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Ken Knappenberger receives Young Investigator Award
Dr. Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr., Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at FSU, has been selected to receive the 2010 Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. According to the announcement, the objective of the program is to foster creative research in science and engineering and to enhance the early career of young investigators showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. In addition to the award recognition, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research will provide funding to support the Knappenberger Research Group's efforts in energy and electron transfer processes in magnetoplasmonic nanoparticles. [View All]


Anne-Marie Dowgiallo, a second-year graduate student in the Knappenberger lab, published femtosecond time-resolved measurements on isolated and aggregated hollow gold nanospheres in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The study reports an unexpected and previously unobserved blue-shift of the surface plasmon resonance spectral position due to enhanced interparticle coupling. The findings are of significant importance for device design based on nanoscale particles. Casey Lowman, a first-year graduate student in the Knappenberger lab, is a co-author in this work and provided valuable simulations of nanoparticle optical properties. For more details on Annie's and Casey's work, please refer to J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 13892 [View All]

The Magnet Lab at Florida State University
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who want research experience at the cutting edge of magnetic field, pressure and temperature need look no further than the Magnet Lab. Research at the lab covers many disciplines - physics, biology, chemistry, engineering - and all the combinations of each you can imagine. [More][View All]