[MOS] October 12, 2010

[Zina M Queen]

Seminar on
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy
Applications of the confinement properties of Metallic Nanoparticles

Mostafa El-Sayed,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.


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.

Grier Room, MIT Bldg 34-401
Refreshments served after the lecture
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