Dr. Kyle Smith

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Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2018)
B.A. in Chemistry, Florida State University (2013)

Research Interests

Optical properties of nanoparticle aggregates

Dissertation

Effects of Geometry on Plasmonic Properties of Nanostructures

Publications

  1. L. A. McCarthy, K. W. Smith, X. Lan, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, L. Bursi, A. Alabastri, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Polarized evanescent waves reveal trochoidal dichroism, PNAS, 117 (28) 16143 (2020). 
  2. Q. Zhang, T. Hernandez, K. W. Smith, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, A. X. Dai, L. Warning, R. Baiyasi, L. A. McCarthy, H. Guo, D.-H. Chen, J. A. Dionne, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Unraveling the origin of chirality from plasmonic nanoparticle-protein complexes, Science, 365 (6460), 1475 (2019). 
  3. K. W. Smith, L. A. McCarthy, A. Alabastri, L. Bursi, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Exploiting Evanescent Field Polarization for Giant Chiroptical Modulation from Achiral Gold Half-Rings, ACS Nano, 12 (11), 11657 (2018). 
  4. L. J. Tauzin, Y. Cai, K. W. Smith, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, U. Bhattacharjee, W.-S. Chang, and S. Link, Exploring the Relationship between Plasmon Damping and Luminescence in Lithographically Prepared Gold Nanorods, ACS Photonics, 5 (9), 3541 (2018). 
  5. S. R. Kirchner, K.W. Smith, B. S. Hoener, Sean S. E. Collins, W. Wang, Y.-Y. Cai, C. Kinnear, H. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, P. Mulvaney, C. F. Landes, S. Link, Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging (SHI) for Revealing Irreversible and Heterogeneous Plasmonic Processes, J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 6865 (2018). 
  6. K. W. Smith, J. Yan, T. Hernandez, D. F. Swearer, L. Scarabelli, H. Zhang, H. Zhao, N. A. Moringo, W.-S. Chang, L. M. Liz-Marzan, E. Ringe, P. Nordlander, S. Link, Environmental Symmetry Breaking Promotes Plasmon Mode Splitting in Gold Nanotriangles, J. Phys. Chem. C, 122 (25), 13259 (2018).
  7. K. W. Smith, S. Link, W.-S. Chang, Optical Characterization of Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures, J. Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Review 32, 40 (2017). 
  8. K. W. Smith, H Zhao, H. Zhang, A. Sánchez-Iglesias, M. Grzelczak, Y. Wang, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, L. Liz-Marzán, S. Link, Chiral and Achiral Nanodumbbell Dimers: The Effect of Geometry on Plasmonic Properties, ACS Nano, 10 (6), 6180 (2016).
  9. J. Yeom, B. Yeom, Henry Chan, K. W. Smith, S. Dominguez-Medina, J. H. Bahng, G. Zhao, W.-S. Chang, S.-J. Chang, A. Chuvilin, D. Melnikau, A. L. Rogach, P. Zhang, S. Link, P. Král and N. A. Kotov, Chiral templating of self-assembling nanostructures by circularly polarized light, Nat. Materials 14, 66 (2015).
  10. L.-Y Wang, K. W. Smith, S. Dominguez-Medina, N. Moody, J. M. Olson, H. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, N. Kotov, and S. Link, Circular Differential Scattering of Single Chiral Self-Assembled Gold Nanorod Dimers, ACS Photonics 2(11), 1602 (2015).