Current Position

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Education

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Stanford University
B.S., Chemistry, University of Notre Dame
B.S., Music, University of Notre Dame

Research Interests

The Camden group is working to develop new applications of plasmonic nanostructures and to understand fundamental features of the molecule-plasmon couplings. The group also studies:  Surface-Enhanced Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Mapping Plasmon Modes, and Hypervelocity Reaction Dynamics: Chemistry in Extreme Environments.  The Camden group is also exploring the structural and optical properties of the nanoparticles involved in the observation of a SMSERS - Single-Molecule SERS.

Key Words

Plasmon Enhanced Catalysis, Plasmonics, Solar Energy Conversion, Solar Photovoltaics, Solar to Fuels/Chemicals, Spectroscopy

Relevant Energy Publications

1. DeJesus, Joseph F., Michael J. Trujillo, Jon P. Camden, and David M. Jenkins. "N-heterocyclic carbenes as a robust platform for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy." Journal of the American Chemical Society 140, no. 4 (2018): 1247-1250.
2. Wu, Yueying, Guoliang Li, and Jon P. Camden. "Probing nanoparticle plasmons with electron energy loss spectroscopy." Chemical reviews 118, no. 6 (2017): 2994-3031.
3. Trujillo, Michael J., and Jon P. Camden. "Utilizing Molecular Hyperpolarizability for Trace Analysis: A Surface-Enhanced Hyper-Raman Scattering Study of Uranyl Ion." ACS omega 3, no. 6 (2018): 6660-6664.
4. Penchoff, Deborah A., Charles C. Peterson, Jon P. Camden, James A. Bradshaw, John D. Auxier, George K. Schweitzer, David M. Jenkins, Robert J. Harrison, and Howard L. Hall. "Structural Analysis of the Complexation of Uranyl, Neptunyl, Plutonyl, and Americyl with Cyclic Imide Dioximes." ACS omega 3, no. 10 (2018): 13984-13993.
5. Gu, Xin, Huan Wang, and Jon P. Camden. "Utilizing light-triggered plasmon-driven catalysis reactions as a template for molecular delivery and release." Chemical science 8, no. 9 (2017): 5902-5908.

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