Dr. Niklas Gross

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Ph. D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2023)
B.S. in Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany (2016)

Research Interests

Ultrafast Spectroscopy

Dissertation

Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Single Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Publications

  1.  B. Ostovar, S. A. Lee, A. Mehmood, K. Farrell, E. K. Searles, B. Bourgeois, W. -Y. Chiang, A. Misiura, N. Gross,  A. Al-Zubeidi, J. A. Dionne, C. F. Landes, M. Zanni, B. G. Levine, and S. Link, The role of the plasmon in interfacial charge transfer, Sci. Adv., 10, eadp3353 (2024)
  2.  K. S. Wilson, T. S. Volek,  N. Gross,  S. Link, C. R. Baiz, and S. T. Roberts, Transient Absorption Microscopy Using Widefield Lock-in Camera Imaging, J. Phys. Chem. C, 128, 28, 11723–11731 (2024)
  3. S. Adhikari,  N. Gross,  K. S. Wilson,  O. Verma,  Z. Jia,  C. F. Landes,  S. T. Roberts, S. Link, On-Chip Lock-In Detection for Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Single Particles, J. Phys. Chem. C, 128, 21, 8708–8715 (2024).
  4. C. C. Carlin, A. X. Dai, A. Al-Zubeidi, E. M. Simmerman, H. Oh, N. Gross, S. A. Lee, S. Link, C. F. Landes, F. H. da Jornada, J. A. Dionne, Nanoscale and ultrafast in situ techniques to probe plasmon photocatalysis, Chem. Phys. Rev., 4, 041309 (2023).
  5. N. Gross, W. Wang, S. Brasel, E. K. Searles, B. Bourgeois, J. A. Dionne, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, High-Throughput Screening of Optical Properties of Glass-Supported Plasmonic Nanoparticles Fabricated by Polymer Pen Lithography, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 39, 19607–19619 (2023).
  6. A. Jones, E. K. Searles, M. Mayer, M. Hoffmann, N. Gross, H. Oh, A. Fery, S. Link, C. F. Landes, Active Control of Energy Transfer in Plasmonic Nanorod–Polyaniline Hybrids, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 14, 36, 8235–8243 (2023).
  7.  N. Gross, C. T. Kuhs, B. Ostovar, W.-Y. Chiang, K. S. Wilson, T. S. Volek, Z. M. Faitz, C. C. Carlin, J. A. Dionne, M. T. Zanni, M. Gruebele, S. T. Roberts, S. Link, C. F. Landes, Progress and Prospects in Optical Ultrafast Microscopy in the Visible Spectral Region: Transient Absorption and Two-Dimensional Microscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 14557–14586 (2023).
  8. N. Gross, M. Madadi, B. Ostovar, P. D. Dongare, L. A. McCarthy, W.-Y. Chiang, W.-S. Chang, N. J. Halas, C. F. Landes, J. E. Sader, and S. Link, Strong Substrate Binding Modulates the Acoustic Quality Factors in Gold Nanodisks, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 10, 5054-5066 (2023).
  9. A. Al-Zubeidi, B. Ostovar, C. C. Carlin, B. C. Li, S. A. Lee, W,-Y, Chiang, N. Gross, S. Dutta, A. Misiura, E. K. Searles, A. Chakraborty, S. T. Roberts, J. A. Dionne, P. J. Rossky, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Mechanism for plasmon-generated solvated electrons, PNAS, 120 (3) (2023).
  10. M.-N. Su, B. Ostovar, N. Gross, J. E. Sader, W.-S. Chang, and S.Link, Acoustic Vibrations and Energy Dissipation Mechanisms for Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Nanostructures Revealed by Single-Particle Transient Extinction Spectroscopy,  J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (3), 1621 (2021).
  11. B. Ostovar, M.-N. Su, D. Renard, B. D. Clark, P. D. Dongare, C. Dutta, N. Gross, J. E. Sader, C. F. Landes, W.-S. Chang, N. J. Halas, and S. Link, Acoustic Vibrations of Al Nanocrystals: Size, Shape and Crystallinity Revealed by Single-Particle Transient Extinction Spectroscopy,  J. Phys. Chem. A, 124 (19) , 3924 (2020).