Enrique R. Batista
LANL
Jennifer Chen
University of Washington
Yuri Dahnovsky
University of Wyoming
Alberto Franceschetti
NREL
John Grey
University of New Mexico
Charlie Johnson
University of Pennsylvania
Muhammet Kose
North Dakota State University
Rajesh Naik
Air Force Research Laboratory
Artem Masunov
University of Central Florida
Sheng Meng
EPFL, Switzerland
John W. Mintmire
Oklahoma State University
Aditya Mohite
LANL
Ravi Pandey
Michigan Technological University
Jeffrey Pietryga
LANL
Oleg Prezhdo
University of Washington
Greg Scholes
University of Toronto
Richard D Schaller
LANL
Michael Strano
MIT
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Osaka University, Japan
Michael Therien
Duke University
* Image Credit: R.R. Johnson, M.L. Klein, A.T.C. Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
This conference is sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory and will bring together theoreticians and experimentalists from diverse backgrounds (Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, and Engineering) who work on functionalized nanomaterials. The conference is intended to examine issues and opportunities associated with the essential role of inorganic/organic interfaces in many chemical and physical processes important for applications ranging from molecular electronics and photovoltaics to medicine. The conference will specifically address the questions how bio- and organic- functional groups, such as organic molecules, conjugated polymers, DNA, proteins, etc., affect electronic and optical properties, excited state dynamics, quantum confinement, and carrier transport in nanosystems: semiconductor quantum dots, metallic nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, etc.
Key topics include: