Lectures on Tap-Nanoparticles: Tiny Science, Big Impact

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🧠 Lecture: "Nanoparticles: Tiny Science, Big Impact"

🎤 Speaker: Graduate Student, Marcello Garbo

What if your windows could harvest sunlight to power your home? Or if glowing particles could help doctors detect and treat tumors with pinpoint accuracy? These aren’t futuristic fantasies—they’re real possibilities made possible by nanoparticles: materials so small they operate under the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics.

In this talk, graduate researcher Marcello Garbo will dive into the colorful (and sometimes strange) chemistry behind these ultra-tiny particles and how scientists are engineering them to capture and emit light in highly controlled ways. You’ll hear how near-infrared–emitting semiconductor nanoparticles are being designed for cutting-edge biomedical imaging inside the human body and for next-generation solar technologies that turn everyday surfaces into power generators.

Marcello conducts his research at San Francisco State University as an affiliate of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Molecular Foundry, focusing on how nanoparticle structure determines their optical properties in real-world applications.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

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