Scientific program
| Sunday, 23rd August | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:30 | Welcome reception |
| Monday, 24th August | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening: Roderich Moessner, Managing Director of the mpipks & the Scientific Coordinators |
| Energy and charge transfer (chair: Nadja-Carola Bigall) | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Gary P. Wiederrecht (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| Hybrid excitonic and plasmonic nanophotonic materials for enhanced ultrafast optical response and efficient energy propagation | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Stefan Kirstein (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Coupled nanotubular J-aggregates and quantum dots for efficient resonance excitation energy transfer | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Alexander Efros (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington) |
| Dangling bond magnetic polaron in CdSe nanocrystals | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| Gels, aerogels, QD crystals and macro-assemblies (chair: Sylke Blumstengel) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Stephanie Brock (Wayne State University) |
| Programmable assembly of nanoparticles into multicomponent gels and aerogels | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Nicholas Leventis (Missouri University of Science & Technology) |
| Carbothermal synthesis of nanoporous metals and carbide aerogels from interpenetrating networks of polymer-oxide nanoparticles | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Nadja-Carola Bigall (Leibniz Universität Hannover) |
| Optical properties of macroscopic hydrogels and aerogels from nanocrystal building blocks | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | lunch break |
| Energy and charge transfers, and interfacial phenomena (chair: Gary P. Wiederrecht) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Semion K. Saikin (Harvard University) |
| Nano-probing of excitons in natural photosynthetic systems | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Norbert Koch (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Controlling the energy level alignment at hybrid inorganic/organic semiconductor interfaces | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Sylke Blumstengel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Control over energy transfer and charge separation at ZnO/organic interfaces | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | nanosa15 colloquium (chair: Eduardo Altmann, mpipks) |
| Alexander Govorov (Ohio University) | |
| Physics of bio-assembled nanostructures: chirality, Fano effect and hot plasmonic electrons | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | supper |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | poster session I (focus on odd poster numbers) |
| Tuesday, 25th August | |
| Nanocrystals for solar cells (chair: Semion K. Saikin) | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Denis Andrienko (Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung) |
| Impact of mesoscale order on open-circuit voltage in organic solar cells | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Alessandro Troisi (University of Warwick) |
| Predictive models for dye sensitized solar cells | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Gang Lu (California State University, Northridge) |
| Excitonic dynamics of organic and hybrid photovoltaics - a first-principles perspective | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | coffee break |
| Nanocrystals for lighting (chair: Pawel Hawrylak) | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Hilmi Volkan Demir (Bilkent University & Nanyang Technological University) |
| Nanocrystal optoelectronics: from solution-processed quantum dots to wells | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Marcus Adam (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Implementation of high quality warm-white light-emitting diodes: a model-experimental feedback approach using quantum dot-salt mixed crystals | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | lunch break |
| Graphene nanocrystals (chair: Alessandro Troisi) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Pawel Hawrylak (University of Ottawa) |
| Optical properties of multifunctional graphene quantum dots | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Javier Garcia de Abajo (The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels) |
| Plasmons in nanographene and other atomic scale systems | |
| Excitons and plasmons in nanocrystals (chair: Denis Andrienko) | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Garnett Bryant (NIST Gaithersburg) |
| Approaching the quantum limit for metal nanoparticle plasmonics | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Stephen Gray (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| Optically-induced entanglement in hybrid quantum dot/plasmonic systems | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page) & coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Andreas Knorr (Technische Universität Berlin) |
| Theory of light emission and quantum statistics of metal-nanoparticle - emitter hybrids | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Tianquan Lian (Emory University) |
| Efficient plasmon-induced hot electron transfer and photochemistry in semiconductor-Au nanoheterostructures | |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Dirk Dorfs (Leibniz Universität Hannover) |
| Localized surface plasmon resonances in degenerately doped semiconductor nanoparticles | |
| 18:00 - 21:30 | barbeque |
| Wednesday, 26th August | |
| Excitons, plasmons, electrons, polarons, . . . (chair: Thomas J. Schmidt) | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Yi Luo (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) |
| Interaction between single molecules and nanocavity plasmon | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Efrat Lifshitz (Technion, Haifa) |
| From strong to weak confinement of multiple excitons | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Irene Burghardt (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) |
| Exciton migration and dissociation in functional organic polymer materials | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Oleg Prezhdo (University of Southern California) |
| Excited state dynamics in nanoscale materials: a time-domain ab initio perspective | |
| Functional nano-materials including catalytic-, sensor-, and bio-applications of nanocrystals I (chair: Tianquan Lian) | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Mingyuan Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) |
| Preparation of rare-earth nanoparticles for biomedical applications and a case study of self-assembled particle superstructure | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Maria Mukhina (ITMO University, St. Petersburg) |
| Molecular recognition of biomolecules by chiral semiconductor nanocrystals | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | lunch break |
| Functional nano-materials including catalytic-, sensor-, and bio-applications of nanocrystals II (chair: Alexander Efros) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Thomas J. Schmidt (ETH Zürich) |
| Nanoparticles in electrocatalysis | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Hugh H. Richardson (Ohio University) |
| Optical probe thermometry using a laser trapped erbium oxide nanoparticle | |
| Advances in fabrication and understanding of nanocrystals I (chair: Alexander Efros) | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Mikhail Artemyev (Belarussian State University, Minsk) | Ligand-induced self-assembly of CdSe nanoplatelets into nanometer-sized stacks |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Andriy Dmytruk (National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv) |
| Symmetry aspects of ZnO clusters: from nested shells to tetrapods | |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | coffee break |
| 16:30 | leaving for the guided tours through Dresden's old city centre, Dresden Friedrichstadt, and Dresden Neustadt |
| 20:00 | start of the conference dinner at the Carolaschlösschen, Querallee 7, phone: +49.351.2506000 |
| Thursday, 27th August | |
| Advances in fabrication and understanding of nanocrystals II (chair: George C. Schatz) | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Liberato Manna (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova) |
| Inorganic nanocrystals: chemical transformations and assembly | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Shiding Miao (Hefei University of Technology) |
| Hot-bubbling synthesis of quantum dots and applications in energy conversion/storage devices | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Christian von Borczyskowski (Technische Universität Chemnitz) |
| Tuning electronic states properties of quantum dots by functional dye molecules | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| Advances in fabrication and understanding of nanocrystals III (chair: Gregory V. Hartland) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Andrey Rogach (City University of Hong Kong) |
| Photo-alignment of light emitting semiconductor nanorods | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Daniel Vanmaekelbergh (University of Utrecht) |
| Preparation and study of semiconductors with a honeycomb nanogeometry | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Ya-Ping Sun (Clemson University) |
| Optical properties of carbon quantum dots and other carbon nanomaterials | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | lunch break |
| Recent advances of plasmonics (chair: Oleg Prezhdo) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | George C. Schatz (Northwestern University) |
| Plasmonic arrays | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Harald Giessen (Universität Stuttgart) |
| Complex functional plasmonics: from fundamentals to first applications | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Jérôme Plain (Université de Technologie de Troyes) |
| Aluminum nanostructures for plasmonics | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Gregory V. Hartland (University of Notre Dame) |
| Ultrafast studies of single plasmonic nanostructures | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| Nanoparticle assemblies and novel aerogels (chair: Christian von Borczyskowski) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Jessica Rodríguez-Fernández (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Hierarchical assemblies with plasmonic nanoparticles | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Christoph Ziegler (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Mixed noble metal/metal oxide aerogels | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Wei Liu (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Nanostructured metallic aerogels: synthesis via spontaneous methods and high-performance as electrocatalysts | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | supper |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | poster session II (focus on even poster numbers) |
| Friday, 28th August | |
| Structural, optical and energy-transfer properties of nanocrystals (chair: Dmitri Talapin) | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Volodymyr Dzhagan (Technische Universität Chemnitz) |
| Vibrational and electron spectroscopy of surface and internal structure of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Quanmin Guo (The University of Birmingham) |
| Magic number (C60)m-(Au)n clusters self-assembled on Au(111) | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Joanna Kolny-Olesiak (Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg) |
| Copper sulfide-based semiconductor nanocrystals: synthesis and shape control | |
| 10:00 - 10:40 | coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Anna Rodina (Ioffe Institute St. Petersburg) |
| Magnetic field enhancement of Förster energy transfer in ensemble of colloidal CdTe nanocrystals | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Eduard Zenkevich (National Technical University of Belarus) |
| Formation principles, fret/non-fret exciton relaxation and singlet oxygen generation for nanoassemblies based on semiconductor quantum dots and porphyrin molecules | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Vladimir Lesnyak (Technische Universität Dresden) |
| Partial cation exchange as a route to alloyed and heterostructured copper chalcogenide-based nanoparticles | |
| Assemblies of colloidal nanocrystals (chair: Joanna Kolny-Olesiak) | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Miriam Varón (Technical University of Denmark) |
| Dipolar magnetism in ordered and disordered low-dimensional nanoparticle assemblies | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Dmitri Talapin (University of Chicago) |
| Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals: the interplay of size, shape, and interactions | |
| 12:30 - 12:40 | concluding remarks |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | lunch & departure |
For further information please e-mail to: nanosa15
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