External Activities
External Lectures / Papers / Presentation

• "Surface Alloys:Structural and Chemical Properties." AlShamaileh, E. and Barnes, C.J.. Oral presentation at the 53rd Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium, University College Dublin, Ireland, 20-22 June 2001.
• "Coverage Dependent Structure and Reactivity of Cu{100}-c(2x2)-Pt Surface Alloys." Pussi. K, Lindroos, M., AlShamaileh E. and C.J.Barnes, C.J. Poster presentation at Twentieth European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-20), Kracow, Poland, 4-7 September 2001.
• "Structural Analysis of Cu{100}-Palladium Monolayer Surface Alloys." Pussi, K., Lindroos, M., AlShamaileh, E. and Barnes, C.J. Poster presentation at VII'th European Conference on Surface Crystallography and Dynamics (ECSCD-7), Leiden, The Netherlands, 26-29 August 2001.
• "Structural Transitions in the Cu{100}/In Bimetallic System." Poster presentation at the Twentieth European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-20), Kracow, Poland, 4-7 September 2001.
• "Probing Kinetics of Adsorption: Solution Phase Self-Assembly of Molecular Monolayers." Oral presentation. Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 16 July 2001.

• "Calixarenes - Molecular Tools for for Molecular Tasks." Invited lecture presented at the international symposium, Frontiers in Chemical Sensors, Georgia Institute of Technology, 10 November 2000.
• "Flann O'Brien - The Father of Microdimensioned Analytical Instruments?" Invited lecture presented at the Cork Institute of Technology Annual Open Lecture Series, 21 March 2001.
• "Ubiquitous Sensing - Beyond Bluetooth." Invited lecture presented to the staff, postgraduates and final year students, Department of Electronic Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology, 22 March 2001.
• "Is Research the Secret of Future Wealth?" Invited lecture presented at the Irish Patient's Platform Organisation joint meeting with Biotech Section of IBEC, IBEC House, 27 February 2001.
• "Measuring Biochemical Parameters On-Line: Key Challenges and Future Potential." Invited lecture, DARPA-ORRIFO meeting: 'Electroactive Polymers and Biosystems: New Directions in Electroactive Polymer Materials for Biomemetic and Biointereactive Processes', Pisa, Italy, August 2001.
• "Autonomous Environmental Sensing Devices - Is there a Role for ISEs in the Revolution?" Invited lecture presented at 5th Euroconference on Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Blarney, Co. Cork, 8-12 September 2001.
• "On-Line Analysis of River Water Samples using a Prototype Industrial Sensing System based on MicroSystem Technology." Bowden, B., Sequeira, M., Diamond, D., Graveson, P. and Krog, J-P. Poster paper presented at presented at 5th Euroconference on Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Blarney, Co. Cork, 8-12 September 2001.

• "Electrochemical vs. Photochemical Induced Electron Transfer." Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry, Ventura, California, 14-19 January 2001.

• "Semi-flexible N-ferrocenylbenzoyl amino acid esters." Poster presented at the 20th European Crystallographic meeting in Krakow, Poland, 25 - 31 2001.

• "Ultra-fast separation of UV absorbing anions using ion-interaction chromatography." Connolly, D. and Paull, B. Poster presentation 45, Environ2001, DCU, 26-27 January 2001.
• "Sensitive and selective ion chromatographic method for the determination of trace beryllium in water samples." Bashir, W. and Paull, B. Poster presentation 42, Environ2001, DCU, 26-27 January 2001.
• "Monitoring of fast inorganic anions in water samples using CE; Effects of buffering the electrolyte upon indirect detection." King, M. and Paull, B. Poster presentation 46, Environ2001, DCU, 26-27 January 2001.
• "Fast chromatographic separation of nitrate and nitrite in water samples." Connolly, D. and Paull, B. Oral presentation, Environ2001, DCU, 26-27 January 2001.
• "Understanding the role of the background electrolyte in the indirect detection of inorganic anions using capillary zone electrophoresis." King, M. and Paull, B. Poster presentation 16, 53rd Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquim, UCD, 20-22 June 2001.
• "Monitoring of Anions in Water Samples Using Electrostatic Ion Chromatography: Effects of Offline Cation Exchange on the Separation of Inorganic Anions." Twohill, E. and Paull, B. Poster presentation 44, Research and Development Topics, University of East Anglia, 16-18 July 2001.
• "High-sample throughput online analysis of a flowing tap-water stream by ion-pair chromatography." Connolly, D. and Paull, B. Poster presentation 43, Research and Development Topics, University of East Anglia, 16-18 July 2001.
• "Detection linearity and effective pathlength in on-capillary photometric detection: evaluation of five commercial detectors." Johns C., Macka M., King M., Paull B., and Haddad P.R. Poster presentation 424, 25th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations & Related Techniques, Maastricht, Holland, 14-22 June 2001.
• "Ionic strength, pH and temperature effects upon selectivity for transition and heavy metal ions when using chelation ion chromatography with an iminodiacetic acid modified silica gel column and non-complexing inorganic eluents." Bashir, W. and Paull, B. Poster presentation 74, International Ion Chromatography Symposium, Oak Brook, Chicago, 9-12 September 2001.
• "Determination of anions in water samples using dynamically coated electrostatic ion chromatography: Effects of offline cation exchange and recycling of the zwitterionic eluent on the separation of inorganic anions." Twohill, A. and Paull, B. Poster presentation 87, International Ion Chromatography Symposium, Oak Brook, Chicago, 9-12 September 2001.
• "Fast ion chromatographic separation of common inorganic anions using a 3 cm ODS column permanently coated with didodecyldimethylammonium bromide." Connolly, D. and Paull, B. Oral presentation 12, International Ion Chromatography Symposium, Oak Brook, Chicago, 9-12 September 2001.

• "On-column Sample Concentration for the Analysis of Metabolic Mixtures." Ward, E., Lunte, C.E., O'Kennedy, R. and Smyth, M.R., at "Analytical Research Forum", Norwich, July 2001.
• "A Combined XPS and Electrochemical Study of Polycrystalline Copper Surfaces Modified with Alkane Thiols as Molecular Connectors." Stewart, C., Smyth, M.R. and Hughes, G., at "Analytical research Forum", Norwich, July 2001.
• "Development of a One-step Electrochemical Immunosensor for Real-time Environmental Analysis." Grennan, K., Killard, A.J., Strachan, G., Porter, A.J. and Smyth, M.R., at "Analytical Research Forum", Norwich, July 2001, and at 5th Euroconference on Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Blarney, September 2001.
• "Immunoelectrochemical Methods of Hormone Analysis." Morrin, A., Smyth, M.R. and Killard, A.J., at "Analytical Research Forum", Norwich, July 2001.

• "Photophysical properties of TiO2 Surfaces Modified with Dinuclear Polypyridyl Complexes." Lees, A.C., Kleverlaan, C.J., Bignozzi C.A. and Vos, J.G. 14th Int. ISPPCC meeting, Veszprem, Hungary, book of abstracts, p52, 7-12 July 2001.
• Photophysical Properties of Novel Rhodium(III) Polypyridyl Complexes. Burke, H. Vos, J.G., Gallagher, J., Scandola, F., Indelli, M.T. The 6th International Conference on Solar Energy and Applied Photochemistry [Solar '01] and the 3rd International Workshop on Environmental Photochemistry [ENPHO '01], Cairo, Egypt, 3- 8 April 2001.
• Synthesis and Photophysical Characterisation of a New Type of [Ru(bpy)2(LL)]2+ Complex. Guckian, A.L., Döring, M. and Vos, J.G.The 6th International Conference on Solar Energy and Applied Photochemistry [Solar '01] and the 3rd International Workshop on Environmental Photochemistry [ENPHO '01], Cairo, Egypt, 3-8 April 2001.
• A Series of Novel Ruthenium Complexes Incorporating Triazolate Ligands. Killeen, S., Fanni, S., Duati, M., Sun, L., Akermark, B., Hammarstrom, L. and Vos, J.G. The 6th International Conference on Solar Energy and Applied Photochemistry [Solar '01] and the 3rd International Workshop on Environmental Photochemistry [ENPHO '01], Cairo, Egypt, 3-8 April 2001.
• Selective Partial Deuteriation of Assymetric Diimine ligands and Their Application in Probing Electronic Excited State Structure. Browne, W. and Vos, J.G. 14th Int. ISPPCC meeting, Veszprem, Hungary, book of abstracts, p3, 7-12 July 2001.