Naomi Halas
Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Chemistry

Rational design and fabrication of nanoscale optical structures, which exploit the plasmon resonant properties of ultrasmall metal structures to focus and manipulate light.

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Jason Hafner
Asst. Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Asst. Professor Department of Chemistry

Single particle spectroscopy of gold nanoparticles. Development of a new tip technology for Recognition AFM to enhance the ability to probe specific biomolecular interactions.

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Peter Nordlander
Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Rice Quantum Institute

Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure, transport and optical properties of nanostructures using analytical methods such as Plasmon Hydridization theory and numerical methods such as Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) studies.

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Bruce Johnson
Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Department of Chemistry Executive Director, Rice Quantum Institute

Quantum Mechanical investigation of the molecular near-field response for molecules such as p-mercaptoaniline adsorbed on silver nanoshells, to understand molecule-metal nanostructure interactions, especially in the context of Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

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Kevin Kelly
Asst. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Development of a Plasmonic NSOM tip for surface enhanced spectroscopy

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Robert Raphael
T. N. Law Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Examination of membrane mechanics and the effect of salicylate and other Aspirin like molecules on lipid membranes. Development of liposomal mediated delivery methods for molecular transfer across lipid membranes

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Yehia Massoud
Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Numerical and analytical modeling techniques of emerging Nanophotonics structures such as metallic nanoshells and photonic crystals. Their development as on chip interconnects and active components will increase performance and decrease interconnect size.

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Gennady Shvets
Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin

Theoretical and experimental investigations towards developing a nanostructured super-lens.

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Gustavo Scuseria
Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry

Theoretical chemistry, ab initio computational quantum chemistry, density functional theory, development of new methods for molecular electronic structure, and applications to nanostructures

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Jennifer West
Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering; Professor, Chemical Engineering; Director, Inst of Biosciences & Bioengineers

Biomedical applications of nanoshells including cancer therapy, drug delivery and tissue welding.

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Rebekah Drezek
Stanley C. Moore Assistant Professor in Bioengineering and Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Development of novel optical spectroscopy and imaging instrumentation for tissue diagnosis. Application of nanoshells as contrast agents for early detection of cancerous tissue.

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Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Chair of the Department of Bioengineering

New, non-invasive cancer detection technologies that use high-resolution, optical imaging; biophysical studies of the light-scattering properties of cells and tissues; and the use of fiber-optic sensors for in vivo detection of cancer.

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Michel Wong
Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Assistant Professor in Chemistry

Nanostructured materials, heterogeneous catalysis, and bioengineering applications. He is particularly interested in developing new chemical approaches to assembling nanoparticles into functional macrostructures.

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Eugene Zubarev
Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator Assistant Professor of Chemistry Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Synthetic manipulation of molecular architecture to preprogram small molecules to organize into well-defined nano-sized aggregates.

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Jiangpeng Ma
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulation of Supermolecular Complexes.

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Cecilia Clementi
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Model and characterize protein systems on a realistic time scale.

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Yildiz Bayazitoglu
AH. S. Cameron Chair, Professor in Mechanical Engineering

Research intrests include solution to electromagnetic radiation equation, molecular dynamics studies for nano heat transfer, micro-channel fluid and heat transfer, and bio heat transfer.

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Jeffrey Hartgerink
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering

Study of the novel surface enhanced Raman and IR spectra of peptides.

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