7月10日境外来访专家学术报告—Yugang Sun教授

发布者:系统管理员发布时间:2014-07-04浏览次数:23

 

报告题目

Interfacial Influence on Surface Plasmon Resonances in Quantum-Sized Nanoparticles

报告时间

2014710日上午9:30

报告地点

合肥微尺度物质科学国家实验室一楼科技展厅

报告人

Prof. Yugang Sun,

Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

报告摘要

Nanoparticles made of noble metals such as silver and gold exhibit strong optical absorption due to their surface plasmon resonance (SPR) that corresponds to the collective oscillation of surface conduction electrons in response to the incident electromagnetic waves. As the nanoparticles are smaller than 20 nm the interfacial quantum effect may take place to influence the SPR of the nanoparticles. For example, the monodispersed silver nanoparticles synthesized via a well-defined chemical reduction process exhibit an exceptional size-dependence of SPR peak positions: as particle size decreases from 20 nm the peaks blue-shifts but then turns over near ~12 nm and strongly red-shifts. Theoretic modeling and calculations reveal that the surface chemistry corresponding to the interactions between the capping molecules and the surface silver atoms in the nanoparticles become pronounced in determining their optical properties because the surface silver atoms represent a significant fraction of the total number of atoms in small nanoparticles. Such surface chemistry reduces the density of conduction band electrons (i.e., free electrons) in the surface layer of metal atoms, thus consequently influences the frequency-dependent dielectric constant of the metal atoms in the surface layer and the overall SPR absorption spectrum. Another class of hybrid silver-gold nanoparticles will also be discussed. The coupling between the SPR of the silver and gold components leads to very interesting optical signals that can be interpreted with classical plasmonics in combination with a quantum-corrected model. A comprehensive understanding of the relationship between interfacial coupling/chemistry and optical properties will be beneficial to exploit new applications of small colloidal metal nanoparticles, such as colorimetric sensing, electrochromic devices, surface enhanced spectroscopies, and photocatalysis.

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Prof. Sun received his B.S in 1996 from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his PhD from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001. He was a postdoctoral fellow from 2001-2003 at the University of Washington at Seattle, also he was a postdoctoral fellow from 2004-2006 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the Argonne National Laboratory as a Assistant Scientist in 2006 and was promoted to full Professor in 2010. Prof. Sun’s research interests focus on developing novel approaches for the synthesis of a wide range of nanostructures including metal nanoparticles with well-controlled morphologies, single-crystal semiconductor nanostructures with mechanical flexibility, and metal/semiconductor nanocomposites with multiple functionalities. These nanomaterials offer unique optical, electrical, and mechanical properties which make them uniquely suited for many applications including efficient solar energy conversion, energy storage, photocatalysis, wearable electronic textiles, sensing, and medical therapy. His interests also include development of novel devices that exploit the superb performance of the as-synthesized nanomaterials.

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主办单位:微尺度、化学与材料科学学院、外事办