Some Interesting Properties of Materials
Confined in Time and Space of Different Shapes
C. Burda, T. Green, S. Link, R. Little, M. Mohamed, and M. A. El-Sayed*
Laser Dynamics Laboratories, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30332-0400 USA
This is an abstract
for a presentation given at the
Eighth
Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
There will be a link from here to the full article when it is
available on the web.
As the size of material is reduced to the nanometer length scale, its optical, catalytic and ultrafast dynamical properties greatly change and become sensitive to changes is size or shape. Gold nanorods are over a million times more fluorescent than the metal or the nanospheres. Platinum tetrahedra nanoparticles are more catalytically active than nano-cubes. Other properties that we studied are those of processes occurring on the femto-to-picosecond time scale e.g. electron-hole dynamics in quantum dots and wells in semiconductor nanoparticles, size and shape dependence of electron-phonon relaxation times in gold nanoparticles, and the dynamics of pulsed laser photothermal melting or fragmentation of gold nanorods.
*Corresponding Address:
Mostafa A. El-Sayed
Laser Dynamics Laboratories
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
770 State Street
Atlanta, GA 30332-0400 USA
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/elsayed/el-sayed.html
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