Faculty & Research // Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry // University of Notre Dame

Biography

B.Sc. (Hons.) The University of Melbourne, Australia, 1985.
Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, 1991 - 1994.
Assistant Professor, University Notre Dame, 1994 - 2000.
Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, 2000 - 2004.
Professor, University of Notre Dame, 2004 - present.

AWARDS

Kaneb Teaching Award, University of Notre Dame, 2004.
Visiting Professor, The University of Melbourne, 2006.
Editorial Advisory Board: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
Senior Editor: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C.

Research Interests

The research in Professor Hartland's laboratory involves using optics to examine the properties of nanomaterials. Current emphasis is on single particle experiments, both steady state spectroscopy studies and time-resolved measurements. Some specific topics of interest are:

(i) Effect of size, shape and composition on the plasmon resonances of metal particles.

(ii) Vibrational response of metal nanoparticles to ultrafast laser-induced heating.

(iii) Development and application of novel optical imaging techniques.

(iv) Energy flow in nanostructures.

Recent Papers

Min Hu, Carolina Novo, Alison Funston, Haining Wang, Hristina Staleva, Shengli Zou, Paul Mulvaney, Younan Xia, and Gregory V. Hartland “Dark-Field Microscopy Studies of Single Metal Nanoparticles: Understanding the Factors that Influence the Linewidth of the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance” Journal of Materials Chemistry, 18, 1949-1960 (2008).

Hristina Staleva and Gregory V. Hartland “Transient Absorption Studies of Single Silver Nanocubes.” J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, 7535-7539 (2008)

Hristina Staleva and Gregory V. Hartland “Vibrational Dynamics of Silver Nanocubes and Nanowires Studied by Single-Particle Transient Absorption Spectroscopy” Advanced Functional Materials, 18 (23), 3809-3817 (2008).

Hristina Staleva, Sara E. Skrabalak, Christopher R. Carey, Thomas Kosel, Younan Xia and Gregory V. Hartland “Coupling to Light, and Transport and Dissipation of Energy in Silver Nanowires” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11 (28), 5889-5896 (2009).