Dr Ana Neves

Senior Lecturer in Materials Engineering

A.Neves@exeter.ac.uk

(Streatham) 4667

01392 724667

Overview

Background

I have a background in Chemistry, with a PhD awarded in 2013 by Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, for work in the Solid State Group. Pursuing the path of applications, I then moved to the Organic Electronics group at INESC – Microsystems and Nanotechnology in Lisbon in as a postdoctoral researcher.

Previously a Visiting Researcher at Exeter, I joined the Engineering Department in 2014 as an Associate Research Fellow working on graphene for flexible and wearable applications. I became a Lecturer in October 2016 after securing a prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship.

Employment History

Senior Lecturer in Materials Engineering (since 2016), Engineering Department, University of Exeter.
Associate Reseach Fellow (2014-2016), Engineering Department, University of Exeter (Prof Monica Craciun).
Postdoctoral Researcher (2013-2014), INESC-Microsystems and Nanotechnologies, Lisbon, Portugal (Dr Helena Alves).
Visiting Researcher (2013&2014), Centre for Graphene Science, University of Exeter (Prof Monica Craciun).
PhD Researcher (2009-2013), Solid State Group, Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear, Sacavém (Dr Dulce Belo).
Research Associate (2008-2009), Solid State Group, Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear, Sacavém (Prof Manuel Almeida).
Research Technician (2007), Solid State Group, Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear, Sacavém, Portugal.

Academic Qualifications

PhD in Chemistry (2009-2013), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Thesis: "New bisdithiolene complexes based on thiophenic ligands for conducting and magnetic materials". Supervisors: Dr Dulce Belo (Solid State Group, Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear, Sacavém, Portugal) and Prof Rui T. Henriques (Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal).
MSc in Chemistry (2006-2008), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Dissertation: "Coordination of Fe(III) bisdithiolenes: preparation and characterisation of Fe(qdt)2 (qdt = quinoxaline-2,3-dithiolate)". Supervisors: Prof Manuel Almeida (Solid State Group, Instituto Tecnologico e Nuclear, Sacavém, Portugal) and Prof Jorge Morgado (Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal).
BSc in Chemistry (2001-2006), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Other Roles

Director of Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility

As part of the Engineering Leadership Team, and under the direction of the Head of Department, this role aims at taking forward initiatives, themes and issues relating to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility. As such, I chair the Engineering Wellbeing, Inclusion and Culture Committee (WICC) in identifying key actions to address specific EDIA and Wellbeing issues in the department. Anyone can get in touch with related concerns and they will be treated safe and confidential manner.

Academic Lead for Student Support (Racial Equality and Inclusion)

Students should get in touch if they have any concerns or need support regarding experiences of racism, racial discrimination, or discrimination against any of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil relationship, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation). I offers a safe, confidential and non-judgemental place to discuss issues, problems and anxieties. Here's a list of ALSS(REI)s in other departments.

Senior Tutor

I provide induction to Academic Personal Tutoring for new students, as well as guidance and resources to tutors and signpost them to student support resources within the University. Other responsibilities include overseeing the tutor allocation and deal with more complex cases. As Senior Tutor, I am a member of the Engineering Student-Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) and work with my university counterparts in the Senior Tutor Forum in sharing good practice

Teaching

My teaching spans across different subjects and disciplines, within Engineering and Natural Sciences programmes.

Modules

Taught:
- ENG1009: Fundamentals of Electronics - Laboratory Lead (since 2018/19)
- ENG1008: Fundamentals of Materials - Tutorials (since 2021/22)
- NSC3007: Macromolecular and Supramolecular Chemistry (since 2018/19)
Project-based (supervisor):
- ECM3175; ENGM015: Individual Project
- ECMM164: MSc Dissertation
- NSC3001; NSC3002; NSCM001: Research Project

Teaching Qualifications

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (2017), Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter (leading to Advance HE FHEA)
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (2019), Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter

Research

Interests

My research interests include fabrication and processing of organic and molecular materials, graphene and 2D materials for applications in flexible and wearable electronics, including sensing, namely for biomedical applications, and energy harvesting.

Funding record

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council New Investigator Award EP/S019855/1 "Self-powered werable sensors for vital signs monitoring" (as Principal Investigator)
European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship H2020-MSCA-2015-704963 "E-TEX: All-organic devices in textiles for wearable electronics" (as Principal Investigator)
FCT Individual Grant SFRH/BD/46613/2008 "New bisdithiolene complexes based on thiophenic ligands for conducting and magnetic materials" (fully funded individual PhD scholarship)

Publications

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2024

Kovalska E, Lam HT, Saadi Z, Mastria R, Neves AIS, Russo S, Craciun MF. (2024) Textile beeswax triboelectric nanogenerator as self-powered sound detectors and mechano-acoustic energy harvesters, Nano Energy, volume 120, pages 109109-109109, article no. 109109, DOI:10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.109109. [PDF]

2023

Craciun MF, Neves A, Russo S, Sadanandan KS, Bacon A, Shin D-W, Alkhalifa SF, Rajan G, Alonso ET, Murphy C. (2023) Integration of 2D materials with textiles for applications in wearable electronics*, 2023 IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC), DOI:10.1109/nmdc57951.2023.10344191.
Sreeja Sadanandan K, Saadi Z, Murphy C, Grikalaite I, Craciun MF, Neves AIS. (2023) Fabric-based triboelectric nanogenerators with ultrasonic spray coated graphene electrodes, Nano Energy, volume 116, pages 108797-108797, article no. 108797, DOI:10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108797. [PDF]
Domingos I, Saadi Z, Sadanandan KS, Pocinho HA, Caetano DM, Neves AIS, Craciun MF, Alves H. (2023) Printed graphene electrodes for textile-embedded triboelectric nanogenerators for biomechanical sensing, Nano Energy, volume 115, DOI:10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108688.
Wang S, Edwards PR, Abdelsamie M, Brown P, Webster D, Ruseckas A, Rajan G, Neves AIS, Martin RW, Sutter-Fella CM. (2023) Triple Halide Wide Bandgap Perovskites for Efficient Indoor Photovoltaics, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2301.13772.
Wang S, Edwards PR, Abdelsamie M, Brown P, Webster D, Ruseckas A, Rajan G, Neves AIS, Martin RW, Sutter-Fella CM. (2023) Chlorine retention enables the indoor light harvesting of triple halide wide bandgap perovskites, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, volume 11, no. 23, pages 12328-12341, DOI:10.1039/d3ta01784b. [PDF]

2022

Chen Y, Han L, Ola O, Liu G, Wang N, Saadi Z, Neves AIS, Tabari RS, Thummavichai K, Khalil AME. (2022) Multifunctional ultralight, recoverable, piezoresistive, and super thermal insulating SiC nanowire sponges, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, volume 106, no. 2, pages 1299-1308, DOI:10.1111/jace.18823. [PDF]
Tabari RS, Chen Y, Thummavichai K, Zhang Y, Saadi Z, Neves AIS, Xia Y, Zhu Y. (2022) Piezoelectric Property of Electrospun PVDF Nanofibers as Linking Tips of Artificial-Hair-Cell Structures in Cochlea, Nanomaterials, volume 12, no. 9, DOI:10.3390/nano12091466.
Rodrigues DP, Moreirinha C, Rajan G, Neves AIS, Freitas SC, Sequeira S, Russo S, Craciun MF, Almeida A, Alves H. (2022) Conversion of antibacterial activity of graphene‐coated textiles through surface polarity, Nano Select, volume 4, no. 8, pages 502-512, DOI:10.1002/nano.202100226.
Neves AIS, Saadi Z. (2022) Challenges of Coating Textiles with Graphene, Johnson Matthey Technology Review, volume 66, no. 1, pages 106-113, DOI:10.1595/205651322x16260813744138.

2021

Domingos I, Neves AIS, Craciun MF, Alves H. (2021) Graphene Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators Using Water Based Solution Process, Frontiers in Physics, volume 9, DOI:10.3389/fphy.2021.742563.

2020

Sreeja Sadanandan K, Bacon A, Shin D-W, Alkhalifa SFR, Russo S, Craciun MF, Neves AIS. (2020) Graphene coated fabrics by ultrasonic spray coating for wearable electronics and smart textiles, Journal of Physics: Materials, volume 4, no. 1, pages 014004-014004, DOI:10.1088/2515-7639/abc632. [PDF]
Rajan G, Morgan JJ, Murphy C, Torres Alonso E, Wade J, Ott AK, Russo S, Alves H, Craciun MF, Neves AIS. (2020) Low Operating Voltage Carbon-Graphene Hybrid E-textile for Temperature Sensing, ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, volume 12, no. 26, pages 29861-29867, DOI:10.1021/acsami.0c08397. [PDF]

2019

Torres Alonso E, Shin DW, Rajan G, Neves AIS, Russo S, Craciun MF. (2019) Water-Based Solution Processing and Wafer-Scale Integration of All-Graphene Humidity Sensors, Advanced Science, volume 6, no. 15, DOI:10.1002/advs.201802318.

2018

Shin D-W, Barnes MD, Walsh K, Dimov D, Tian P, Neves AIS, Wright CD, Yu SM, Yoo J-B, Russo S. (2018) A New Facile Route to Flexible and Semi-Transparent Electrodes Based on Water Exfoliated Graphene and their Single-Electrode Triboelectric Nanogenerator, Adv Mater, volume 30, no. 39, DOI:10.1002/adma.201802953. [PDF]
Torres Alonso E, Rodrigues D, Khetani M, Dong-Wook S, De Sanctis A, Joulie H, de Schrijver I, Baldycheva A, Alves H, Neves AIS. (2018) Graphene electronic fibres with touch-sensing and light-emitting functionalities for smart textiles, npj Flexible Electronics, volume 2, pages 25-25, article no. 25, DOI:10.1038/s41528-018-0040-2.
Simao D, Neves A. (2018) Laboratórios Abertos 2018 (in Portuguese), Departamento de Química, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
Dimov D, Amit I, Gorrie O, Barnes M, Townsend N, Neves AIS, Withers F, Russo S, Craciun M. (2018) Ultrahigh Performance Nanoengineered Graphene–Concrete Composites for Multifunctional Applications, Advanced Functional Materials, pages 1705183-1705183, article no. 1705183, DOI:10.1002/adfm.201705183.

2017

Somov A, Alonso E, Craciun MF, neves A, Baldycheva A. (2017) Smart Textile: Exploration of Wireless Sensing Capabilities, 2017 IEEE Sensors, Glasgow, 29th Oct - 1st Nov 2017, DOI:10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234058.
Neves A, Rodrigues DP, De Sanctis A, Torres Alonso E, Pereira MS, Amaral VS, Melo LV, Russo S, de Schrijver I, Alves H. (2017) Towards conductive textiles: coating polymeric fibres with graphene, Scientific Reports, volume 7, article no. 4250, DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-04453-7.

2015

Pinto RM, Gouveia W, Neves AIS, Alves H. (2015) Ultrasensitive organic phototransistors with multispectral response based on thin-film/single-crystal bilayer structures, Applied Physics Letters, volume 107, no. 22, pages 223301-223301, DOI:10.1063/1.4937005.
Neves AIS, Alves H, Gouveia W, Silva RAL, Belo D. (2015) Conducting films based on single-component molecular metals, Chemical Communications, volume 51, pages 13117-13119, DOI:10.1039/C5CC05531H.
Neves AIS, Pinto RM, Maçôas EMS, Raja S, Baleizão C, Santos IC, Alves H. (2015) Effect of Molecular Stacking on Exciton Diffusion in Crystalline Organic Semiconductors, Jornal of the American Chemical Society, volume 37, no. 22, pages 7104-7110, DOI:10.1021/ja512886h.
Neves AIS, Bointon TH, Melo LV, Russo S, de Schrijver I, Craciun MF, Alves H. (2015) Transparent conductive graphene textile fibres, Scientific Reports, volume 5, pages 9866-9866, DOI:10.1038/srep09866.

2014

Afonso ML, Neves AIS, Almeida M. (2014) Dimerisation of Fe bisdithiolene complexes; An electrochemical study, Inorganica Chimica Acta, volume 426, pages 160-164, DOI:10.1016/j.ica.2014.11.034.
Neves AIS, Santos IC, Coutinho JT, Pereira LCJ, Henriques RT, Lopes EB, Alves H, Almeida M, Belo D. (2014) 5-Methylthiophene-2,3-dithiolene Transition Metal Complexes, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, volume 2014, pages 3989-3999, article no. 24, DOI:10.1002/ejic.201402048. [PDF]

2013

Silva RAL, Neves AIS, Lopes EB, Santos IC, Coutinho JT, Pereira LCJ, Rovira C, Almeida M, Belo D. (2013) (α-DT-TTF)2[Au(mnt)2]: A Weakly Disordered Molecular Spin-Ladder System, Inorganic Chemistry, volume 52, pages 5300-5306, article no. 9, DOI:10.1021/ic400246y. [PDF]
Silva RAL, Neves AI, Afonso ML, Santos IC, Lopes EB, Del Pozo F, Pfattner R, Mas-Torrent M, Rovira C, Almeida M. (2013) α-Dithiophene-tetrathiafulvalene – a Detailed Study of an Electronic Donor and Its Derivatives, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, volume 2013, pages 2440-2446, article no. 13, DOI:10.1002/ejic.201201362. [PDF]

2012

Belo D, Neves AIS, Pereira LCJ, Almeida M. (2012) Magnetic properties of [K(18-crown-6)][Ni(α-tpdt)2], physica status solidi (c), volume 9, pages 1199-1201, article no. 5, DOI:10.1002/pssc.201100637. [PDF]
Neves AIS, Lopes EB, Almeida M, Belo D. (2012) New copper thiophenedithiolenes for single component molecular metals, physica status solidi (c), volume 9, pages 1137-1139, article no. 5, DOI:10.1002/pssc.201100635. [PDF]
Laukhina E, Lebedev V, Laukhin V, Pino APD, Lopes EB, Neves AIS, Belo D, Almeida M, Veciana J, Rovira C. (2012) Polycarbonate films metalized with a single component molecular conductor suited to strain and stress sensing applications, Organic Electronics, volume 13, pages 894-898, article no. 5, DOI:10.1016/j.orgel.2012.01.031. [PDF]

2011

Neves AIS, Santos IC, Pereira LCJ, Rovira C, Ruiz E, Belo D, Almeida M. (2011) Ni-2,3-thiophenedithiolate Anions in New Architectures: An In-Line Mixed-Valence Ni Dithiolene (Ni4–S12) Cluster, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, volume 2011, pages 4807-4815, article no. 31, DOI:10.1002/ejic.201100797. [PDF]