlled continuous hydrothermal synthesis of metal sulphide nanomaterials, Nanoscale, 6, (4), 2014, p2406-2418
McManus, J.S., Cunningham, P.D., Regan, L.B., Smith, A., McGrath, D.W., Dunne, P.W., Highly soluble ligand stabilized tin oxide nanocrystals: Gel formation and thin film production, Crystal Growth and Design, 14, (9), 2014, p4819-4826
Jablonska, M., Chmielarz, L., Wegrzyn, A., Guzik, K., Piwowarska, Z., Witkowski, S., Walton, R.I., Dunne, P.W., Kovanda, F., Thermal transformations of Cu-Mg (Zn)-Al(Fe) hydrotalcite-like materials into metal oxide systems and their catalytic activity in selective oxidation of ammonia to dinitrogen, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 114, (2), 2013, p731-747
Gimeno-Fabra, M., Dunne, P., Grant, D., Gooden, P., Lester, E., Continuous flow synthesis of tungsten oxide (WO3) nanoplates from tungsten (VI) ethoxide, Chemical Engineering Journal, 226, 2013, p22-29
McManus, J.S., Cunningham, P.D., Regan, L.B., Dunne, P.W., The synthesis of organo-soluble anatase nanocrystals from amorphous titania, Chemical Communications, 48, (60), 2012, p7453-7455
Dunne, P.W., Carnerup, A.M., Wegrzyn, A., Witkowski, S., Walton, R.I., Hierarchically structured ceria-silica: Synthesis and thermal properties, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, (24), 2012, p13435-13445
Meally, S.T., Karotsis, G., Brechin, E.K., Papaefstathiou, G.S., Dunne, P.W., McArdle, P., Jones, L.F., Planar [Ni 7] discs as double-bowl, pseudo metallacalix[6]arene host cavities, CrystEngComm, 12, (1), 2010, p59-63
Meally, S.T., McDonald, C., Karotsis, G., Papaefstathiou, G.S., Brechin, E.K., Dunne, P.W., McArdle, P., Power, N.P., Jones, L.F., A family of double-bowl pseudo metallocalix[6]arene discs, Dalton Transactions, 39, (20), 2010, p4809-4816
Togashi, D.M., Ryder, A.G., McMahon, D., Dunne, P., McManus, J., Fluorescence study of bovine serum albumin and Ti and Sn oxide nanoparticles interactions, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2007
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
CHAPTER 14: The Engineering of Continuous Hydrothermal/Solvothermal Synthesis of Nanomaterials in, editor(s)Andrew J Hunt Thomas M Attard , Supercritical and Other High-pressure Solvent Systems: For Extraction, Reaction and Material Processing, 2018, pp416-448 , [Lester, E., Dunne, P., Chen, Y., Al-Atta, A.]
CHAPTER 15: The Chemistry of Continuous Hydrothermal/Solvothermal Synthesis of Nanomaterials in, editor(s)Andrew J Hunt Thomas M Attard , Supercritical and Other High-pressure Solvent Systems: For Extraction, Reaction and Material Processing, 2018, pp449-475 , [Dunne, P.W., Lester, E., Starkey, C., Clark, I., Chen, Y., Munn, A.S.]
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- C-Weed: Carbon Dots from Seaweed and Seaweed Derivatives
- Summary
- Due to the increase in global renewable energy generation and the need for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions we find ourselves in the energy transition of the century wherein the demand for green, sustainable energy materials is rising. Carbon dots are considered a new and green nanomaterial, applicable for energy generation technologies. In this research the potential of seaweed and seaweed derivatives as feedstocks for the hydrothermal formation of carbon dots will be explored. Kelp and Irish moss seaweeds and their derivatives glucose, galactose, alginic acid and carrageenan will be assessed for the generation of carbon dots by hydrothermal methods. The efficacy of the synthetic and purification protocols examined with varying conditions of temperature, time and pH will be assessed by detailed structural and photophysical characterisation methods. Photophysical analysis by UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopies will be particularly relevant in establishing the suitability of processes and products for their subsequent incorporation into optoelectronic devices, such as LEDs and photovoltaic cells. Structural characterisation by XRD, IR, Raman and TEM will help identify the obtained products to inform rational design choices in feedstock and synthesis choices for scale-up. It is anticipated that this project will establish the viability of Irish seaweeds as precursors to added value products of functional carbon nanomaterials. The focus here will be on carbon dots for optoelectronic devices, but the scope extends to a range of other applications within the energy sector including photocatalysis for hydrogen generation and materials for carbon capture and conversion.
- Funding Agency
- SEAI
- Date From
- 01/04/2023
- Date To
- 31/03/2026