Dr Carol Crean (née Lynam)
Lecturer in Physical and Materials Chemistry
Qualifications: BSc (Hons), PhD
Email: c.crean@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 6640
Room no: 30 AZ 03
Further information
Biography
Carol received a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry with German in 1997 and a PhD in Chemistry in 2002, both from Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. After a short post-doctoral position at the National Centre for Sensor Research (DCU) she worked as a Research Fellow with Professor Gordon Wallace in the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute at the University of Wollongong, Australia. With the support of a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant she returned to DCU in 2008 to work with Professor Richard O'Kennedy as a Research Fellow at the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute. Carol commenced her position as a Lecturer in Physical/Materials Chemistry at the University of Surrey in 2011.
Research Interests
Her research interests include:
- Functionalising organic conductors such as carbon nanotubes and conducting polymers for applications including sensors and in the area of bionics
- Materials development for diagnostics
- Improving immunosensor performance using organic conductors
- Improving the biocompatibility of organic conductors
Research Collaborations
- Dr. Niamh Gilmartin and Professor Richard O'Kennedy, Dublin City University, Ireland.
- Dr. Emer Lahiff and Professor Dermot Diamond, Dublin City University, Ireland.
- Professor Gordon Wallace, University of Wollongong, Australia.
- Associate Professor Andrew Minett, University of Sydney, Australia.
Publications
Some of the below are available (free pre-publisher versions) on the Chemical Sciences section of Surrey Scholarship on-line.
Vladimir Gubala, Carol Crean (née Lynam), Robert Nooney, Stephen Hearty, Barry McDonnell, Katherine Heydon, Richard O’Kennedy, Brian MacCraith, David E. Williams “Kinetics of immunoassays with particles as labels: effect of antibody coupling using dendrimers as linkers” Analyst 2011, 136, 2533–2541.
Carol Crean (née Lynam), Emer Lahiff, Niamh Gilmartin, Dermot Diamond, Richard O’Kennedy, “Polyaniline nanofibres as templates for the covalent immobilisation of biomolecules”, Synthetic Metals 2010, 161, 285-292.
Peter Sherrell, Jun Chen, Joselito M. Razal, Carol Crean (née Lynam), Gordon G. Wallace, Andrew I. Minett, “Advanced microwave-assisted production of hybrid electrodes for energy applications” Energy and Environmental Science, 2010, 3, 1979–1984.
Emer Lahiff, Carol Lynam, Niamh Gilmartin, Dermot Diamond, Richard O’Kennedy, “Review Article: The Increasing Importance of Nanostructured Surfaces in Biosensor Fabrication” Anaytical and Bioanaytical Chemistry, 2010, 398, 1575–1589.
Emer Lahiff, Carol Lynam, Niamh Gilmartin, Gordon G Wallace, Richard O’Kennedy, Dermot Diamond, “Controllable Chemical Modification of Polyaniline Nanofibres” in Polymer Nanofibers-Fundamental Studies and Emerging Applications, edited by Akihiko Tanioka (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 1240E, Warrendale, PA, 2010), 1240-WW06-02.
C. Dechakiatkrai, C. Lynam, K. J. Gilmore, J. Chen, S. Phanichphant, D.V. Bavykin, F.C. Walsh, G. G. Wallace, “Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube/ Titanate Nanotube Composite Fibres” Advanced Biomaterials, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2009, 11, 7, B55-B60.
Carol Lynam, Niamh Gilmartin, Andrew I. Minett, Richard O’Kennedy, Gordon G. Wallace, “Carbon Nanotube based transducers for Immunoassays” Carbon, 2009, 47, 2337 –2343.
C. Lynam, W. Grosse, G. G. Wallace, “Carbon-nanotube Biofibre Microelectrodes” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2009, 156, 7, P117-P121.
J. Chen, J. Z. Wang, A. I. Minett, Y. Liu, C. Lynam, H. Liu, G. G. Wallace, “Carbon Nanotube Network Modified Carbon Fibre Paper for Li-ion Batteries” Energy & Environmental Science, 2009, 2, 393-396.
Chonlada Dechakiatkrai, Jun Chen, Carol Lynam, Natda Wetchakul, Sukon Phanichphant, Gordon G. Wallace, “Direct Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes onto Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2009, 9 (2) 955-959.
C. Dechakiatkrai, C. Lynam, J. Chen, S. Phanichphant, G. G. Wallace, “Characterisation of Titanium Dioxide-Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes Composite Fibres Prepared by the Wet Spinning Technique” 2nd IEEE International Nanoelectronics Conference Proceedings, 2008, 1-3, 134-139.
Jennifer M. Pringle, Orawan Ngamna, Carol Lynam, Gordon G. Wallace, Maria Forsyth, Douglas R. MacFarlane, “One-Step Synthesis of Conducting Polymer-Noble Metal Nanoparticle Composites using an Ionic Liquid” Advanced Functional Materials, 2008, 18, 2031-2040.
Pringle, Jennifer M.; Winther-Jensen, Orawan; Lynam, Carol; Wallace, Gordon G.; Forsyth, Maria; MacFarlane, Douglas R. “Nanostructured conducting polymer synthesis in ionic liquids” PMSE Preprints, 2008, 99, 774.
Jun Chen, Andrew I. Minett, Yong Liu, Carol Lynam, Peter Sherrell, Gordon G. Wallace “Direct Growth of Flexible Carbon Nanotube Electrodes” Advanced Materials, 2008, 20, 566-570.
Lynam, C., Minett, A. I., Habas, S.E., Gambhir, S.,Officer, D.L., Wallace, G.G. “Functionalising Carbon Nanotubes” International Journal of Nanotechnology, 2008, 5 (2) 331-351.
C. Dechakiatkrai, J. Chen, C. Lynam, S.K. Min, S.J. Kim, S. Phanichphant, G. G. Wallace “Direct Ascorbic Acid Detection with Ferritin Immobilised on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, 2008, 11 (1) K4-K6.
Ji Won Lee, Kwang Min Shin, Carol Lynam, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Gordon G. Wallace and Seon Jeong Kim, “The optimum functionalization of carbon nanotube/ferritin composites” Smart Materials and Structures, 2008, 17, 045029.
Javad Foroughi, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Philip G. Whitten, Carol Lynam, Gordon G. Wallace, “Novel composite Polypyrrole/CNT fibres through wet spinning process”, Proceedings of The 6th Iranian Textile Engineering Conference, 2007.
Jun Chen, Yong Liu, Andrew I. Minett, Carol Lynam, Jiaozhao Wang, Gordon G. Wallace, “Flexible, Aligned Carbon Nanotube / Conducting Polymer Electrodes for a Lithium-ion Battery” Chemistry of Materials, 2007, 19 (15) 3595-3597.
W.H. Li, C. Lynam, J. Chen, B. Liu, X.Z. Zhang and G.G. Wallace; "Magnetorheology of Single-Walled Nanotube Dispersions" Materials Letters, 2007, 61, 3116–3118.
C. Lynam, G. G. Wallace, D. L. Officer, “Electrodeposition and Characterisation of Polypyrroles containing Sulfonated Carbon Nanotubes” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2007, 7, 10, 3487–3494.
C. Lynam, S. E. Moulton, G. G. Wallace, “Carbon-Nanotube Biofibres” Advanced Materials, 2007,19, 1244–1248.
Jennifer M. Pringle, Orawan Ngamna, Carol Lynam, Gordon G. Wallace, Maria Forsyth, Douglas R. MacFarlane, “Conducting Polymers with Fibrillar Morphology Synthesised in a Biphasic Ionic Liquid/Water System” Macromolecules, 2007, 40 (8) 2702-2711.
C. Dechakiatkrai, J. Chen, C. Lynam, S. Phanichphant, G. G. Wallace “Photocatalytic Degradation of Methanol using Titanium Dioxide/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Composite” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2007, 154 (5) A407-A411.
J. Chen, B. Winther-Jensen, C. Lynam, O. Ngamna, S. Moulton, W. Zhang, G. G. Wallace, “A Simple Means to Immobilize Enzyme into Conducting Polymers via Entrapment” Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, 2006, 9 (7) H68-H70.
C. Lynam, D. Diamond, “Varying solvent polarity to tune the enantioselective quenching of a calixarene host” Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2005, 15, 307-314.
C. Lynam, K. Jennings, K. Nolan, P. Kane, M. A. McKervey, D. Diamond, “Tuning and enhancing enantioselective quenching of calixarene hosts by chiral guest amines” Analytical Chemistry, 2002, 74, (1) 59-66.
Book Chapters
Caroline Viguer, Carol Lynam, Richard O’Kennedy, “Trends and perspectives in Immunosensors” Chapter in Bentham Publishers Online Book ‘Antibodies’, accepted June 2010.
Carol Crean (nee Lynam), Cathy McGeough and Richard O’Kennedy, “Wearable Sensors”, Chapter in Biosensors for medical applications, Edited by Professor Séamus Higson, Cranfield University, UK, accepted May 2011.
Teaching
Dr Crean is scheduled to teach or demonstrate on the following modules
CHE1030 - Introduction to Analytical Chemistry
CHE1031 - Transferable & Quantitative Skills I
CHE2030 - Intermediate Analytical Chemistry
CHE2025 - Intermediate Physical Chemistry
CHE2026, CHEM021 - Spectroscopy
Departmental Duties
BSc and MChem final year research project co-ordinator
