- Nanoscience
- Plasmonics and nanophotonics
- Optical properties of nanomaterials
- Imaging
- Large-area nanofabrication
- Materials chemistry
- Cancer therapeutics
Education:PhD. Chemical Physics, Harvard University, 2001
BSc Chemistry, Stanford University, 1996
Teri W. Odom is an expert in designing structured nanoscale materials that exhibit extraordinary size and shape-dependent optical properties. Odom has pioneered a suite of multi-scale nanofabrication tools that has resulted in flat optics that can manipulate light at the nanoscale and beat the diffraction limit, plasmon-based nanoscale lasers that exhibit tunable colour, and hierarchical substrates that show controlled wetting and super-hydrophobicity.
She has also invented a class of biological nanoconstructs that are facilitating unique insight into nanoparticle-cell interactions and that show superior imaging and therapeutic properties because of their gold nanostar shape.
Prof Odom is a chief editor of Nano Letters (ACS), an elected fellow of OSA, APS, ACS and AAAS.