249th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
March 22-26, 2015, Denver, Colorado
Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry (COLL)
Symposium on Metallic Nanostructures for Biosensing and Alternative Energy Conversion (Oral)
Organizers:
Shanlin Pan, Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama, USA. Tel: 1-205-348-6381. Email: span1@bama.ua.edu
Jie Zhen, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas in Dallas, USA. Tel: 1-972-883-5768. Email: jiezheng@utdallas.edu
This symposium will consider experimental and theoretical research work of Au and Ag nanostructures and their hybrids with materials such as polymers, small molecules, and semiconductors of interests for optical spectroscopy enhancement, sensing, imaging, and renewable energy. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
- Electrocatalysts of nanostructured Au and Ag
- Biomolecular sensing and imaging with plasmonic techniques
- Surface enhanced solar cells and photoelectrochemistry
- New plasmonic nanostructure synthesis and characterization
- Experimental and theoretical study of plasmonics
- Biosensing technologies with metallic nanomaterials
- Nanoelechemistry using noble metal tip
- Single molecule and single nanoparticle spectroscopy
- Plasmon electrochemistry and spectroelectrochemistry using surface plasmon
- Electroluminescence and organic light emitting diodes
- Tip-enhanced Rama and fluorescence
- Surface-enhanced Raman and fluorescence