Select Publications
By Dr May Lim
Book Chapters
2014, 'Recent developments in the design of nanomaterials for photothermal and magnetic hyperthermia induced controllable drug delivery', in O'Brien P; Thomas PJ (ed.), Nanoscience, Volume 2, Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 225 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781849737623-00225
,2013, 'Photocatalysis of Natural Organic Matter in Water: Characterization and Treatment Integration', in Photocatalysis and Water Purification, Wiley, pp. 271 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9783527645404.ch10
,2013, 'Photocatalysis of Natural Organic Matter in Water: Characterization and Treatment Integration', in Pichat P (ed.), Photocatalysis and Water Purification: From Fundamentals to Recent Applications, Wiley-VCH, pp. 271 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9783527645404.ch10
,Journal articles
2023, 'In-situ aligning magnetic nanoparticles in thermoplastic adhesives for contactless rapid joining of composite structures', Composite Structures, 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2023.117304
,2023, 'Simultaneous improvement of heating efficiency and mechanical strength of a self-healing thermoplastic polymer by hybridizing magnetic particles with conductive fibres', Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2023.107597
,2021, 'Enabling contactless rapid on-demand debonding and rebonding using hysteresis heating of ferrimagnetic nanoparticles', Materials and Design, 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.110076
,2019, 'Synthesis of Light-Responsive Pyrene-Based Polymer Nanoparticles via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly', Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.201800510
,2018, 'High peak and high average radiofrequency power transmit/receive switch for thermal magnetic resonance', Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 80, pp. 2246 - 2255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrm.27194
,2018, 'Surface functionalization of upconversion nanoparticles using visible light-mediated polymerization', Polymer, 151, pp. 6 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2018.07.054
,2018, 'Biologically targeted magnetic hyperthermia: Potential and limitations', Frontiers in Pharmacology, 9, pp. 831, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2018.00831
,2018, 'Exploiting the Versatility of Polydopamine-Coated Nanoparticles to Deliver Nitric Oxide and Combat Bacterial Biofilm', Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 39, pp. e1800159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.201800159
,2018, 'Ferrous ion as a reducing agent in the generation of antibiofilm nitric oxide from a copper-based catalytic system', Nitric Oxide - Biology and Chemistry, 75, pp. 8 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.niox.2018.01.005
,2018, 'NIR/blue light emission optimization of NaY
2017, 'Controlled Direct Growth of Polymer Shell on Upconversion Nanoparticle Surface via Visible Light Regulated Polymerization', Macromolecules, 50, pp. 7137 - 7147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01405
,2016, 'Iron Complex Facilitated Copper Redox Cycling for Nitric Oxide Generation as Nontoxic Nitrifying Biofilm Inhibitor', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8, pp. 30502 - 30510, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b10357
,2016, 'Drug Delivery: Lanthanide-Doped Upconversion Nanoparticles: Emerging Intelligent Light-Activated Drug Delivery Systems (Adv. Sci. 7/2016)', Advanced Science, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201670035
,2016, 'Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: Emerging intelligent light-activated drug delivery systems', Advanced Science, 3, pp. 1500437, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.201500437
,2016, 'Doxorubicin loaded dual pH- and thermo-responsive magnetic nanocarrier for combined magnetic hyperthermia and targeted controlled drug delivery applications', Nanoscale, 8, pp. 12152 - 12161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5nr07773g
,2016, 'Polymerization of a Photocleavable Monomer Using Visible Light', Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 37, pp. 905 - 910, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.201600127
,2016, 'Macromol. Rapid Commun. 11/2016.', Macromol Rapid Commun, 37, pp. 940, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.201670047
,2015, 'Copper Complex in Poly(vinyl chloride) as a Nitric Oxide-Generating Catalyst for the Control of Nitrifying Bacterial Biofilms', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7, pp. 22148 - 22156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b07971
,2014, 'The Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Ferrofluids: Towards Membrane-less and Spill-less Gas Sensors', ChemPlusChem, 79, pp. 1498 - 1506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201402105
,2014, 'TiO
2014, 'Influence of particles on the formation of bubbles from a submerged capillary', Minerals Engineering, 66, pp. 47 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2014.03.018
,2014, 'Highly Adsorptive and Regenerative Magnetic TiO2 for Natural Organic Matter (NOM) Removal in Water', Chemical Engineering Journal, 246, pp. 196 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2014.02.015
,2014, 'Nanoparticle-protein corona complexes govern the biological fates and functions of nanoparticles', J. Mater. Chem. B, 2, pp. 2060 - 2083, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3TB21526A
,2014, 'Perfluorodecalin nanocapsule as an oxygen carrier and contrast agent for ultrasound imaging', RSC Adv., 4, pp. 13052 - 13060, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3RA47595F
,2014, 'Spatial and temporal control of drug release through pH and alternating magnetic field induced breakage of Schiff base bonds', Polymer Chemistry, 5, pp. 3311 - 3315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4PY00150H
,2014, 'The effect of common bacterial growth media on zinc oxide thin films: identification of reaction products and implications for the toxicology of ZnO', RSC Advances, 4, pp. 4363 - 4370, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3ra46177g
,2013, 'Understanding effects of water characteristics on natural organic matter treatability by PACl and a novel PACl-chitosan coagulants', Journal of Hazardous Materials, 263, pp. 718 - 725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2013.10.036
,2013, 'Understanding the stimulus of an air-jet aesthesiometer: Computerised modelling and subjective interpretation', Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 33, pp. 104 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/opo.12025
,2012, 'The Biochemiresistor: An Ultrasensitive Biosensor for Small Organic Molecules', Angewandte Chemie, 124, pp. 6562 - 6565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.201202350
,2012, 'Effect of TiO2 nanoparticle surface functionalization on protein adsorption, cellular uptake and cytotoxicity: the attachment of PEG comb polymers using catalytic chain transfer and thiol–ene chemistry', Polymer Chemistry, 3, pp. 2743 - 2751, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2py20450a
,2012, 'Effects of serum adsorption on cellular uptake profile and consequent impact of titanium dioxide nanoparticles on human lung cell lines', ACS NANO, 6, pp. 4083 - 4093, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn3004845
,2012, 'Insight into serum protein interactions with functionalized magnetic nanoparticles in biological media', Langmuir, 28, pp. 4346 - 4356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la204740t
,2012, 'Preparation and characterisation of new-polyaluminum chloride-chitosan composite coagulant', Water Research, 46, pp. 4614 - 4620, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2012.06.021
,2012, 'The Biochemiresistor: An Ultrasensitive Biosensor for Small Organic Molecules', Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 51, pp. 6456 - 6459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201202350
,2011, 'Bi-functional gold-coated magnetite composites with improved biocompatibility', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 354, pp. 536 - 545, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2010.10.061
,2011, 'Biological impacts of TiO2 on human lung cell lines A549 and H1299: particle size distribution effects', Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 13, pp. 3801 - 3813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11051-011-0302-6
,2011, 'Gold-coated magnetic nanoparticles as Dispersible Electrodes – understanding their electrochemical performance', Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 656, pp. 130 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2010.12.016
,2011, 'Stabilization of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in biological media by fetal bovine serum (FBS)', Langmuir, 27, pp. 843 - 850, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la104278m
,2011, 'Titania nanocomposite polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membranes fabricated using a low temperature hydrothermal coating process', Journal of Membrane Science, 380, pp. 98 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2011.06.035
,2011, 'Understanding the formation of iron oxide nanoparticles with acicular structure from iron (III) chloride and hydrazine monohydrate', Crystal Growth and Design, 11, pp. 1689 - 1696, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cg101623n
,2010, 'Thiol functionalisation of gold-coated magnetic nanoparticles: Enabling the controlled attachment of functional molecules', ICONN 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, pp. 45 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICONN.2010.6045171
,2010, 'Assembly of polyethylenimine based magnetic iron oxide vectors: Insights into gene delivery', Langmuir, 26, pp. 7314 - 7326, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la9041919
,2010, 'Comparison of photocatalytic degradation of natural organic matter in two Australian surface waters using multiple analytical techniques', Organic Geochemistry, 41, pp. 124 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.08.008
,2010, 'Controlled fabrication of polyethylenimine - functionalized magnetic nanoparticles for the sequestration and quantification of Free Cu2+', Langmuir, 26, pp. 12247 - 12252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la101196r
,2010, 'Dispersible electrodes: a solution to slow response times of sensitive sensors', Chemical Communications, 46, pp. 8821 - 8823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c0cc02690e
,2010, 'Multi wavelength spectroscopic and chromatography study on the photocatalytic oxidation of natural organic matter5', Water Research, 44, pp. 2525 - 2532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2010.01.036
,2010, 'Polyethylenimine based magnetic iron-oxide vector: the effect of vector component assembly on cellular entry mechanism, intracellular localization, and cellular viability', Biomacromolecules, 11, pp. 2521 - 2531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bm100748p
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