7-7-2022
Teacher of the year
Prof. Dr Maxim Pchenitchnikov was awarded the Teacher of the Year 2022 award in the NanoScience Top-master programme.
30-6-2022
PhD defence Nong Hoang
Nong Hoang successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled "Light-to-Energy Conversion in Organic Solar Cells and Molecular Motors".
Congratulations Nong !!!
7-1-2022
Cryogenic TEM imaging of artificial light harvesting complexes outside equilibrium
The energy transport in natural light-harvesting complexes can be realized in lab conditions via self-assembled supramolecular structures. One such structure arises from the amphiphilic C8S3 dye molecules, which self-assembles in an aqueous medium to a double walled cylindrical nanotube (DWNT), reminiscent of natural light-harvesting complexes found in green sulfur bacteria. In this work, we utilized a powerful platform of optical spectroscopy, cryo-TEM, and molecular modelling to image, and study only the inner NT of C8S3 DWNT system by selectively dissolving (flash-diluting) the outer NT in a microfluidic setting. The research revealed that the size as well as the molecular structure of the inner NT remains unchanged after the flash-dilution process. These results opens up exciting possibilities to functionalize the inner NT (e.g. with quantum dots) before outer NT reformation, thereby facilitating research towards intra-architecture of other self-assembled nanostructures. This work was published in Scientific Reports 12, 5552 (2022) .
16-6-2022
Zernike on Vlieland
Sundar gave an oral presentation on "Cryo-TEM imaging of out-of-equilibrium artificial light-harvesting complexes" at the 2022 Zernike Institute conference, held every two years on the beautiful island of Vlieland.
21-10-2021
A day in the lab of:
Benedito Raul, performing some preliminary experiments in the recently built visible/infrared pump-probe setup.
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