Alison M. Funston

7.4k citations

79 papers · 6.3k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 0.5%
- Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
Electrochemistry top 1%
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications

Papers in

Structural Biology 7
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications 7
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 45
- Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications 43

Co-authors: Paul Mulvaney Carolina Novo Rajesh Sardar Royce W. Murray Timothy J. Davis Luis M. Liz‐Marzán Isabel Pastoriza‐Santos Steven J. Barrow
Journals: Nano Letters (7 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (5 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (5 papers)ACS Nano (4 papers)Australian Journal of Chemistry (3 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United States Spain

In The Last Decade

Alison M. Funston

78 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Gold Nanoparticles: Past, Present, and Future 2009 · 968 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2009 Langmuir
2009 Nano Letters
2008 Chemical Society Reviews

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1	Drop-cast gold nanoparticles are not always electrocatalytically active for the borohydride oxidation reaction Chemical Science ·Lachlan F. Gaudin, Alison M. Funston, Cameron L. Bentley	2024	11
2	Unraveling the role of plasmonics in gold nanoparticle-integrated tapered fiber platforms for sensing applications Debanita Das, Anuj Kumar Singh, Kishor Kumar Mandal, Alison M. Funston, Anshuman Kumar	2024	0
3	Modulation of Cathodoluminescence by Surface Plasmons in Silver Nanowires Small ·Amelia C. Y. Liu, Timothy J. Davis, Toon Coenen, Sangeetha Hari, Lenard M. Voortman, Zhou Xu, Gangcheng Yuan, Patrycja M. Ballard, Alison M. Funston, Joanne Etheridge	2023	6
4	Blinking of CdSe/Cd_.33Zn_.67S semiconductor nanoplatelets Journal of the Optical Society of America B ·Laszlo Frazer, Jiho Han, Nicholas Kirkwood, Alison M. Funston	2023	2
5	Live-Cell SOFI Correlation with SMLM and AFM Imaging PubMed ·Riley B. Hargreaves, Sam Duwé, Ashley M. Rozario, Alison M. Funston, Rico F. Tabor, Peter Dedecker, Donna R. Whelan, Toby D. M. Bell	2023	3
6	Macroporous perovskite nanocrystal composites for ultrasensitive copper ion detection Nanoscale ·Hanchen Li, Wenping Yin, Chun Kiu Ng, Ruoxi Huang, Shengrong Du, Manoj Sharma, Bin Li, Gangcheng Yuan, Monika Michalska, Sri Kasi Matta, Yu Chen, Naresh Chandrasekaran, Salvy P. Russo, Neil R. Cameron, Alison M. Funston, Jacek J. Jasieniak	2022	10
7	Optimising correlative super resolution and atomic force microscopies for investigating the cellular cytoskeleton Methods and Applications in Fluorescence ·Riley B. Hargreaves, Ashley M. Rozario, Thomas M. McCoy, Shane P. Meaney, Alison M. Funston, Rico F. Tabor, Donna R. Whelan, Toby D. M. Bell	2022	1
8	Chemical Fingerprinting of Polymers Using Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy ACS Omega ·Ruchi Pal, Laure Bourgeois, Matthew Weyland, A. K. Sikder, Kei Saito, Alison M. Funston, Jayesh Bellare	2021	16
9	Topologically Enclosed Aluminum Voids as Plasmonic Nanostructures ACS Nano ·Ye Zhu, Philip N. H. Nakashima, Alison M. Funston, Laure Bourgeois, Joanne Etheridge	2017	10
10	Excitation of bound plasmons along nanoscale stripe waveguides: a comparison of end and grating coupling techniques QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) ·H. C. S. Perera, K. C. Vernon, Alison M. Funston, Han‐Hao Cheng, F. Eftekhari, Timothy J. Davis	2015	3
11	Surface plasmon coupling in end-to-end linked gold nanorod dimers and trimers Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Jatish Kumar, Xingzhan Wei, Steven J. Barrow, Alison M. Funston, K. George Thomas, Paul Mulvaney	2013	72
12	Synthesis of Stable Peptide Nucleic Acid‐Modified Gold Nanoparticles and their Assembly onto Gold Surfaces Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Philipp Anstaett, Yuanhui Zheng, Thibaut Thai, Alison M. Funston, Udo Bach, Gilles Gasser	2013	20
13	Optical properties of strongly coupled 2D trimer and 3D tetramer plasmonic structures Xingzhan Wei, Steven J. Barrow, Alison M. Funston, Paul Mulvaney	2013	1
14	The surface plasmon modes of self-assembled gold nanocrystals Nature Communications ·Steven J. Barrow, Xingzhan Wei, Julia Baldauf, Alison M. Funston, Paul Mulvaney	2012	161
15	Electron solvation dynamics and reactivity in ionic liquids observed by picosecond radiolysis techniques Faraday Discussions ·James F. Wishart, Alison M. Funston, Tomasz Szreder, Andrew R. Cook, Masao Gohdo	2011	35
16	The effect of surface roughness on the plasmonic response of individual sub-micron gold spheres Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Jessica Rodríguez‐Fernández, Alison M. Funston, Jorge Pérez‐Juste, Ramón A. Álvarez‐Puebla, Luis M. Liz‐Marzán, Paul Mulvaney	2009	126
17	Direct observation of chemical reactions on single gold nanocrystals using surface plasmon spectroscopy Nature Nanotechnology ·Carolina Novo, Alison M. Funston, Paul Mulvaney	2008	391
18	Spectroscopy and High‐Resolution Microscopy of Single Nanocrystals by a Focused Ion Beam Registration Method Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Carolina Novo, Alison M. Funston, Isabel Pastoriza‐Santos, Luis M. Liz‐Marzán, Paul Mulvaney	2007	53
19	Dipyridophenazine Complexes of Cobalt(iii): DNA Photocleavage and Photobiology Australian Journal of Chemistry ·Alison M. Funston, Carleen Cullinane, Kenneth P. Ghiggino, W. David McFadyen, Stanley S. Stylli, Peter A. Tregloan	2005	14
20	The Preparation of a Mixed-Ligand Cobalt( III ) Complex of DPPZ and Ethylenediamine: Crystal Structures of [Co(en) 2 ( DPPZ )] (ClO 4 ) 3 .0·5H 2 O, [Co(en) 2 ( Australian Journal of Chemistry ·Alison M. Funston, Robert W. Gable, W. David McFadyen, Peter A. Tregloan	1999	8

About Alison M. Funston

Alison M. Funston is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Electrochemistry and Materials Chemistry, having authored 79 papers that have together received 6.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (43 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (22 papers), Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (13 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (12 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (9 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (7 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (7 papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (4.1k citations), Electrochemistry (469 citations), Biomedical Engineering (2.9k citations), Structural Biology (82 citations) and Materials Chemistry (2.7k citations). Alison M. Funston has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Paul Mulvaney, Carolina Novo, Rajesh Sardar, Royce W. Murray, Timothy J. Davis, Luis M. Liz‐Marzán, Isabel Pastoriza‐Santos, Steven J. Barrow, Jessica Rodríguez‐Fernández and F. Javier Garcı́a de Abajo. Their work appears in journals such as Nano Letters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, ACS Nano and Australian Journal of Chemistry.

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