Halas Research Group
Nanoengineered Photonics and Plasmonics
Rice University
Recent news:
Congratulations to Naomi for winning the prestigious 2024 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomaterials Recipient. A photo with former students, from left to right: Corey Radloff, Naomi Halas, Cristin Moran, Jennifer Steele, and Lisa Brown.
Congratulations to Naomi for being promoted to University Professor, Rice's highest academic rank. She is the 10th person and second woman to earn the title in Rice’s 111-year history!
Congratulations to Naomi for winning the prestigious 2022 Eni Energy Transition Award for developing light-powered "antenna-reactor" catalysts for industrial-scale hydrogen production!!
Recent publications:
Yigao Yuan, Jingyi Zhou, Aaron Bayles, Hossein Robatjazi, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi J. Halas. Steam methane reforming using a regenerable antenna–reactor plasmonic photocatalyst, Nature Catalysis 2024
Aaron Bayles, Catherine J. Fabiano, Chuqiao Shi, Lin Yuan, Yigao Yuan, Nolan Craft, Christian R. Jacobson, Parmeet Dhindsa, Adebola Ogundare, Yelsin Mendez Camacho, Banghao Chen, Hossein Robatjazi, Yimo Han, Geoffrey F. Strouse, Peter Nordlander Henry O. Everitt, and Naomi J. Halas. Tailoring the aluminum nanocrystal surface oxide for all-aluminum-based antenna-reactor plasmonic photocatalysts, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024, 121 (11)
David Solti, Christian R. Jacobson, J. Alexander Orion Yates, Benjamin Franklin Hammel, Gopal Narmada Naidu, Catherine E. Arndt, Aaron Bayles, Yigao Yuan, Parmeet Dhindsa, Jessica T. Luu, Corbin Farr, Gang Wu, Henry O. Everitt, Ah-Lim Tsai, Sadegh Yazdi, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi J. Halas. Reduced-Dimensionality Al Nanocrystals: Nanowires, Nanobars, and Nanomoustaches, Nano Lett. 2024 24, 23, 6897-6905
Our group is focused on four principal missions:
to design new optically active nanostructures driven by function
to develop and implement new nanofabrication strategies to build, orient, and pattern these nanostructures into new materials and devices
to characterize and understand the physical properties of these optically active nanostructures, devices and materials
to prototype the use of optically active nanostructures in applications of potential technological and broad societal interest
A major goal of our research program is to produce PhD research scientists with significantly expanded skill sets and expertise who can develop new solutions to research and engineering problems beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. For more information, click on the links in the sidebar.