Sam attends ISPPCC
2. Daniel G. Nocera, Accounts of Chemical Research 2012, 45 (5), 767-776.
New paper in Inorganic Chemistry
Congratulations to Joe, Georgina, Nigel Lucas, Jordan Smith, Sara and Keith on their recent publication in Inorganic Chemistry 2023, 62, 11028–11036 entitled “Exploring the Excited States of a Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene-Substituted Dipyridophenazine Ligand and Its Metal Complexes”. The paper describes the synthesis and characterization of hexa-peri -hexabenzocoronene (HBC)-substituted dipyridophenazine (dppz) ligand (dppz-HBC) and its corresponding rhenium [Re(CO)3Cl] and ruthenium [Ru(bpy)2]2+ complexes were synthesized and characterized.
New paper in Meat Science
Congratulations to Chima, Sara and Ketih for their recent publication in Meat Science 195 (2023) 109005 entitled “Fusion of three spectroscopic techniques for prediction of fatty acid in processed lamb”. The paper describes how data fusion may be used to obtain fatty acid profiles in a superior fashion to a single technique. Importantly one could examine meat in a variety of presentations including ground (coarse and fine as well as whole tissue). The work was a collaboration with AgResearch, notably Wendy Bain, Cameron Craigie, Talia Hicks and Mark Loeffen.
New publication in Pharmaceutics
Congratulations to Sara, Karlis, Joshua and Keith on their recent publication in Pharmaceutics 2023, 15, 1968 (https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15071968). Their paper “In Situ Monitoring of Drug Precipitation from Digesting Lipid Formulations Using Low-Frequency Raman Scattering Spectroscopy” with Ben Boyd and Malinda Salim (Monash) describes the use of low frequency Raman spectra as an approach to probe drug precipitation from a lipid-based drug delivery system (medium-chain self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery systems).
Keith gives an invited talk at ICAVS
Keith attended the International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS12) held in Krakow, Poland, from 27th August – 1st September 2023 where he gave an invited talk entitled “Probing chemical speciation with low-frequency Raman spectroscopy” based around the work of the group describes in publications such as Pharmaceutics 2023 , 15 , 1526 (https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15051526 ), Cryst. Growth Des. 2022, 22, 2946−2953 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.1c01401 ) and Cryst. Growth Des. 2022, 22, 2733−2741 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00121 ).
Photo shows the main theatre with this amazing Periodic Table
Sam presents at ICAVS
Sam Harris attended the International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS12) held in Krakow, Poland, from 27th August – 1st September 2023 where he presented his work on “Systematic Tuning of Electronic Ground and Excited States in Donor-Acceptor Dyes; Steps Towards Designer Compounds for Modern Technologies” (based on his paper J. Phys. Chem. A, 2023, 127, 5312-5323 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c00671) as a poster.
MJ presents at Dodd Walls Symposium
MJ presented her poster at the Dodd-Walls Conference 2023 (12-16 June) 2023 entitled “Laboratory Demonstration on Vibrational Spectroscopy and
Chemometrics for Differentiating Solid Samples” where she described a new set of undergraduate experiments using spectroscopy and multivariate analysis.
MJ wins with a delectable dessert prize
MJ won the best link to project award for her dessert in the NZIC decorate your dessert-ation event (May 18)
MJ wins at the University of Otago Chemistry Department Bootcamp 2023
Congratulations to MJ (Jervee Punzalan) who won the Most Engaging Speaker at the University of Otago Chemistry Department Bootcamp 2023 (April 14 2023)
Invited talk at the Asian Spectroscopy Conference
Keith was a keynote speaker at the 8th Asian Spectroscopy Conference (ASC2023) will be held in Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan from September 3 to 7, 2023 (http://www2.riken.jp/lab/spectroscopy/ASC2021/index.html). Keith’s talk “Using metal complexes to open the door to long-lived excited states” dealt with the use of intra-ligand charge-transfer states as long-lived transients.
