Meet Seongje Park (Chemistry), and Sheida Hooshmandi and Dorsa Mohammadi (@buearth.bsky.social), the IGS Graduate Student Summer Fellows from CAS! 🌏 These fellows are studying everything from plant pigments to climate aid programs and flood recovery. www.bu.edu/igs/get-invo...

“A lot of what we do really comes down to understanding how energy and charge move around at the nanoscale,” says Minjung Son, professor of chemistry. Son’s research focuses on understanding photophysical processes that govern the movement of energy. Read more: https://bit.ly/4gw5QqM

Exploring Emerging Photophysical Phenomena | Spectroscopy Online

Minjung Son, an assistant professor of chemistry at Boston University, and her group is developing nanomaterials and polaritons, which is important for energy conversion technologies.

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New paper from the group! In collab. with Huimin Cheng in the Biostatistics Department, we report a smart sampling strategy that reconstructs ultrafast spectroscopy data using less than 1% of the measurements normally required. Read here @aip-publishing.bsky.social: pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...

Transfer-learning enhanced adaptive sampling for accelerating ultrafast spectroscopy

Ultrafast transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy is a versatile tool for probing photoinduced dynamics in complex materials, but it often requires dense tempora

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New paper from the group @jmaterchem.rsc.org - we characterized how strong light-matter coupling impacts the photophysical properties of chlorophyll a. Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Super stoked about our second JACS! We establish allenes as reversible halochromes with dramatic optical property switching. This work could not have been this successful without the amazing support from @minjungson.bsky.social at BU and the Ding Lab at WFU. Check it out pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Allenes as Stimuli-Responsive Chromophores for Visible to Near-Infrared Optical Modulation

Despite their rigid, orthogonal π-systems and synthetic modularity, allenes remain underexplored in functional material design. Here, we report that tetraaryl-substituted allenes undergo clean and rev...

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(2/2) In my latest perspective article @science.org, I discuss the recent breakthroughs from the Xiong group on overcoming molecular disorder in polariton cavities: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Outshining molecular disorder with light

Experiments quantify an important criterion for polariton-mediated energy transport

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Check out these two new papers from our group (1/2): With @cschaack.bsky.social and Wendu Ding's groups at Wake Forest University, we demonstrate how protonation can significantly modulate the optical properties of allenes @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Allenes as Stimuli-Responsive Chromophores for Visible to Near-Infrared Optical Modulation

Despite their rigid, orthogonal π-systems and synthetic modularity, allenes remain underexplored in functional material design. Here, we report that tetraaryl-substituted allenes undergo clean and rev...

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Welcome to the first cohort of NSF Research Trainees in ‪bostonu.bsky.social's ENERGIZE Program! The initiative, hosted by IGS, prepares PhD students from across disciplines to develop new #CleanEnergy solutions: sites.bu.edu/energize/tra...

Excited to share the first publication from the Son group! We discuss how ultrafast spectroscopy can help unravel the exciting photophysics that take place in exciton-polaritons. pubs.aip.org/aip/cpr/arti...

Mapping the dynamics of energy relaxation in exciton–polaritons using ultrafast two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

Exciton–polaritons are quasiparticles that are formed by strong interactions between light and electronic transitions of matter. Polariton states exhibit the ch

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