{"id":1524,"date":"2013-11-20T09:27:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2013-11-20T09:27:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:27:36","slug":"prof-shimon-weiss-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2013\/11\/20\/prof-shimon-weiss-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Shimon Weiss Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voltage Sensing Inorganic Nanoparticles<\/p>\n<p>Monday, November 25, 2013<\/p>\n<p>LPSC 402 4:00pm<\/p>\n<p>We will report on efforts to develop voltage sensing inorganic nanoparticles that self\u2010insert into the cell membrane and optically record, non\u2010invasively, action potential on the single particle level. Bandgap\u2010engineered colloidal semiconductor nanoparticles, dubbed voltage\u2010sensing nanoparticles (vsNPs) that display large quantum\u2010confined Stark effect (QCSE) at room temperature and on the single particle level were developed. QCSE measurements of several types of fluorescent colloidal semiconductor quantum<br \/>\ndots (QDs) and nanorods (NRs) were performed. It was shown that charge separation across one (or more) heterostructure interface(s) with type\u2010II band alignment (and the associated induced dipole) is crucial for an enhanced QCSE. Surface functionalization that impart membrane\u2010protein like properties was developed. We will discuss the possible utility of these nanoparticles for voltage sensing on the nanoscale, and in particular, their suitability for action potential recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voltage Sensing Inorganic Nanoparticles Monday, November 25, 2013 LPSC 402 4:00pm We will report on efforts to develop voltage sensing inorganic nanoparticles that self\u2010insert into the cell membrane and optically record, non\u2010invasively, action potential on the single particle level. Bandgap\u2010engineered colloidal semiconductor nanoparticles, dubbed voltage\u2010sensing nanoparticles (vsNPs) that display large quantum\u2010confined Stark effect (QCSE) at&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2013\/11\/20\/prof-shimon-weiss-seminar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[187010,187009,97038,187008],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inorganic","tag-nanoparticles","tag-seminar","tag-shimon-weiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}