Theoretical and Computational Nanophotonics for Light Harvesting and Energy Applications
See our latest work published on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C on the use of metallic porous materials to optical detect DNA molecules. In collaboration with the Italian Institute Technology.
λ-DNA through Porous Materials—Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in a Simple Plasmonic Nanopore
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06165
Did you know heat could oscillate?
In this recently published article in Physical Review Applied, I show how heat sources and fluids can be combined in a flow-driven resonant thermal system.
Such systems behave as oscillators and can be used to store thermal energy, control temperature patterns in microfluidic devices and even enhance water desalination!
LINK: Flow-Driven Energy Resonant Systems, Physical Review Applied, 14, 034045, 2020
Join us for the Optics & Photonics FREE WEBINAR offered by Rice University ECE Department.
Our next ECE Distinguished Speaker will be Prof. Renkun Chen from UCSD.
TITLE: Thermal Transport and Calorimetry at Micro- and Nano- scale: from Nanowires to Single Cells
WHEN: July 2nd, 3PM CDT.
LINK: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94398349592
Our work in collaboration with Proietti Zaccaria group on inducing thermal gradients in metallic nanocones has been published in Advanced Optical Materials. Congrats Joao Cunha!
This last work in collaboration with Link and Nordlander group has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Congrats to Lauren McCarthy for the great work!
LINK: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004169117
When: Friday June 12th, 11AM CDT
More info at:
https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20200612/event_id/95174
Have a look at our latest publication on the use of resonant heat recovery and dynamic control to boost the efficiency of thermal desalination!
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ee/c9ee03256h#!divAbstract
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 hashtagnanotechnology hashtagphotonics
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 –
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!
