Author Archives: Ed

Elisabeth Bianco and Dayne Swearer were selected as American delegates to the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany this June. They are two of 400 students selected worldwide to be part of this prestigious conference and will be face-to-face … Continue reading →

The Ringe group collaborated with scientist from UT Austin, UC Berkley, and Laurence Berkley National Laboratory to study tunable plasmonic doped metal oxides. The findings revealed the nature of coupling between moleculat vibrational modes of the native ligands and metal … Continue reading →

Recruitment weekend went as smooth as planned at Rice University for the departments of MSNE and Chemistry, despite the rain chance. Prospective students were introduced to Rice university and Houston life. The Ringe Group was very involved in the process, … Continue reading →

The departments of chemistry and MSNE arranged a visitation weekend at Rice University, where perspective students interact with professors and students to get a feel of the Rice life. The prospective students have one-to-one meetings with professors, activities with grad … Continue reading →

Dayne Swearer participated at The Smalley-Curl Institute (SCI) Transdisciplinary Symposium, where he gave a presentation entitled “Aluminum Nanocrystals Decorated with Transition Metal Nanoislands as Antenna-Reactor Nanoparticles for Photocatalysis”. The SCI transdisciplinary symposium gives graduate students a forum for delivering oral talks in … Continue reading →

Happy National Periodic Table Day!!

The Rice Chemistry Graduate Student Association organized an event called Buckyball, where graduate students had the opportunity to dress formal and enjoy some music. The event went very well for the Ringe Group members!  

The Ringe Group started a collaboration with Denis Boudreau from Université Laval, where galvanic replacement on nanoparticles will be studied. Josée Daniel-Richard, a PhD student from the Boudreau group, is visiting the Ringe lab for a short stay in the Spring of … Continue reading →

The Electron Microscope (EMC) user meeting and workshop will be held on January 25th-26th at Duncan Hall, Rice University. For this meeting, discussions and workshops on cutting edge research will be presented. The topics are: STEM tomography, atomic resolution STEM imaging of … Continue reading →

Prof. Emilie Ringe and Eduardo Villarreal collaborated with professors Christy Landes and Stephan Link to investigate about “optimization of spectral and spatial conditions to improve super-resolution imaging of plasmonic nanoparticles”. The research focuses on how the interactions between fluorophores and … Continue reading →