Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials IV

Presentations

• Quantum Mechanics and Electrodynamics Studies of the Optical Properties of Metal Clusters/Nanoparticles

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 11, 2008, 10:15 AM – March 11, 2008, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • George Schatz

    • Northwestern University

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• Low Temperature Static Dipole Polarizability of Free Sodium Clusters with from 2 to 250 atoms

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 10:51 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Anthony Liang

    • GaTech
    • Georgia Tech

  • John Bowlan

    • GaTech

  • Xiao- Shan Xu

  • Shuange-Ye Yin

  • Walt de Heer

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • GaTech
    • Georgia Tech-Physics, Atlanta

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• Novel Properties of Diamondoid Molecules

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:03 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • William Clay

  • Zhi Liu

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• Room temperature stability of mass selected Ag clusters on C$_{60}$ functionalized surfaces

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Stefanie Duffe

    • Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Experimentelle Physik I, Germany

  • Lukas Patryarcha

    • Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Experimentelle Physik I, Germany

  • Torsten Richter

    • Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Experimentelle Physik I, Germany

  • Benedikt Sieben

    • Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Experimentelle Physik I, Germany

  • Heinz H\"{o}vel

    • Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Experimentelle Physik I, Germany

  • Chunrong Yin

    • Universitaet Freiburg, Fakultaet fuer Physik, Germany

  • Bernd von Issendorff

    • Universitaet Freiburg, Fakultaet fuer Physik, Germany

  • Michael Moseler

    • Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Werkstoffmechanik IWM, Freiburg, Germany

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• Modification on the melting of aluminum nanoclusters by a copper atom: heat capacities of CuAl$_{n-1}^{-}$ nanoalloys

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:27 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Baopeng Cao

    • Indiana University
    • Indiana University, Bloomington
    • Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 E Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405

  • Colleen M. Neal

    • Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 E Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405

  • Anne M. Starace

    • Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 E Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405

  • Martin F. Jarrold

    • Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 E Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405

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• Forces between Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:39 AM – March 11, 2008, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • J. Matthew D. Lane

    • Sandia National Labs

  • Ahmed E. Ismail

    • Sandia National Labs

  • Michael Chandross

    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • Sandia National Labs

  • Gary S. Grest

    • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • Sandia National Labs
    • Sandia National Laboratory

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• Photo-fragmentation of the closo-carboranes

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 11:51 AM – March 11, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Jing Liu

    • Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • Danqin Feng

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • P.A. Dowben

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • A.P. Hitchcock

    • Dept. of Chemistry, McMaster University, Canada

  • A.L.D. Kilcoyne

    • Advanced Light Source, Lawrence-Berkeley Laboratory

  • T. Tyliszczak

    • Advanced Light Source, Lawrence-Berkeley Laboratory

  • J.D. Bozek

    • Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory

  • E. R\"uhl

    • Institut f\"ur Physikalische Chemie, Freie Universit\"at Berlin, Germany

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• Coupled quantum dot / quantum shell systems: optical gain, ultrafast charge transport, and single particle blinking.

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Patanjali Kambhampati

    • McGill University

  • D.M. Sagar

    • McGill University

  • Eva Dias

    • McGill University

  • Samuel Sewall

    • McGill University

  • Ryan Cooney

    • McGill University

  • Amy Grimes

    • University of Maryland

  • Douglas English

    • University of Maryland

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• Sampling of stable and metastable cluster structures by a first-principles Monte Carlo approach

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Ralf Gehrke

    • Fritz-Haber-Institut, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin

  • Karsten Reuter

    • Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaft
    • Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG
    • Fritz-Haber-Institut, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin (Germany)
    • Fritz-Haber-Institut, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin

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• The Effects of pH and Acid Type on Porous Alumina Formation

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Adam Friedman

    • Northeastern University Dept. of Physics
    • Northeastern University

  • Derrick Brittain

    • Northeastern University Dept. of Physics

  • Latika Menon

    • Northeastern University
    • Northeastern University Dept. of Physics
    • Physics Department, Northeastern University

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• Probing the Coulomb Barrier Towards Ionic Fragmentation

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:39 PM – March 11, 2008, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Shaun Ard

    • University of Tennessee

  • Nasrin Mirsaleh-Kohan

    • University of Tennessee

  • Robert Compton

    • University of Tennessee

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• Vibrational modes in metal core-shell nanoparticles

  ORAL

  March 11, 2008, 12:51 PM – March 11, 2008, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • A.S. Kirakosyan

    • Jackson State University

  • T.V. Shahbazyan

    • Jackson State University

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