Contact Information
University of Illinois
A128 CLSL
600 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Materials Research Lab
Research Interests
Photophysics and photochemistry of nanomaterials, plasmonics, solar energy conversion, single-particle imaging, ultrafast spectroscopy.
Recent Publications
Bian, Z., Gomez, E., Gruebele, M., Levine, B. G., Link, S., Mehmood, A., & Nie, S. (2025). Bottom-up carbon dots: purification, single-particle dynamics, and electronic structure. Chemical Science, 16(10), 4195-4212. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sc05843g
Bian, Z., Gomez, E., Ren, J., Chatterjee, T., Yang, H., Schroeder, C. M., Nie, S., Link, S., & Gruebele, M. (2025). Ultrathin Atomically Flat Gold Film for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Single-Particle Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Langmuir, 41(25), 16000-16008. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c01097
Chakraborty, A., Verma, O., Naidu, G. N., Dass, M., Jia, Z., Landes, C. F., Alabastri, A., Nordlander, P., Liedl, T., & Link, S. (2025). The Influence of the Supporting Substrate on Single-Particle Circular Differential Scattering of DNA Assembled Nanorod Dimers. Advanced Optical Materials. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202403002
Elkins, J., Iyengar, S. A., Verma, O., Shekhar, H., Khodabandehloo, K., Zhou, J., Pieshkov, T., Murukeshan, J., Nordlander, P., Krishnamoorthy, A., Link, S., Vajtai, R., Puthirath, A., & Ajayan, P. M. (2025). Spatially Controlled Growth of Ultrathin MoO2 Polymorphs by Physical Vapor Deposition. Nano letters, 25(6), 2283-2289. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05582
Gomez, E., Mehmood, A., Bian, Z., Lee, S. A., Tauzin, L. J., Adhikari, S., Gruebele, M., Levine, B. G., & Link, S. (2025). Single-Particle Correlated Imaging Reveals Multiple Chromophores in Carbon Dot Fluorescence. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147(21), 17784-17794. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c01367
