Brendan Duffy

TL;DR: It was found that inclusion of alloying elements such as Al, Mn, Ca, Zn and rare earth elements provides improved corrosion resistance to Mg alloys and surface modification is a promising approach to improve the performance of Mg-based biomaterials for orthopaedic applications.

TL;DR: The results show that Raman spectroscopy displays a high sensitivity to biochemical changes in tissue during disease progression resulting in an exceptional prediction accuracy when discriminating between normal cervical tissue, invasive carcinoma and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN).

TL;DR: The biofilm inhibition of a Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm using a low-temperature processed silver-doped phenyltriethoxysilane sol-gel coating and the antibacterial effect of silver release coatings on neighbouring bacterial cultures is reported.

TL;DR: Silver nanoparticles synthesised by reducing silver salts using NaBH(4) followed by capping with varying concentrations of beta-cyclodextrin (beta-CD) demonstrated superior photostability when exposed to intense ultraviolet radiation for 4h as well as significantly higher antibacterial activity.

TL;DR: The use of microtitre plates enabled a variety of sol-gel coatings to be screened for their antibacterial activity against a wide range of bacteria in a relatively short time and the broad-spectrum antib bacterial activity of the silver doped Sol-gel showed its potential for use as a coating for biomaterials.