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Author:

Motl, Nathan Edward

Title:

Synthesis and Applications of Gold and Gold-copper Alloy Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

colloidal hybrid nanoparticles
nanoparticle heterodimers
chemical transformations
AuCu
Au
Cu2S
plasmon
alloy nanoparticle
composition tunable

File:

Download Nathan_Motls_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Morton, Seth Michael

Title:

Electrodynamic and Electronic Structure Methods to Model Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy and Molecule-metal Nanoparticle Optical Coupling

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

surface enhanced
Raman
spectroscopy
electronic structure
hybridization
theory
plasmonics
plasmon
nanoparticle
electrodynamics

File:

Download SethMorton-PSUThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Special Member