Abstract

Nanoscale materials play key roles in diverse areas ranging from energy storage to communication to medicine because their physical length scales are commensurate with those of the underlying mechanisms. For example, charge, energy, and ion transport as well as receptor-protein and cell-cell interactions all occur at the nanoscale. However, for finer control over more complex and orthogonal processes, new approaches are required to achieve multi-scale nanostructures. This talk will discuss complementary strategies on how to design gold nanostructures with shape control approaching 1 nm for applications in biosensing and nanophotonics. Exquisite control over hierarchical nanostructures by integrating synthetic, chemical methods and engineered, fabrication processes can overcome bottlenecks in current challenges and open unanticipated functions.

Biography

Teri W. Odom is the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. She is an expert in designing structured nanoscale materials that exhibit extraordinary size and shape-dependent optical and physical properties. Odom has pioneered a suite of multi-scale nanofabrication tools that have resulted in plasmon-based nanoscale lasers and flat nano-optics that can manipulate light-matter interactions. She has also invented biological nanoconstructs that show superior bio-imaging and therapeutic properties because of their gold nanostar shape.

Odom is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Materials Research Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Physical Society, Optica, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a Senior Member of SPIE. Select honors and awards include: a Guggenheim Fellowship, the SPIE Mozi Award, the RSC Centenary Prize, the ACS National Award in Surface Science, a Department of Defense Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship (Harvard University), an NIH Director's Pioneer Award, the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the National Fresenius Award from Phi Lambda Upsilon, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering.

Odom was founding Chair of the Noble Metal Nanoparticles Gordon Research Conference and founding Executive Editor of ACS Photonics. Currently, Odom is Editor-in-Chief of Nano Letters.