November 27 - December 2, 2016
Boston, Massachusetts
2016 MRS Fall Meeting

Symposium EM7-Functional Plasmonics

Following fast development in several decades, plasmonics has stepped into a new horizon, where not only the intriguing optical properties of plasmonic structures and systems matter but also their functionalities, especially promising applications in different disciplines are of paramount importance. Small scales are where physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science converge. A better understanding of the profound properties from the molecular to submicron level opens a new pathway to designing functional plasmonic materials and devices. The combination of knowhow in plasmonics and different disciplines holds great promise for fundamental understanding of light-matter interaction and for real-life applications, such as super-resolution imaging, biomedical sensing and energy harvesting. This symposium aims at bringing together researchers from physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science to share recent breakthroughs in functional plasmonics, identify critical issues, exchange ideas, and outline future directions.

Topics will include:

  • Functional plasmonics for novel optical effects
  • Functional plasmonics for physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science

Invited Speakers:

  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _0 (University of Notre Dame, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _1 (Purdue University, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _2 (Stanford University, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _3 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _4 (University of Washington, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _5 (Vanderbilt University, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _6 (Rice University, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _7 (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _8 (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _9 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _10 (Rice University, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _11 (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _12 (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _13 (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _14 (Rice University, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _15 (Northwesten University, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _16 (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _17 (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _18 (Purdue University, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _19 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
  • EM7_Functional Plasmonics _20 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Laura Na Liu
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Germany

Prashant K. Jain
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Chemistry
USA

Yongmin Liu
Northeastern University
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
USA

Yuebing Zheng
University of Texas at Austin
Materials Science and Engineering Program and Department of Mechanical Engineering
USA

Topics

adsorption biological biological synthesis (assembly) biomaterial cluster assembly electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) infrared (IR) spectroscopy metallic conductor metrology optical Raman spectroscopy scanning electron microscopy (SEM) self-assembly simulation spectroscopy structural transmission electron microscopy (TEM)