Molecular Physics seminar

Tailoring Photoswitches and Ultrafast Bimolecular Reactions

Name: Tailoring Photoswitches and Ultrafast Bimolecular Reactions
Start: 2013-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

by Dr Oliver Schalk (Chemical Physics, SU)

Monday 16 Sept 2013, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Stockholm

FA31

Description

Photoswitches are molecules that can reversibly change their physical properties upon light absorption. In the first part of the presentation, I show details of the switching mechanism which can help tailoring systems to meet specific goals. In the second part, I discuss the problem that following the dynamics of bimolecular reactions often suffers from ill-defined starting conditions as molecules are typically not in a predefined configuration. Here, I present a system that might allow overcoming this fundamental problem.