Staff Profile - School of Natural and Environmental Sciences

Dr Osama El-Zubir

Research Associate

Email: osama.el-zubir@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6783
Address: Chemical Nanoscience Laboratory
Bedson Building
School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

Publications

El-Zubir O, Martinez PR, Dura G, Al-Mahamad LLG, Pope T, Penfold TJ, Mackenzie LE, Pal R, Mosely J, Cucinotta F, McGarry LF, Horrocks BR, Houlton A. Circularly polarised luminescence in an RNA-based homochiral, self-repairing, coordination polymer hydrogel. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2022, Epub ahead of print.
Mistry L, El-Zubir O, Pope T, Waddell PG, Wright N, Hofer WA, Horrocks BR, Houlton A. Silver–Cytidine Coordination Polymer: Electrical Properties, Modulating Intrachain Ag···Ag Distance, and MOF–Nanosheet Transformation. Crystal Growth & Design 2021, ePub ahead of print.
El-Zubir O, Kynaston EL, Gwyther J, Nazemi A, Gould OEC, Whittell GR, Horrocks BR, Manners I, Houlton A. Bottom-Up Device Fabrication via the Seeded Growth of Polymer-based Nanowires. Chemical Science 2020, 11(24), 6222-6228.
Ruiz-Sanchez AJ, Guerin AJ, El-Zubir O, Dura G, Ventura C, Dixon LI, Houlton A, Horrocks BR, Jakubovics NS, Guarda P-A, Simeone G, Clare AS, Fulton DA. Preparation and evaluation of fouling-release properties of amphiphilic perfluoropolyether-zwitterion cross-linked polymer films. Progress in Organic Coatings 2020, 140, 105524.
Mistry L, El-Zubir O, Dura G, Clegg W, Waddell PG, Pope T, Hofer WA, Wright NG, Horrocks BR, Houlton A. Addressing the properties of “Metallo-DNA” with a Ag(I)-mediated supramolecular duplex. Chemical Science 2019, 10(11), 3186-3195.
Nurdillayeva RN, Oshido AB, Bamford TA, El-Zubir O, Houlton A, Hedley J, Pike AR, Horrocks BR. Inkjet printing and electrical characterisation of DNA - templated cadmium sulfide nanowires. Nanotechnology 2018, 29(13), 135704.
Al-Mahamad LLG, El-Zubir O, Smith DG, Horrocks BR, Houlton A. A coordination polymer for the site-specific integration of semiconducting sequences into DNA-based materials. Nature Communications 2017, 8, 720.
El-Zubir O, Xia S, Ducker RE, Wang L, Mullin N, Cartron ML, Cadby AJ, Hobbs JK, Hunter CN, Leggett GJ. From Monochrome to Technicolor: Simple Generic Approaches to Multicomponent Protein Nanopatterning Using Siloxanes with Photoremovable Protein-Resistant Protecting Groups. Langmuir 2017, 33(35), 8829−8837.
Ventura C, Guerin AJ, El-Zubir O, Ruiz-Sanchez AJ, Dixon LI, Reynolds KJ, Dale ML, Ferguson J, Houlton A, Horrocks BR, Clare AS, Fulton DF. Marine antifouling performance of polymer coatings incorporating zwitterions. Biofouling 2017, 33(10), 892-903.
Bird SM, El-Zubir O, Rawlings AE, Leggett GJ, Staniland SS. A novel design strategy for nanoparticles on nanopatterns: interferometric lithographic patterning of Mms6 biotemplated magnetic nanoparticles. Journals of Materials Chemistry C 2016, 4(18), 3948-3955.
Galloway JM, Bird SM, Talbot JE, Shepley PM, Bradley RC, El-Zubir O, Allwood DA, Leggett GJ, Miles JJ, Staniland SS, Critchley K. Nano-and micro-patterning biotemplated magnetic CoPt arrays. Nanoscale 2016, 8(22), 11738-11747.
Lamming G, El-Zubir O, Kolokotroni J, McGurk C, Waddell PG, Probert MR, Houlton A. Two-Dimensional Frameworks Based on Ag(I)-N Bond Formation: Single Crystal to Single Molecular Sheet Transformation. Inorganic Chemistry 2016, 55(19), 9644-9652.
Moxey M, Johnson A, El-Zubir O, Cartron M, Dinachali SS, Hunter CN, Saifullah MSM, Chong KSL, Leggett GJ. Fabrication of Self-Cleaning, Reusable Titania Templates for Nanometer and Micrometer Scale Protein Patterning. ACS Nano 2015, 9(6), 6262-6270.
Patole S, Vasilev C, El-Zubir O, Wang L, Johnson MP, Cadby AJ, Leggett GJ, Hunter CN. Interference lithographic nanopatterning of plant and bacterial light-harvesting complexes on gold substrates. Interface Focus 2015, 5(4), 1-9.
Mostegel FH, Ducker RE, Rieger PH, El-Zubir O, Xia S, Radl SV, Edler M, Cartron ML, Hunter CN, Leggett GJ, Griesser T. Versatile thiol-based reactions for micrometer- and nanometer-scale photopatterning of polymers and biomolecules. Journal of Materials Chemistry B: Materials for biology and medicine 2015, 3(21), 4431-4438.
Tsargorodska A, El-Zubir O, Darroch B, Cartron ML, Basova T, Hunter CN, Nabok AV, Leggett GJ. Fast, Simple, Combinatorial Routes to the Fabrication of Reusable, Plasmonically Active Gold Nanostructures by Interferometric Lithography of Self-Assembled Monolayers. ACS Nano 2014, 8(8), 7858-7869.
Alswieleh AM, Cheng N, Canton I, Ustbas B, Xue X, Ladmiral V, Xia S, Ducker RE, El-Zubir O, Cartron ML, Hunter CN, Leggett GJ, Armes SP. Zwitterionic Poly(amino acid methacrylate) Brushes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136(26), 9404-9413.
El-Zubir O, Barlow I, Leggett GJ, Williams NH. Fabrication of molecular nanopatterns at aluminium oxide surfaces by nanoshaving of self-assembled monolayers of alkylphosphonates. Nanoscale 2013, 5(22).
El-Zubir O, Barlow I, Ul-Haq E, Tajuddin HA, Williams NH, Leggett GJ. Generic Methods for Micrometer- And Nanometer-Scale Surface Derivatization Based on Photochemical Coupling of Primary Amines to Monolayers of Aryl Azides on Gold and Aluminum Oxide Surfaces. Langmuir 2013, 29(4), 1083-1092.
Civit L, El-Zubir O, Fragoso A, O'Sullivan CK. Spectroscopic and atomic force microscopy characterization of the electrografting of 3,5-bis(4-diazophenoxy)benzoic acid on gold surfaces. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2013, 41, 840-843.
Tizazu G, El-Zubir O, Patole S, McLaren A, Vasilev C, Mothersole DJ, Adawi A, Hunter CN, Lidzey DG, Lopez GP, Leggett GJ. Micrometer and Nanometer Scale Photopatterning of Proteins on Glass Surfaces by Photo-degradation of Films Formed from Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Terminated Silanes. Biointerphases 2012, 7(1), 54.
Tizazu G, El-Zubir O, Brueck SRJ, Lidzey DG, Leggett GJ, Lopez GP. Large area nanopatterning of alkylphosphonate self-assembled monolayers on titanium oxide surfaces by interferometric lithography. Nanoscale 2011, 3(6), 2511-2516.