June 2026: Iris, Jort, Dana, and Wenchin successfully complete their BSc projects
April 2026: Vladimir’s work on energy transfer mechanisms in self-assembled porphyrin cages is up as a preprint on ChemRxiv. Our first collaborative work with the group of J. Reek!
January 2026: Naz’s collaborative paper on simultaneous delayed fluorescence and phosphorescence from a single material is published in Light: Science and Applications
July 2025: Jarod and Bas carry out a joint Physics BSc and ME Bsc project to program the new camera for our transient absorption setup
March 2025: Madeline joins the group! She will kick off the PolyPulse project in a joint PhD position with Sven Askes
Feb 2025: Aleksandra finishes her MSc thesis on the impedance spectroscopy of copper phthalocyanine diodes
Dec 2024-Jan 2025: The DMM group and PCM section move to the new VO building - brand new labs to fill with our setups and experiments
Nov 2024: Esther successfully defends her PhD thesis at MPIP, on ultrafast processes in chromophore aggregates. Congratulations Dr. Rosendo!
Sept 2024: Vladimir’s first co-authored paper is published in Advanced Electronic Materials, a collaborative work with the group of Ulrike Kraft on the use of photoswitches in organic field effect transistors
Aug 2024: Janko and Lilian complete their BSc Mechanical Engineering projects with us, exploring reactor design options for project PolyPulse.
July 2024: Grant awarded under the Nationaal Groeifonds Circular Plastics initiative! Project “PolyPulse” will be a collaboration between the DMM group and the Photothermal Catalysis group led by Sven Askes and will kick off a new research line exploring controlled depolymerization of waste plastic using pulsed light. Read more here.
June 2024: Kalyani’s paper on the effect of adding bulky side groups to thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters is published in Advanced Photonics Research
Feb 2024: Kalyani's paper is published in J. Phys Chem B - studying the photophysics of a molecular folda-dimer, first collab with D. Chaudhuri's group!
Feb 2024: Collaborative work with the Heinze Group published in Nature Chemistry
Nov 2023: Kalyani successfully defends her PhD thesis at MPIP - congratulations Dr. Thakur!
Jun 2023: Naz presents her work at the annual LaserLab Symposium