Faculty DirectoryGeorge Schatz
Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Contact
2145 Sheridan RoadTech
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
847-491-5657Email George Schatz
Departments
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Education
BS: Clarkson University
PhD: California Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Theory, nanoscience, plasmonics and excitonics, self-assembly, catalysis
Significant Recognition
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Dreyfus Fellow
- National Fresenius Award, Phi Lambda Upsilon
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Max Planck Research Award
- Senior Editor, Journal of Physical Chemistry
- Fellow, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Bourke Medal of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Selected Publications
Using DNA to link gold nanoparticles, polymers and molecules: a theoretical perspective, One-Sun Lee, Tatiana Prytkova, George C. Schatz, J. Phys. Chem. Lett, 1, 1781-1788 (2010).
Classical electrodynamics coupled to quantum mechanics for calculation of molecular optical properties: a RT-TDDFT/FDTD approach, Hanning Chen, Jeffrey M. McMahon, Mark A. Ratner and George C. Schatz, J. Phys. Chem. C, 114, 14384-392 (2010).
Reversing the size dependence of surface plasmon resonances, Sheng Peng, Jeffrey M. McMahon, George C. Schatz, Stephen K. Gray, Yugan Sun, PNAS, 107, 14530-34 (2010).
Conformational control of thymine photodimerization in single-strand and duplex DNA containing locked nucleic acid TT steps, Mahesh Hariharan, Martin McCullagh, George C. Schatz and Frederick D. Lewis, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 5215-21, 2010.
Unraveling the Effects of Size, Composition, and Substrate on the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Frequencies of Gold and Silver Nanocubes: A Systematic Single-Particle Approach, Emilie Ringe, Jeffrey M. McMahon, Kwonnam Sohn, Claire Cobley, Younan Xia, Jiaxing Huang, George C. Schatz, Laurence D. Marks, and Richard P. Van Duyne, J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 12511-16 (2010).
Structure-Activity Relationships in Gold Nanoparticle Dimers and Trimers for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Kristin L. Wustholz, Anne-Isabelle Henry, Jeffrey M. McMahon, R. Griffith Freeman, Nicholas Valley, Marcelo E. Piotti, Michael J. Natan, George C. Schatz, and Richard P. Van Duyne, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 10903-10910 (2010).
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics study of permeability enhancement in DPPC bilayers by incorporation of lysolipid, Nicolas D. Winter, George C. Schatz, J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 5053-5060 (2010).
DNA Melting in small-molecule-DNA-hybrid dimer structures: experimental characterization and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, Tatiana Prytkova, Ibrahim Eryazici, Brian Stepp, Son-Binh Nguyen and George C. Schatz, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 2627-34 (2010).
Scattering dynamics of hyperthermal oxygen atoms on ionic liquid surfaces: [emin]NTf2] and [C(12)min][NTf2], Bohan Wu, Jianming, Zhang, Timothy K. Minton, Kenneth, G. McKendrick, John M. Slattery, Scott Yockel and George C. Schatz, J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 4015-27 (2010).
On the linear response and scattering of an interacting molecule-metal system, David Masiello and George C. Schatz, J. Chem. Phys., 132, 064102 (2010).