The Stevens Group’s paper “A serological point-of-care test for the detection of IgG antibodies against Ebola virus in human survivors” reports on an ultraspecific diagnostic test capable of distinguishing different strains of the Ebola virus in serum from survivors in Uganda. This work involved members Polina Brangel and Philip Howes and is supported by the EPSRC IRC “i-sense” consortium and our collaborators within “i-sense”.
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A paper from co-authors Christopher Spicer, Marsilea Booth, Damia Mawad, Astrid Armgarth, Christian Nielsen, and Molly Stevens entitled “Synthesis of Hetero-bifunctional, End-Capped Oligo-EDOT Derivatives” has been highlighted as a “Groundbreaking Paper” by the journal Chem. This report demonstrates an innovative method of synthesising well-defined, stable oligo-EDOTs for applications in tissue engineering.

A recent Advanced Materials publication from the Stevens Group, entitled “One-Pot Synthesis of Multiple Protein-Encapsulated DNA Flowers and Their Application in Intracellular Protein”, from Stevens Group members Dr Eunjung Kim, Dr Limor Zwi-Dantsis, Dr Natalie Reznikov, Ms Catherine Hansel, Ms Shweta Agarwal and Molly Stevens, has been highlighted in AdvancedScienceNews.com.
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The Stevens Group has been featured on the Front Cover of the most recent issue of Advanced Functional Materials. The report, entitled “Modular and Versatile Spatial Functionalization of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds through Fiber-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization”, was led by Ms Rachael Harrison and also includes Stevens Group members Joseph Steele, Robert Chapman, Adam Gormley, Muzamir Mahat and alumnus Lesley Chow and describes a dual-functionality scaffold with a cell-adhesive surface and an opposing antifouling non-cell-adhesive surface.

The Stevens Group’s latest Nature Materials article entitled “Biodegradable silicon nanoneedles delivering nucleic acids intracellularly induce localized in vivo neovascularization” reports an innovative nanomaterial-based device designed for intracellular delivery of sensitive cargoes. The paper by Chiappini et al in collaboration with HMRI describes how nanoneedles based on porous silicon can facilitate the delivery of nucleic acids (e.g. DNA and siRNA) in living cells and tissues non-destructively.
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Review of Colloidal Nanoparticles as Advanced Biological Sensors published in Science.

Study of Nanoparticle Growth Created by Enzyme Nanopatterns on the Front Cover of Adv. Funct. Mater.

Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Biodiagnostics featured on the Front Cover of Chemical Society Reviews.

Nanoparticle-based assay featured on Front Cover of Chemical Communications

Laminin-111 shown to modulate stem cell transitions.

Nano-analytical electron microscopy reveals fundamental insights.

Nature Nanotechnology paper.

Nature Materials paper reports unique inverse sensing mechanism for ultrasensitive biosensing!

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Students from The Stevens Group awarded various prizes at Imperial College Department of Materials Postgraduate Research Day.

Maria Azevedo awarded four-year fellowship by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, to conduct PhD in The Stevens Group.

Dr Molly Stevens has won one of six national new EPSRC 'Challenging Engineering' awards worth about one million pounds each. The awards are aimed at identifying and supporting future international leaders in engineering.

Dr Molly Stevens receives the Philip Leverhulme Prize.