Session: Interfacial Electron Transfer and Solar Energy Conversion: From Molecules to Nanomaterials


COLL		Wednesday, April 9, 2008

2:00 PM-5:40 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 226, Oral
Interfacial Electron Transfer and Solar Energy Conversion: From Molecules to Nanomaterials
Molecular Control
Sponsored by:	COLL
Cosponsored by:	PHYS and ENGENV
Organizers:	Xiaoyang Zhu Prashant Kamat Tianquan Lian
2:00 PM	402	Frontier orbital energies of self-assembled monolayers and monolayers of "tethered nanoparticles" Neal R. Armstrong, Amy L. Graham, Dana M. Alloway, R. Clayton Shallcross
2:40 PM	403	Organic monolayers for interfacing electrocatalytic molecules to nanostructured electrodes Elizabeth C. Landis, Robert J. Hamers
3:00 PM	404	Electron transport through thiol tethered porphyrin derivatives on gold Amanda E. Schuckman, Yang-Hsiang Chan, Mikki Vinodu, Lisa M. Pérez, Charles Michael Drain, James D. Batteas
3:20 PM	405	Toward molecular modulation of electronic devices David Cahen
4:00 PM		Intermission
4:20 PM	406	Length-dependent transport in molecular junctions based on SAMs of aromatic monothiols and aromatic dithiols: Effect of contact type and metal work function BongSoo Kim, SeongHo Choi, C. Daniel Frisbie
4:40 PM	407	Modulation of interfacial electronic coupling between (porphinato)metal complexes and gold nanoparticles via carbodithioate and thiol linkers Tae-Hong Park, Michael J. Therien
5:00 PM	408	Charge transfer through and between single molecules Eric Borguet

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