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Team spectroelectrochemistry publishes in Chemical Science

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:52:00 GMT

Congratulations to the spectroelectrochemistry team (unlike the BoostCrop team, no official website... but on its way!) for having their first paper accepted in Chemical Science. This is a novel demonstation of coupling a boron doped diamond electrode to study the ultrafast dynamics of an anthraquinone redox couple. Well done all!

The BoostCrop team publish in Chemical Science

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:22:00 GMT

Congratulations to team BoostCrop who have published their molecular photon-to-heater work in Chemical Science. The phenolic barbiturics developed in this work may provide a new source of solar photothermal materials that can be applied in agriculture to promote crop growth during cold snaps and sun protection.

Tosin gives talk at departmental "Breaking Barriers" online seminar

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:30:00 GMT

In honour of black history month we had the opportunity to celebrate the contribution of the black community to Chemistry. As part of this, Tosin gave an excellent talk on his work regarding UV-filter candidates inspired by nature. Following this, two further talks were given. The first was given by Maria Kariuki of the Perrier group and included a discussion on the experience of being black in STEM fields followed by an introduction to Maria's work on supramolecular assemblies. The second talk discussed nanoscale electrical imaging for green applications and was given by Segun Wahab of the ��TV electrochemistry and interfaces group. All three talks together contributed to an excellent event!

Team Stavros hosts the Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group Meeting 2020

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:19:37 GMT

The annual RSC Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group (SDG) Meeting was held at ��TV between the 6th and the 8th of January 2020. This was, as it always is, an excellent conference where the spectroscopy community gets to meet and share their recent discoveries. The legendary SDG quiz also took place after the conference dinner and included a practical round to keep the tradition for ��TV-led SDG quizes!

IAS Residential Fellows visit the Stavros Group from Lisbon

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:07:00 GMT

During the week of the 14^th to the 18^th of October, Nat hosted Prof. Manuel Prieto and Prof. Berberan-Santos from the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon, who visited ��TV thanks to an IAS Residential Fellowship. The week consisted many talks, tutorials, meetings and experiments on new collaborative research on organic LEDs. And, of course, a trip to our favourite Afghani restaurant! It was a pleasure to welcome our visitors and we hope to meet them again soon.

Mitch and Emily make the mainstream media!

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:48:00 GMT

Following a recent publication in Nature Comms (Towards symmetry driven and nature inspired UV filter design, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12719-z) Mitch and Emily's work made the mainstream media, catching the attention of both The Independent and The Telegraph, who both published articles based on the work.

Link to the article in The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/sunscreen-suncream-eco-friendly-longer-lasting-protein-plants-discovery-a9161921.html

And in The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/10/18/molecule-can-dance-away-harmful-sunlight-could-future-tanning/

Faraday highlights paper published

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:53:09 GMT

After attending the Faraday Discussion that took place in Ventura, CA, USA last April, on Ultrafast Photoinduced Energy and Charge Transfer, Nat, Jack, Matt, Konstantina, Mitch and Vas wrote a paper that collects the highlights of the conference. It has now been published and can be accessed under the DOI 10.1039/C9CC90297J. Well done, all!

16.11.2018 Nat and Neil's paper on methyl anthranilate quantum beats accepted!

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 05:31:41 GMT

Nat and Neil's paper on 'Wavepacket insights into the photoprotection mechenism of the UV filter methyl anthranilate' has been accepted in Nature Comm. Many congratulations to Nat and Neil, as well as collaborators from Tim Zwier's group at Purdue.

01.08.2018-Farewell to Neil

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:38:33 GMT

A sad farewell to Neil, who joined the group 2.5 years ago on a Leverhulme Trust funded research project joint with Prof. Dmitry Shalashilin (Leeds). Thank you Neil for all your hard work during your stay at ��TV. You have been invaluable to the team and we wish you every success for the future.

.... more upbeat news is that Neil and Nat's paper was accepted two days later!

20.07.2018-Congratulations Dr Rodrigues!

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:33:38 GMT

Many congratulations to Nat on successfully defending her thesis work. Celebrations will follow, no doubt with a trip to Zeenats....?