Congrats to ElKhansa, Keith and Sam for the contributions at AMN-11

The 11th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN11) was recently held in Christchurch and Khansa, Keith and Sam all gave talks at it.

Khansa talked about here recent work on donor-acceptor systems (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpca.4c07364)

Keith talked about new strategies to extend excited state lifetimes and how that might help develop hydrogen generation photocatalysts.

The session of talks also included presentations from Stephan Kupfer and Georgina Shillito (from Jena) about there work on excited state calculations and was a great focus for the hydrogen generation photocatalyst project funded by Marsden.

Sam presented his work on rhenium compounds with donor acceptor ligands.  Picture to come

Not only was this a great opportunity to present but also a good chance to catch up with research networks.  Stephan and Georgie are part of the hydrogen-Marsden that Keith and James Crowley are working on; indeed Stephan and Georgina are coming to Dunedin for a Marsden catch up meeting after the conference.

There was also a nice catch up with our Korean research colleagues including Han Young Woo (Korea University), Tae-Hyuk Kwon (Ulsan) and Jin Young Kim (Ulsan).  Our ongoing work with them includes using resonance Raman to investigate degradation in polymer solar cells, correlation of GIWAXS signatures to low frequency Raman spectra and donor-acceptor systems.