MNT-CURN Seminar Series: Colorful and Smart Nanoscale Materials

This video is part of a series from the Micro Nano Technology Education Center's (MNT-EC) Micro Nano Technology Collaborative Undergraduate Research Network (MNT-CURN) Research Program. In this program, students gain hands-on research experience and build nanotechnology technical education skills. Throughout this video series, viewers "... will hear and see nanotechnology and microtechnology professors presenting about their own research and work -- from biosensors to underwater drones to nanomaterials." Each video covers a different specialty that students may want to learn about and pursue as an undergraduate research project.

During this video, Yadong Yin from the University of California, covers colorful and smart nanoscale materials. Yan discusses the origins of color, colorful plasmonic nanostructures of Au and Ag, surface plasmon resonance of Ag/Au nanostructures. Synthesis of silver nanoplates, assembly of AgNPs under limited ligand protection, photothermal heating of plasmonic nanoparticles, templated synthesis of magnetic/plasmonic hybrid nanorods, and more are also discussed.

This video runs 28:05 minutes in length. Additional videos from this series are available to view separately.