Session: Synthesis, Spectroscopy, Characterization, and Applications of Nanoparticles


PHYS		Sunday, March 23, 2003

8:30 AM-12:10 PM Convention Center -- Room 287,Oral
Synthesis, Spectroscopy, Characterization, and Applications of Nanoparticles
Synthesis and Fabrication
Organizers:	Naomi Halas Steven K. Buratto
8:30 AM	19	Liquid-crystalline phases of anistropic inorganic nanocrystals A. Paul Alivisatos
9:10 AM	20	Seed-mediated growth approach to the synthesis of metallic nanorods and nanowires in aqueous solution Catherine J. Murphy
9:50 AM	21	Synthesis and characterization of monodisperse transition-metal-oxide nanocrystals Taeghwan Hyeon, Jongnam Park, Jin Joo, Sang-Wook Kim
10:30 AM		Intermission
10:50 AM	22	Metal nanoparticle formation in poly(aminohexyl-aminopropyl)silsesquioxane colloids Lyudmila M. Bronstein, Christina N. Linton, Robert Karlinsey, Earl Ashcraft, Barry D. Stein, Dmitri I. Svergun, Mikhail B. Kozin, Josef W. Zwanziger
11:10 AM	23	Nanoparticles, filaments, fibers, and treelike assemblies prepared by laser-vaporization-controlled condensation M. Samy El-Shall, Victor, M. Abdelsayed
11:30 AM	24	Laser-induced shape changes in metallodielectric concentric sphere nanoparticles Carla Aguirre, Corey Radloff, Cristin E. Moran, Naomi J. Halas
11:50 AM	25	Update on Met-Cars: Production, structure, and spectroscopy Margaret Lyn, Tunna Barauh, Mark R. Pederson, Albert W. Castleman Jr.

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