Zoe Pikramenou – Network — University of Birmingham

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PhD projects

The research programme in Zoe Pikramenou’s group includes inorganic chemistry, photophysics and nanoscience to tackle luminescence imaging in biological cells, liquid flows and surfaces. Their projects are interdisciplinary, involving collaboration with medical scientists, chemical engineers and biochemists. They use nanoparticles as scaffolds to carry both luminescent and MRI active probes in cells for multimodal imaging. They study their targeted delivery in cells using peptide and other biomolecular recognition motifs. For the probe design they use different ligand and coordination chemistries to prepare molecular lanthanide and transition metal probes and optimise their luminescent signals.

The group uses different imaging techniques to study the nanoparticle presence in cells. They also study nanoparticles in flow systems and microchannels that have applications in chemical reactions and blood circulation studies. In a project that involves optoelectronic devices they study the modification of surfaces with lanthanide and transition metal probes using recognition and supramolecular chemistry to study their sensing properties for small molecules and their properties in building opto- and electro-active wires.

Research activity per year

Medical and Dental Sciences

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23 shared research output

Life and Environmental Sciences

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13 shared research output

Biosciences

Life and Environmental Sciences

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10 shared research output

Cardiovascular Sciences

Medical and Dental Sciences

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7 shared research output

Clinical Sciences

Medical and Dental Sciences

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6 shared research output

Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Medical and Dental Sciences

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6 shared research output

Computer Science

Engineering and Physical Sciences

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6 shared research output

Mechanical Engineering

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4 shared research output

Microbiology and Infection

Medical and Dental Sciences

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4 shared research output

Engineering

Engineering and Physical Sciences

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4 shared research output

Dentistry

Clinical Sciences

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3 shared research output

Physics and Astronomy

Engineering and Physical Sciences

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3 shared research output

Chemical Engineering

Engineering and Physical Sciences

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3 shared research output

Inflammation and Ageing

Medical and Dental Sciences

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3 shared research output

The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH)

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2 shared research output

Metallurgy and Materials

Engineering and Physical Sciences

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2 shared research output

Psychology

Life and Environmental Sciences

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2 shared research output

Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Life and Environmental Sciences

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2 shared research output

Metabolism and Systems Research

Medical and Dental Sciences

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2 shared research output

Immunology and Immunotherapy

Medical and Dental Sciences

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2 shared research output

Education

Social Sciences

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2 shared research output

Social Sciences

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2 shared research output

Birmingham Medical School

Clinical Sciences

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2 shared research output

Biomedical Sciences

Clinical Sciences

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1 shared research output

Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage

Chemical Engineering, Birmingham Energy Institute

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1 shared research output

Birmingham Energy Institute

Chemical Engineering

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1 shared research output

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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1 shared research output

Civil Engineering

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1 shared research output

Southern University of Science and Technology

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8 shared research output

University of Birmingham

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6 shared research output

School of Chemistry

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2 shared research output

University of Warwick

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2 shared research output

São Paulo State University

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1 shared research output

Texas A and M University

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1 shared research output

Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Jt. Lab. for Photonic-Thermal-Electrical Energy Materials and Devices

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1 shared research output

The Petroleum Institute

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1 shared research output

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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1 shared research output

Institute of Biological Psychology

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1 shared research output

HUAWEI Technologies Company

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1 shared research output

Dalian University of Technology

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1 shared research output

King’s College London

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1 shared research output

Swansea University

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1 shared research output

Cardiff University

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1 shared research output

Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing

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1 shared research output

National University of Singapore

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1 shared research output

University of Macau

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1 shared research output

BGI-Shenzhen

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1 shared research output

Khalifa University

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Jilin University

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1 shared research output

Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Advanced Quantum Dot Displays and Lighting

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1 shared research output

City University of Hong Kong

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

External organisation: Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

1 shared research output

Shenzhen Planck Innovation Technology Pte. Ltd.

External organisation: Unknown

1 shared research output

Technical University Munich

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

1 shared research output