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Stephan Link

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Contact Information

Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
A128 CLSL
600 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Charles W. and Genevieve M. Walton Endowed Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Chemistry

Research Interests

Photophysics and photochemistry of nanomaterials, plasmonics, solar energy conversion, single-particle imaging, ultrafast spectroscopy.

Additional Campus Affiliations

Charles W. and Genevieve M. Walton Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Chemistry

Recent Publications

B. Ostovar, S. A. Lee, A. Mehmood, K. Farrell, E. K. Searles, B. Bourgeois, W. -Y. Chiang, A. Misiura, N. Gross,  A. Al-Zubeidi, J. A. Dionne, C. F. Landes, M. Zanni, B. G. Levine, and S. Link, The role of the plasmon in interfacial charge transfer. Sci. Adv. 10, eadp3353 (2024).

S. Adhikari,  N. Gross,  K. S. Wilson,  O. Verma,  Z. Jia,  C. F. Landes,  S. T. Roberts, and S. Link, On-chip lock-in detection for ultrafast spectroscopy of single particles. J. Phys. Chem. C 128, 8708 (2024).

S. A. Lee, C. T. Kuhs, E. K. Searles, H. O.  Everitt, C. F.  Landes, and S. Link, d-band hole dynamics in gold nanoparticles measured with time-resolved emission upconversion microscopy. Nano Lett. 23, 3501 (2023).

A. Al-Zubeidi, B. Ostovar, C. C. Carlin, B. C. Li, W.-Y. Chiang, N. Gross, E. K. Searles, S. A. Lee, A. Chakraborty, S. T. Roberts, J. A. Dionne, P. J. Rossky, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Mechanism for plasmon-generated solvated electrons. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 120, e2217035120 (2023).

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, 15536 (2021).

Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, B. Ostovar, S. Lee, and S. Link, Light emission from plasmonic nanostructures. J. Chem. Phys. 155, 060901 (2021).

S. A. Lee and S. Link, Chemical interface damping of surface plasmon resonances. Acc. Chem. Res. 54, 1950 (2021).

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, 1475 (2019).