Optical Condensed Matter Physics
We use optical spectroscopy to study a wide range of ultrafast phenomena in organic materials at nanoscopic lengths and femtosecond (0.000000000000001 s) time scale, with the main focus on exciton and charge dynamics in energy-related and bio-inspired materials.
Organization
The research group Optical Condensed Matter Physics is part of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, a research institute within the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen.
6-9-2023
Berlin 2023
Prof. Maxim Pchenitchnikov gave an invited talk "Artificial Molecular Motors: Infrared-Driven and Photoluminescent" at the 15th Femtochemistry Conference (Berlin, 31 July – 4 August 2023)
30-8-2023
Sapporo 2023
The 31st International Conference on Photochemistry (ICP-2023), took place in Sapporo, Japan.
Sundar Raj Krishnaswamy gave an oral presentation, titled "Self-Assembly of Out-of- Equilibrium Artificial Light-Harvesting Complexes", and also presented a poster titled, "TEM Imaging of Out-of-Equilibrium Single-Wall MolecularNanotubes".
Alexey Kuevda presented a poster talk titled "Controlled Energy Channeling in Double-walled Supramolecular Nanotubes"
29-8-2023
Best poster award
Kristin Becker won the best poster award at the IUPAC23 conference! The poster entitled "Climbing 'Up' the window of dye sensitized upconversion for photovoltaics" reports Kristin's results on converting the IR part of the solar radiation around 1.5 um (i.e. with the energy below the silicon bandgap) to 980 nm which is directly absorbed by silicon solar cells. Congratulations, Kristin!
4-4-2023
Presentation Sundar
Sundar gave an oral presentation titled "Watching Molecular Nanotubes Grow in Real Time" at NWO Physics, 2023 held at Veldhoven.
