Dr. Kyle Smith

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2018)

B.A. in Chemistry, Florida State University (2013)

Research Interests

Optical properties of nanoparticle aggregates

Dissertation

Effects of Geometry on Plasmonic Properties of Nanostructures. View dissertation

Publications

1. L. A. McCarthy, K. W. Smith, X. Lan, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, L. Bursi, A. Alabastri, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link Polarized evanescent waves reveal trochoidal dichroism PNAS, 117 (28) 16143 (2020). View article

2. Q. Zhang, T. Hernandez, K. W. Smith, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, A. X. Dai, L. Warning, R. Baiyasi, L. A. McCarthy, H. Guo, D.-H. Chen, J. A. Dionne, C. F. Landes, and S. Link Unraveling the origin of chirality from plasmonic nanoparticle-protein complexes. Science, 365 (6460), 1475 (2019). View article

3. K. W. Smith, L. A. McCarthy, A. Alabastri, L. Bursi, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link Exploiting Evanescent Field Polarization for Giant Chiroptical Modulation from Achiral Gold Half-Rings. ACS Nano, 12 (11), 11657 (2018). View article

4. L. J. Tauzin, Y. Cai, K. W. Smith, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, U. Bhattacharjee, W.-S. Chang, and S. Link Exploring the Relationship between Plasmon Damping and Luminescence in Lithographically Prepared Gold Nanorods. ACS Photonics, 5 (9), 3541 (2018). View article

5. S. R. Kirchner, K.W. Smith, B. S. Hoener, Sean S. E. Collins, W. Wang, Y.-Y. Cai, C. Kinnear, H. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, P. Mulvaney, C. F. Landes, S. Link Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging (SHI) for Revealing Irreversible and Heterogeneous Plasmonic Processes. J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 6865 (2018). View article

6. K. W. Smith, J. Yan, T. Hernandez, D. F. Swearer, L. Scarabelli, H. Zhang, H. Zhao, N. A. Moringo, W.-S. Chang, L. M. Liz-Marzan, E. Ringe, P. Nordlander, S. Link Environmental Symmetry Breaking Promotes Plasmon Mode Splitting in Gold Nanotriangles. J. Phys. Chem. C, 122 (25), 13259 (2018).View article

7. K. W. Smith, S. Link, W.-S. Chang Optical Characterization of Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures. J. Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Review 32 , 40 (2017). View article

8. K. W. Smith, H Zhao, H. Zhang, A. Sánchez-Iglesias, M. Grzelczak, Y. Wang, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, L. Liz-Marzán, S. Link Chiral and Achiral Nanodumbbell Dimers: The Effect of Geometry on Plasmonic Properties. ACS Nano, 10 (6), 6180 (2016).View article

9. J. Yeom, B. Yeom, Henry Chan, K. W. Smith, S. Dominguez-Medina, J. H. Bahng, G. Zhao, W.-S. Chang, S.-J. Chang, A. Chuvilin, D. Melnikau, A. L. Rogach, P. Zhang, S. Link, P. Král and N. A. Kotov Chiral templating of self-assembling nanostructures by circularly polarized light Nat. Materials 14, 66 (2015)View article

10. L.-Y Wang, K. W. Smith, S. Dominguez-Medina, N. Moody, J. M. Olson, H. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, N. Kotov, and S. Link Circular Differential Scattering of Single Chiral Self-Assembled Gold Nanorod Dimers ACS Photonics 2(11), 1602 (2015). View article