ISMPC 2024 Schedule
June 12-14, 2024
Pennsylvania State University
Registration, breakfast, lunch, and the poster session will be held on the third floor of the
Benkovic Building, Room 301A
Oral sessions will be held in the Thomas Building, Room 102
Maps available at: https://www.k-
state.edu/chem/conferences/ismpc_2024/attendees/transportation/transportation.html
Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/j/95818611106
Wednesday, June 12
7:30 a.m. Breakfast/Registration (Benkovic Building)
8:10 a.m. Transition to Thomas Building
8:20 a.m. Welcome
Session 1: Electronic Structure and Structure-Property Relationships
Presider: Ken Knappenberger (Penn State)
8:30 a.m. Tatsuya Tsukuda (The University of Tokyo): “Electronic Structures and Optical
Properties of Chemically-modified Gold Superatoms”
9:00 a.m. Hannu Häkkinen (University of Jyväskylä): “Prospects and Challenges for
Computer Simulations of Monolayer-protected Metal Clusters”
9:30 a.m. Sukhendu Mandal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Thiruvananthapuram): “Structure-Property Correlation in Atomically Precise
Silver and Copper Nanoclusters”
10:00 a.m. Break
Session 2: Advances in Synthesis and Structural Control and Characterization
Presider: Rongchao Jin (Carnegie Mellon)
10:30 a.m. Thalappil Pradeep (Indian Institute of Technology Madras): “Carboranethiols:
Versatile Ligand Platform for Atomically Precise Clusters”
11:00 a.m. Anindita Das (Southern Methodist University): “Atomically Precise Metal
Nanochemistry with Stibine-Based Ligands”
11:30 a.m. Kevin Stamplecoskie, Queen’s University, “Photochemical Synthesis, Purification,
and Characterization of Thiol and Carbene Stabilized Gold Nanoclusters”
12:00 p.m. Vivek Yadev (Indian Institute of Technology Madras): “Optical Modulation by
Site-specific Atomic Doping in M
17
Nanoclusters: The Case of Ag
17
, AuAg
16
,
Cu
4
Ag
13
and AuCu
4
Ag
12
”
12:15 p.m. Subarna Maity (The University of Tokyo): “Surface Plasmon Resonance of Gold
Ultrathin Nanorod with Few-atomic Silver Shell”
12:30 p.m. Lunch (Benkovic Building)
Session 3: Applications in Biology/Bioimaging
Presider: Ben Lear (Penn State)
1:30 p.m. Jie Zheng (The University of Texas at Dallas): “Transport and Interactions of Gold
Nanoparticles in the Kidneys”
2:00 p.m. Stacy Copp (University of California, Irvine): “DNA Scaffolds for Atomically
Precise Silver Nanoclusters”
2:30 p.m. María Francisca Matus (University of Jyväskylä): “Computational Tuning of Gold
Nanoclusters for Targeted Cancer Therapy”
3:00 p.m. Viveka Kulkarni (Queen’s University): “Ligand-Engineering of NHC-Protected Au
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Nanoclusters for Efficient Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species”
3:15 p.m. Yitong Wang (Carnegie Mellon University): “Tailing Ligand and Kernel Structure
Enhances NIR Photoluminescence of Atomically Precise Gold Nanoclusters”
3:30 p.m. Break
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Poster Session (Benkovic Building)
Thursday, June 13
7:30 a.m. Breakfast/Registration (Benkovic Building)
Session 4: Exciting Applications
Presider: Rongchao Jin (Carnegie Mellon)
8:00 a.m. Yan Zhu (Nanjing University): “Catalysis Application of Atomically Precise Metal
Clusters”
8:30 a.m. Meng Zhou (University of Science and Technology of China): “Triplet Excited
State Dynamics of Metal Nanoclusters”
9:00 a.m. George Schatz (Northwestern University): “Electronic Structure Studies of
Plasmonic Cluster Properties: Pressure Effects and Photocatalysis”
9:30 a.m. Noelia Barrabés (TU Wien): “Role of Ligands in Shaping the Properties and
Reactivity of Gold Nanoclusters”
10:00 a.m. Break
Session 5: Advances in Theoretical Approaches
Presider: Christine Aikens (Kansas State)
10:30 a.m. De-en Jiang (Vanderbilt University): “From Supervised Learning to Generative
Models in Atomically Precise Nanochemistry”
11:00 a.m. Andre Clayborne (George Mason University): “From Density Functional Theory to
Quantum Information Science: Investigations of Superatoms using
Computational Approaches”
11:30 a.m. Lasse Jensen (Penn State University): “Cluster Models in Surface-Enhanced
Raman Scattering”
12:00 p.m. Alfredo Tlahuice (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León): “New 5-steps
Algorithm to Speed up Structural Prediction of Thiolated Gold Clusters”
12:15 p.m. Maryam Sabooni Asre Hazer (University of Jyväskylä): “Theoretical Study on
Metal-ligand Bond in Complexes and Clusters of Cu, Ag, and Au, with Thiolates,
Phosphines, Alkynyls and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes”
12:30 p.m. Lunch (Benkovic Building)
Session 6: Physical Properties of Nanoclusters
Presider: Ben Lear (Penn State)
1:30 p.m. Joanna Olesiak-Banska (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology): “Ultra-
small Noble Metal Nanoclusters as Markers in One-photon and Two-photon
Fluorescence Microscopy”
2:00 p.m. Daniel Heintzelman (Penn State University): “Influence of Cluster-Solvent
Hydrogen Bonding on MPC Optical Properties”
2:15 p.m. Haru Hirai (The University of Tokyo): “Photoluminescence and Photoredox
Catalysis of Ligand-Protected MAu
12
Clusters: Effects of Dopant M and Halide
Ligands”
2:30 p.m. Alessandro Fortunelli (Council for National Research of Italy (CNR)):
“Experimentally-Validated Computational Prediction of the Chiro-Optical
Response of Metallic Clusters and other Nanostructures”
2:45 p.m. Li-Juan Liu (The University of Hong Kong): “Atomically Precise Gold Nanoclusters
at the Molecular-to-metallic Transition with Intrinsic Cchirality from Surface
Layers”
3:00 p.m. Subhradip Kundu (University of Geneva): “NMR Spectroscopy of Ag
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Nanocluster”
3:15 p.m. Kristen Aviles (Penn State University): “Chain Length Control Over the Electronic
Structure of Alkanethiolate Stabilized Palladium Nanoparticles Revealed by
Conduction Electron Spin Resonance and Evans Method”
3:30 p.m. Break
Session 7: Synthesis: Understanding and Assemblies
Presider: Chris Ackerson (Colorado State)
4:00 p.m. Christopher Johnson (Stony Brook University): “Towards an Intuitive Framework
to Explain Synthetic Control of Electronic Structure and Surface Chemistry of
Metal Nanoclusters by Doping and Ligand Derivatization”
4:30 p.m. Thomas Bürgi (University of Geneva): “Encapsulation of Gold Clusters into
Molecular Cavities”
5:00 p.m. Nonappa Nonappa (Tampere University): “Nanoconfinement Effect in Gold
Superclusters”
5:30 p.m. Robert Whetten (Northern Arizona University): “PEGylation Revolution in
NanoMedicine ... and in MPCs”
Friday, June 14
7:30 a.m. Breakfast/Registration (Benkovic Building)
Session 8: Royce Murray Memorial Session
Presider: Mary Beth Williams (Penn State)
8:00 a.m. Mary Beth Williams (Penn State University)
8:10 a.m. Dongil Lee (Yonsei University): “Rationally Designed Metal Nanoclusters for
Electrocatalytic CO
2
Reduction”
8:40 a.m. Shaowei Chen (University of California, Santa Cruz): “Interfacial Chemistry of
Organically Capped Nanoparticles”
9:10 a.m. Gangli Wang (Georgia State University): “Kinetics of Electrochemiluminescence
from Metal Nanoclusters in Ratiometric Analysis and Electrocatalysis”
9:40 a.m. Rajesh Sardar (Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis): “Emerging
optoelectronic properties of organo-metallic ligand-protected metal
nanocrystals”
10:10 a.m. Announcement of next ISMPC; Poster Award presentation
10:30 a.m. Break
Session 9: Applications in Catalysis and Electrochemistry
Presider: Chris Ackerson (Colorado State)
11:00 a.m. Jian He (The University of Hong Kong): “Tuning the Structures and Catalytic
Properties of Metal Nanoclusters via Ligand Engineering”
11:30 a.m. Robert Scott (University of Saskatchewan): “Total Scattering to the Rescue: Pair-
Distribution Function Analysis of Supported Cluster Catalysts”
12:00 p.m. Marcus Tofanelli (Colorado State University): “Tuning Electron Transport
Properties in MAu
25
(PET)
18
Films: Effects of Superatomic Valence, Symmetry, and
Counter Ion”
12:30 p.m. Lunch (Benkovic Building)
