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Self-organized Nanomaterials for tailored optical and electrical properties
ABOUT NANOGOLD
NANOGOLD is a Framework Programme 7 project funded by the European Commission. The project was launched in August 2009 and it is going to run for 3 years.
The NANOGOLD project aims at the fabrication and application of bulk electro-magnetic metamaterials. We will apply self-organization of organic-inorganic composite materials containing resonant entities. To tune and optimize electromagnetic properties, resonance and interference at different length scales will be implemented. In such a way we will obtain bulk optical metamaterials with unprecedented properties operating in spectral domains appropriate for photonics that can be used in applications. Proof of principle devices will be the outcome of the project.
NANOGOLD AT GLANCE
Mission: Fabrication and application of bulk electro-magnetic metamaterials.
Project Coordinator: Toralf Scharf (Optics and Photonics Laboratory, EPFL)
email: toralf.scharf@epfl.ch
Web: www.nanogold.epfl.ch
Contract number: NMP - 228455
Duration: 08/2009 - 07/2012
Partners:
- Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Institute of Microtechnology, Optics and Photonics Technology
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University of Hull, Department of Chemistry, Liquid crystal and advanced organic materials group
- Friedrich SchillerUniversityJena, Institute for Condensed Matter Theory and SolidState Optic
- University of Patras, Department of Materials Science, Molecular theory group
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University of Heidelberg, Physical Chemistry, Surface Spectroscopy and Nanochemistry (08.2009 - 01.2011)
- University of Calabria, Physics Department, Liquid Crystal Laboratory
- The University of Sheffield, Polymers, Liquid Crystals and Supramolecular Structures Group
- Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials - METAMORPHOSE VI AISBL
- University of Geneva, Physical Chemistry Department, Surfaces Chemistry and Nanosciences Laboratory (02.2011 - 07.2012)
The NANOGOLD project is co-financed by the European Commission under the
Mid-Term Review meeting, Jena (D), January 2011
Back : Alexandros Vanakaras (UPAT), Vassilis Yannopapas (UPAT), Thomas Bürgi (UNIGE), Julie Lenoble Zwahlen (EPFL), Stefan Mühlig (JENA), Demetri Photinos (UPAT), Toralf Scharf (EPFL, coordinator)
Front: Carsten Rockstuhl (JENA), Goran Ungar (USFD), Georg Mehl (UHULL), Sergei Tretyakov (VI), X. Mang (USFD), Alastair Cunningham (UNIGE), Tobias Kienzler (JENA), Bai-Jia "Rocket" Tang (UHULL), José Dintinger (EPFL), "Eric" Chi-Hao Yu (UHULL), Roberto Caputo (UNICAL), Cesare Umeton (UNICAL)
General Assembly, Cetraro (I), June 2011
Sergei Tretyakov (VI), Georg Mehl (UHULL), Demetri Photinos (UPAT), "Eric" Chi-Hao Yu (UHULL), Goran Ungar (USFD), Chris Schubert (UHULL), Bai-Jia "Rocket" Tang (UHULL), Tobias Kienzler (JENA), Cesare Umeton (UNICAL), Houda Sellame (EPFL), Carsten Rockstuhl (JENA), Mohamed Farhat (JENA), Alastair Cunningham (UNIGE), José Dintinger (EPFL), Toralf Scharf (EPFL), Luciano De Sio (UNICAL), Ugo Cataldi (UNICAL), Roberto Caputo (UNICAL), Xiangbing Zeng (USFD)
News
We would like to thank all the participants to the International Conference on Metamaterials and Dissemination Workshop 2012, Jena, Germany (July 3rd-4th 2012)
CONTACTS
Coordinator :
Toralf Scharf (Optics and Photonics Laboratory)
EPFL STI IMT NE OPT
Rue A.-L. Breguet 2
2000 Neuchâtel
Tel. +41 32 718 3286
Fax. +41 32 718 3201
toralf.scharf@epfl.ch
“Nanostructured Metamaterials” _ Brochure edited by the European commission
“Nanostructured Metamaterials – Exploitable Results"
Edited by Profactor (NIM_NIL project)
Contributions from NANGOLD, MAGNONICS, METACHEM, and NIM_NIL
T. Scharf, P. Truss EU Research 2/2012 50-52
"The Invisible Men" (www.GULF-LIFE.com, Dec. 2011)
General information
Nanogold first dissemination workshop - Lausanne - Sept. 8th 2011
Final dissemination workshop - Jena - July, 3rd-4th 2012
Project summaries:
selected recent PUBLICATIONS
“Ordered arrays of metal nanostrings as broadband super absorbers”, V. Yannopapas and I. E. Psarobas, J. Phys. Chem. C, 116, 15599, (2012)
“Plasmon-induced enhancement of nonlinear optical rectification in organic materials”, I. Thanopulos, E. Paspalakis, and V. Yannopapas, Phys. Rev. B, 85, 035111 (2012)
“Plasmon resonance tunability of Gold nanoparticles embedded in a confined Cholesteric Liquid Crystal host”, R. Caputo, L. De Sio, U. Cataldi and C. Umeton, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 559, 1, 194-201, (2012)
“One-Step Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles into 3D Superlattices”, A. Pucci, M.-G. Willinger, F. Liu, X.B. Zeng, V. Rebuttini, G. Clavel, X. Bai, G. Ungar, N. Pinna, ACS Nano, 6, 4382–4391, (2012)
“Effective electric and magnetic properties of metasurfaces in transition from crystalline to amorphous state”, M. Albooyeh, D. Morits, and S. Tretyakov, Phys. Rev. B, vol. 85, p. 205110, (2012)
“Control of anisotropic self-assembly of gold nanoparticles coated with mesogens”, X. Mang, XB Zeng, B. Tang, F. Liu, G. Ungar, R. Zhang, L. Cseh, GH Mehl, J. Mater. Chem. 22, 11101-11106, (2012)
“Scattering cancellation of the magnetic dipole field from macroscopic spheres”, M. Farhat, S. Mühlig, C. Rockstuhl, and F. Lederer, Optics Express, 20 13896- 13906, (2012)
"Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Mesogenic Amine-Capped Nematic Gold Nanoparticles with Surface-Enhanced Plasmonic Resonances", C.H. Yu, C.P.J. Shchubert, C. Welch, B.J. Tang, M.-G. Tamba, and G.H. Mehl, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 5076-5079, (2012)
“Longitudinal-differential interferometry: Direct imaging of axial superluminal phase propagation”, M.-S. Kim, T. Scharf, C. Etrich, C. Rockstul, and H. P. Herzig, Opt. Lett. 37, 305-307 (2012)
"A bottom-up apporach to fabricate optical metamaterials by self-assembled metallic nanoparticles", J. Dintinger, S. Mühlig, C. Rockstuhl, T. Scharf, Opt. Mat. Exp., 2, 269-278, (2012).
Realization and Characterization of POLICRYPS-like Structures Including Metallic Subentities, R. Caputo, L. De Sio, J. Dintinger, H. Sellame, T. Scharf, and C. P. Umeton, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 553, 111-117, (2012)
“Simple Cubic Superlattice of Gold Nanoparticles through Rational Design of their Dendrimeric Corona”, K. Kanie, M. Matsubara, XB. Zeng, F. Liu, G. Ungar, H. Nakamura, A. Muramatsu, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134 (2), 808-811, (2012)
Posters
Summary posters, Nanogold Dissemination Workshop, Lausanne (CH), Sept. 2011:
NANOGOLD - Self-organized metamaterials based on spatially arranged nanoparticles
EPFL: Self-assembled nanoparticles for metamaterial fabrication, J. Dintinger, T. Scharf.
UHULL: Synthesis and Characterization of Nematic Gold Nanoparticles, G. H. Mehl, B.-J. Tang, C.-H. Yu, C. J. Schubert.
JENA: Theroy of metamaterials based on nanoparticles and their numerical description, M. Farhat, S. Mühlig, T. Kienzler, C. Rockstuhl, and F. Lederer.
UPAT: Modelling of LC-based self-assembled metamaterials, V. Yannopapas, A. Vanakaras, N. Fytas, and D. J. Photinos.
UNICAL: Self-organization of liquid crystal phases doped with metal nanoparticles in periodical polymerci structures, R. Caputo, L. De Sio, U. Cataldi, C. Umeton.
USFD: Controlled Self-Assembling of Gold Nanoparticles through Rational Design, F. Liu, X. Mang, X. Zeng, G. Ungar.
UNIGE: Self-organised metallic nanoparticle structures, A. Cunningham and T. Bürgi,