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Ultrafast science

Congratulations to Lin, who led a successful proposal in the Research at the Frontiers of X-Ray Free Electron Laser Ultrafast Chemical and Materials Sciences initiative!! The program, “Deciphering Directional Excited-State Charge Transfer Mechanisms Using Ultrafast XFEL Science” brings together PIs … Read More »

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Off to Caltech!

Ryan is headed west to Caltech to begin his appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering! Most of the group was able to take him out for lunch before he hit the road. Good … Read More »

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2018 DOE Early Career

Karen is thrilled to be selected to receive an award in the 2018 DOE Early Career Research Program! Her new research program will investigate “Molecular Photochemistry and Photocatalysis in Confinement”, and ultimately seeks to uncover the fundamental chemical, physical, and electronic … Read More »

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2018 Solar Photochemistry PI meeting

Dave, Lin, Oleg, and Karen are off to the DC area this week to participate in the 40th meeting of the BES/CSGB Solar Photochemistry program! They will present the latest and greatest research results from the group in oral (Lin, … Read More »

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Congratulations Ryan!

Our very own Ryan Hadt, currently Argonne’s Enrico Fermi Fellow, has accepted a faculty position in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech to begin this Fall! Congratulations to Professor Hadt!!!

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Spring ACS in New Orleans

Watch out Big Easy, here comes the Solar Energy Conversion Group: Karen and Ksenija both have talks this week at the 255th National Meeting of the ACS! Ksenija is presenting her work on metal-free catalytic motifs on Wednesday in the … Read More »

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2018 Solar Fuels GRC

Dave, Lisa, and Jens are off to Ventura, California this week to present posters at the Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels GRC!

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Happy New Year!

The Solar Energy Conversion Group is off to a strong start in 2018! We have two new publications already: one looking at complex energy and charge transfer pathways in multimetallic chromophores (see here) and the other using EPR to characterize … Read More »

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Photosynthetic Systems 2017

Most of the PIs headed out to Gaithersburg, MD this week to participate in the Photosynthetic Systems program meeting! Lisa presented a talk on her recent work on biohybrids and Dave, Oleg, and Karen presented posters. And of course, we … Read More »

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Highlighting Female Physical Chemists

Lin’s contributions to the discipline of physical chemistry were recently acknowledged in the Virtual Issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Honoring the 150th Birthday of Marie Curie. Congratulations Lin, this is a well-deserved recognition!!

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