Prof. Dr. Nicolas Voelcker

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsBiomaterials,Physical Chemistry at Surfaces
Keywordsporous silicone, nanomedicine, biosensors, silicon nanowires, porous silicon
Honours and awards

2021: Humboldt Research Award

2019: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering

Current contact address

CountryAustralia
CityParkville, Victoria
InstitutionMonash University
InstituteMonash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Eduard ArztLeibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gGmbH (INM), Saarbrücken
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2013

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers
2021Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Voelcker is a leading international researcher in bio-nanotechnology. He has made significant contributions to the application of silicon-based nanostructured materials in medical technologies, including diagnostics, therapeutics and regenerative medicine. His key discoveries relate to the use of porous silicon as a nanomaterial for optical and electrochemical biosensing, as a material for targeted drug delivery, and for the precision control of stem cell behavior. During his stay in Germany, he will harness the power of advanced microscopy tools to explore the silicon nanomaterial interface with cells and tissues.

Publications (partial selection)

2016Brodoceanu, Daniel; Alhmoud, Hashim; Elnathan, Roey; Delalat, Bahman; Voelcker, Nicolas Hans ; Kraus, Tobias Fabrication of silicon nanowire arrays by near-field laser ablation and metal-assisted chemical etching. In: Nanotechnology, 2016, 075301
2016Marcel Rey, Roey Elnathan, Ran Ditcovski, Karen Geisel, Michele Zanini, Miguel-Angel Fernandez-Rodriguez, Vikrant V. Naik, Andreas Frutiger, Walter Richtering, Tal Ellenbogen, Nicolas. H. Voelcker, Lucio Isa: Fully Tunable Silicon Nanowire Arrays by Soft Nanoparticle Templating. In: Nano Letters, 2016, 157-163
2016A. Ivask, E. Lombi, N.H. Voelcker: Quantitative multimodal analyses of silver nanoparticle-cell interactions: implications for cytotoxicity. In: NanoImpact, 2016, 29-38
2015M. H. Kafshgari, F.J. Harding, N.H. Voelcker, Applications of zero-valent silicon nanostructures in biomedicine. In: Nanomedicine, 2015, 2553-2571
2015Roey Elnathan Bahman Delalat Daniel Brodoceanu Hashim Alhmoud , Frances J. Harding Katrin Buehler Adrienne Nelson Lucio Isa Tobias Kraus , Nicolas H. Voelcker Maximizing Transfection Efficiency of Vertically Aligned Silicon Nanowire Arrays. In: Advanced Functional Materials, 2015, 7215-7225
2015R. Vasani, N. Janardanan, B. Prieto-Simón, A. Cifuentes-Rius, S. Bradley, E. Moore, T. Kraus, N.H. Voelcker: Microwave Heating of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles for Temperature-Controlled Display of Concanavalin A. In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015, 27755-27764
2015Soundarrajan Chandrasekaran, Thomas Nann, Nicolas H. Voelcker: Nanostructured silicon photoelectrodes for solar water electrolysis. In: Nano Energy, 2015, 308-322
2015R. Elnathan, L. Isa, Lucio, D. Brodoceanu, A. Nelson, F. Harding, B. Delalat, T. Kraus, N.H. Voelcker: Versatile Particle-Based Route to Engineer Vertically Aligned Silicon Nanowire Arrays and Nanoscale Pores. In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015, 23717-23724
2014Roey Elnathan, Moria Kwiat, Fernando Patolsky, Nicolas H. Voelcker: Engineering vertically aligned semiconductor nanowire arrays for applications in the life sciences. In: Nano Today, 2014, 172-196
2014Hashim Z. Alhmoud, Taryn M. Guinan, Roey Elnathan, Hilton Kobus, Nicolas H. Voelcker: Surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry using ordered silicon nano pillar arrays. In: Analyst, 2014, 5999-6009