Dr Conor S Boland received his PhD degree from the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 2016. That same year he joined the Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research (AMBER) Centre at TCD as a commercialisation research fellow. In 2019, he joined the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Materials Physics. In 2025, he joined DCU as an Assistant Professor in Materials Science in the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering.
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yuuMsJMAAAAJ&hl=en
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | (2025) 'The Goldilocks Paradox of Bioelectronics: Misreporting Piezoresistive Gauge Factor Is Obstructing Research Advancements'. Advanced Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Adel K. A. Aljarid; Conor S. Boland (2024) 'Transparent, Bioelectronic, Natural Polymer AgNW Nanocomposites Inspired by Caviar'. Advanced Functional Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Adel K. A. Aljarid; Jasper Winder; Cencen Wei; Arvind Venkatraman; Oliver Tomes; Aaron Soul; Dimitrios G. Papageorgiou; Matthias Möbius; Conor S. Boland (2024) 'Hometronics – accessible production of graphene suspensions for health sensing applications using only household items'. npj 2D Materials and Applications, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Conor S. Boland; Yiwei Sun; Dimitrios G. Papageorgiou (2024) 'Bandgap Engineering of 2D Materials toward High-Performing Straintronics'. Nano Letters, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Cencen Wei; Abhijit Roy; Adel K. A. Aljarid; Yi Hu; S. Mark Roe; Dimitrios G. Papageorgiou; Raul Arenal; Conor S. Boland (2024) 'Quasi–1D Anhydrite Nanobelts from the Sustainable Liquid Exfoliation of Terrestrial Gypsum for Future Martian‐Based Electronics'. Advanced Functional Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Conor S Boland (2024) 'Performance analysis of solution-processed nanosheet strain sensors—a systematic review of graphene and MXene wearable devices'. Nanotechnology, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Ming Dong; Emiliano Bilotti; Han Zhang; Conor S. Boland; Dimitrios G. Papageorgiou (2024) 'High performing piezoresistive MoS2/epoxy strain sensors for structural health monitoring'. Polymer, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Surbhi Slathia; Cencen Wei; Manoj Tripathi; Raphael Tromer; Solomon Demiss Negedu; Conor S Boland; Suman Sarkar; Douglas S Galvao; Alan Dalton; Chandra Sekhar Tiwary (2024) 'Thickness dependent tribological and magnetic behavior of two-dimensional cobalt telluride (CoTe2)'. 2d Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Adel K. A. Aljarid; Ming Dong; Yi Hu; Cencen Wei; Jonathan P. Salvage; Dimitrios G. Papageorgiou; Conor S. Boland (2023) 'Smart Skins Based on Assembled Piezoresistive Networks of Sustainable Graphene Microcapsules for High Precision Health Diagnostics'. Advanced Functional Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Cencen Wei; Abhijit Roy; Manoj Tripathi; Adel K.A. Aljarid; Jonathan P. Salvage; S. Mark Roe; Raul Arenal; Conor S. Boland (2023) 'Exotic Electronic Properties of 2D Nanosheets Isolated from Liquid Phase Exfoliated Phyllosilicate Minerals'. Advanced Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Adel A. K. Aljarid; Kevin L. Doty; Cencen Wei; Jonathan P. Salvage; Conor S. Boland (2023) 'Food-Inspired, High-Sensitivity Piezoresistive Graphene Hydrogels'. ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Mugaanire Tendo Innocent; Ziling Zhang; Conor S. Boland; Ran Cao; Zexu Hu; Yaqi Geng; Gongxun Zhai; Fuyao Liu; Hongmei Dai; Ziye Chen; Zhihao Zhang; Hengxue Xiang; Meifang Zhu (2022) 'Electromechanical Properties and Resistance Signal Fatigue of Piezoresistive Fiber-Based Strain Gauges'. Acs Applied Polymer Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Conor S. Boland (2020) 'Approaching the Limit of Electromechanical Performance in Mixed-Phase Nanocomposites'. Acs Applied Nano Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Conor S. Boland (2020) 'Quantifying the Contributing Factors toward Signal Fatigue in Nanocomposite Strain Sensors'. Acs Applied Polymer Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Park, S.-H.; King, P.J.; Tian, R.; Boland, C.S.; Coelho, J.; Zhang, C.J.; McBean, P.; McEvoy, N.; Kremer, M.P.; Daly, D.; Coleman, J.N.; Nicolosi, V. (2019) 'High areal capacity battery electrodes enabled by segregated nanotube networks'. Nature Energy, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Conor S. Boland (2019) 'Stumbling through the Research Wilderness, Standard Methods To Shine Light on Electrically Conductive Nanocomposites for Future Healthcare Monitoring'. ACS Nano, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Zhang, C.J.; Park, S.-H.; Seral‐Ascaso, A.; Barwich, S.; McEvoy, N.; Boland, C.S.; Coleman, J.N.; Gogotsi, Y.; Nicolosi, V. (2019) 'High capacity silicon anodes enabled by MXene viscous aqueous ink'. Nature Communications, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Biccai, S.; Boland, C.S.; Odriscoll, D.P.; Harvey, A.; Gabbett, C.; Osuilleabhain, D.R.; Griffin, A.J.; Li, Z.; Young, R.J.; Coleman, J.N. (2019) 'Negative Gauge Factor Piezoresistive Composites Based on Polymers Filled with MoS2 Nanosheets'. ACS Nano, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Boland, C.S.; Coileáin, C.O.; Wagner, S.; McManus, J.B.; Cullen, C.P.; Lemme, M.C.; Duesberg, G.S.; McEvoy, N. (2019) 'PtSe2 grown directly on polymer foil for use as a robust piezoresistive sensor'. 2d Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Boland, C.S.; Khan, U.; Binions, M.; Barwich, S.; Boland, J.B.; Weaire, D.; Coleman, J.N. (2018) 'Graphene-coated polymer foams as tuneable impact sensors'. Nanoscale, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | O'Driscoll, D.P.; Vega-Mayoral, V.; Harley, I.; Boland, C.S.; Coleman, J.N. (2018) 'Optimising composite viscosity leads to high sensitivity electromechancial sensors'. 2d Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Gabbett, C.; Boland, C.S.; Harvey, A.; Vega-Mayoral, V.; Young, R.J.; Coleman, J.N. (2018) 'The Effect of Network Formation on the Mechanical Properties of 1D:2D Nano:Nano Composites'. Chemistry of Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | McAteer, D.; Godwin, I.J.; Ling, Z.; Harvey, A.; He, L.; Boland, C.S.; Vega-Mayoral, V.; Szydłowska, B.; Rovetta, A.A.; Backes, C.; Boland, J.B.; Chen, X.; Lyons, M.E.G.; Coleman, J.N. (2018) 'Liquid Exfoliated Co(OH)2 Nanosheets as Low-Cost, Yet High-Performance, Catalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction'. Advanced Energy Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Zhang, C.J.; Park, S.-H.; Ronan, O.; Harvey, A.; Seral-Ascaso, A.; Lin, Z.; McEvoy, N.; Boland, C.S.; Berner, N.C.; Duesberg, G.S.; Rozier, P.; Coleman, J.N.; Nicolosi, V. (2017) 'Enabling Flexible Heterostructures for Li-Ion Battery Anodes Based on Nanotube and Liquid-Phase Exfoliated 2D Gallium Chalcogenide Nanosheet Colloidal Solutions'. Small, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Boland, C.S.; Khan, U.; Benameur, H.; Coleman, J.N. (2017) 'Surface coatings of silver nanowires lead to effective, high conductivity, high-strain, ultrathin sensors'. Nanoscale, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Backes, C.; Higgins, T.M.; Kelly, A.; Boland, C.; Harvey, A.; Hanlon, D.; Coleman, J.N. (2017) 'Guidelines for exfoliation, characterization and processing of layered materials produced by liquid exfoliation'. Chemistry of Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Boland, C.S.; Khan, U.; Ryan, G.; Barwich, S.; Charifou, R.; Harvey, A.; Backes, C.; Li, Z.; Ferreira, M.S.; Möbius, M.E.; Young, R.J.; Coleman, J.N. (2016) 'Sensitive electromechanical sensors using viscoelastic graphene-polymer nanocomposites'. Science, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Boland, C.S.; Barwich, S.; Khan, U.; Coleman, J.N. (2016) 'High stiffness nano-composite fibres from polyvinylalcohol filled with graphene and boron nitride'. Carbon, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Hanlon, D.; Backes, C.; Doherty, E.; Cucinotta, C.S.; Berner, N.C.; Boland, C.; Lee, K.; Harvey, A.; Lynch, P.; Gholamvand, Z.; Zhang, S.; Wang, K.; Moynihan, G.; Pokle, A.; Ramasse, Q.M.; McEvoy, N.; Blau, W.J.; Wang, J.; Abellan, G.; Hauke, F.; Hirsch, A.; Sanvito, S.; O'Regan, D.D.; Duesberg, G.S.; Nicolosi, V.; Coleman, J.N. (2015) 'Liquid exfoliation of solvent-stabilized few-layer black phosphorus for applications beyond electronics'. Nature Communications, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Paton, K.R.; Varrla, E.; Backes, C.; Smith, R.J.; Khan, U.; O'Neill, A.; Boland, C.; Lotya, M.; Istrate, O.M.; King, P.; Higgins, T.; Barwich, S.; May, P.; Puczkarski, P.; Ahmed, I.; Moebius, M.; Pettersson, H.; Long, E.; Coelho, J.; O'Brien, S.E.; McGuire, E.K.; Sanchez, B.M.; Duesberg, G.S.; McEvoy, N.; Pennycook, T.J.; Downing, C.; Crossley, A.; Nicolosi, V.; Coleman, J.N. (2014) 'Scalable production of large quantities of defect-free few-layer graphene by shear exfoliation in liquids'. Nature Materials, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Boland, C.S.; Khan, U.; Backes, C.; O'Neill, A.; McCauley, J.; Duane, S.; Shanker, R.; Liu, Y.; Jurewicz, I.; Dalton, A.B.; Coleman, J.N. (2014) 'Sensitive, high-strain, high-rate bodily motion sensors based on graphene-rubber composites'. ACS Nano, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2011 | De, S.; Boland, C.S.; King, P.J.; Sorel, S.; Lotya, M.; Patel, U.; Xiao, Z.L.; Coleman, J.N. (2011) 'Transparent conducting films from NbSe3 nanowires'. Nanotechnology, . [Link] [DOI] |
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Research Interests
Dr Boland's research focuses on material discovery and applying nanomaterials in novel nanocomposites for electromechanical and energy applications.