Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Metal Nanostructure Design and Application
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"Phase-Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanostructures"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
"Driving Out-of-Equilibrium Reactions with Bimetallic Plasmon Catalysts"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Spectroscopy and Microscopy
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Unexpected and Unprecedented Nonlinear Optical Responses of Metal Nanostructures"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Nanometer-Scale Spatial and Spectral Mapping of Exciton Polaritons in Structured Plasmonic Cavities"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Imaging"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Visualizing the Nucleation, Growth, and Self-Assembly of Nanomaterials with Liquid-Phase TEM Imaging"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Plasmonics for Energy Conversion
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Quantum Mechanical Modeling of Plasmon-Like Excited States"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
"Putting Plasmons to Work"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
"Energy Transfer in Plasmonic-Polymer Hybrid Nanomaterials"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Synthesis of Designer Nanostructures
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Mechanistic Understanding of Nanoparticle Synthesis and Assembly"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Sequential Symmetry-Breaking Events as a Synthetic Pathway for Chiral Gold Nanostructures with Spiral Geometries"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Controlled Synthesis of Heterostructured Electrocatalysts and Interfacial Effects"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Polymer-Grafted Metal Nanoparticles: Ligand-controlled Synthesis and Catalysis"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
On the Nanoparticle Surface
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"Minimum Free-Energy Structures of Ag, Cu, Pd, and Au Nanocrystals in Vacuum and in Solution-Phase Synthesis Environments"
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
"Effect of Ligands on the Reactivity of Supported Metals in the Subnanometer Regime"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
"Post-Synthesis Shape Stability of fcc Metal Nanocubes and Octahedra"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Tuning Redox Properties and Ensemble Geometry in Noble Metal Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Selective Catalysis"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Precision Synthesis of Nanoscale Materials as Model Catalyst Surfaces"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Colloidal Pathways to Prepare Active and Stable Noble Metal-Based Catalysts"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Nanoscale Mapping of Molecular Adsorption on Single Catalyst Particles"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Nanostructures for Diagnosis and Delivery
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
"Seeing Beyond the Time Limit in Nanoscale Bioimaging"
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
"Nanostructures with Enzymatic Activities for In Vitro Diagnostics"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Assembly, Self-Organization and Reconfiguration of Nanoparticles
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Macroscopic Materials Assembled from Nanoparticle Superlattices"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"In-Situ TEM Imaging and Mechanistic Understanding of Crystallization and Reconfiguration in Noble Metal Nanocrystal Superlattices"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Modeling Anisotropic Interactions of Nanoparticles and Their Effect on Assembly"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Tunable Chiral Optical Properties in Assemblies of Plasmonic Nanostructures and Semiconductor Nanocrystals"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Selected Poster Presentations
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Hot Electron Injection from Plasmonic Nanostructures for Photocatalysis: From Semiconductor Interfaces to Water"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
"Visualizing dynamic changes in anisotropy during single nanoparticle dissolution using CLocK microscopy"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
"Engineering catalytic materials for sustainable energy applications"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
"Plasmonic Nanoparticles Generate Solvated Electrons"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
"Sorting Large Plasmonic Nanoparticles by DNA Valency"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure
