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Research interests
Research group website: www.valev.org.
Dr Valev heads the MultiPhoton NanoPhotonics research group, which focuses on the interaction between powerful laser light and nanostructured materials. In particular, we explore the application of chiral plasmonic nano/meta-materials to achieve enhanced chiroptical effects with potential benefits for the pharmaceutical industry. Powerful lasers constitute highly sensitive probes for material properties at the nanoscale, especially through nonlinear optical effect, such as Second Harmonic Generation. But just as light can be used to study nanomaterials, it can also be used to build them. We have thus demonstrated the world's smallest nanojets and have shown how light could be employed as a tiny needle threading gold strings through chains of nanoparticles.
Teaching interests
In teaching students, my projects often take a distinct science fiction aspect, as we build laser-powered nano-photonic steam engines (Steampunk Science) or program a humanoid robot to become a lab assistant.
Keywords
- Chirality
- Chiral nanostructures
- Chiral metamaterials
- Nanophotonics
- Plasmonics
- Metamaterials
- Second Harmonic Generation
- Chiroptical effects
- Nonlinear chiroptical effects
- Nano Metalworking
- Nanowelding
- Magnetism
- Multiphoton microscopy
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Projects 2014 2022
Look into my eyes
Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
1/02/18 → 31/03/20
Project: Research council
students
Doppler effect
counters
lasers
baths
Fellowship - Chirality in the 21st century: enantiomorphing chiral plasmonic meta/nano-materials
1/12/17 → 31/03/21
Project: Research council
Ventsi Valev Fellowship - Nonlinear Meta-Chiroptical Effects: Can We 'See' the Chirality of a Single Molecule
1/10/14 → 30/09/19
Project: Research council
Research Output 2005 2019
Atomic dispensers for thermoplasmonic control of alkali vapor pressure in quantum optical applications
Rusimova, K., Slavov, D., Pradaux-Caggiano, F., Collins, J., Gordeev, S., Carbery, D., Wadsworth, W., Mosley, P. & Valev, V., 24 May 2019, In : Nature Communications. 10, 1, 2328.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Circular Dichroism and Isotropy – Polarity Reversal of Ellipticity in Molecular Films of 1,1’-Bi-2-Naphtol
von Weber, A., Hooper, D., Jakob, M., Valev, V., Kartouzian, A. & Heiz, U., 7 Jan 2019, In : ChemPhysChem. 20, 1, p. 62-69 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
1
Citation
(Scopus)
23
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(Pure)
Excitation-energy-dependent molecular beacon detects early stage neurotoxic aβ aggregates in the presence of cortical neurons
Gulácsy, C. E., Meade, R., Catici, D. A. M., Soeller, C., Pantos, G. D., Jones, D. D., Alibhai, D., Jepson, M., Valev, V. K., Mason, J. M., Williams, R. J. & Pudney, C. R., 20 Mar 2019, In : ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 10, 3, p. 1240-1250 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
3
Citations
(Scopus)
First Observation of Optical Activity in Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering
Collins, J. T., Rusimova, K. R., Hooper, D. C., Jeong, H. H., Ohnoutek, L., Pradaux-Caggiano, F., Verbiest, T., Carbery, D. R., Fischer, P. & Valev, V. K., 6 Feb 2019, In : Physical Review X. 9, 1, 011024.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Measuring optical activity in the far-field from a racemic nanomaterial: diffraction spectroscopy from plasmonic nanogratings
Kuppe, C., Zheng, X., Williams, C., Murphy, A., Collins, J., Gordeev, S., Vandenbosch, G. A. E. & Valev, V., 10 May 2019, In : Nanoscale Horizons.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Datasets
Dataset for "Enantiomorphing chiral plasmonic nanostructures: a counter-intuitive sign reversal of the nonlinear circular dichroism"
Collins, J. (Creator), Valev, V. (Creator), Zheng, X. (Creator), Slenders, E. (Creator), Zu, S. (Creator), Vandenbosch, G. (Creator), Fang, Z. (Creator), Ameloot, M. (Creator), University of Bath, 3 May 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00483
Dataset
Dataset for "Circular dichroism in higher-order diffraction beams from chiral quasi-planar nanostructures"
Kuppe, C. (Creator), You, J. (Creator), Gordeev, S. (Creator), Panoiu, N. (Creator), University of Bath, 27 Mar 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00479
Dataset
Dataset for "Atomic dispensers for thermoplasmonic control of alkali vapor pressure in quantum optical applications"
Rusimova, K. (Creator), Slavov, D. (Creator), Pradaux-Caggiano, F. (Creator), Collins, J. (Creator), Gordeev, S. (Creator), Carbery, D. (Creator), Mosley, P. (Creator), Wadsworth, W. (Creator), Valev, V. (Creator), University of Bath, 24 May 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00529
Dataset
Strong Rotational Anisotropies Affect Nonlinear Chiral Metamaterials
Valev, V. (Creator), Hooper, D. (Creator), Collins, J. (Creator), University of Bath, 2017
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00327
Dataset
Dataset for "Second Harmonic Generation Optical Rotation Solely Attributable to Chirality in Plasmonic Metasurfaces"
Collins, J. (Creator), Hooper, D. (Creator), Mark, A. (Creator), Kuppe, C. (Creator), University of Bath, 31 May 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00520
Dataset
Thesis
Chirality in diffractive plasmonic nanostructures
Author: Kuppe, C., 29 May 2019Supervisor: Valev, V. (Supervisor) & Wadsworth, W. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
Second harmonic generation in metallic nanostructured arrays
Author: Hooper, D., 2019Supervisor: Bending, S. (Supervisor) & Valev, V. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD