worried about Science Ethics?
12.12.2023 More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record, R. Van Noorden, Nature, 2023, 624, 479-481, read more ...now reaching a broader public: ‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point (R. McKie,The Guardian), read more
worried about Science Ethics? 24.11.2023 Clarivate removes +1000 researchers from the list of "highly cited researcher" (HCR), see their analysis,
and the article in El País. Already, in 2022, Clarivate removed 500 researchers, and 300 in 2012. Thus the total amount of removed HCR researcher amounts incredible 24%!
10.11.2023: seven researchers from IMDEA Nanoscience are listed among the co-called "2% most influential" in the 2023 update of the original 2019 survey by Ioannidis et al. The list also includes group leader JG [subfield Chemical Physics; 0.8% (#9 in ES) in 2022, 1.6% for the entire career], read more
...but caution: lists based on citation indices can – as all quantitative measures – be manipulated by authors, here in particular through scientific hyperproduction (inter alia by AI-assisted 'salami papers' and 'honorary' authorships), excessive self-citation and citation cartels (of authors a/o institutions a/o journals), which are in fact increasingly seen in the community...
...therefore, Clarivate's predictable statement that "highly cited researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple highly cited papers over the last decade" becomes increasingly erroneous, evidently fueling scientific misconduct by creating revenants (German: "Wiedergänger") of such 'highly-cited researchers' as a grotesque farce...
Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)
Fiedelnder Tod (fiddling death)
Paper: Donor-Acceptor-Donor Triads with Flexible Spacers: Deciphering Complex Photophysics for Targeted Materials Design
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worried about Science Ethics? 03.11.2023 The Spanish science ministry takes action, establishing a ethics committee. In it's first report it defines rules on scientists' affiliations read more
Congratulations to Siyang for his 'Best Poster Award' of the RSC Journal 'Materials Horizons' at the ECME2023 - well done indeed!
...see also the RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog
The 16th European Conference on Molecular Electronics (ECME2023) took place in Bari, Italy, 01.-06.10.2023.
worried about Science Ethics? ...finally, also scientific hyperproduction, fake authorships, scientific paper mills, and misuse of public funds are receiving attention in the society, see the articles in El País (in Spanish):
21.11.2023: Los científicos pagaron unos 1.000 millones de euros en cuatro años a las grandes editoriales para publicar sus estudios en abierto read more
31.10.2023: La burbuja de las revistas científicas se traga millones de euros de dinero público read more
...the El País article is based on the study by M. A. Hanson et al: The Strain on Scientific Publishing
05.10.2023: Una megafábrica de estudios científicos falsos salpica a un vicerrector español y a tres colaboradores read more
03.06.2023: Un científico que publica un estudio cada dos días muestra el lado más oscuro de la ciencia read more
20.04.2023: Se nos pudre la ciencia read more
19.04.2023: Joan Subirats: “Una persona que hace un artículo cada tres días es algo complicado de entender” read more
The 14th International Conference on Optical Probes of Organic and Hybrid Semiconductors (OP2023) took place in Como, Italy, 11.-15.09.2023.
15.09.2023: Our new National Project ENCENDER (MICINN-FEDER PID2022-138222NB-C21), 09/2023-08/2027 was approved, being a coordinated Project between IMDEA Nanoscience (PI: J.Gierschner) and Univ. Valencia (PI: Begoña Milián Medina)
The 16th International Conference on Organic Electronics (ICOE) took place in Madrid, Spain, 03.-07.07.2023.
worried about Science Ethics? ...if you want to see the whole updated international paylist of the "King Saud University", take a brave look at their 2023 "International Conference and Exhibition for Science" ...here all the resourceful 'scientrepeneurs' met together, including well-known faces who affiliated themselves with that 'extraordinary' Saudi institution while receiving their ordinary salaries from naive Spanish taxpayers... highlight of the conference was a future Nobel prize winner, to speak to this illustrious community of top Saudi scientists ...or to sum it up with Roman Emperor Vespasian: pecunia non olet
Seminar Series Photophysics of Organic and Hybrid Supramolecular Nanosystems. 09.06.2023, 17:00h: Prof. Ji Eon Kwon, Functional Composite Materials Research Center, Institute of Advanced Composite Materials, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea: Designing organic electrode materials for future battery applications.
worried about Science Ethics? ...good to see that there is (finally) increasing awareness in the society about fake affiliations in science, see the articles in El País (in Spanish):
08.11.2023: El CSIC abre expediente disciplinario a cinco científicos implicados en la trama saudí para amañar el ‘ranking’ de universidades” read more
04.05.2023: Un científico saudí que rechazó ser coautor fantasma en estudios españoles: “Debemos detener esta bufonada académica” read more
03.05.2023: Ética científica: ¿Cuántos escándalos tendrán que producirse para que tomemos medidas? read more
20.04.2023: Un catedrático capta con su empresa tapadera a científicos españoles para que mientan y digan que trabajan en una universidad saudí read more
19.04.2023: Una de las científicas más citadas del mundo, Ai Koyanagi, obligada a renunciar a su polémico contrato con una universidad saudí read more
18.04.2023: Arabia Saudí paga a científicos españoles para hacer trampas en el ‘ranking’ de las mejores universidades del mundo read more
31.03.2023: Suspendido de empleo y sueldo por 13 años uno de los científicos más citados del mundo, el español Rafael Luque read more
Paper: Anomalous Deep-Red Luminescence of Perylene Black Analogues with Strong π-π Interactions read more...
worried about Science Ethics? Take a look at NanoBubbles, an ERC-funded project, dedicated on "how, when and why science fails to correct itself".
Paper: Formation and Degradation of Strongly Reducing Cyanoarene-Based Radical Anions towards Efficient Radical Anion-Mediated Photoredox Catalysis read more...
03/2023: Back in South Korea! ...giving lectures for the groups of Min Sang Kwon, Seoul National University
and talks at Hannam University, Daejeon, with Dong Ryeol Whang, and at KIST, Jeonbuk, with Ji Eon Kwon and Sang Kyu Park.
Finally, celebrating Prof. Soo Young Park's retirement... "All the best, Soo Young, for your active retirement!"
Paper: Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution using a Self-Assembled Octupolar Molecular System
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This article also appears in: Hot Topic: Water Splitting
03/2023: Group leader JG was elected as Outstanding Reviewer for Organic Chemistry Frontiers in 2022.
The next Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds CΠC-14 will take place in San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain, 01/02.2024. Organizer: Claire Tonnelé.
The Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds CΠC-13 took place in Madrid, Spain, 26.-28.01.2023. Organizer: Javier Cerezo & Lara Martínez-Fernández.
Paper: Boosting the Stimulated Emission Properties of Host:Guest Polymer Blends by Inserting Chain Twists in the Host Polymer
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15.07.2022: Dr. Indranil Bhattacharjee has joined the group through the EU COFUND Marie Sklodowska-Curie program IDEAL. Congratulations & welcome, Indranil!
The ICSM - International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, took place in Glasgow, July, 17-22, 2022.
15.06.2022: Dr. Juan Carlos Roldao has left the group to join the group of David Casanova, San Sebastian as a postdoc. All the best for your future, Juan!
Paper: Accurate Calculation of Excited State Absorption for Small-to-Medium Sized Conjugated Oligomers: Multiconfigurational Treatment vs. Quadratic Response TD-DFT
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The IPOE - 3rd International Conference on Interface Properties In organic and Hybrid Electronic: Perspectives & Key Challenges, took place in Malaga, Spain, June 13-16, 2022.
Juan Carlos Roldao has successfully defended his thesis at IMDEA Nanoscience on June, 9th, 2022. Congratulations, Dr. Roldao!
...and thank you to jury members Dr. Juan Aragó (Univ. Valencia), Dr. Linda Zotti (Univ. Autónoma Madrid), Daniel Roca Sanjuán (Univ. Valencia), Javier Cerezo (Univ. Autónoma Madrid), Yoann Olivier (Univ. Namur) for their excellent work.
Highlights of Juan's work can be found here: Pure Boric Acid Does Not Show Room Temperature Phosphorescence (RTP)read more.... Quantum-Chemistry Study of the Ground and Excited State Absorption of Distyrylbenzene: Multi vs. Single Reference Methods
read more.... Combined Spectroscopic and TD-DFT Analysis to Elucidate Substitution and Acidochromic Effects: A Case Study on Amino- vs. Nitro-Substituted 2,4-Diphenylquinolines read more.... Counterion-Mediated Crossing of the Cyanine Limit in Crystals and Fluid Solution - Bond Length Alternation and Spectral Broadening Unveiled by Quantum Chemistryread more....
Paper: Luminescent Assemblies of Pyrene-Containing Bent-Core Mesogens: Liquid Crystals, π-Gels and Nanotubes
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worried about Science Ethics? ...take a look at my new seminar: Scientific Misconduct in Current Chemistry Research: Aspects and Conditions .
The next Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds CΠC-13 will take place in Madrid, Spain, 01/02.2023. Organizer: Javier Cerezo & Lara Martínez Fernández.
The Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds CΠC-12 took place in Grenoble, France, 12.-14.05.2022. Organizer: Gabriele d'Avino.
Seminar Series Photophysics of Organic and Hybrid Supramolecular Nanosystems. 25.05.2022, 16:00h: Prof. Richard Hildner, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, The Netherlands: Energy Transport in Supramolecular (Super-)Structures with Tailored Excited-State Energy Landscapes
Paper: Water-Soluble Organic Photocatalyst Discovered for Highly Efficient Additive-Free Visible-Light-Driven Grafting of Polymers from a Protein at Ambient and Aqueous Environments
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This research article forms part of the 'Rising Stars' Series of Adv. Mater. - Congratulations, Minsang!
... a lesson on 'unconventional luminescence' phenomena - and good scientific practice: Pure Boric Acid Does Not Show Room Temperature Phosphorescence (RTP)
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25.02.2022: 15th Anniversary of IMDEA - Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies read more....
Paper: Quantum-Chemistry Study of the Ground and Excited State Absorption of Distyrylbenzene: Multi vs. Single Reference Methods
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The next Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds CΠC-12 (in person!) will take place in Grenoble, France, 12.-14.05.2021. Organizer: Gabriele d'Avino.
worried about Science Ethics? ...take a look at the DFG project Summa cum Fraude.
Paper: Monitoring Tautomerization of Single Hypericin Molecules in a Tunable Optical λ/2 Microresonator
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Review: Dual Emission: Classes, Mechanisms and Conditions
read more... ...thanks, Pablo, for the assistance with the artwork ;)
Review: Luminescence in Crystalline Organic Materials: From Molecules to
Molecular Solids
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This review paper forms part of the 'Hall of Fame' Series of Adv. Opt. Mater.
Paper: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence of Two-Step Tautomerization in Hypericin read more....
11.04.2021: More than 30 researchers from the different IMDEA institutes are listed as world top scientists in a recent survey by J. P. A. Ioannidis et al, PLoS Bio 2021, 18, e3000918. In the subfield "Chemical Physics", IMDEA Nanoscience group leader JG was placed among the top 1.1% for 2019 [794/73903], and among the top 2.5% for the entire career [1845/73903].
The Tübingen Lectures on Photophysics of Conjugated Organic Materials took place in online format, 08.-11.03 (Part A) and 15.-18.03.2021 (Part B & C), with 98 registered MSc & PhD students and Postdocs from 27 institutions in 12 countries
Paper: Direct Observation of Structural Heterogeneity and Tautomerization of Single Hypericin Molecules
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The Virtual Edition of the Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds (CΠC-O1), took place from Jan, 18-20, 2021.
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01.01.2021: Siyang Feng has joined the group with a CSC PhD grant. Congratulations & welcome, Siyang!
2020
The 5th Discussion Meeting on Progress in Organic Optoelectronics and Energy Conversion took place online, hosted at IMDEA Nanoscience, 17.-18.12.2020. [Program]
Paper: Combined Spectroscopic and TD-DFT Analysis to Elucidate Substitution and Acidochromic Effects: A Case Study on Amino- vs. Nitro-Substituted 2,4-Diphenylquinolines
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23.09.2019: Liangxuan Wang (Univ. Tübingen, Germany) will join the group again for an Erasmus Internship (01.11.2020-31.03.2021). Congratulations & welcome again, Lexie!
Unraveling the Origin of High Efficiency Photoluminescence in Mixed-Stack Isostructural Crystals of Organic Charge-Transfer Complex: Fine-Tuning of Isometric Donor-Acceptor Pairs
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The International Fall School on Organic Electronics "IFSOE 2020" took place via video conference, 14.-17.09.2020.
15.09.2020: Dr. Santosh Kumar Behera has left the group. All the best for your future career, Santosh!
Paper: Distinct Helical Molecular Orbitals Through Conformational Lock
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...this paper was selected as 'hot paper' by Chem. Eur. J.
01.09.2020: Javier Enrique Sebastian Alonso (Univ. Uppsala, Sweden) has joined the group for an Internship. Welcome, Javier!
19.08.2020: Liangxuan Wang has successfully defended her MSc work in Tübingen, Germany. Congratulations, Lexie!
Paper: Tricolor Fluorescence Switching in a Single Component Mechanochromic Molecular Material
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24.06.2020: Siyang Feng has received a CSC grant to join our group for a PhD. Congratulations, Siyang!
Paper: Self-Assembled Amphiphilic Molecules for Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water
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01.04.2020: Liangxuan Wang has started her MSc work in Tübingen, Germany, co-supervised by Alfred Meixner and myself. Welcome again, Lexie, and hope to see you soon also in Madrid!
Paper: Tuning of Solid State Luminescence in Conjugated Organic Materials: Control of Excitonic and Excimeric Contributions through π-Stacking and Halogen Bond Driven Self-Assembly
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The 12th European Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds (CΠC12), will take place in Grenoble, France, Jan./Feb. 2021.
The 11th European Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds (CΠC11), took place in Zagreb, Croatia, 30.01.-01.02.2020.
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Paper: Counterion-Mediated Crossing of the Cyanine Limit in Crystals and Fluid Solution - Bond Length Alternation and Spectral Broadening Unveiled by Quantum Chemistry
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2019
The 2nd Symposium on Progress in Organic Optoelectronics and Energy Conversion took place in Malaga, 12.-13.12.2019. read more....
The CECAM Workshop on Nonequilibrium dynamical solvent effects on excited states: from spectroscopy to photoreactivity, will take place in Nancy, France, 16.-20.06.2020.
Paper: Excited State Non-Radiative Decay in Stilbenoid Compounds: An ab initio Quantum-Chemistry Study on Size and Substituent Effects
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30.09.2019: Liangxuan Wang has finished her Erasmus Internship in our group to return to Tübingen, Germany. All the best, Lexie, and a successful finish of your Master studies!
The International Fall School on Organic Electronics "IFSOE 2019" took place in Moscow Region, Russia, 15.-20.09.2019.
Paper: Crossed 2D vs. Slipped 1D pi-Stacking in Polymorphs of Crystalline Organic Thin Films: Impact on the Electronic and Optical Response
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Seminar Series Photophysics of Organic and Hybrid Supramolecular Nanosystems. 06.09.2019, 12:00h: Prof. Soo Young Park, Center for Supramolecular Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University: Manipulating Energy Transfer Processes in Molecular Materials System.
29.07.2019: Dr. Junqing Shi (now Xi'an, China) has received the "Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado" of the University Autónoma de Madrid for her Thesis in Condensed Matter Physics. Congratulations, Jun! read more...
The “18th International Conference on Density-Functional Theory and its Applications” was held in Alicante, Spain, 22.-26.07.2019.
Paper: Organic Photocatalyst for ppm-Level Visible-Light-Driven Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization with Excellent Oxygen Tolerance
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The Conference "Optical Probes 2019" took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, 07.-12.07.2019.
01.07.2019: Liangxuan Wang (Univ. Tübingen, Germany) has joined the group for a 3-month Internship. Congratulations for your Erasmus grant and welcome in Madrid, Lexie!
Paper: Inverted Energy Gap Law for the Nonradiative Decay in Fluorescent Floppy Molecules: Larger Fluorescence Quantum Yields for Smaller Energy Gaps
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Paper: Probing the Molecular Orientation of a Single Conjugated Polymer via Nano-gap SERS
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20.02.2019: Giovanny Carvalho dos Santos has finished his PhD Internship in our group to return to Bauru, Brazil. All the best, Giovanny, and a successful finish of your PhD!
Paper: Highly Efficient and Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells Obtained via Treatment by Semiconducting Chemical Additive read more....
The 11th European Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds (CΠC11), will take place in Zagreb, Croatia, Jan./Feb. 2020.
The 3rd Discussion Meeting on Progress in Organic Optoelectronics and Energy Conversion took place at IMDEA Nanoscience, 13.-14.12.2018. [Program]
12.12.2018: Doyon Kim & Yuna Song (Prof. Minsang Kwon group, UNIST – Ulsan, Korea) have joined the group for a 2-week PhD stay. Welcome in Madrid!
10.12.2018: Dr. Junqing Shi has left the group to join the Institute for Flexible Electronics (IFE), Xian, PR China. All the best for your future, Jun!
27.11.2018: JGs annual visit at Min Sang Kwon's group at UNIST, Ulsan.
25.11.2018: 10th anniversary annual visit at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National University. Thank you Soo Young, for the extraordinary collaboration resulting in 27 publications so far and all the pleasant time with you and your group; indeed, time is passing fast...
Paper: Highly Efficient Organic Photocatalysts Discovered via a Computer-Aided-Design Strategy for Visible-Light-Driven Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization read more....
The EXTMOS Summer School: "From Molecules to Organic Electronics Materials" took place in Erice, Sicily, 01.-07.10.2018.
20. & 21.09.2018: Maria Izquierdo (supervisor: Daniel Roca-Sanjuán, ICMol, Valencia) was at IMDEA to discuss her latest results
10.09.2018: Mortaza Eskandari (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran) has joined the group for a 5-month PhD internship. Congratulations for your grant and welcome in Madrid, Mortaza!
03.09.2018: Begoña Milián Medina has successfully done her 'Oposición' at the Universidad de Valencia. Congratulations for the Prof. Titular, Begoña
01.09.2018: Giovanny Carvalho dos Santos (Univ. Estadual Paulista, Bauru, Brazil) has joined the group for a 5-month PhD internship. Congratulations for your grant and welcome in Madrid, Giovanny!
paper: Insight into Water-Soluble Highly Fluorescent Low-Dimensional Host-Guest Supramolecular Polymers: Structure and Energy Transfer Dynamics Revealed by Polarized Fluorescence Spectroscopy read more....
31.07.2018: Juan Roldao has joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome Juan!
19.07.2018: The Symposium in honor of the 60th birthday of Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf took place at ZAE Bayern, Nürnberg
The International Conference 'Chemistry for the Future' CfF2018 took place in Pisa, 04.-06.07.2018.
31.05.2018: Dr. Nandajan Paramjyothi C., has left the group to join M.E.S. College, Nedumkandam (Kerala, India) as an Assistant Professor. All the best for your future career, Nandajan!
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems 17.05.2018, 12:00h: Dr. Rubén D. Costa, IMDEA Materiales, Madrid, Spain: New Advances in Hybrid Optoelectronics.
Paper: Light Harvesting Fluorescent Supramolecular Block Copolymers Based on Cyanostilbene Derivatives and Cucurbit[8]urils in Aqueous Solution read more....
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems 10.04.2018, 15:00h: Dr. Dong Ryeol Whang, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University Linz: Artificial Photosynthesis: Fate of Photoexcited States.
Highlight: Designing High Performance All-Small-Molecule Solar Cell with Non-Fullerene Acceptors: Comprehensive Studies on Photoexcitation Dynamics and Charge Separation Kinetics read more....
see also... Hot Papers Energy Environ. Sci. 2018
18.03.2018: Hyun-Jun Lee (Prof. Soo Young Park group, SNU – Seoul, Korea) has joined the group for a 1-week PhD stay. Welcome in Madrid!
The 'Workshop on Frontiers in Chemistry of Molecular Materials' within the Severo Ochoa International Workshop Series at IMDEA Nanoscience took place 06.-07.03.2018.
03.02.2018: Yonghwan Kwon & Junhyeok Lee (Prof. Minsang Kwon group, UNIST – Ulsan, Korea) have joined the group for a 1-week PhD stay. Welcome in Madrid!
Junqing Shi has successfully defended her thesis at IMDEA Nanoscience on Jan, 11th, 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Shi!
...and thank you to jury members Prof. Dr. MªCarmen Ruiz Delgado (Univ. Malaga), Prof. Dr. Emilio Perez (IMDEA Nanoscience) and PD Dr. Dai Zhang (Univ. Tübingen) for their excellent work.
Highlights of Jun's work can be found here: Designing High Performance All-Small-Molecule Solar Cell with Non-Fullerene Acceptors: Comprehensive Studies on Photoexcitation Dynamics and Charge Separation Kinetics read more.... Solid State Luminescence Enhancement in p-Conjugated Materials: Unraveling the Mechanism beyond the Framework of AIE/AIEE read more....
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems 10.01.2018, 12:00h: Dr. Mª Carmen Ruiz Delgado, Department for Physical Chemistry, University of Malaga, Spain: Impact of the Intermolecular Interactions on the Electronic and Charge-Transport Properties of Organic Materials: The Key Role of DFT Calculations.
01.01.2018: Our New National Project OptoCT - Photophysics of Innovative Organic Charge-Transfer Systems (MINECO--FEDER CTQ2017-87054) has started, being a coordinated project between IMDEA Nanoscience (PIs: J.Gierschner, Larry Lüer) and Univ. Valencia (PI Daniel Roca Sanjuan; KR: Begoña Milián Medina). See more: OptoCT
19.11.2017: JGs on his annual visit at Min Sang Kwon's group at UNIST, Ulsan.
17.11.2017: JGs 25th SNU seminar during the annual visit at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National Univesrity.
Highlight: Solid State Luminescence Enhancement in p-Conjugated Materials: Unraveling the Mechanism beyond the Framework of AIE/AIEE read more....
Paper: Room Temperature Phosphorescence based Dissolved Oxygen Detection by Core-shell Polymer Nanoparticles having Metal-free Organic Phosphor read more....
Paper: Plasmonic Nano-Gap for Single Molecule Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy read more....
Paper: Twist Elasticity Controlled Crystal Emission in Highly Luminescent Polymorphs of Cyano-Substituted Distyrylbenzene (bDCS) read more....
Paper: Tetra(p-Dodecacarborane-Stilbeno)ethylene - a novel Luminescent Tetraphenylethylene (TPE) Core System read more....
Memorandum on the unreflected use of the Impact Factor (IF):
In light of the recent developments where eminent journals in (Chemical) Physics are now considered as undeserving publication media because they don't belong to "Q1", I would like to remind the following points: 1. The IF measures short- but not long-term impact; as the IF measures only citations of the first two years after publication: is this what science should be - "twitter" notes in the knowledge of mankind? What about long-term impact? - praised researchers of the past would not receive a position nowadays as the IF decides on careers... What about knowledge whose relevance will be realized in maybe 10 or 100 years? As the IF may decide on funding, such results may never be discovered. 2. The journal IF is not the researcher's IF, and it's wrong to assume that they are necessarily correlated - and, what is preferred: to have 10 citations in a Q1 journal or 200 in a Q2 ? 3. The IF can easily be manipulated by journals: e.g. by regularly publishing reviews, which usually get much more citations than regular articles; so don't be fooled. 4. The journal's IF is a self-fulfilling prophecy, as researchers tend to cite these journals more often to better sell their own work. 5. Not surprisingly, the IF tends to increase with time as the overall number of papers and citations increase; this is only partly compensated by the appearance of new journals, and is less exciting than the notorious overwhelming annual announcements of the newest IF. 6. Finally, what really surprises is that IFs are given with 5 digits: where is the significance? ...it's like scientists forget their lessons in variables' uncertainty if they look at the emperor's new clothes resp. IF. p.s. I will not start about... citation cycles, or the trend to cite papers (of friends or mentors) of the last five years instead of the original works, or endless rediscoveries of the wheel by un-/consciously ignoring decades of research... but it should be at least mentioned in this context. Economization of science tends to become total: initiated by decision makers in industry and politics, infiltrating the minds of the researchers to finally make them loose their only dignity left, scientific honesty. JG, Madrid, 26.07.2017
Paper: Highly Luminescent 2D-type Slab Crystals Based on a Molecular Charge-Transfer Complex as Promising Organic Light-Emitting Transistor Materials read more....
Paper: Molecular Scale Shear Response of the Organic Semiconductor b-DBDCS (100) Surface read more....
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems 25.05.2017, 11:00h: Prof. Monika Fleischer, University of Tübingen, Germany: Fabrication, linear and nonlinear spectroscopy of optical nano-antennas and hybrid antenna-systems.
24.05.2017: The COST Follow-Up Proposal Meeting took place in Madrid.
Paper: Crystallization-Induced Emission Enhancement and Amplified Spontaneous Emission from a CF3-containing Excited-State Intramolecular-Proton-Transfer Molecule read more....
The International Symposium on Molecular Design of Opto-Electronic Materials took place in Beijing, 14.-16.04.2017.
The Conference on Optical Nanospectroscopy IV took place in Lisbon along with the COST Nanospectroscpy MP1302 Management and Working Group Meetings, 28.-31.03.2017.
Paper: Excited State Absorption Spectra of Dissolved and Aggregated Distyrylbenzene - a TD-DFT State and Vibronic Analysis read more....
13.03.2017: Nijiati Aimaiti has joined the group for a 3-month student research project. Welcome in Madrid, Nijat!
La Feria de la Ciencia took place in Madrid, Círculo de Bellas Artes, 07.-08.03.2017. Thanks, Jun, for your assistance ;)
27.01.2017: Solidarity with our US-banned scientific colleagues
20.01.2017: thank you & congratulations, Prof. Trump, for ending the climate change (best done by 'twitter' decree: "climat change over" ...you make America great again, indeed... at least in your 'alternative', post-factual reality)
Perspective: 'Though It Be but Little, It is Fierce' - Excited State Engineering of Conjugated Organic Materials by Fluorination read more....
The COST Winter School on Photophysics of Hybrid Interfaces took place in Ambroz pod Krvavcem, Slovenia, 15.-19.01.2017. [Program]
2016
Paper: Highly Enhanced Fluorescence of Supramolecular Polymers Based on a Cyanostilbene Derivative and Cucurbit[8]uril in Aqueous Solution read more....
The first Discussion Meeting on Progress in Organic Optoelectronics took place at IMDEA Nanoscience, 30.11.-01.12.2016. [Program]
Paper: Resonant Energy Transport in Dye-Filled Monolithic Crystals of Zeolite L – Modeling of Inhomogeneity read more....
19.11.2016: JG is on his annual visit at Min Sang Kwon's group at UNIST, Ulsan.
13.11.2016: JG does his annual visit at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National Univesrity.
Paper: Naphthalenediimide Polymers with Finely Tuned in-Chain π-Conjugation. Electronic Structure, Film Microstructure, and Charge Transport Properties read more....
17.09.2016: The COST Nanospectroscpy MP1302 Management and Working Group Meetings took place in Warsaw along with the Topical Meeting on Nanoparticles, September, 13-16, 2016.
Paper: Regio(ir)regular Naphthalenediimide- and Perylenediimide-Bithiophene Copolymers: How MO Localization Controls the Bandgap read more....
31.07.2016: Eliézer Fernando Oliveira has finished his PhD internship in our group to return to Bauru, Brazil. All the best, Eli, and a succesful finish of your PhD!
Paper: ¿Conjugated? Copolymers from a Pechmann Dye Derivative read more....
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems 26.07.2016, 12:00h, IMDEA: Eliézer Fernando Oliveira, Univ. Estadual Paulista, Bauru, Brazil, Modelling Excited-Sttae Absorption of Conjugated Organic Materials.
Paper: Photoluminescence in Carborane-Stilbene Triads: a Combined Structural, Spectroscopic and Computational study read more....
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems 22.07.2016, 12:00h: Dr. Christoph Gadermeier, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Paper: Effective Conjugation in Conjugated Polymers with Strongly Twisted Backbones: a Case Study on Fluorinated MEHPPV read more....
20.07.2016: Watching the news on Turkey, one might remember Michael Polanyi (1891-1976)... "Scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization. Such self-coordination of independent initiatives leads to a joint result which is unpremeditated by any of those who bring it about. Any attempt to organize the group ... under a single authority would eliminate their independent initiatives, and thus reduce their joint effectiveness to that of the single person directing them from the centre. It would, in effect, paralyse their co-operation"
Paper: Tuning of the Electronic and Photophysical Properties of Ladder-Type Quaterphenyl by Selective Methylene-Bridge Fluorination read more....
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems 08.07.2016, 12:00h, ICMol, Univ. Valencia: Eliézer Fernando Oliveira, Univ. Estadual Paulista, Bauru, Brazil, Modelling Excited-Sttae Absorption of Conjugated Organic Materials.
Review: Stabilizing and Modulating Color by Copigmentation: Insights from Theory and Experiment read more....
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems 27.05.2016, 12:00h: Dr. Sergei Tretiak, Los Alamos Nat. Labatory, NM, USA, Modeling of photophysics and energy transfer in organic semiconductors.
Paper: Polymorphism and Amplified Spontaneous Emission in a Dicyano-Distyrylbenzene Derivative with Multiple Trifluoromethyl Substituents: Intermolecular Interactions in Play read more.... 02.05.2016: Eliézer Fernando Oliveira (Univ. Estadual Paulista, Bauru, Brazil) has joined the group for a 3-month PhD internship. Congratulations for your grant and welcome in Madrid & Valencia, Eli!
Paper: Synthesis and Conformation of a Novel Fluorescein-Zn-Porphyrin Dyad and Intramolecular Energy Transfer read more....
Progress Report: Organic Single Crystal Lasers - a Materials View read more....
20.04.2016: The 4th Annual Conference of the COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy, will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, March, 28-31, 2017. The next Working Group Meeting is scheduled for September, 13-16, 2016 in Warsaw, Poland.
Paper: Sub-nanometer Resolution of an Organic Semiconductor Crystal Surface using Friction Force Microscopy in Water read more....
Paper: Multi-Luminescent Switching of Metal-Free Organic Phosphors for Luminometric Detection of Organic Solvents read more....
23.03.2016: Research visit at Min Sang Kwon's group, UNIST, Ulsan, by J. Gierschner & B. Milián.
13.03.2016: Research visit at Soo Young Park's group, Seoul National Univesrity, by J. Gierschner & B. Milián
13.02.2016: The 8th European Symposium on Computing π-Conjugated Compounds (CΠC8), will be organized by M. Carmen Ruiz Delgado and Juan Carlos Sancho Garcia, in Malaga, Spain, 26.-28.01.2017.
Paper: Calculation of Low Bandgap Homopolymers: Comparison of TD-DFT Methods with Experimental Oligomer Series read more....
Highlight Paper: Stimuli-Responsive Reversible Fluorescence Switching in a Crystalline Donor–Acceptor Mixture Film: Mixed Stack Charge-Transfer Emission versus Segregated Stack Monomer Emission read more....
2015
23.12.2015: Benedikt Dänekamp has successfully defended his Master thesis at Humboldt University, Berlin. Conratulations Benni, and good luck for your PhD work!
12/2015: Junqing Shi went for a PhD stay to the group of Prof. A. Meixner, Tübingen, doing fluorescence and Raman imaging with PD Dr. Dai Zhang
Highlight Suppressing Molecular Motions for Enhanced Room-Temperature Phosphorescence of Metal-Free Organic Materials read more....
23.11.2015: Dr. Paramjyothi C. Nandajan has joined the group as an Amarout Fellow. Welcome, Nandajan!
11/2015: JG does his annual visit at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National University.
The 2nd Fall School of Organic Electronics took place in Moscow Region, 20.-25. Sept. 2015.
09/2015: Junqing Shi went for a Course on Raman spectrosocpy within the COST action Nanospectroscopy to Tübingen & Reutlingen, Germany
15.09.2015: Rameesha Mangattu Parambil has successfully defended her Master thesis at MES College Ponnani, Malappuram, Kerala, which she had performed in our group. All the best for your future career, Rameesha!
11.09.2015: Rim Milad has finished her PhD internship in our group to return to IPEST, Marsa, Tunisia. All the best, Rim, and a succesful finish of your PhD!
Vibronic Coupling in Molecular Crystals: a Franck-Condon Herzberg-Teller Model of H-Aggregate Fluorescence Based on Quantum Chemical Cluster Calculations read more....
The Summer School on "Computation of Excited States" took place in Donostia - San Sebastián , Spain, 01.-04.09.2015
Excited State Features and Dynamics in a Distyrylbenzene Based Mixed Stack Donor-Acceptor Co-Crystal with Luminescent Charge Transfer Characteristics read more....
31.07.2015: Dr. Santanu Bhattacharyya has left the group to join the group of J. Feldmann (LMU Müchen, DE) as a Humboldt fellow. All the best for your future career, Santanu!
13.07.2015: to remember what Europe has been meant to be...
RESOLVED to mark a new stage in the process of European integration undertaken with the establishment of the European Communities,
DRAWING INSPIRATION from the cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe, from which have developed the universal values of the inviolable and inalienable rights of the human person, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law,
RECALLING the historic importance of the ending of the division of the European continent and the need to create firm bases for the construction of the future Europe,
CONFIRMING their attachment to the principles of liberty, democracy and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and of the rule of law,
CONFIRMING their attachment to fundamental social rights as defined in the European Social Charter signed at Turin on 18 October 1961 and in the 1989 Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers,
DESIRING to deepen the solidarity between their peoples while respecting their history, their culture and their traditions,
DESIRING to enhance further the democratic and efficient functioning of the institutions so as to enable them better to carry out, within a single institutional framework, the tasks entrusted to them,
RESOLVED to achieve the strengthening and the convergence of their economies and to establish an economic and monetary union including, in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty and of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, a single and stable currency,
DETERMINED to promote economic and social progress for their peoples, taking into account the principle of sustainable development and within the context of the accomplishment of the internal market and of reinforced cohesion and environmental protection, and to implement policies ensuring that advances in economic integration are accompanied by parallel progress in other fields,
RESOLVED to establish a citizenship common to nationals of their countries,
RESOLVED to implement a common foreign and security policy including the progressive framing of a common defence policy, which might lead to a common defence in accordance with the provisions of Article 42, thereby reinforcing the European identity and its independence in order to promote peace, security and progress in Europe and in the world,
RESOLVED to facilitate the free movement of persons, while ensuring the safety and security of their peoples, by establishing an area of freedom, security and justice, in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty and of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
RESOLVED to continue the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to the citizen in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity,
IN VIEW of further steps to be taken in order to advance European integration
(Preamble of the Treaty on European Union)
"It’s the citizens, not the banks, which must retain the final say in existential questions for Europe" (Jürgen Habermas, sociologist & philosopher)
Highlight Shear-Triggered Crystallization and Light Emission of a Thermally Stable Organic Supercooled Liquid read more... a/o watch the video:
05/2015: Junqing Shi went for a 2-weeks PhD stay to the group of Dr. Carlos Serpa, Coimbra, doing doing photo-acoustic spectroscopy (COST action Nanospectroscopy)
06.05.2015: Rim Milad (IPEST, Marsa, Tunisia) has joined the group for a 4-month PhD internship. Congratulations for your grant and welcome in Madrid, Rim!
05.05.2015: Dr. Michael Wykes has left the group to join the group of C. Adamo (Paris). All the best for your future career, Mike!
Optical Properties of Wine Pigments: Theoretical Guidelines with new Methodological Perspectives...read more.
High Bent-Core Liquid Crystalline Cyanostilbenes: Fluorescence Switching and Thermochromism read more....
23.03.2015: The 3rd Annual Conference of the COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy, will take place in Rome, Italy, March 2015. The next Working Group Meeting is scheduled for September, 1st/2nd, 2015, in London, UK.
The 2nd Annual Conference of the COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy, took place in Dublin, 18.-20. March 2015.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, 06.03.2015, 12:00h: Dr. Fabio Cucinotta , Univ. Newcastle, UK, Photoactive host-guest systems based on porous frameworks.
Highlight High Contrast Red-Green-Blue Tricolor Fluorescence Switching in Bicomponent Molecular Film read more....
Highlight A Distyrylbenzene Based Highly Efficient Deep Red/Near-Infrared Emitting Organic Solid ...read more.
The COST Training School on Organic Semiconductors - from Photophysics to Applications took place at IMDEA Nanoscience, 26.-30.01.2015
2014
17.11.2014: Bendikt Dänekamp has joined the group for a long-term Master internship. Welcome in Madrid, Benni!
11/2014: JG does his annual visit at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National University.
Design Principles of Chemiluminescence (CL) Chemodosimeter for Highly Sensitive, Selective, and Self-Signaling Detection of Fluoride Anion: Luminol Protective Approach...read more.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, 09.10.2014, 12:00h: Dr. Santanu Bhattacharyya , IMDEA Nanoscience, Doped Semiconducting Polymer Nanomaterials: An Alternative Luminescent Source.
The Management & Working Group Meeting of COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy, took place in Troyes, 06.-07. October 2014. The 2nd COST conference on Nanospectroscopy will take place in Dublin, 18.-20.03.2015.
16.09.2014: Dr. S. Bhattacharyya has joined the group as a Amarout postdoctoral fellow. Welcome in Madrid, Santanu!
1st International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials, Lisbon, Portugal, 08.-10.09.2014
Molecular Resolution Friction Microscopy of Cu Phthalocyanine Thin Films on Dolomite (104) in Water...read more.
ICSM2014, International Conference on Synthetic Metals, Turku, Finland, 30.06.-05.07.2014
The ESTABLIS Network meeting took place at Aston University, Birmingham (UK), 10.-12.06.2014
Orthogonal Resonator Modes and Low Lasing Threshold in Highly Emissive Distyrylbenzene-Based Molecular Crystals...read more.
The 1st European Workshop on Understanding and Controlling Nano and Mesoscale Friction of the COST Action MP1303, took place in C'an Picafort, Mallorca (ES), 26.-29. May 2014.
Rationally Designed Molecular D–A–D Triad for Piezochromic and Acidochromic Fluorescence On–Off Switching...read more.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 10.04.2014, 15:00h: Dr. Stephanie Lhez, Université de Limoges, France: "Porphyrins design for biological applications".
04.04.2014: Dr. Shinto Varghese has left the group to join the group of I. Samuel (St. Andrews, UK) as a IEF fellow. All the best for your future career, Shinto!
03.04.2014: Rameesha Mangattu Parambil has joined the group for a Master thesis. Welcome in Madrid!
29.03.2014: The 2nd Annual Conference of the COST Action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy, takes place in Dublin, Ireland, March 2015. The next Working Group Meeting is scheduled for October, 6th/7th, in Troyes, France.
Energy Transfer at the Zeolite L Boundaries: Towards Photo- and Electro-Responsive Materials ...read more.
06.02.2014: The 6th European Symposium on Computing pi-Conjugated Compounds (CPiC6), will be organized by Michal Otyepka, in Olomouc, Czech Republic, in Jan/Feb 2015.
16.09.2013: Junqing Shi has joined the group as a CSC PhD scholar. Congratulations for your grant, and welcome in Madrid, Jun!
Highlight Perspective: Highly Emissive H-Aggregates or Aggregation-Induced Emission Quenching? The Photophysics of All-Trans Para-Distyrylbenzene ...read more.
...watch the video
a/o take a look at the LifeSlides, and read the Editor's Comment
followed by the semi-annual meeting of the Marie-Curie ITN ESTABLIS at IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid, Spain, 23.-26.06.2013. [Program]
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 24.06.2013, 15:00h: Prof. Dr. Ifor Samuel, University St. Andrews, UK: Organic Solar Cells and Lasers.
Stimulated Emission Properties of Sterically Modified Distyrylbenzene-Based H-Aggregate Single Crystals...read more.
22.06.2013: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety (Benjamin Franklin)
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 12.06.2013, 12:00h: Prof. Dr. Ruidong Xia, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China: Organic Materials for Laser and Solar Cell Applications.
CSC 2013, 96th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Quebec City, Canada, 26.-30.05.2013
16.05.2013: The new COST action MP1302 Nanospectroscopy has been granted.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 22.05.2013, 12:00h: Dr. Mike Wykes, IMDEA Nanoscience: Multiscale Modelling of OLED and OPV Materials: From Photophysics to Photochemistry.
Highlight: Tailor-made Highly Luminescent and Ambipolar Transporting Organic Mixed Stacked Charge-Transfer Crystals: an Isometric Donor-Acceptor Approach ...read more.
06.05.2013: Dr. M. Wykes has joined the group as an IEF Marie Curie fellow with his project SolarRevolution. Congratulations for your grant and welcome in Madrid, Mike!
Color-Tuned, Highly Emissive Dicyanodistyrylbenzene Single Crystals: Manipulating Intermolecular Stacking Interactions for Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission Characteristics...read more.
The IMDEA Workshop on 'Molecular Electronics' took place on 16.-17.02.2013.
[Program]
The PORPHYPLANT Kickoff meeting took place in Limoges, France, 05.02.2013.
02.02.2013: The 5th European Symposium on Computing pi-Conjugated Compounds will be organized by Matthieu Linares in Linköping, Sweden, in February 2014.
Correlation Effects in the Optical Spectra of Porphyrin Oligomer Chains: Exciton Confinement and Length Dependence...read more.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 30.01.2013, 12:00h: Silvia Motti (MSc), Universidade de Sao Carlos, Brazil: SFG spectroscopy applied to polymeric devices.
Fluoro-Functionalization of Vinylene Units in a Polyarylenevinylene for Polymer Solar Cells: Impact of Fluorination on Morphological and Optical Properties and on Photovoltaic Performances...read more.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 28.01.2013, 12:00h: Prof. Dr. Yue Zhao, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada: Light-Controllable Polymer Nanocarriers.
2012
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 13.12.2012, 16:00h: Prof. Dr. Andrew Sutherland, University Aston Triangle Birmingham, Polymer beads as ligands for quantum dots and vectors for intercellular protein delivery, Dr. Roger Hiorns, Université de Pau et de Pays de l'Adour, Making Polymers from Fullerene for Photovoltaics.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 13.12.2012, 13:00h: Prof. Dr. Beatriz Romero Herrero & Dr. Belén Arredondo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, DELFO-URJC activities in organic detectors: solar cells and photodetectors.
Stimulated Resonance Raman Scattering and Lasing Oscillation in Highly Emissive Distyrylbenzene Based Molecular Crystals ...read more.
The ESTABLIS meeting took place in Clermont-Ferrand, France, 04.-07.12.2012
The Meeting of the Sientific Advisory Committee of IMDEA Nanoscience took place at IMDEA Nanoscience, 03.12.2012 [Program].
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 30.11.2012, 10:30h: Tobias Sauermann, Belectric OPV, Nürnberg, Germany, Degradation of Organic Solar Cells.
The Kickoff meeting of the new ITN POCAONTAS took place at IMDEA Nanoscience, 22.-23.11.2012 [Program].
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 21.11.2012, 16:00h: Prof. Dr. Guglielmo Lanzani, Politecnico di Milano, Cell Stimulation by polymer photoexcitation.
11/2012: JG on his annual visit at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National University.
Highlight: Unique Piezochromic Fluorescence Behavior of Dicyanodistyrylbenzene Based Donor–Acceptor–Donor Triad: Mechanically Controlled Photo-induced Electron Transfer (eT) in Molecular Assemblies...read more.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 02.10.2012, 15:00h: Dr. Emilio Perez, IMDEA, Mechanically Interlocked Nanotubes.
FUTURMAT 2012, Second International Meeting on Organic Materials for a Better Future, Brindisi (I), 16.-20.09.2012
EPIOPTICS 2012, International School of Solid State Physics, Erice, Sicily, 24.-29.07.2012
EXCON 2012, 10th International Conference on Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter, Nanostructured and Molecular Materials, Groningen (NL), 02.-06.07.2012
ESPA 2012, 8th Congress on Electronic Structure: Principles and Applications, Barcelona, Spain, 26.-29.06.2012
Perspective: Directional Exciton Transport in Supramolecular Nanostructured Assemblies...read more.
20.06.2012: IMDEA Nanoscience moved to the new building.
01.06.2012 Dr. A. Aguirre has left the group to work at Avengoa (Sevilla, Spain). All the best for your future career, Arantxa!
Lecture Series L. Lüer: Organic Photovoltaics, IMDEA Nanoscience, 16.05./19.06./21.06.2012, 9:30-10:30h.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 08.05.2012, 15:00h: Safakath Karuthedath, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India, Nonlinear Optical Studies in Organics and Nanomaterials .
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 26.04.2012, 15:00h: Prof. Dr. Yves Geerts, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium: A Chemist Approach to Order in
Molecular Semiconductors.
Account: pi-Conjugated Cyanostilbene Derivatives: A Unique Self-Assembly Motif for Molecular Nanostructures with Enhanced Emission and Transport...read more.
05.02.2012: The 4th European Symposium on Computing pi-Conjugated Compounds will be organized by Philippe Marsal in Marseille, France, 31.01-02.02.2013 [Program].
01.01.2012: The new EU Marie-Curie ITN ESTABLIS has started. [Coordination: R. Hiorns, Univ. Pau; Scientist in Charge IMDEA: L. Lüer]
UV/Vis Spectra of Natural Polyphenols: a Time-dependent Density Functional Theory Study...read more.
01.01.2012: Our new national project CONMOL "Tailor-made Conjugated Molecular Materials via Intra- and Intermolecular Control" just started.
2011
The Confine preparation meeting has been held at IMDEA Nanoscience, 01.11.2011.
11/2011: JG on his annual visit at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National University.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 02.11.2011, 11:00h: Prof. Dr. Gianluca Farinola, University of Bari, Italy: Multifunctional organic semiconductors.
The NanoLum+ preparation meeting has been held at IMDEA Nanoscience, 10.10.2011.
Tuning Interchain and Intrachain Interactions in Polyfluorene Copolymers...read more.
EXCST 2011, Excited states and non-adiabatic processes in complex systems.
Theoretical approaches, Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona, Spain), 25.-27.07.2011
WATOC 2011, 9th Triannual Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 17.-22.07.2011
Excited State Switching by Per-Fluorination of para-Oligophenylenes...read more.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 31.05.2011, 10:00h: Dr. Shinto Varghese, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India, Thiruvananthapuram: Exploring Self-Assembled Stilbenoid Architectures in the Pathway from Molecules to Materials.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 25.05.2011, 10:00h: J. Gierschner, IMDEA Nanosciencie. Tutorial: Practical Aspects of Steady-State Optical Spectroscopy.
The 1st O2-Symposium on Reversible & Irreversible Degradation of Conjugated Materials has been held at IMDEA Nanoscience, 20.05.2011 [Program].
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience, 12.05.2011, 15:00h: Dr. Begoña Milián-Medina, IMDEA Nanosciencie. Tutorial: An Introduction to Quantum Chemistry Calculation of Molecular Properties.
03.05.2011: Dr. S. Varghese has joined the group as an Amarout fellow. Welcome, Shinto!
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience: 03.05.2011, Prof. Dr. María Díaz-García, University of Alicante: Organic Solid State Lasers.
Seminar Series Spectroscopy & Microscopy of Nanostructured Systems, IMDEA Nanoscience: 15.04.2011, Juan Aragó, ICMol, University of Valencia: Ab Initio Modelling of Donor-Acceptor Interactions and Charge-Transfer Excitations in Molecular Complexes.
Polarized Fluorescence from Single Stopcock Molecules at Channel Entrances of an All-Organic Host-Guest Compound ...read more.
13.03.2011: just remembering physicist and philosoper Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007): "Die Wissenschaft ist erst erwachsen, wenn sie die Verantwortung für ihre Folgen übernimmt"
01.03.2011: Take a look at the new website of
NanoBioMagnet.
01.03.2011: La vida después de la lámpara incandescente
...lea más.
25.02.2011: German scientists oppose dishonourable behavior of the goverment in the Guttemberg deceit
...read more.
Oligothienoacenes versus oligothiophenes: Impact of ring fusion on the optical properties...read more.
12.02.2011: Take a look at our new building:
03.02.2011: The 3rd European Symposium on Computing pi-Conjugated Compounds will be organized by Yoann Olivier at the Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons, February 2012.
01.01.2011: Dr. A. Aguirre has joined the group s a Amarout fellow. Welcome, Arantxa!
2010
15.12.2010: Anna has successfully defended her PhD in Tübingen, Germany. Congratulations Dr. Chizhik!
Electronic properties and supramolecular organization of terminal bis-alkylethynyl-substituted benzodithiophenes...read more.
Highlight: Multistimuli Two-Color Luminescence Switching via Different Slip-Stacking of Highly Fluorescent Molecular Sheets ...read more.
Meet the JACS Challenge!
11/2010: JG on his annual visit at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National University.
Alignment and Relaxation Dynamics of Dye Molecules in Host-Guest Inclusion Compounds as Probed by Dielectric Spectroscopy...read more.
31.08.2010: The EU Marie-Curie Research Training Network NANOMATCH - "Supramolecular Nanostructured Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Systems" has successfully finished. Thanks again to everybody for their contributions, especially the engaged Young Researchers!
25.06.2010: Lucas has successfully defended his PhD in Mons, Belgium. Congratulations, Dr. Viani!
Theoretical Characterization of Charge Transport in One-dimensional Collinear Arrays of Organic Conjugated Molecules...read more.
12.06.2010: The European Spring School 2010 on Supramolecular Organized Nanostructured Materials for Optoelectronic Applications (ESON'10) took place in Alghero, Italy, 06.-11.06.2010.
Weak Forces at Work in Dye-Loaded Zeolite Materials: Spectroscopic Investigation on Cation-Sulfur Interactions...read more.
IWMM 2010, International Workshop on Molecular Materials, Sanxenxo, Spain, 02.-05.05.2010
IMDEA Seminar: Dr. Arantxa Aguirre, TU Eindhoven, 16.04.2010.
11/2012: Research visit at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National University by J. Gierschner and B. Milián.
call for PhD and Postdoc positions in Optical Spectroscopy of Conjugated Organic Materials available (closed, 11.03.2010)
The Nanomatch Workshop on Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy has been held in Tübingen, 25. & 26.02.2010.
IMDEA Seminar: Prof. Soo Young Park, Seoul National University, 19.02.2010.
01.03.09:
Regular visiting researcher at the Seoul National University, South Korea, with
Soo Young Park
Electronic Structure of Small Bandgap Polymers Based on Cyclopentadithiophenes and Acceptor Units ...read more.
Dynamics of Guest Molecules in PHTP Inclusion Compounds as Probed by Solid-State NMR and Fluorescence Spectroscopy ...read more.
Exciton versus Electronic Couplings in Molecular Assemblies: The Importance of Non-Nearest Neighbour Interactions ...read more.
Spectroscopic Signatures for Planar Equilibrium Geometries in Methyl-Substituted Oligothiophenes ...read more.
2008
Conformational Disorder and Ultrafast Exciton Relaxation in PPV-family Conjugated Polymers ...read more.
10/2008: JG invited at Soo Young Park's group at Seoul National University.
Symposium 'Twenty Years of Quantum-Chemistry in Mons', University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, 26.09.2008
The Nanomatch Midterm Meeting has been held in Eindhoven, accompanied by the TU/e and RuG workshops in Eindhoven and Groningen, 16.-22.09.2008
EDOT-type Materials: Planar but not Rigid ...read more.
ICSM 2008, 06.-11.07.2008, Recife, Brazil
An Oligomer Study to Small Bandgap Polymers ...read more.
E-MRS Spring Meeting, 26.-30.05.2008, Strasbourg, France
Molecular Packing Effects on the Optical Spectra and Triplet Dynamics in Oligofluorene Films ...read more.
IMDEA Nanoscience was present at the IX Madrid Science Fair ('Madrid es Ciencia'), 24.-27.04.2008
Highly fluorinated Benzobisbenzothiophenes ...read more.
Independent Tuning of Electronic Levels in Pentacene by Site-Specific Substitution ...read more.
The 9th National School on Molecular Materials was held in Peñíscola, Spain, 17.-22.02.2008
Oligophenylenevinylenes in Spatially Confined Nanochannels: Monitoring Intermolecular Interactions by UV/Vis and Raman Spectroscopy ...read more.
The 4th Nanomatch Meeting has been held at UZH, Zürich, CH, 13.-15.02.2008
An Inter-Project Lecture Series on Optical Spectroscopy was given in Valencia, Spain, 23.-25.01.2008 by J. Gierschner with participants from the Marie-Curie Networks Nanomatch, Bimore, and Threadmill.
A New Functionalization Strategy for Pentacene ...read more.
ECOER'07: 4th Conference on Organic Electronics and Related Phenomena, Varenna, Italy, 01.-04.10.2007
Optical spectroscopy of a polyfluorene copolymer at high pressure: intra- and inter-molecular interactions ...read more.
The NANOMATCH Summer School was held in Jugovice, Poland, 16.-21.09.2007
Electronic Structure and Charge Transport Properties of Polythiophene Chains Containing Thienothiophene Units: A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study ...read more.
Highlight: Three-Dimensional Energy Transport in Highly Luminescent Host-Guest Crystals: A Quantitative Experimental and Theoretical Study ...read more.
Migration-Assisted Nonlinear Quenching in Random Media ...read more.
Liquid Crystalline Octaalkoxycarbonyl Phthalocyanines: Design, Synthesis, Electronic Structure, Self-aggregation and Mesomorphism ...read more.
Hole-Vibronic Coupling in Oligothiophenes: Impact of Backbone Torsional Flexibility on Relaxation Energies ...read more.
ACS Meeting Chicago, 25.-29.03.2007
Effect of Fluorination on the Electronic Levels and Optical Excitations of p-Conjugated Oligomers ...read more.
The NANOMATCH 2nd Meeting was held in Varenna, Italy, 04.-06.03.2007
Review: Optical Bandgaps of p-Conjugated Organic Materials at the Polymer Limit: Experiment and Theory ...read more.
2006
The MODECOM Kick-off Meeting was held in Mons, Belgium, 09.11.2006
The NANOMATCH Kick-off Meeting was held in Tübingen, Germany, 02.-03.10.2006
01.09.2006: The new EU Marie-Curie Research Training Network NANOMATCH - "Supramolecular Nanostructured Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Systems" has started.
ICSM 2006, Dublin (Ireland), 02.-07.07.2006
Highlight: Highly Fluorescent Crystalline and Liquid Crystalline Columnar Phases of Pyrene-Based Structures ...read more.
28.02.2006: The EU Marie-Curie Research Training Network NANOCHANNEL - "Molecules in Nanochannels - Synthesis, Spectroscopy and Applications" has successfully finished. Thanks again to everybody for their contributions, especially the engaged Young Researchers!
The NANOCHANNEL Final Meeting was held in Lauterbad, Germany, 20.-23.02.2006
2005
The NANOCHANNEL Fall Meeting 2005 was held in Torino, Italy 13.-14.10.2005
From 01.09.-31.12.2005, I will stay at the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA (U.S.A.) with Jean-Luc Brédas
Highlight: Solid State Optical Properties of Linear Polyconjugated Molecules: pi-Stack contra Herringbone ...read more.
ECME: European Conference on Molecular Electronics, Bologna (I), 29.06.-02.07.2005
Nanometric scale investigation of the nonlinear efficiency of perhydrotriphenylene inclusion compounds ...read more.
ICOE, Eindhoven (NL), 21.-23.06.2005
Design of p-Conjugated Organic Materials for One-Dimensional Energy Transport in Nanochannels ...read more.
The NANOCHANNEL Spring Meeting 2005 & Spring School was held in Brigels (CH) 13.-18.03.2005
Breakdown of the Mirror Image Symmetry in the Optical Absorption/Emisssion Spectra of Oligo(para-phenylenes) ...read more.
2004
The NANOCHANNEL Fall Meeting & Midterm Review was held in Mons (Belgium), 27.-29.10.2004
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