Downard's Representative Publications

Microcontact Printing Using the Spontaneous Reduction of Aryldiazonium Salts; David J. Garrett, Josh Lehr, Gordon M. Miskelly, Alison J. Downard; J Am. Chem. Soc; 2007; 129(50); 15456-15457

 

Microscale Patterning of Organic Thin Films on Carbon Surfaces Using Electrochemistry and Soft Lithography, Alison J. Downard, David J. Garrett, Emelyn S. Q. Tan, Langmuir, 2006, (22), 10739 - 10746.

 

Cruickshank, A. C.; Tan, E. S. Q.; Brooksby, P. A.; Downard, A. J., Are redox probes a useful indicator of film stability? An electrochemical, AFM and XPS study of electrografted amine films on carbon. Electrochem. Commun. 2007, 9, (7), 1456-1462.

Controlled assembly of gold nanoparticles on carbon surfaces
Alison J. Downard, Emelyn S. Q. Tan and Samuel S. C. Yu,  New J. Chem., 2006
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/NJ/article.asp?doi=b605219c

Alison Downard, Samuel Yu, Paula Brooksby., Effect of Applied Potential on Arylmethyl Films oxidatively grafted to Carbon Surfaces., 2005, Langmuir, Web Link:

http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/la051964c 

Nanoscale Patterning of Flat Carbon Surfaces by Scanning Probe Lithography and Electrochemistry, Paula A. Brooksby and Alison J. Downard, Langmuir, Vol 21, Iss 5, 1672 - 1675 (2005)

Brooksby, P.A. & Downard, A.J. Electrochemical and Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Carbon Surface Modification via Diazonium Reduction in Aqueous and Acetonitrile Solutions. Langmuir , 2004, 20 : 5038-5045.

Plieger, P.G., Downard, A.J., Moubaraki, B., Murray, K.C. & Brooker, S. Dimetallic complexes of acyclic pyridine-armed ligands derived from 3,6-diformylpyridazine . J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. , 2004, 2157-2165.

Harding, C., Coyle, J., Downard, A.J., Herbst-Irmer, R., McKee, V. & Nelson J. Electrochemistry of a labile average-valence dicopper system. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. , 2004, 2357-2363.

Downard, A.J., Goodwin, N.J. & Henderson, W. Electrochemistry of ferrocenylphosphines FcCH 2 PR 2 (Fc = (? 5 -C 5 H 5 )Fe(? 5 -C 5 H 4 ); R = Ph, CH 2 OH and CH 2 CH 2 CN), and some phosphine oxide, phosphine sulfide, phosphonium and metal complex derivatives. J. Organomet. Chem., 2003, 676: 62 - 72.

Downard, A.J., Panther, J., Kim, Y.-C. & Powell, K.J. Lability of metal ion-fulvic acid complexes as probed by FIA and DGT: a comparative study. Anal. Chim. Acta. , 2003, 499: 17-28.

Baronian, K.H.R., Downard, A.J., Lowen, R.K. & Pasco, N . Detection of two distinct substrate-dependent catabolic responses in yeast cells using a mediated electrochemical method. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol, 2002, 60: 108-113.

Downard, A.J. & Prince, M.J. Barrier properties of organic monolayers on glassy carbon electrodes. Langmuir, 2001, 17: 5581-5586.

Downard, A.J. Review: Electrochemically-assisted covalent modification of carbon electrodes. Electroanalysis, 2000, 12: 1085-1096.

Downard, A.J. Potential-dependence of self-limited films formed by reduction of aryldiazonium salts at glassy carbon electrodes. Langmuir, 2000, 16: 9680-9682.

Downard, A.J. & Mohamed, A. Suppression of protein adsorption at glassy carbon electrodes covalently modified with tetraethylene glycol diamine. Electroanalysis, 1999, 6: 418-423.

Downard, A.J. & Roddick, A.D. Controlling the selectivity of glassy carbon flow detectors using covalently attached monolayers. Electroanalysis, 1997, 9: 693-698.

Akhtar, P., Downard, A.J., O'Sullivan, B. & Powell, K.J. A portable fractionation device and screen-printed electrode for measurement of reactive aluminium in environmental samples. Anal. Chim. Acta, 1999, 381: 49-60.

Downard, A.J., Powell, K.J. & Money, S.D. Speciation of aluminium (Al3+) by flow injection amperometry via the 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone-3-sulfonic acid complex. Anal. Chim. Acta, 1997, 349: 111-120.

Downard, A.J., Bond, A.M., Clayton, A.J., Hanton, L.R. & McMorran, D.A. Cyclic voltammetry of Pd(II) complexes with tridentate arsine ligands. Separation of the two single-electron transfer steps of the Pd(II)↔Pd(0) interconversion based on thermodynamic and kinetic discrimination. Inorg. Chem., 1996, 35: 7684-7690