Don't forget to get your abstracts in for the RACI PhysChem Summer Festival! All levels welcome- from undergraduate to academic. Submission closes 11.59pm Monday night (8th Nov). pcsf2021.org/abstracts/

Start times will actually only be 11 am AEDT most days (30min earlier for the last two) so those in WA and SA don't have to get up too early :) More info at pcsf2021.org

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Adelaide node ready for the last lot of phys chem talks 😊 #pcsf2021

Day 1146 of the PhD: Thesis Submitted! #PhDone Chemistry@Adelaide

Well done everyone! All the talks were great, and it was not easy to judge!

Happy to see Belinda's (Belinda Boehm) work on predicting molecular orientation at interfaces out in Soft Matter: doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00…

Happy to be a part of this Perspective on singlet fission in photovoltaics, an ACS Editors' Choice in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C with Tak W. Kee Rohan Hudson Alex Stuart

Alex Stuart and I wrote a perspective on singlet fission, and it's been chosen as an Editor's Choice article by ACS! Give it a read if you're wanting a quick introduction to the SF field, or if you're a fan of brightly-coloured diagrams :)

I'm on the committee for KOALA Conference 2024, a fun student conference happening at the Uni of Adelaide in Dec. If you're doing optics/lasers/quantum/spectroscopy from Aus or NZ (or even further), give the conference page a follow for updates! We're opening abstract submissions soon

Two papers on red-light-mediated photocatalytic hydrogen evolution appear simultaneously today. Big thanks to the collaborative groups involving jess.delaperrelle Andrew David Huang The Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology Tak W. Kee Chemistry@Adelaide Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology pubs.acs.org/toc/aanmf6/0/0 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

First paper from my PhD is out💥😄

In work just out in The Journal of Chemical Physics with Tak W. Kee, Alex Alex Stuart shows singlet fission (SF) is non-negligible even in very dilute SF-capable systems, leading to misassignment of SF as intersystem crossing (ISC) & inaccurate quantification of both SF/ISC: doi.org/10.1063/5.0100…

So proud of the paper by Alex Stuart! Nice outcome from a long-term collaboration with David Huang Huang Research Group

Abstract submissions close September 9 - this Friday! We’re still calling for submissions from post graduate students across Aus, NZ and further internationally who use light and optics in their research projects. Come join in!

Registration is now available for the RACI Supramolecular Symposium! This is a hybrid event, so you can join us in Adelaide or tune in from the comfort of your own home to hear about some really cool chemistry. Check out the Royal Australian Chemical Institute website or below for details. #ozchem

Role of Singlet and Triplet Excited States in the Oxygen-Mediated Photophysics and Photodegradation of Polyacenes | Journal of the American Chemical Society Uni of Adelaide #Singlet #Triplet #excited #States #Photophysics #Photodegradation #Polyacenes pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Really proud of Alex's work (Alex Stuart) with Tak Kee (Tak W. Kee) clarifying the mechanism of oxygen-mediated photodegradation of polyacenes and its implications for photovoltaics, just out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

I had a great time attending Science Meets Parliament #SMP2024 last week with Girish Lakhwani! It was invaluable to learn how to engage with policy makers and network with both scientists and parliamentarians. Thanks Science & Technology Australia for a great event and Exciton Science for sending me!