Peter Dunne
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
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.
Research Interest
inorganic nanomaterials
Publications
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 TiO2 by solvothermal synthesis and its application in photocatalytic water reduction, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3, (18), 2015, p9890-9898
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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
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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
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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
