MURI Hot Electrons
The Future of Hot Electrons and Holes
Faculty
Naomi Halas
Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Director of Laboratory for Nanophotonics and of Rice Quantum Institute
Rational design and fabrication of nanoscale optical structures, which exploit the plasmon resonant properties of ultrasmall metal structures to focus and manipulate light.
Peter Nordlander
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure, transport and optical properties of nanostructures using analytical methods such as Plasmon Hydridization theory and numerical methods such as Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD), and Finite Element Method (FEM).
Stephan Link
Associate Professor of Chemistry, and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Single molecule/nanoparticle imaging and spectroscopy techniques for the understanding of the radiative and nonradiative properties of individual plasmonic nanoparticles and their assemblies.
Louis Brus
S.L. Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University.
The physical chemistry of materials, interfaces nanocrystals, and nanotubes, especially in relation to optical and electronic properties.
Emily Carter
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Applied and Computational Mathematics
Enabling the discovery and design of molecules and materials for sustainable energy, including converting sunlight to electricity and fuels, providing clean electricity from solid oxide fuel cells, clean and efficient combustion of biofuels, and optimizing lightweight metal alloys for fuel-efficient vehicles and fusion reactor walls.
Renee Frontiera
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota
Working on developing a label-free, super-resolution imaging technique to monitor cells on the nanometer length scale, determining the role of vibrations in driving electron transfer reactions, and using plasmonic nanomaterials to monitor and catalyze chemical reactions.
Junrong Zheng
Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Rice University
developing innovative techniques and methods to seek the molecular-level understanding of the common basic principles underneath many seemingly unrelated macroscopic phenomena ranging from heat dissipations in CPU, cell signaling, biomolecular denaturation and recognitions, batteries, heterogeneous catalysts, nanophotonics, and chemical dynamics of energetic materials.
Christoph Lienau
Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oldenberg
Probes the motion of charges, spins and nuclei in solid state and biological
nanostructures on ultrasmall length and ultrashort time scales.
