Our photochemistry group deals with the kinetics of photoinduced reactions,
especially energy, electron and proton transfer in solution. We are very
interested in the connection between experiments and theory for these elementary
processes (Marcus, Hush, Bixon and Jortner...) and in the influence of
the solvent on them, like the diffusion control of the reactions (going
from Smoluchowski to the Integral Encounter Theory) or the solvent dynamics.
As well we study the basic photophysical properties of newly synthesized
substances in solution and in the gas phase.
Besides our standard commercial equipment (UV-VIS-NIR absorption spectrometer, and steady state spectrofluorometer) we have built several apparatuses (time correlated single photon counting, lamp discharge flash photolysis and laser flash photolysis) and developed a new fluorescence phase resolved apparatus specially conceived for the use of LEDs, that covers a wide spectral and time range. Also connected to this section of our group and available in our laboratories are the MARY spectroscopy, the stopped-flow and the electrochemistry study of photocreated transients techniques .
For more in-depth information please visit the web site of Dr. Stephan Landgraf