Publications

Heteroepitaxial orientation control of YSZ thin films by selective growth on SrO-, TiO2-terminated SrTiO3 crystal.
A. Cavallaro, B. Ballesteros, R. Bachelet and J. Santiso.
CrystEngComm, 13, 1625–1631 (2011)

One-dimensional composites based on single walled carbon nanotubes and poly(o-phenylenediamine)
M. Baibarac, I. Baltog, M. Scocioreanu, B. Ballesteros, J. Y. Mevellec and S. Lefrant
Synthetic Metals, 161 (21-22), 2344-2354 (2011)

Orbital moment anisotropy of Pt/Co/AlO(x) heterostructures with strong Rashba interaction
C. Nistor, T. Balashov, J. J. Kavich, A. Lodi Rizzini, B. Ballesteros, G. Gaudin, S. Auffret, B. Rodmacq, S. S. Dhesi and P. Gambardella
Physical Review B, 84 (5), 054464 (2011)

Sidewall functionalisation of carbon nanotubes with diaryl carbene derivatives
P. Luksirikul, B. Ballesteros, G. Tobias, M. G. Moloney and M. L. H. Green.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21, 19080-19085 (2011)

Synthesis and laser immobilisation onto solid substrates of CdSe/ZnS core-shell quantum dots
E. György, A. Pérez del Pino, J. Roqueta, B. Ballesteros, A. S. Miguel, C. Maycock, A. G. Oliva
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 (31), 15210–15216 (2011)

Synthesis and stabilization of subnanometric gold oxide nanoparticles on multiwalled nanotubes and their catalytic activity
L. Alves, B. Ballesteros, M. Boronat, J. R. Cabrero-Antonino, P. Concepción, A. Corma, M. A. Correa-Duarte and E. Mendoza
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 (26) , 10251–10261 (2011)

Synthesis conditions, light intensity and temperature effect on the performance of ZnO nanorods-based Dye sensitized solar cells.
I. González-Valls, Y. Yu, B. Ballesteros, J. Oró and M. Lira-Cantú
J. Power Sources , 196 (15) , 6609-6621 (2011)

Zinc oxide/carboxylic acid lamellar structures
M. Segovia, K. Lemus, M. Moreno, M. A. Santa Ana, G. Gonzalez, B. Ballesteros, C. Sotomayor, and E. Benavente
Materials Research Bulletin, 46 (11), 2191-2195 (2011)

Carbon nanocapsules: blocking materials inside carbon nanotubes
G. Tobias, B. Ballesteros and M. L. H. Green
Physica Status Solidi C-Basic Solid State Physics, 7 (11-12) , 2739-2742 (2010)

Filled and glycosylated carbon nanotubes in vivo radioemitter localisation and imaging
S. Y. Hong, G. Tobias, K. T. Al-Jamal, B. Ballesteros, H. Ali-Boucetta, S. Lozano-Perez, P. D. Nellist, R. B. Sim, C. Finucane, S. J. Mather, M. L. H. Green, K. Kostarelos and B. G. Davis.
Nature Materials, 9, 485–490 (2010)

pH-triggered release of materials from carbon nanotubes using functionalized fullerenes as removable "corks".
P. Luksirikul, B. Ballesteros, G. Tobias, M. G. Moloney and M. L. H. Green
Carbon, 48, 1912-1917 (2010)

Aligned Semiconductor Oxide Nanostructures for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
I. González-Valls, L. González-García, B. Ballesteros, F. Güell, A. Barranco, Y. Youhai, A. González-Elipe and M. Lira-Cantu
ICMAT2011, Singapore, Singapore
Talk (2011)

Development of Carbon Nanocapsules for Therapy and Ultrasensitive Imaging
G. Tobias, L. Shao, B. Ballesteros, P. Luksirikul, M.L.H. Green, M.G. Moloney, S.Y. Hong, B.G. Davis, K.T. Al-Jamal and K. Kostarelos
NT11 International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Talk (2011)

Effect of the SrO/TiO2 chemical termination of SrTiO3 (100) substrates on the heteroepitaxial growth of yttrium-stabilised ZrO2 thin films
A. Cavallaro, B. Ballesteros, R. Bachelet and J. Santiso
EMRS Spring Meeting, Nice, France
Talk (2011)

Electron microscopy characterisation of functional carbon nanotubes for biomedical applications
B. Ballesteros, G. Tobias and M. L. H. Green
Microscopy at the Frontiers of Science, Aveiro, Portugal
Talk (2011)

Exploring the use of filled carbon nanotubes for biomedical applications
G. Tobias, B. Ballesteros and M. L. H. Green
IMAGINENANO 2011, Bilbao, Spain
Talk (2011)

Immobilisation on solid substrates of CdSe/ZnS core-shell quantum dots by matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation
E. György, A. Pérez del Pino, J. Roqueta, B. Ballesteros, A.S. Miguel, C. Maycock and A. G. Oliva
EMRS Spring Meeting, Nice, France
Talk (2011)

Structural and magnetic properties of planar nanowire arrays of Co grown on oxidized vicinal silicon (111) templates
S.K. Arora, B.J. O’Dowd, C. Nistor, T. Balashov, B. Ballesteros, A.L. Rizzini, J.J. Kavich, S.S. Dhesi, P. Gambardella and I.V. Shvets.
56th Annual MMM Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Poster (2011)

Functionalisation of carbon nanotubes
G. Tobias, E. Mendoza, B. Ballesteros
Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology, Ed. Springer (2012)