"COVID-19" Dynamic alignment and characterization of plasmonic aerosols
Abstract
The purpose of this project is to study and apply optics in aerosols. As an initial workpackage, we intend to study the filtration and detection of droplets using optical fibers andstrong electric fields, with bearings on viral propagation through aerosols. We then intendto develop, characterize and apply gold nanorod based plasmonic system to exploit linearand nonlinear plasmonics in the gold nanorod aerosols (GNRA) in a lab based aerosolenvironment. This research may potentially enable new technologies and a diversity of basicand applied studies in plasmonic aerosols [7], with implications to nonlinear optics,geoengineering, nanojet printing, molecular diagnostics and nanomedicine, as indicated bythe refs in [7]. Different experimental approaches will be employed to synthesize the goldnanorods and to characterize them morphologically and optically. Fiber-based opticalsystems will be developed to produce aerosols in a guided-wave structure so that theinteraction of light with the aerosol is efficient and can be exploited.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 08, 2020
- Source ID
- N629092012033
Entities
People
- Walter Margulis
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy