Research Associate

My research explores different ways of making colourful materials from sustainable building blocks. I am fascinated by the chiral colloidal self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals and how it can be used to create large-scale films with unique optical properties.

I did my undergraduate studies in Natural Sciences (Physics and Physical Chemistry) at University College London and the California Institute of Technology, and came to Cambridge as part of the NanoDTC MRes+PhD programme.

 

Publications

Three-dimensional operando optical imaging of particle and electrolyte heterogeneities inside Li-ion batteries.
R Pandya, L Valzania, F Dorchies, F Xia, J Mc Hugh, A Mathieson, HJ Tan, TG Parton, L Godeffroy, K Mazloomian, TS Miller, F Kanoufi, M De Volder, J-M Tarascon, S Gigan, HB de Aguiar, A Grimaud
Nature nanotechnology
(2023)
18
Bioinspired Photonic Materials from Cellulose: Fabrication, Optical Analysis, and Applications
RM Parker, TG Parton, CLC Chan, MM Bay, B Frka-Petesic, S Vignolini
Accounts of materials research
(2023)
4
Chiral Se Nanobrooms with Wavelength and Polarization Sensitive Scattering
J Kwon, TG Parton, Y Choi, SG Lee, B Frka-Petesic, J Lee, S Vignolini, J Yeom
Advanced Functional Materials
(2023)
33
Chiral self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals for photonic films
T Parton
(2022)
Structurally Colored Radiative Cooling Cellulosic Films.
W Zhu, B Droguet, Q Shen, Y Zhang, TG Parton, X Shan, RM Parker, MFL De Volder, T Deng, S Vignolini, T Li
Adv Sci (Weinh)
(2022)
9
Revealing the Structural Coloration of Self-Assembled Chitin Nanocrystal Films
A Narkevicius, RM Parker, J Ferrer-Orri, TG Parton, Z Lu, GT van de Kerkhof, B Frka-Petesic, S Vignolini
Advanced Materials
(2022)
34
Polysaccharide metabolism regulates structural colour in bacterial colonies.
GT van de Kerkhof, L Schertel, L Catòn, TG Parton, KH Müller, HF Greer, CJ Ingham, S Vignolini
Journal of The Royal Society Interface
(2022)
19
Chiral self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals is driven by crystallite bundles.
TG Parton, RM Parker, GT van de Kerkhof, A Narkevicius, JS Haataja, B Frka-Petesic, S Vignolini
Nat Commun
(2022)
13
Hyperspectral imaging of photonic cellulose nanocrystal films: Structure of local defects and implications for self-assembly pathways
B Zhu, VE Johansen, G Kamita, G Guidetti, MM Bay, TG Parton, B Frka-Petesic, S Vignolini
ACS nano
(2020)
14
Bio-inspired optics: General discussion
H Clark, B Datta, L Deravi, C Fiorentino, S Fornasaro, M Hardy, A Holt, C Kuttner, SR Mouchet, L Ospina, A Parnell, TG Parton, GM Paternò, R Potyrailo, A Qiu, G Rosetta, F Schenk, L Schertel, D Stavenga, U Steiner, GT van de Kerkhof, B Wilts, M Xiao
Faraday discussions
(2020)
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