Dr. Lawrence (Joey) Tauzin

Research Scientist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024-current)
Research Scientist, Rice University (2018-2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, Rice University (2016-2018)
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Rice University (2016)

Research Interests

Determining the photoluminescence mechanism of aluminum and other plasmonic nanoparticles.

Dissertation

Single Molecule Studies of Dynamics at Polymeric Film Interfaces, 2016, Rice University. View dissertation

Publications

  1. Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, B. Ostovar, S. Lee, and S. Link, Light emission from plasmonic nanostructures, J. Chem. Phys., 155, 060901 (2021). 
  2. S. S. E. Collins, E. K. Searles, L. J. Tauzin, M. Lou, L. Bursi, Y. Liu, J. Song, C. Flatebo, R. Baiyasi, Y.-Y. Cai, B. Foerster, T. Lian, P. Nordlander, S. Link, and C. F. Landes, Plasmon Energy Transfer in Hybrid Nanoantennas,  ACS Nano, 15 (6), 9522 (2021). 
  3. B. Ostovar, Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, S. A. Lee, A. Ahmadivand, R. Zhang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Increased Intraband Transitions in Smaller Gold Nanorods Enhance Light Emission, ACS Nano, 14 (11), 15757 (2020). 
  4. Y.-Y. Cai, E. Sung, R. Zhang, L. J. Tauzin, J. G. Liu, B. Ostovar, Y. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Anti-Stokes Emission from Hot Carriers in Gold Nanorods, Nano Lett., 19 (2), 1067 (2019). 
  5. 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).
  6. C. Yi, M.-N. Su, P. D. Dongare, D. Chakraborty, Y.-Y. Cai, D. M. Marolf, R. N. Kress, B. Ostovar, L. J. Tauzin, F. Wen, W.-S. Chang, M. R. Jones, J. E. Sader, N. J. Halas, and S. Link, Polycrystallinity of Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Nanostructures Dominates Their Acoustic Vibrational Damping, Nano Lett., 18 (6), 3494 (2018). 
  7. Y.-Y. Cai, J. G. Liu, L. J. Tauzin, D. Huang, E. Sung, H. Zhang, A. Joplin, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, S. Link, Photoluminescence of Gold Nanorods: Purcell Effect Enhanced Emission from Hot Carriers, ACS Nano Article, 12 (2), 976 (2018).
  8. S. Dominguez-Medina, L. Kisley, L. J. Tauzin, A. Hoggard, B. Shuang, A. S. D. S. Indrasekara, S. Chen, L. -Y. Wang, P. J. Derry, A. Liopo, E. R. Zubarev, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Adsorption and Unfolding of a Single Protein Triggers Nanoparticle Aggregation, ACS Nano 10, 2103 (2016).