Organizers: George Schatz (Northwestern University), Emily Weiss (Northwestern University), Yuhuang Wang (University of Maryland)
The small end of the nanomaterials world is where many unusual properties arise in studies of structure, chemical, optical, magnetic and electronic effects. These unusual properties arise for many reasons, including coordinative unsaturation in bonding, quantum confinement effects, splitting of bands, high defect densities, and many others. In this symposium we highlight semiconducting and metallic materials at the interface between molecules and bulk properties, including both theory and experimental papers, with emphasis on plasmonic optical properties, semiconducting quantum dot optical, magnetic and electrical properties, and studies of carbon nanotubes/graphene and other forms of carbon.
Invited Speakers:
- William A Tisdale (MIT)
- Delia Milliron (University of Texas, Austin)
- Robert Whetten Milliron (University of Texas, San Antonio)
- Christine Aikens (Kansas State University)
- David Nesbitt, (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Bruce Weisman (Rice University)
- YuHuang Wang (University of Maryland)
- Michael Strano (MIT)
- Libai Huang (Notre Dame University)
- Phillipe Guyot-Sionnest (University of Chicago)