Faith wins best presentation prize at the department's Post-Graduate Symposium @DurhamChemistry. Well done Faith and all the PGRs for an amazing afternoon of science!!
Wonderful to see Laurence's work out @DurhamChemistry Dark-State-Mediated Efficient Energy Trapping in a Model GFP Chromophore | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac… . Great collaboration with Anastasia Bochenkova and Lars Andersen!
Paper on Electron-initiated chemistry at the ambient water/air interface out in EPJD: link.springer.com/article/10…. Great collaborative work with @DurhamChemistry, @ETH_physics, and @JHINST_Prague
Paper on The Singlet–Triplet Gap of Pyruvic Acid out in Journal of the American Chemical Society @acsJACS in collaboration with Basile Curchod @insilphotochem @DurhamChemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
New paper on the Effect of Incremental Hydration on Reverse Internal Conversion Vibrational Autodetachment of an Anion published in PRL with Michi and Connor @DurhamChemistry journals.aps.org/prl/abstrac…
Great to be part of this super work by Emma McCabe @DurhamPhysics with SHG experiments by Faith @DurhamChemistry: Structural chemistry of the n = 3 Dion–Jacobson phases: controlling polarity and band gap - now published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
New paper with Aude out on - Electron-Impact Resonances of Anthracene in the Presence of Methanol: Does the Solvent Identity Matter? in JPCLett @JPhysChem @DurhamChemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
On the cover of JPCA @ACSPublications - The Influence of Water Molecules on the π* Shape Resonances of the Thymine Anion | The Journal of Physical Chemistry A pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…. Super work by Connor and Michi! @DurhamChemistry
Paper on "The role of water molecules in the dissociation of an electron-molecule contact pair" out now nature.com/articles/s41467-0… in @NatureComms @DurhamChemistry
Connor Clarke has been awarded the 2024 Thesis Prize from the Spectroscopy and Dynamics Group (SDG) @RoySocChem Amazing effort over the past 3+ years - and thank you to the SDG for their wonderful support of early career researchers!
Our perspective on "Probing photochemical dynamics using electronic vs vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy: The case of the hydrated electron at the water/air interface" pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article… is out in JCP's Yuen-Ron Shen Festschrift @JChemPhys @DurhamChemistry
Connor Clarke @DurhamChemistry wins a poster prize at the 24th European Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Systems (MOLEC24) in Aarhus, DK, with his work on the solvation of a dipole-bound anion. Amazing and congratulations Connor!!
New paper with Ken Jordan @Pitt_Chemistry in @JPhysChem: N atom substitution in anthracene does not affect first few electronic resonances, but makes anion formation less likely pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
New paper out in J Fluorine Chem by Connor, Jemma Gibbard and @WDGBChem. We show that site-selective fluorination increases the electron affinity of phenolate in a simple manner @DurhamChemistry
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Paper by Jemma Gibbard - Photoelectron spectroscopy of the deprotonated tryptophan anion: the contribution of deprotomers to its photodetachment channels - now published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
Review on the ultrafast dynamics in isolated anions now out in @AnnualReviews.
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Hydrated electrons at the water/air interface: float or sink? They look like hydrated electrons, they sink in ~10 ps, and the molecular radical from which they were made remains at the surface for 100s ps. Read all about it @NatureComms @DurhamChemistry
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New paper out in JPhysB as part of a Special Issue on Scattering Beyond the Gas Phase
"Electron impact resonances of uracil in an aqueous environment from anion photoelectron imaging" doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ac… via @ioppublishing