Our main research directions are
- photophysics of molecular systems, supramolecular architectures, semiconductor quantum dots, nanorods, nanowires, and organic-semiconductor hybrids (Prof. N. Tkachenko);
- ultrafast optical spectroscopy and kinetic data analysis (Prof. N. Tkachenko);
- modelling of photo-induced charge- and energy-transfer, and electronic coupling in molecular and hybrid structures; quantum chemical density functional theory (DFT) and its time-dependent form (TD-DFT); molecular dynamics (MD) (Docent T. Hukka)
A common motivation for these four directions is research in more efficient resources use by innovative solar energy and nanophotonics applications.
One of primary expertise areas of the team is photophysics and photochemistry of complex molecular and hybrid organic-semiconductor structures. This is supported by the state-of-the-art optical spectroscopy infrastructure.
Key research directions:
- self-assembled molecular and hybrid nanostructures;
- Photochemistry of complex molecules and supramolecular architectures;
- photophysics of semiconductor nanostructures, quantum dots, quantum wells, nanorods, nanowires, and organic-semiconductor hybrids;
- photonic control of electronic interactions in organic-semiconductor nanostructures;
- computational modelling of molecule and molecular assemblies.
Expertise areas:
- ultra-fast optical spectroscopy study of complex organic and hybrid systems;
- photoinduced phenomena, photophysics, photochemistry, excited state energy transfer and photoinduced charge transfer;
- organic-semiconductor nano-hybrids, fabrication and characterization.