ABSTRACT:
Nanostructured metals exhibit remarkable chemical, physical, and optical properties distinct from their bulk counterparts. They efficiently absorb visible and infrared light, can be synthetically manipulated to reveal complex surface morphologies, and are stable under harsh chemical conditions. The diversity of these properties makes nanostructured metals desirable building blocks for creating materials that impact challenges in energy, human health, and photonics. Inspired by these striking and tunable properties, our work focuses on bridging the development of design principles with the realization of devices using noble metal nanoparticles. In the area of energy, Prof. Ross will describe how nanostructured metals can use electrical energy to recycle CO2 into fuels & chemicals and will highlight emerging efforts that demonstrate how one can use both photo- and electrical-excitation to drive chemical reactions
BIOSKETCH:
Michael B. Ross, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research interests focus on understanding the unique optical, chemical, and catalytic properties of metallic nanomaterials, and leveraging those properties to address challenges in energy, environmental detection, and photonics. He has been recognized as a Scialog Negative Emissions Fellow, an Emerging Investigator by Materials Chemistry Frontiers and Nanoscale, and the Winner of the NASA Centennial CO2 Conversion Challenge. He has also received campus-wide awards for mentoring undergraduate researchers and for sustainability. Before that, he was a CIFAR Bio-Inspired Solar Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship with Peidong Yang at the University of California, Berkeley. Michael earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at Northwestern University as a National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Fellow. At Northwestern, under the guidance of Chad Mirkin and George Schatz, he focused on the design of optical properties in nanoparticle systems whose structure was programmed by DNA. He earned his B.S. in biochemistry at Providence College.
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