Applied Spectroscopy and the Science of Nanomaterials

Raman Spectroscopy, Modeling and Simulation Studies of Carbon Nanotubes.- Laser Optogalvanic Spectroscopy and Collisional State Dynamics Associated with Hollow Cathode Discharge Plasmas.- Applications of Fluorescence Anisotropy in Understanding Protein Conformational Disorder and Aggregation.- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Nanomedicine.- An Efficient Coupled Dipole Method for the accurate calculation of van der Waals interactions at the nanoscale.- Adsorption of Gases in Nanomaterials: Theory and Simulations.- Atom-Precise Metal Nanoclusters.- Plasmonic Properties of Metallic Nanostructures, Two Dimensional Materials, and Their Composites.- Application of Graphene within Optoelectronic Devices and Transistor.- The Versatile Role of Graphene in Organic Photovoltaic Device Technology.- Nanomaterials in Nanomedicine.

Dr. Prabhakar Misra received his PhD from Ohio State University. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Laser Spectroscopy Facility of the Ohio State University, he joined Howard University in 1988, and was a Visiting Scholar in 1990 at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Dr. Misra was a recipient of the NASA Administrator's Fellowship Program (NAFP) award and was a visiting faculty fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD and an NRC faculty fellow at the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. He was also a NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Faculty Fellow at Langley Research Center, VA, and Goddard Space Flight Center, MD . Dr. Prabhakar Misra has over 20 years work experience in (i) detection and spectroscopic characterization of free radicals, stable molecules, molecular ions and ionic clusters of relevance to combustion and atmospheric phenomena employing excimer and tunable dye lasers; (ii) high resolution molecular spectroscopy in the infrared employing a Fourier Transform infrared spectrometer and in the ultraviolet employing Czerny-Turner spectrographs; and (iii) absorption of short-pulsed (ns and ps) Nd:YAG laser radiation in the form of high energy pulses by liposomes and the subsequent conversion into release of organic dye molecules either encapsulated in the internal volume or bound in the membrane bilayer of liposomes.