Gregory V. Hartland // People // Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry // University of Notre Dame

Gregory V. Hartland

Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Nanomaterials

Biography

2004-present: Professor, University of Notre Dame
2013-2015: Associate Director, Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame
2000-2004: Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
1994-2000: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
1991-1994: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
1991: Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
1985: B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia

Selected Awards

2014: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2011: American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow
2009: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2004: Kaneb Teaching Award, University of Notre Dame

Research Interests

Research in the Hartland group is focused on using optics to examine the properties of nanomaterials and how these materials interact with their environments. Almost all the projects in the group involve single particle studies, and the development of novel techniques to perform time-resolved and steady state spectroscopy experiments on single particles is a major component of the research. Examples of the processes that are being studied are the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons in metal nanostructures, charge carrier trapping and diffusion in semiconductor nanowires, chemical reactions in nanomaterials, and the effects of viscosity at the nanoscale.