<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoTitle" style="margin-right:-.5in"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Seminar
on</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Modern Optics and Spectroscopy</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Applications
of the confinement properties of Metallic Nanoparticles</span></font></span><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Mostafa El-Sayed</span></font><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">, </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Georgia Institute of Technology</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Tuesday, October 12, 2010 </span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">12:00 – 1:00 p.m.</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:line
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none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Reducing
the size of material to the nanometer scale confines the motion of its
electrons (as in quantum dots used in Bio-labeling) ,the reactants in a
chemical reaction which enhances reaction rates (as in nano-reactors), the
phonons which heats up and speeds up reaction rates and photons which enhances
the electro-magnetic fields of plasmonic gold and silver nano-particles The
potential use of these new nano-properties are discussed in the catalytic
destruction of some pollutants, in reducing the activation energy in catalysis
and in the plasmonic enhancements of the radiative properties of
biointermediates useful in solar energy conversion by the bacterio-rhodopsin
photo-synthetic system.</span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Grier Room, MIT Bldg 34-401</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Refreshments served after the lecture</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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