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Selected publications - Donal Leech

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F.J. RAWSON, D.J. GARRETT, D. LEECH, A.J. DOWNARD, K.H.R. BARONIAN. Electron transfer from Proteus vulgaris to a covalently assembled, single walled carbon nanotube electrode functionalised with osmium bipyridine complex: Application to a whole cell biosensor. Biosensors and Bioelectron. 26 (2011) 2383–2389. ( Download pdf)

T. CATAL, P. KAVANAGH, V. O’FLAHERTY, D. LEECH. Generation of electricity in microbial fuel cells at sub-ambient temperatures. J. Power Sources, 196 (2011) 2676–2681. ( Download pdf)

T. CATAL, D. CYSNEIROS,V. O’FLAHERTY, D. LEECH. Electricity generation in single-chamber microbial fuel cells using a carbon source sampled from anaerobic reactors utilizing grass silage. Bioresource Technol, 102 (2011) 404–410. ( Download pdf)

M.N. ZAFAR, F. TASCA, S. BOLAND, M. KUJAWA, I. PATEL, C.K. PETERBAUER, D. LEECH, L. GORTON. Wiring of pyranose dehydrogenase with osmium polymers of different redox potentials. Bioelectrochemistry, 80 (2010) 38–42. ( Download pdf)

A.M. NOWICKA, A. KOWALCZYK, M. DONTEN, D. LEECH, M. HEPEL, Z. STOJEK. Substantial influence of temperature on anchoring of gold-nanoparticle monolayer for performance of DNA biosensors. Electroanalysis 22 (2010) 2323–2329. ( Download pdf)

K.P. KATURI, P. KAVANAGH, S. RENGARAJ, D. LEECH. Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms developed under different growth conditions on glassy carbon electrodes: insights using cyclic voltammetry . Chem. Comm. 46 (2010) 4758 – 4760. ( Download pdf)

J. NIEDZIÓŁKA-JÖNSSON, S. BOLAND, D. LEECH, R. BOUKHERROUB, S SZUNERITS. Preparation and reactivity of carboxylic acid-terminated boron-doped diamond electrodes. Electrochim. Acta. 55 (2010) 959-964. ( Download pdf)

J. HAJDUKIEWICZ, S. BOLAND, P. KAVANAGH, D, LEECH. An enzyme-amplified amperometric DNA hybridisation assay using DNA immobilised in a carboxymethylated dextran film anchored to a graphite surface. Biosensors & Bioelectron. 25 (2010) 1037–1042. ( Download pdf)

A. VAZE, N. HUSSAIN, C. TANG, D. LEECH, J. RUSLING. Biocatalytic anode for glucose oxidation utilizing carbon nanotubes for direct electron transfer with glucose oxidase, Electrochemistry Communications 11 (2009) 2004–2007. ( Download pdf)

P. A. JENKINS, S. BOLAND, P. KAVANAGH, D. LEECH. Evaluation of performance and stability of biocatalytic redox films constructed with different copper oxygenases and osmium-based redox polymers, Bioelectrochemistry 76 (2009) 162–168. ( Download pdf)

S. BOLAND, K. FOSTER, D. LEECH. A stability comparison of redox-active layers produced by chemical coupling of an osmium redox complex to pre-functionalized gold and carbon electrodes, Electrochimica Acta 54 (2009) 1986–1991. ( Download pdf)

J. HAJDUKIEWICZ, S. BOLAND, P. KAVANAGH, A. NOWICKA, Z. STOJEK, D. LEECH. Enzyme-amplified amperometric detection of DNA using redox mediating films on gold microelectrodes, Electroanalysis 21 (2009) 342 – 350. ( Download pdf)

P. KAVANAGH, S. BOLAND, P. JENKINS, D. LEECH. Performance of a glucose/O ₂ enzymatic biofuel cell containing a mediated melanocarpus albomyces laccase cathode in a physiological buffer. Fuel Cells 09 (2009) 79–84. ( Download pdf)

M. PELLISSIER, F. BARRIERE, A. J. DOWNARD, D. LEECH. Improved stability of redox enzyme layers on glassy carbon electrodes via covalent grafting, Electrochem. Comm. 10 (2008) 835–838. (Download pdf)

S. BOLAND, F. BARRIERE, D. LEECH. Designing Stable Redox-Active Surfaces: Chemical Attachment of an Osmium Complex to Glassy Carbon Electrodes Prefunctionalized by Electrochemical Reduction of an In Situ-Generated Aryldiazonium Cation. Langmuir 24 (2008) 6351–6358. (Download pdf)

P. KAVANAGH, P. JENKINS, D. LEECH. Electroreduction of O ₂ at a mediated Melanocarpus albomyces laccase cathode in a physiological buffer, Electrochem. Comm. 10 (2008) 970-972. (Download pdf)

M. LYNCH, S. HEHIR, P. KAVANAGH, D. LEECH, J. O'SHAUGHNESSY, M.P. CARTY and F. ALDABBAGH, Synthesis by Radical Cyclization and Cytotoxicity of Highly Potent Bioreductive Alicyclic Ring Fused [1,2- a]Benzimidazolequinones, Chem. Eur. J.  13 , (2007) 3218-3226. (Download pdf)

S. KNIGHT, N. MORLEY, D. LEECH and R.CAVE, Mobile voltammetric laboratory for ship-board and shore-based analyses of dissolved copper, Environmental Chemistry 3 (2006) 450-456. (Download pdf)

P. KAVANAGH and D. LEECH, Redox polymer and probe DNA tethered to gold electrodes for enzyme-amplified amperometric detection of DNA hybridization. Analytical Chemistry, 78 (2006) 2710-2716. ( Download pdf)

F. BARRIERE, P. KAVANAGH and D. LEECH, A laccase-glucose oxidase biofuel cell prototype operating in a physiological buffer, Electrochimica Acta 51 (2006) 5187-5192 ( Download pdf)

Y. FERRY and D. LEECH, Amperometric detection of catecholamine neurotransmitters using electrocatalytic substrate recycling at a laccase electrode, Electroanalysis, 17 (2005) 113-119. ( Download pdf)

S. KNIGHT, R. CAVE , N. MORLEY and D. LEECH, Temporal monitoring of total dissolved Copper in surface seawater of Galway Bay, Ireland, using a mobile voltammetric analysis system, Proceedings of Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland, 2005, pp 8-12. ( Download pdf)

J. O’SHAUGHNESSY, D. CUNNINGHAM, P. KAVANAGH, D. LEECH, P. McARDLE and F. ALDABBAGH, Synthesis of benzimidazolequinone analogue of cyclopropamitosene antitumor agents, Synlett (2004) 2382-2384. ( Download pdf)

F. BARRIERE, Y. FERRY, D. ROCHEFORT and D. LEECH, Targetting redox polymers as mediators for laccase oxygen reduction in a membrane-less biofuel cell, Electrochem . Comm.,  6 (2004)  237-241. ( Download pdf)

D. ROCHEFORT, D. LEECH and R. BOURBONNAIS,  Electron transfer mediator systems for bleaching of paper pulp, Green Chem. , 6  (2004) 14-24. ( Download pdf)

P. KAVANAGH and D. LEECH, Improved synthesis of 4,4 ' -diamino-2,2 ' -bipyridine from 4,4 ' -dinitro-2,2 ' -bipyridine-N ,N ' -dioxide, Tet . Lett., 45  (2004) 121-123. ( Download pdf)

P. PÉRUSSE and D. LEECH, A Voltammetric Assay of Anti-oxidants and Inhibitors of Soybean Lipoxygenase, Electroanalysis, 15 (2003) 573-578. ( Download pdf)

S. LIU, D. LEECH and H. JU, Application of Colloidal Gold in Protein Immobilization, Electron Transfer, and Biosensing, Anal. Lett., 36 (2003) 1-19. ( Download pdf)

D. ROCHEFORT, R. BOURBONNAIS,  D. LEECH and M. PAICE, Oxidation of Lignin Model Compounds by Organic and Transition Metal-Based Electron Transfer Mediators, Chem. Comm. (2002) 1182-1183. ( Download pdf)

C. GROGAN, R. RAITERI, GM. O'CONNOR, TJ. GLYNN, V. CUNNINGHAM, M. KANE, M. CHARLTON and D. LEECH, Characterisation of an Antibody Coated Microcantilever as a Potential Immuno-based Biosensor, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 17 (2002) 201-207. ( Download pdf)

D. ROCHEFORT, R. BOURBONNAIS,  D. LEECH, S. RENAUD and M. PAICE,  Electrochemical Oxidation of Transition Metal-Based Mediators for Pulp Delignification, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 149 (2002) D15-D20. ( Download pdf)

R. BOURBONNAIS, D. ROCHEFORT, M. PAICE, S. RENAUD and D. LEECH, Development of Stable Redox Complexes to Mediate Delignification of Kraft Pulp by Laccase, Oxidative Delignification Chemistry: Fundamentals and Catalysis,  Dimitris S. Argyropoulos (Ed.) ACS Symposium Series, 785 (2001) pp. 391-395. 

D. LEECH and K.O. FEERICK, Biosensor Warning Devices: Reagentless Detection of Modulators of Laccase Activity, Electroanalysis, 12 (2000) 1339-1342. ( Download pdf)

R. BOURBONNAIS, D. ROCHEFORT, M. PAICE, S. RENAUD and D. LEECH, Transition Metal Complexes : A New Class of Laccase Mediators for Pulp Bleaching, TAPPI J., 80 (2000)   68-79. H. JU and D. LEECH, Electrochemical Study of Metallothionein Modified Gold Disk Electrode and its Action on Hg ² Cations, J. Electroanal. Chem., 484 (2000) 150-156. ( Download pdf)

R. VOICU, T.H. ELLIS., H. JU and D. LEECH, Adsorption and Desorption of Electroactive Self-Assembled Thiolate Monolayers on Gold, Langmuir, 15 (1999) 8170-8177. ( Download pdf)

H. JU and D. LEECH, Effect of Electrolytes on Electrochemical Behaviour of 11-(ferrocenyl-carbonyloxy)undecanethiol SAMs on Gold Disk Electrodes, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1 (1999) 1549-1554.  ( Download pdf)

J-A. NI, H. JU, H-Y. CHEN and D. LEECH, Amperometric Determination of Epinephrine with an Osmium Complex and Nafion Double-layer Membrane Modified Electrode, Anal. Chim. Acta, 378 (1999) 151-157. ( Download pdf)

D. LEECH and F. DAIGLE, Optimisation of a Reagentless Laccase Electrode for the Detection of the Inhibitor Azide, Analyst, 123 (1998) 1971-1974. ( Download pdf)

F. DAIGLE, F. TRUDEAU, G. ROBINSON, M.R. SMYTH and D. LEECH, Mediated Reagentless Enzyme Inhibition Electrodes, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 13 (1998) 417-425. ( Download pdf)

R. BOURBONNAIS, D. LEECH and M.G. PAICE, Electrochemical Analysis of the Interactions of Laccase Mediators with Lignin, Biochimica Biophysica Acta, General Subjects 1379 (1998) 381-390. ( Download pdf)

H. JU and D. LEECH, Host-Guest Interaction at a Self-Assembled Monolayer/Solution Interface: An Electrochemical Analysis of the Inclusion of 11-(Ferrocenylcarbonyloxy) -undecanethiol by Cyclodextrins, Langmuir, 14 (1998) 300-306. ( Download pdf)

F. DAIGLE and D. LEECH, Reagentless Tyrosinase Enzyme Electrodes: Effects of Enzyme Loading, Electrolyte pH, Ionic Strength and Temperature, Anal. Chem., 69 (1997) 4108-4112. ( Download pdf)

H. JU and D. LEECH, [Os(bpy) ₂(PVI) ₁₀Cl]Cl Polymer Modified Carbon Fiber Electrodes for the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of NADH, Anal. Chim. Acta,  345 (1997) 51-58. ( Download pdf)

F. TRUDEAU, F. DAIGLE and D. LEECH, Reagentless Mediated Lacasse Enzyme Electrode for the Detection of Respiratory Poisons, Anal. Chem., 69 (1997) 882-886. ( Download pdf)

Other Contributions - Donal Leech

R. BOURBONNAIS, M. PAICE, D. ROCHEFORT and D. LEECH, Oxidase Process for Pulp and Dye Bleaching, Patent Publication Number  WO/99 054545

D. LEECH, (1996) Analytical Applications of Polymer Modified Electrodes, in " Electroactive Polymer Electrochemistry, Part 2: Methods and Applications", M.E.G. Lyons (Ed.), Plenum Press, New York, Chapter 10.

D. LEECH,  Affinity Biosensors, Chem. Soc. Reviews, 23 (1994) 205-213.

Selected Presentations - Donal Leech et al.

• “ Mediated enzyme reactions: from biosensing to biopower”, Bioelectrochemistry-2007, XIX International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics, Toulouse, France, April 2007

• “ Towards a glucose-O ₂ biofuel cell working in physiological conditions” , Nanobiotechnology for analysis and energy conversion, Dix-neuvièmes Entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier, Grenoble, France, December 2006.

•  “ Redox mediation and laccase: from biosensors to biobleaching”, ESEAC 2006, 11th International Conference on Electroanalysis, Bordeaux, France, June 2006.

• “ Towards a laccase-glucose oxidase biofuel cell prototype”, Electrochemical Society Spring Meeting, Denver, USA, May 2006.

• “ Mobile voltammetric analysis system for the determination of dissolved copper in surface seawater off the west coast of Ireland”, 4th International Conference on Instrumental Methods of Analysis, Crete, Greece, October 2005.

• “ Harnessing bioelectrocatalytic oxygen reduction for application to pulp bleaching and biofuel cell development”, Bioelectrochemistry-2005, XVIII International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics, Coimbra, Portugal, June 2005

• “ Mobile voltammetric analysis system for the determination of dissolved copper in surface seawater off the west coast of Ireland”, American Society for Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 2005.

• “ Biomolecules immobilized in redox polymers: towards reagentless electrochemical affinity sensors”, Electrochemical Society Spring Meeting, Québec, Canada, May 2005.

• “ Towards a Laccase-Glucose Oxidase Biofuel Cell Prototype”, Electrochemical Society Spring Meeting, Québec, Canada, May 2005.

• “ Mobile voltammetric analysis system for the determination of dissolved copper in surface seawater off the west coast of Ireland”, 11 ^th Biennial Conference of the Challenger Society for Marine Science, University of Liverpool, UK, September 2004.

• “ Chemical separations and mass spectrometry: examples in support of biosensor research”, 3rd biennial Conference on Analytical Science in Ireland, University College Cork, September 2004.

• “ Reagentless Affinity Sensors based on Antibodies or DNA Co-immobilised with Redox Polymers”, 228 ^th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, August 2004.

• “ Electrochemical DNA hybridisation sensor for detection of environmental pathogens”, ESEAC2004, the 10 ^th International Conference on Electroanalysis, NUI, Galway, June  2004.

• “ Mobile Voltammetric Analysis System for the Determination of Dissolved Copper in Surface Seawater off the West Coast of Ireland”, ESEAC2004, the 10 ^th International Conference on Electroanalysis, NUI, Galway, June  2004.

• “ Laccase biosensor for fast monitoring of pollution levels in wastewater and characterization of wastewater by GC-MS”, ESEAC2004, the 10 ^th International Conference on Electroanalysis, NUI, Galway, June  2004. 

• “ Modified Electrodes for Biofuel Cells”, ESEAC2004, the 10 ^th International Conference on Electroanalysis, NUI, Galway, June  2004. 

• “ Environmentally benign bleaching of paper pulps using electron transfer mediators”, ESEAC2004, the 10 ^th International Conference on Electroanalysis, NUI, Galway, June  2004.

• “Shipboard Voltammetric Determination of Dissolved Copper for Tracing Water Movements off the West Coast of Ireland”, Environ2004: 14th Irish Environmental Researchers' Colloquium, University of Limerick, Limerick, January 2004.

    

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