Program


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The program will be updated continuously. Last update: 16/07/2012




Sunday, 08 July  
   
18:00 - 20:00 registration
   
19:00 - 21:00 welcome reception
   
   
Monday, 09 July  
   
09:00 - 09:10 Holger Kantz (MPIPKS) & Scientific Coordinators
  Opening
   
  Nanomaterial synthesis and fabrication
   
09:10 - 09:40 Liberato Manna (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova)
  Synthesis and assembly of complex nanocrystal structures
   
09:40 - 10:10 Hilmi Volkan Demir (Bilkent University and NTU Singapore)
  Nanocrystal optoelectronics for high-quality high-efficiency LED lighting
   
10:10 - 10:30 Nikolai Gaponik (Technical University Dresden)
  All-inorganic macrostructures from colloidal nanocrystals
   
10:30 - 11:00 coffee/tea
   
  Non-ordered nano-assemblies
   
11:00 - 11:30 Stephanie Brock (Wayne State University, Detroit)
  Sol-gel assembly of particles: Nanostructures for energy and environment
   
11:30 - 12:00 Debra Rolison (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
  Ultraporous 3-D nanoarchitectures en route to energy- and size-scalable power
   
12:00 - 12:20 Anne-Kristin Herrmann (Technical University Dresden)
  Non-ordered, highly porous and three-dimensional superstructures by self-assembly of noble metal nanoparticles
   
12:20 - 14:00 lunch
   
  Nano-optics
   
14:00 - 14:30 Efrat Lifshitz (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
  Excitons' fine structure in the micro-photoluminescence spectrum of a single doped/undoped core/shell colloidal quantum dot
   
14:30 - 15:00 Min Ouyang (University of Maryland)
  Hybrid nanostructures: Merging chemistry with physics for emerging technology application from the bottom-up
   
15:00 - 15:30 Ulrike Woggon (Technical University Berlin)
  Nonlinear optics for nanodevices
   
15:30 - 16:00 Marie-Paule Pileni (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
  Supracrystals of inorganic nanocrystals: Specific properties related to the crystal growth mechanisms
   
16:00 - 16:30 coffee/tea
   
  ONSNO12 colloquium
Chairperson: Stefan Kirchner (MPIPKS)
16:30 - 17:30 Dmitri Talapin (The University of Chicago)
  The evolution of nanomaterials - From fundamental science to practical applications
   
18:30 - 19:30 supper
   
19:30 - 21:30 poster session I
   
   
Tuesday, 10 July  
   
  Nanomaterial synthesis
   
09:00 - 09:30 Mingyuan Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
  Preparation of semiconductor-semiconductor heterostructured nanocrystals
   
09:30 - 09:50 Celso de Mello Donega (Utrecht University)
  Highly luminescent (Zn,Cd)Te/CdSe colloidal hetero nanowires with tunable electron-hole overlap
   
09:50 - 10:20 Itamar Willner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Functional nanoparticles: From programmed nanostructures to optical sensor devices
   
10:20 - 10:50 coffee/tea
   
  Improving control over nanomaterials synthesis and characterization
   
10:50 - 11:20 Paul Mulvaney (University of Melbourne)
  CdTe nanocrystal solar cells - One solution to photovoltaics
   
11:20 - 11:40 Michael Engel (University of Michigan)
  Towards structural complexity with nanoparticles
   
11:40 - 12:00 Alexei Plotnikov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH)
  Characterization of nancolloids by atomic spectrometry combined with different separation techniques: New horizons of good old analytics
   
12:00 - 12:20 Alexey Shavel (Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, IREC)
  Continuous production of the quaternary nanocrystals in a flow reactor
   
12:20 - 14:00 lunch
   
  Ordered nano-assemblies
   
14:00 - 14:30 Christopher Murray (University of Pennsylvania)
  Building with artificial atoms: Multi-component nanoscale assembly of nanocrystal based materials and devices
   
14:30 - 15:00 Daniel Vanmaekelbergh (Utrecht University)
  Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals: From non-interacting hard spheres to atomic bonding
   
15:00 - 15:30 Horst Weller (University of Hamburg)
  Synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles into functional materials for energy and medical applications
   
15:30 - 16:00 coffee/tea
   
16:00 - 16:20 Lydia Liebscher (Technical University Dresden)
  Mesocrystals - Self-assembly of nanocrystals via non-classical crystallization
   
16:20 - 16:40 Elena Rosseeva (MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden)
  Relationship between nanocrystal orientation and superlattice ordering within PbS-organic mesocrystals
   
17:00 excursion & workshop dinner
   
   
Wednesday, 11 July  
   
  Nano-plasmonics
   
09:00 - 09:30 Naomi Halas (Rice University)
  Coherent plasmonics: A route to active, responsive metamaterials
   
09:30 - 10:00 Gotthard Seifert (Technical University Dresden)
  Electronic and optical properties on inorganic nanoparticles and aggregates
   
10:00 - 10:30 Peter Nordlander (Rice University)
  Quantum plasmonics and plexcitonics
   
10:30 - 11:00 Hedi Mattoussi (Florida State University)
  Controlling the photoemission of semiconductor quantum dot by metal clusters and redox complexes
   
11:00 - 11:30 group photo (to be published on the website)
& coffee/tea
   
  Nano-bio assemblies I
   
11:30 - 12:00 Alexander Bittner (CIC nanoGUNE, San Sebastiàn)
  The interaction of a biological tube with particles and with liquids
   
12:00 - 12:30 Yurii K. Gun'ko (Trinity College Dublin)
  Chirality in quantum dots
   
12:30 - 12:50 Andre Skirtach (Ghent University / MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Golm)
  Assemblies of nanoparticles for remotely controlled molecular trafficking through polymeric and lipid membranes
   
12:50 - 14:00 lunch
   
  Nano-bio assemblies II
   
14:00 - 14:30 Wolfgang Parak (Philipps University Marburg)
  Nanoparticle-functionalized microcapsules for in vitro delivery and sensing
   
14:30 - 15:00 Tim Liedl (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich)
  Optically active material based on DNA origami
   
15:00 - 15:30 coffee/tea
   
15:30 - 15:50 Paul Simon (MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden)
  Nanomechanism of calcite mineralisation of bacterial surface-layer proteins
   
16:00 MPIPKS summer party & BBQ
   
   
Thursday, 12 July  
   
  Energy and charge transfer at the nanoscale I
   
09:00 - 09:30 Cherie Kagan (University of Pennsylvania)
  Band-like transport in semiconductor nanocrystal arrays: The role of surface ligands and doping
   
09:30 - 10:00 Oded Millo (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem )
  Electrical properties of hybrid semiconductor-metal and superconductor-metal nanostructured systems
   
10:00 - 10:30 Philippe Guyot-Sionnest (The University of Chicago)
  Mid-infrared colloidal quantum dot
   
10:30 - 11:00 coffee/tea
   
  Doping
   
11:00 - 11:30 David Norris (ETH Zürich)
  Electronic impurity doping of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals
   
11:30 - 12:00 Andries Meijerink (Utrecht University)
  Doping the dots
   
12:00 - 12:30 Daniel Gamelin (University of Washington)
  Intrinsic dual emission in doped quantum dots
   
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
   
  Energy and charge transfer at the nanoscale II
   
14:00 - 14:30 Fernando Stefani (University of Buenos Aires)
  Manipulating light, heat and forces at the nanoscale with metallic nanoparticles
   
14:30 - 15:00 Andrey Rogach (City University of Hong Kong)
  Energy transfer and charge separation in hybrid functional structures of semiconductor nanocrystals
   
15:00 - 15:30 Sergey Gaponenko (Stepanov Institute of Physics, Minsk)
  Nanoplasmonic enhancement of fluorescence and Raman scattering in model metal-dielectric structures
   
15:30 - 16:00 coffee/tea
   
  Nano-chirality
   
16:00 - 16:30 Sebastian Mackowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun)
  From absorption enhancement to plasmonic circular dichroism in photosynthetic complexes
   
16:30 - 17:00 Gil Markovich (Tel Aviv University)
  Chiroptical effects induced in inorganic nanocrystals by chiral molecules
   
17:00 - 17:30 Andreas Taubert (University of Potsdam)
  Chiral silver nanoparticles: Synthesis, modification, and reversible self-assembly
   
17:30 - 17:45 Alexander Govorov (Ohio University)
  Plasmons and excitons in chiral nanostructures
   
18:30 - 19:30 supper
   
19:30 - 21:30 poster session II
   
   
Friday, 13 July  
   
  Nanomaterials and device applications
   
09:00 - 09:30 Victor Klimov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  Nanocrystal quantum dots and solar energy conversion
   
09:30 - 10:00 Dan Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
  Novel CuInS2-ZnS heterostructured nanorods for counter electrodes of dye-sensitized solar cells
   
10:00 - 10:30 Alexander Holleitner (Technical University Munich)
  Resonant photoconductance of molecular junctions formed in Gold nano-particle arrays and Coulomb-blockade phenomena
   
10:30 - 11:00 coffee/tea
   
  Theory
   
11:00 - 11:30 Alexander Efros (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.)
  Non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals: Suppression of nonradiative Auger processes
   
11:30 - 12:00 Pawel Hawrylak (NRC Institute for Microstructural Sciences, Ottawa)
  Atomistic theory of highly excited nanocrystals and quantum dot molecules
   
12:00 - 12:30 Vladimir Fomin (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden)
  Theory of electron localization in inhomogeneous 3D Möbius rings
   
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
   
  Energy and charge transfer at the nanoscale III
   
14:00 - 14:30 Rubén Esteban (University of Maryland-NIST and Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU))
  Near field control at nanometer and subnanometer gaps using optical antennas and disordered systems
   
14:30 - 15:00 Yury Rakovich (Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU))
  Plasmonic nanocavities with J-aggregates
   
15:00 - 15:20 Volkhard May (Humboldt-University at Berlin)
  Interacting molecule metal-nanoparticle systems: Excitation energy transfer and optical spectra
   
15:20 - 15:30 closing remarks
   
15:30 coffee/tea & departure