Nasrin Hooshmand is a Principal Research Scientist in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Her research interests center on light-matter interaction at the nanoscale particularly to develop novel solutions for chemical and biological sensing, energy, nanomedicine, and healthcare applications. She has developed theories of the structure of localized strong electromagnetic fields (hot spots) generated between neighboring silver and gold nanoparticles at nanoscale separation distances. These nanoparticles can be used in surface-enhanced spectroscopy to design more sensitive optical sensors, which have many applications including single-molecule spectroscopy, biomedical, and ultrafast optoelectronic applications. Areas of research include:
- Nanoparticle synthesis, characterization, and delivery to develop novel solutions for biomedical, sensing, energy, nano-optics, and healthcare applications.
- Multidisciplinary research on novel nanoparticles and tailoring biomolecular interactions of nanoparticles for their cancer‐targeted drug delivery, cellular imaging, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), and plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT).
- Studying the basics of plasmonic properties of nanoparticles approaches to engineering near and far fields, and applications in molecular sensing, nanophotonics, catalysis, and nano-optics.
- Atomistic level simulations, enabling accurate in silico prediction of molecular dynamics and physiochemical properties of nanoparticles in relation to their biological function; using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, density functional theory (DFT).
Core expertise:
- Nanoplasmonics
- Photothermal Therapy of Cancer
- Nanophotonics
- Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
- Sensors
- Nanomedicine
- Drug Delivery
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