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December 10th, 2009
MRS Fall meeting 2009
I’ve spent the week at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting, and have been really impressed by much of the research presented. Gold-related work has been prominent, with literally hundreds of oral presentations and posters on offer. In fact, I’ve not been able to see everything!
There have been many highlights – Michael Natan gave an excellent overview of Oxonicas work on SERS active particles. Naomi Halas (and students) from Rice University have given a series of good presentations on plasmonics and nanotechnology, and Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli spoke about her groups work at MIT on gold nanorods. There was also an entire session devoted to gold catalysis, with contributions from the labs of Kung, Haruta and Flyzani-Stephanopoulos.
All in all an excellent meeting… Look out for a more thorough review in the next issue of Gold Bulletin.
Trevor Keel
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