Event details
Professor Alexei A Kornyshev, Imperial College London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub
Part of the Quantum Technologies Special Lecture Series.
All staff and students working in related research fields across the University are welcome to attend.
Abstract
This talk will overview a new direction of research that can be conventionally called “electrochemical plasmonics”. It is based on voltage-controlled self-assembly of plasmonic nanoparticles at electro-chemical liquid-liquid or solid-liquid interfaces, the optical properties of which can dramatically vary with assembly structure and density. The effects to be discussed where navigated by theory and have been experimental realised by a team at Department of Chemistry of Imperial College; these refer to electro-switchable window-mirrors, tuneable colour mirrors, and ultrasensitive detectors of hazardous molecules or pollutants using novel self-assembling SERS platforms.
Short biography
Alexei Kornyshev graduated in 1970 from the Moscow Institute of Engineering Physics with a degree in theoretical nuclear physics. He matured as a scientist at the Frumkin Institute (Acad.Sci.) in Moscow, where he did there his PhD (1974) in Theoretical Physics and DSc in Chemistry (1986), having worked there till 1991. In 1992 he was invited to Research Centre Jülich, Germany, where he then worked for 10 years leading a Theory Division in the Institute for Materials and Processes in Energy Systems, a position combined later with a Professorship of Theoretical Physics at the University of Düsseldorf. In 2002 he took Chair of Chemical Physics at Imperial College. His interests span widely in theoretical condensed matter chemical physics and its application to electrochemistry, biological physics, nanoscience, photonics and energy research, using methods of theoretical physics and computer simulations, and working in close collaboration with experimentalists (in the reported research area – with Profs. J.Edel and A.Kucernak). Recipient of many international and national awards and prizes, he is a Fellow of 5 learned societies, a Member of Royal Danish Academy of Science, and is on editorial boards of several physical and chemical journals.
a.kornyshev@imperial.ac.uk ;
www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.kornyshev
Please note the building/room number (i.e. not one of our typically used rooms) – this event is co-located in the same building (58) as the Annual Campbell Lecture (start 14:00) for the convenience of those wishing to attend both events.