Dr. Lauren McCarthy

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2021)

B.S. in Chemistry, University of Florida (2016)

Dissertation

Investigating the Polarization-Dependent Scattering of Coupled Plasmonic Nanoantennas in Confined Electromagnetic Waves. View dissertation

Publications

1. L. A. Warning, A. Rafiei Miandashti, L. A. McCarthy, Q. Zhang, C. F. Landes, and S. Link Nanophotonic Approaches for Chirality Sensing ACS Nano, 15 (10), 15538 (2021) View article

2. R. Baiyasi, H. J. Goldwyn, L. A. McCarthy, C. A. West, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, D. J. Masiello, S. Link, and C. F. Landes Coupled-Dipole Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Geometry-Dependent Trochoidal Dichroism in Nanorod Trimers ACS Photonics, 8 (40), 1159 (2021). View article

3. A. Al-Zubeidi, L. A. McCarthy, A. Rafiei-Miandashti, T. S. Heiderscheit, and S. Link Single-particle scattering spectroscopy: fundamentals and applications Nanophotonics, 10 (6), 1621 (2021). View article

4. L. A. McCarthy, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, and S.Link Extrinsic Trochoidal Dichroism is Modulated by Nanoparticle Symmetry J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (7), 4092 (2021). View article

5. 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

6. R. Baiyasi, M. J. Gallagher, L. A. McCarthy, E. K. Searles, Q. Zhang, S. Link, and C. F. Landes Quantitative Analysis of Nanorod Aggregation and Morphology from Scanning Electron Micrographs Using SEMseg J. Phys. Chem. A, 124 (25), 5262 (2020). View article

7. X. Lan, X. Zhou, L. A. McCarthy, A. O. Govorov, Y. Liu, and S. Link DNA Enabled Chiral Gold Nanoparticle – Chromophore Hybrid Structure with Resonant Plasmon – Exciton Coupling Gives Unusual and Strong Circular Dichroism J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141(49), 19336 (2019). View article

8. 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

9. 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