Some of our highest impact works:

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yuuMsJMAAAAJ&hl=en

2025

38.       Boland C.S., Microplastics from Wearable Bioelectronic Devices: Sources, Risks, and Sustainable Solutions. Advanced Functional Materials

37.       Dong M., Cataldi P., Zhang H., Boland C.S., Athanassiou A., Papageorgiou D.G., Edible and Recyclable Gelatin-based Sensors for High-Precision Health and Environmental Monitoring. Advanced Science (Just Accepted)

36.       Boland C.S., The Goldilocks paradox of bioelectronics – misreporting piezoresistive gauge factor is obstructing research advancements. Advanced Materials (Just Accepted)

2024

35.       Boland C.S., et al., Bandgap engineering of 2D materials: towards high-performing straintronics. Nano Letters, 24, 41, 12722–12732

34.       Aljarid A.K.A. and Boland C.S., Transparent, bioelectronic, natural polymer nanocomposites inspired by caviar. Advanced Functional Materials, 2405799

33.       Dong M., Bilotti E.; Zhang H., Boland C.S., et al., High performing piezoresistive MoS2/epoxy strain sensors for structural health monitoring. Polymer, 309, 127449

32.       Slathia S., Wei C., Tripathi M., Tromer R., Negedu S., Boland C.S., et al., Thickness dependent mechanical properties of soft ferromagnetic two-dimensional cobalt telluride (CoTe2). 2D Materials, 11. 035006

31.       Aljarid A.K.A., Wei C., Winder J., Venkatraman A., Tomes O., Soul A., Papageorgiou D.G., and Möbius M.E., Boland C.S., (2024) Hometronics – Accessible production of graphene suspensions for health sensing applications using only household items, npj 2D Materials and Applications, 8, 28

30.       Boland C.S., (2024) Performance analysis of solution-processed nanosheet strain sensors—a systematic review of graphene and MXene wearable devices, Nanotechnology, 35, 202001

2023

29.       Wei C., Roy A., Aljarid, A.A.K., Hu Y., Roe S.M., Papageorgiou D.G., Arenal R. and Boland C.S., (2023) Quasi–1D Nanobelts from the Sustainable Liquid Exfoliation of Terrestrial Minerals for Future Martian-based Electronics. Advanced Functional Materials, 2310600

28.       Wei C., Roy A., Tripathi M., Aljarid, A.A.K., Salvage J.P., Roe S.M., Arenal R. and Boland C.S., (2023) Exotic electronic properties of 2D nanosheets isolated from liquid phase exfoliated phyllosilicate minerals. Advanced Materials, 2303570

27.       Aljarid, A.A.K., Dong M., Hu Y., Wei C., Salvage J.P., Papageorgiou D.G. and Boland C.S., (2023) Smart skins based on assembled piezoresistive networks of sustainable graphene microcapsules for high precision health diagnostics. Advanced Functional Materials, 2303837

26.        Aljarid, A.A.K., Doty K.L., Wei C., Salvage J.P., and Boland C.S., (2023) Food-Inspired, High-Sensitivity Piezoresistive Graphene Hydrogels. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 11 (5), 1820-1827

2022

25.        Innocent M.T., Zhang Z., Cao R.*, Dai H., Zhang Y., Geng Y., Zhang Z., Jia G., Zhai M., Hu Z., Boland C.S.*, Xiang H.*, and Zhu M., (2022) Piezoresistive Fibers with Large Working Factors for Strain Sensing Applications. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15 (1), 2277-2288.

24.        Innocent M.T., Zhang Z., Boland C.S.*, Cao R., Hu Z., Geng Y., Zhai G., Liu F., Dai H., Chen Z., Zhang Z., Xiang H.*, and Zhu M., (2022) Electromechanical Properties and Resistance Signal Fatigue of Piezoresistive Fiber-Based Strain Gauges. ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 4 (11), 8335-8343

2021

23.       Boland C.S., et al., (2021) Highly Sensitive Composite Foam Bodily Sensors Based on the g-Putty Ink Soaking Procedure. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, 50, 60489-60497 

22.       O’Driscoll D.P., McMahon S., Garcia J., Biccai S., Kelly A., Barwich S, Mobius M., Boland C.S., et al., (2020). Printable G-putty for Frequency and Rate Independent, High Performance Strain Sensors. Small, 17, 23, 2006542

2020

21.        Khan U., Biccai S., Boland C.S., et al., (2020) Low Cost, High Performance Ultrafiltration Membranes from Glass Fiber-PTFE-Graphene Composites. Scientific Reports, 10, 1, 1-10

20.       Boland C.S.* (2020) Approaching the Limit of Electromechanical Performance in Mixed-Phase Nanocomposites. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 3, 11, 11240-11246

19.       Boland C.S.(2020) Quantifying the Contributing Factors toward Signal Fatigue in Nanocomposite Strain Sensors, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2, 8, 3474-3480

2019

18.       Boland C.S. (2019) Stumbling through the Research Wilderness, Standard Methods to Shine Light on Electrically Conductive Nanocomposites for Future Healthcare Monitoring ACS Nano, 12, 12, 13627-1363z 

17.       Boland C.S., et al., (2019) Electromechanical Properties of PtSe2 Films Grown on Flexible Substrates, 2D Materials 6, 4, 045029

16.       Park S.H., King P.J., Coelho J., Boland C.S., et al., (2019) High Areal Capacity Batteries Enabled by Segregated Nanotube Networks Nature Energy, 4, 560–567

15.       Biccai, S., Boland C.S., et al., (2019) Negative Gauge Factor Piezoresistive Composites based on Polymers Filled with MoS2 Nanosheets ACS Nano, 13, 6, 6845-6855

 14.        Zhang C.J., Park S.H., Seral-Ascaso A., Barwich S., McEvoy N., Boland C.S., et al., (2019) High Capacity Silicon Anodes Enabled by MXene Viscous Aqueous Ink. Nature Communications,10, 849

2018

13.       Gabbett C., Boland C.S., et al., (2018) The effect of network formation on the mechanical properties of 1D: 2D nano: nano composites. Chemistry of Materials, 30, 15, 5245-5255

12.       O’Driscoll D.P., Vega-Mayoral V., Harley I., Boland C.S., et al., (2018) Optimising composite viscosity leads to high sensitivity electromechanical sensors. 2D Materials, 5, 3, 035042

11.       McAteer D., Godwin I., Ling Z., Harvey A., He L., Boland C.S., et al., (2018) Liquid exfoliated Co(OH)2 nanosheets as low-cost, yet high-performance, catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. Advance Energy Materials, 1702965. 

10.       Boland C.S., et al., (2018) Graphene Composites as Tuneable Impact Sensors. Nanoscale, 10, 5366-5375.     

2017

9.         Zhang C., Park S.H.,  Ronan O.,  Harvey A., Seral‐Ascaso A., Lin Z., McEvoy N., Boland C.S., et al., (2017) Enabling Flexible Heterostructures for Li‐Ion Battery Anodes Based on Nanotube and Liquid‐Phase Exfoliated 2D Gallium Chalcogenide Nanosheet Colloidal Solutions Small, 13, 34, 1701677

8.         Backes C., Higgins T.M., Kelly A., Boland C.S. et al., (2017) Guidelines for exfoliation, characterization and processing of layered materials produced by liquid exfoliation Chemistry of Materials, 29, 1, 243-255 

7.         Boland C.S., et al., (2017) Surface coatings of silver nanowires lead to effective, highly conductive, high-strain, ultra-thin sensors. Nanoscale, 9, 18507-18515.  

2016

6.          Boland, C.S., et al., (2016) Sensitive Electromechanical Sensors using Viscoelastic Graphene-Polymer Nanocomposites. Science, 354, 6317, 1257-1260

5.         Boland, C.S., et al., (2016) High stiffness nano-composite fibres from polyvinylalcohol filled with graphene and boron nitride. Carbon 99, 280-288

2015

4.         Hanlon, D., Backes, C., Doherty, E., Cucinotta, C. S., Berner, N. C., Boland, C.S., et al., (2015). Liquid exfoliation of solvent-stabilised black phosphorus: applications beyond electronics. Nature Communications, 6, 8563-8563

2014

3.         Boland, C.S., et al., (2014). Sensitive, High-Strain, High-Rate Bodily Motion Sensors Based on Graphene–Rubber Composites. ACS Nano+, 8 (9), 8819-8830. 

+Editors’ Choice Award

2.         Paton, K. R., Varrla, E., Backes, C., Smith, R. J., Khan, U., O’Neill, A., Boland, C.S., et al., (2014). Scalable production of large quantities of defect-free few-layer graphene by shear exfoliation in liquids. Nature Materials, 13(6), 624-630

2011

1.         De S., Boland, C.S., et al., (2011) Transparent conducting films from NbSe3 nanowires Nanotechnology, 22, 28, 285202