Aaron completed his PhD in 2022.

Biography

Aaron began his studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2012 attaining his Master’s degree in 2017, graduating with a 2.1. During his undergraduate studies, he spent one year at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore working on the synthesis of gold nanostars for SERS contrast agents.

Research Interests

Aaron’s PhD involved investigating the structure-property relationships of magnetic nanostructures as negative contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging.

Publications

A. M. King, T. Insinna, C. Wells, I. Raby, Y. K. Gun’ko, G.-L. Davies,* “Magnetically driven preparation of 1-D nano-necklaces with strong MRI relaxation enhancement”, Nanoscale Advances, 2023, 5, 3209-3213. DOI

C.L.G. Harman, N. Mac Fhionnlaoich, A.M. King, C.J.R. Wells, J.R.H. Manning, P. Scholes, S. Guldin,* G.-L. Davies,* “Controlling the growth of SPION@SiO2 nanoparticles using design of experiments”, Materials Advances, 2022, 3, 6007-6018. DOI: 10.1039/D2MA00369D

C.J. Dedman, A.M. King, J. Christie-Oleza, G.-L. Davies*, “Environmentally relevant concentrations of titanium dioxide nanoparticles pose negligible risk to marine microbes”, Environmental Science – Nano, 2021, 8, 1236-1255. DOI. Cover art

Z. Zhang, C.J.R. Wells, A.M. King, J.C. Bear, G.-L. Davies*, G.R. Williams*, “pH-responsive nanocomposite fibres allowing MRI monitoring of drug release”, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2020, 8, 7264-7274. DOI

A.M. King, C. Bray, L. Bogart, S. Hall, J.C. Bear, S. Perrier, G.-L. Davies*, “Exploring precision polymers to fine-tune Magnetic Resonance Imaging properties of iron oxide nanoparticles”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science”, 2020, 579, 401-411. DOI

Funding

Aaron’s PhD was sponsored by the EPSRC.