A-Lab@Rice

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Aug. 19th

Hi everyone,

I am organizing a symposium during the ACS Southwest Regional and Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting. The title of the symposium is:

Light for energy: photonic and thermal nanotechnology

This symposium will focus on how light can be utilized as energy source in multiple ways thanks to nanotechnology. Topics will range from LEDs to solar cells to solar desalination and more. If you are interested, see more info here:

http://swrm.org/home.html hashtag#nanotechnology hashtag#photonics

Look at our latest work on solar desalination! We experimentally and theoretically show how the same amount of solar power can be used more efficiently for desalination.

Solar thermal desalination as a nonlinear optical process – PNAS July 2, 2019 116 (27) 13182-13187

Have a look to our recent paper where we show how reshaping of metallic nanoparticles happens at lower power when exciting at interband wavelengths, despite the lower absorption cross section!

Interband Transitions Are More Efficient Than Plasmonic Excitation in the Ultrafast Melting of Electromagnetically Coupled Au Nanoparticles – J. Phys. Chem. C20191232716943-16950

Our Technical Comment has been recently published on Science. If you are interested look at it here:

Response to Comment on “Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis”

Also look at the original report by L. Zhou et. al. here:

Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in plasmonic photocatalysis

On May 9th 2019 at 2PM EDT, I am going to present the modeling of Nanophotonics Enabled Solar Membrane Distillation (NESMD) during an IEEE webinar sponsored by COMSOL.

If you are interested, you can register here for free:

IEEE Spectrum – Tech Insiders, Webinar Series

A work in collaboration with University of Naples Federico II and University of Foggia has just been accepted in Applied Materials & Interfaces. Thanks to Andrea Schirato for the work on electromagnetic calculations to reproduce the interaction between gold clusters and incident radiation!

Biosensor for point-of-care analysis of immunoglobulins in urine by metal enhanced fluorescence from gold nanoparticles

Paper on chiroptical modulation just published in ACS Nano! Congrats to Kyle Smith and Lauren McCarthy (Link’s group)!:

Exploiting Evanescent Field Polarization for Giant Chiroptical Modulation from Achiral Gold Half-Rings

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.8b07060?mi=aayia761&af=R&AllField=nano&target=default&targetTab=std

Thank you for passing by and have a look at our Nanophotonics Enabled Solar Membrane Distillation demo!

A special THANK YOU! to Pratiksha Dongare (Halas Lab) for setting up the demo!

Our paper on Plasmonic Photocuring just appeared online oublished in Materials Today:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2018.09.005

A detailed theoretical and experimental investigation disentangled the role of plasmonic heating and optical absorption in epoxy resins!

Have a look at our latest publication in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-018-0222-z#Sec24

Thanks to Andrea Schirato for the hard work on the electromagnetic and thermal calculations of porous metallic surfaces.