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The schools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering & Applied Science jointly established IMSE to integrate and leverage the full potential of interdisciplinary materials research by bringing together more than 30 researchers from engineering, physics, chemistry, and earth and planetary sciences

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June 30, 2017 - 10:00am

"Hollow and Porous Plasmonic Nanostructures for Highly Efficient Chemical and Biological Sensing" - Dissertation Defense

Keng-Ku Liu, IMSE Doctoral Candidate
Brauer Hall, Room 3015

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) involves the collective and coherent oscillation of dielectrically confined conduction electrons.  The LSPR wavelength of noble metal nanoparticles (such as gold, silver and copper), which falls into the

News

April 25, 2017

Meet a scientist

Ten Washington University scientists, including Arpita Bose, of Arts & Sciences, were asked to share in one minute why they became scientists. Watch these videos to hear their answers.

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