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George C. Schatz

Professor of Chemistry

Ph.D. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 1976; B.S. in Chemistry, Clarkson University, 1971

Research Interests

Schatz is a theoretician who studies the optical, structural and thermal properties of nanomaterials, including plasmonic nanoparticles, plasmonic metamaterials, DNA and peptide nanostructures, and transition metal dichalcogenides. He has contributed to theories of dynamical processes, including gas phase and gas/surface reactions, energy transfer processes, quantum science, transport phenomena and photochemistry.

Selected Publications

Autoionizing excited states of N2 using complex-basis function spin-flip coupled clusters theory, Abhisek Ghosal, George C. Schatz, J. Chem. Phys. 164, 014118 (2026). DOI: 10.1063/5.0300522.

Funneling of molecular electronic energy through surface lattice resonances, Diptesh Dey, Yeonjun Jeong, George C. Schatz, ACS Nano 20, 2963074 (2026). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c18893

Lithium metal-mediated electrochemical reduction of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, Bidushi Sarkar, Rameshwar L. Kumawat, Peiyuan Ma, Ke-Hsin Wang, Matin Mohebi, George C. Schatz, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Nature Chemistry, 18, 509-518 (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-02057-7

Plasmon-assisted electrochemical epoxidation using water as an oxidant, Lucas Dias Germano, Sajal Kumar Giri, Chloe Anne Litts, Francis M. Alcorn, George C. Schatz, Susana Ines Cordoba de Torresi, Prashant K. Jain, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 148, 5368-377 (2026). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c18709

Small alkali cations direct CO electroreduction to hydrocarbons rather than oxygenates, Weiyan Ni, Yongxiang, Liang, Yufai Cao, Zhu Chen, Rui Kai Miao, Bosi Peng, Zeyan Liu, Yanjian Liu, Huajie Ze, Xiao Wang, Dongha Kim, Sungjin Park, Jiaqi Yu, Panos Papangelakis, Victor Boureau, Muhammad Imran, Qiyou Wang, Pengfei Ou, Xiao-Yang Li, Ke Xie, Roham Korakhan, Erfan Shirzadi, George C. Schatz, David Sinton, Jun Ge, Jie Zeng, Edward H. Sargent,  Nature Chemistry, 18, 774-781 (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-02061-x

Quantum theory of surface lattice resonances, Michael Reitz, Stephan van den Wildenberg, Arghadip Koner, George C. Schatz, Joel Yuen-Zhou, Nanophotonics, 15, e70008 (2026). DOI: 10.1002/nap2.70008

Quantum light imaging of the plant root-rhizobacteria-system using iLOV fluorescence, Oleg Varnavksi, Tse-Min Chiang, Sajal Kumar Giri, Amber N. Bible, Jennifer L. Morrell-Falvey, Ying-Zhong Ma, George C. Schatz, Theodore Goodson III, J. Am Chem. Soc. 148, 8236-45 (2026). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c17689

Trajectory surface hopping study of photocatalyzed H2 dissociation on a gold cluster, Prabhash Mahata, George C. Schatz, PCCP 28, 7869-78 (2026). DOI: 10.1039/d5cp04764a

Atomically precise nanoclusters as SERS probes, Sujan Manna, Anant O. Bhasin, Vivik Yadav, Soham Chowdhury, Subrata Duary, Samapti Mondal, Sajal Kumar Giri, Tomas Base, George C. Scahtz, Thalappil Pradeep, Nano Lett. 26, 4279-96 (2026). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c05462

Real-time electron-electron scattering dynamics in plasmonic nanostructures, Yanze Wu and George C. Schatz, ACS Nano, 20, 15565-15577 (2026) DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.05695

Phonon modulation of strongly coupled gold tetrahedral plasmonic nanoparticles and a carbocyanine J-aggregate, Bailey M. Chandler, Fanrui Cheng, Yi Wang, Xingchen Ye, George C. Schatz, Lin X. Chen, Richard D. Schaller. Nanoscale 18, 10584-10592 (2026). DOI: 10.1039/d5nr03987h

Essential role of temperature-dependent band gaps in (pxn)-type transverse thermoelectrics:  partial gap analysis of Re4Si7. Shao, Qing; Li, Juncen; Yan, Xueting; Cui, Boya; Li, Xin; Zeman, Charles J. IV; Mosquera, Martin A.; Jones, Leighton O.; Schatz, George C.; Yang, Jiong, Grayson, Matthew A. J. Materials Chem. A. 14, 4404-12 (2026). DOI: 10.1039/d5ta06495c

Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Photoinduced Hydrogen Dissociation on Plasmonic Au  Nanoparticles: How Hot Carrier Excitation Leads to Bond Breaking, Moumita Kar and George C. Schatz, 20, 19729-19742 (2026).   DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6c06727