Materials@Illinois (Adv. Mater. 10/2010)Materials@Illinois (Adv. Mater. 10/2010)In this Special Issue of Advanced Materials, Guest Editor Professor Jennifer A. Lewis presents an overview of the cutting-edge research being carried out at Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). The issue is divided into three broad themes: materials synthesis and assembly; functional materials for energy harvesting, transport, and storage; and advanced techniques for materials characterization, and provides a fascinating glimpse inside one of the world's leading centers of materials science research.
Nanostructured Plasmonic Materials: Functional Nanostructured Plasmonic Materials (Adv. Mater. 10/2010)The inside cover shows computed electromagnetic field distributions of a 3D plasmonic crystal comprising a square array of nanoholes embossed in polyurethane with a thin conformal gold layer. These nanohole array plasmonic crystals support multiple surface plasmon modes that enable multispectral imaging and detection of surface species in white light, as described in the Progress Report by Nuzzo, Rogers, and co-workers on page 1102.