Faraday Discussions Blog

We are delighted to share with you a selection of the Accepted Manuscripts that will be discussed at the upcoming Faraday Discussions meeting on hot-electron science and microscopic processes in plasmonics and catalysis.

We very much hope you enjoy reading the articles and that you will join us to present your own research poster to leading scientists including Jeremy Baumberg, Naomi Halas, Javier Aizpurua, Alexandra Boltasseva and many more.
Submit a poster abstract by 10 December

Read this selection of Accepted Manuscripts which will be presented in London:

Direct optical excitation of dark plasmons for hot electron generation
Niclas A Müller, Bruno G. M. Vieira, Dominik Höing, Florian Schulz, Eduardo Bedê Barros, Holger Lange and stephanie Reich

Enhanced hot electron generation by inverse metal–oxide interfaces on catalytic nanodiode
Hyosun Lee, Sinmyung Yoon, Jinwoung Jo, Beomjoon Jeon, Taeghwan Hyeon, Kwangjin An and Jeong Y. Park

The role of a plasmonic substrate on the enhancement and spatial resolution of tip-enhanced Raman scattering
Mahfujur Rahaman, Alexander G. Milekhin, Ashutosh Mukherjee, E E Rodyakina, Alexander Latyshev, Volodymyr Dzhagan and Dietrich RT Zahn

Assistance of metal nanoparticles to photo-catalysis – nothing more than a classical heat source
Yonatan Sivan, Ieng Wai Un and Yoni Dubi

Out-of-equilibrium electron dynamics of silver driven by ultrafast electromagnetic fields – a novel hydrodynamical approach
Andrea Marini, Alessandro Ciattoni and Claudio Conti

Electron-induced molecular dissociation at a surface leads to reactive collisions at selected impact parameters
John C Polanyi, Kelvin Anggara, Lydie Leung, Matthew J Timm and Hu Zhixin

Generation of hot electrons in nanostructures incorporating conventional and unconventional plasmonic materials
Tianji Liu, Lucas V. Besteiro, Zhiming Wang and Alexander O. Govorov

Impact of chemical interface damping on surface plasmon dephasing
Andrew J. Therrien, Matthew J. Kale, Lin Yuan, Chao Zhang, Naomi J Halas and Phillip Christopher

Monitoring plasmonic hot-carrier chemical reactions at the single particle level
Sabrina Simoncelli, Evangelina Pensa, Thomas Brick, Julian Gargiulo, Alberto Lauri, Javier Cambiasso, Yi Li, Stefan A. Maier and Emiliano Cortes

Quantum effects in small molecular systems
10 – 12 September 2018, Edinburgh, UK

Register by 20 August to secure your place and join the discussion

With something to appeal to researchers working on both isolated and confined molecular systems, we’ll be discussing some fundamental physical chemistry. Nonetheless the impacts are tangible in atmospheric chemistry, biology, physics, and astrophysics and astrochemistry.

We look forward to hearing from world leading researchers including:

• Sir David Clary (University of Oxford)
• Ad van der Avoird (Radboud University Nijmegen)
• Joel Bowman (Emory University)
• Steve Bradforth (University of Southern California)
• Stephen R. Leone (University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Lab)
• Anne B. McCoy (University of Washington)
• Petr Slavíček (University of Chemistry and Technology Prague)
• Thierry Stoecklin (Université de Bordeaux)
• Anne Zehnacker-Rentien (Université Paris Sud)

Don’t forget that every delegate has the opportunity to participate, with a record of the comments and discussions in the associated volume of Faraday Discussions.

Save the date: Quantum effects in complex systems
1 – 13 September 2019, Coventry, UK

With the rapid rate of development and broad application domains, the principal aim of this Faraday Discussion is to provide a snapshot of the current theoretical and experimental state-of-the-art in methods designed to interrogate and rationalize the role of quantum-mechanical effects in complex systems; simultaneously, this meeting will act as a new forum to discuss ideas which span the experimental/theoretical domains.

Submit an oral/paper abstract by 19 December 2018 if you wish to be considered for an oral presentation and associated published paper (submission opening soon).

For more information about the unique format of Faraday Discussions check out our FAQs page.

It’s tricky to analyse mixtures that don’t easily separate into their constituent parts. But it’s important to do so to look at pollutants in soil, the components of food or biological metabolites.

So we’re bringing together experts from across a range of specialities to discuss this fascinating field. From chromatographers to spectroscopists and those whose focus is on a particular biological metabolite or environmental mixture, researchers from around the world will be in Edinburgh next May to discuss Challenges in analysis of complex natural mixtures.

Topics for discussion include the latest mass spectrometry and chromatography techniques, high-resolution techniques, data mining and visualisation, and chemometrics.

So how can you get involved?

Submit an oral abstract by 27 August for a chance to join
– Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin (Helmholtz Zentrum München/Technical University Munich)
– Chris Reddy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
– Lutgarde Buydens (Radboud University)
– André J. Simpson (University of Toronto)
– Dan Stærk (University of Copenhagen)
and many more!