Stanley C. Moore Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy, Director, Smalley-Curl Institute, Director, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University
Professor Halas is one of the pioneering researchers in the field of plasmonics, creating the concept of the "tunable plasmon" and inventing a family of nanoparticles with resonances spanning the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum. She pursues fundamental studies of coupled plasmonic systems as well as applications of plasmonics in biomedicine, optoelectronics, chemical sensing, photocatalysis, and most recently in solar energy, with a novel solar steam technology. She is the author of more than 250 refereed publications, has more than fifteen issued patents, has presented more than 500 invited talks, and has been cited more than 84,000 times (over 60,000 citations and H=123 on Web of Science, over 84,000 citations and H=142 on Google Scholar). She is co-founder of Nanospectra Biosciences, a Houston-based company developing photothermal therapies for cancer and other diseases based on her nanoparticles, currently in multiple clinical trials, and co-founder of Eureka Sun, a startup pursuing commercial applications of solar steam generation.
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John S. Dunn GCC for Chemical Genomics
GCC Consortium for Antimicrobial Resistance (GCC AMR)
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