B.S. Clarkson University Ph.D. California Institute of Technology Research Associate, MIT American Academy of Arts and Sciences National Academy of Sciences Bourke Medal of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellow Feynman Prize of the Foresight Institute Materials; Physical/Analytical

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Research Statement

The Schatz research group is interested in using theory and computation to describe physical phenomena in a broad range of applications relevant to chemistry, physics, biology and engineering. Among the types of applications that we interested are: optical properties of nanoparticles and nanoparticle assemblies; using theory to model polymer properties; DNA structure, thermodynamics and dynamics; modeling self assembly and nanopatterning; and gas phase reaction dynamics.

Selected Publications

Jin, R., Wu, G., Li, Z., Mirkin, C. A., & Schatz, G. C. Schatz. What Controls the Melting Properties of DNA-Linked Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies? J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 1643-1654 (2003).

 Jang, J. K., Schatz, G. C. & Ratner, M. A. Capillary Force on a Nanoscale Tip in Dip-Pen Nanolithography. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 156104 (2003).

Zhao, L., Kelly, K. L. & Schatz, G. C. The extinction spectra of silver nanoparticle arrays: influence of array structure on plasmon resonance wavelength and widths. J. of Phys. Chem. B 107, 7343-7350 (2003).

Garton, D.J., Minton, T. K., Troya, D., Pascual, R. & Schatz, G. C. Hyperthermal reactions of O(3P) with alkanes: observations of novel reaction pathways in crossed-beams and theoretical studies. J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 4583-4587 (2003).

Most Significant Awards

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Fresenius Award
Fellow, American Physical Society
Max Planck Research Award
Fellow, AAAS
Elected to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Prof. George P. Schatz
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3120

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