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29-8-2023

Best poster award

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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

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Sundar gave an oral presentation titled "Watching Molecular Nanotubes Grow in Real Time" at NWO Physics, 2023 held at Veldhoven. 

1-11-2022

PhD defence Benedito Raul

PhD Benedito 2022

Benedito Raul successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled "Exciton Dynamics and Charge Carrier Generation in Organic Semiconductors"

Congratulatons !!

4-11-2022

Recent highlights of our research

A Nature research highlight, titled "Versatile molecular motor pulls off two feats instead of the usual one", can be found here

Our University posted a nice "Science Lynx News" article (for a broad public) on fluorescing rotary motors, which were made in the Feringa Laboratory.
Spectroscopic analysis of these fluorescing rotary motors was done in the OCMP group of Prof. Phenitchnikov.
You can find the "Science Lynx News" article here

7-7-2022

Teacher of the year

Teacher of the Year 2022

Prof. Dr Maxim Pchenitchnikov was awarded the Teacher of the Year 2022 award in the NanoScience Top-master programme.

News

Februari 2024

Alexey Kuevda presented a talk at NWO Physics 2024 entitled "In-vitro controlled energy transport in molecular nanotubes"

Februari 2024

We are proud to announce the commencement of the “EIFFEL” Doctoral Network under the MSCA. Starting from the 1st of February 2024 the project is set to create a dynamic doctoral network working on the development of non fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics. More news to come!

 

September 2022

Aleksej Kuevda started his four year period as a PhD in our group. Welcome!

New publications

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October 2023
Watching molecular nanotubes self-assemble in realtime
Krishnaswamy et al
J. Am. Chem. Soc

July 2023
Strongly polarized surface electroluminescence from an organic light-emitting transistor
Kuevda, Pshenichnikov et al
Mater. Chem. Front.

November 2022
Dual-function artificial molecular motors performing rotation and photoluminescence
Pfeifer, Hoang et al
Science Adv

September 2022
Synergistic interplay between photoisomerization and photoluminescence in a light-driven rotary molecular motor
Toyoda, Hoang et al
Nature Comm