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Master SERP+ Programme - cohort 2020-2025
Dynamics of photochemical reactions in chemistry, biology and medicine (6 ECTS)
Semester 1
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Semester 2
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- Transferable skills: Polish course, Summer School in Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS)
- The molecules of life: from structure to chemical function (3 ECTS)
- Selected in silico and in vitro methods in thermodynamics and soft matter (6 ECTS)
- Organic chemistry (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to solid state (6 ECTS)
- Dynamics of photochemical reactions in chemistry, biology and medicine (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Portuguese course, Summer School in Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS)
- Solid State Physics (6 ECTS)
- Molecular Energetics (3 ECTS)
- Laboratory of Materials and Surface Analysis (6 ECTS)
- Interfacial Electrochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Interfaces, Colloids and Self-Assembly (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Summer School in Entrepreneurship (3 ECTS)
- Organic Photochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to Solid State (6 ECTS)
- Inorganic Functional Materials (3 ECTS)
- Electrochemical systems for energy conversion and storage (6 ECTS)
- Chemistry and Technology of Catalysis and Laboratory (6 ECTS)
Semester 3
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All courses during this semester
- Transferable skills: Scientific writing, French courses - 5ECTS
- Nanosciences (6 ECTS)
- Nanoparticles and Advanced radiation therapies (6 ECTS)
- Fundamentals in data science and machine learning (3 ECTS)
- Femtochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Chemistry for renewable energy: from advanced research to industrial applications (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Scientific writing, Polish courses (6 ECTS)
- Lanthanide luminescence: Application in chemistry and biology (6 ECTS)
- Introduction to Data Sciences (3 ECTS)
- Environmental photochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Computational and quantum photochemistry (6 ECTS)
- Applied photochemistry and luminescence spectroscopy (6 ECTS)
- Scientific Writing and Career Objectives (3 ECTS)
- Portuguese course (3 ECTS)
- Nanotechnologies, Micro and Nano-fabrication (6 ECTS)
- Materials Properties and Applications (6 ECTS)
- Electrochemical Technology (6 ECTS)
- Data Science Basics (3 ECTS)
- Bionanotechnology (3 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Scientific Writing Industrial Seminars (3 ECTS)
- Surface Science and Nanostructuring at Surfaces (6 ECTS)
- Polymers for electronics and energy harvesting (6 ECTS)
- Laboratory on device building (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Data Science and Applications to Chemistry (3 ECTS)
- Composite materials for biomedical applications (6 ECTS)
Content
- Principles of absorption and emission spectroscopy (energy, reactivity and structure in singlet and triplet electronic excited states, Jablonski diagram).
- Timescales and mechanisms of fast and ultrafast processes (radiative decay, rotational motion, vibrational motion, internal conversion and intersystem crossing, vibrational relaxation, collisions in liquids).
- Potential energy surfaces of the ground state (S0) and excited state (S1 or T1) and of various processes following the initial excitation. Structure (geometry) changes in the excited state as an important path of deactivation in radiationless physical processes and photochemical reactions. Relation between physical processes and chemical reactions: rotation and isomerization reactions, vibration and dissociation reactions.
- Short-lived species formed in photochemical reactions: radicals, radical-ions, dimers, complexes. The effects of concentration of the substance studied, of the solvent properties and of the wavelength of the radiation absorbed. Energy transfer processes, sensitizers and quenchers.
- Storage and conversion of solar energy.
- Instruments and methods of investigation of photophysical processes and photochemical reactions. Steady-state and time-resolved (laser) absorption and emission spectroscopy.
- Application of sensitization and/or quenching processes in studies of mechanism and dynamics of photophysical and photochemical processes, using time-resolved and steady-state spectroscopy. Stern-Volmer equation
- Sunscreens – mechanism of action, composition, energy dissipation
- Labs include nano- and femotosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy.
Aims
The student knows the breakthroughs in light-related sciences, knows most important discoveries related to the interaction between light and matter, knows the principles of operation of the most popular spectroscopic devices (e.g.: absorption and emission spectrophotometer, laser) and some selected, more advanced setups (transient absorption spectroscopy and TCSPC techniques).
Recommended Books
- H. Zewail: Ultrafast Molecular Reaction Dynamics in Real-Time, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 41, 15, 1990
- G. R. Fleming: Chemical Applications of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Oxford Univ. Press, 1986
- M. A. El-Sayed, I. Tanaka, Y. Molin: Ultrafast Processes in Chemistry and Photobiology, Blackwell Science 1995
- F. C. De Schryver, S. De Feyter, G. Schweitzer: Femtochemistry, Wiley-VCH, 2001
Teaching Staff
Prof. Bronislaw Marciniak
Prof. Bohdan Skalski
Dr. Gonzalo Angulo
Dr. Tomasz Pedzinski
Hours
Lectures 15 h
Project based learning 35 hours
Journal club 10 hours