{"id":1,"date":"2018-02-16T03:37:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T03:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T22:38:14","slug":"gordongroupnewsmid2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/gordongroupnewsmid2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Group News (Mid 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keith accepting an award, from Prof. Richard Blaikie, for being a science division finalist for \u2018Supervisor of the Year\u2019 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Keith Gordon<\/strong> was recently a finalist for the Otago University Science Division Supervisor of the Year award. He was nominated for his dedication to the growth of his students, both scientifically and personally. Keith gave an invited talk on \u201cInsight into organic photovoltaic materials through Raman spectroscopy and computational chemistry\u201d at ICORS 2018 (International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy) in Jeju, Korea.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan on graduation day in front of the Otago clock tower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jonathan Barnsley<\/strong> graduated with a PhD in August for his work with the \u201cSpectroscopy of Donor-Acceptor Dyes\u201d. Jonathan is currently working as a research associate and is planning for a short Postdoc position on the photochemistry of hops in collaboration with Plant and Food Research. The recent publication \u201cFrequency dispersion reveals chromophore diversity and colour-tuning mechanism in parrot feathers\u201d in Royal Society Open Science gathered widespread attention as was featured by TV3 news, The Scientist, Forbes and ABC Australia.<\/p>\n

Georgina Shillito<\/strong> presented a poster at the \u201cElectron Donor-Acceptor\u201d GRS conference in Newport, RI, USA. While overseas, Georgina visited Julia Weinstein\u2019s lab in Sheffield. She has also published the paper: \u201cDramatic Alteration of 3<\/sup>ILCT Lifetimes Using Ancillary Ligands in [Re(L)(CO)3<\/sub>(phen-TPA)]n+<\/sup> Complexes: An Integrated Spectroscopic and Theoretical Study\u201d in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n

Joshua Sutton<\/strong> presented a poster at ICORS 2018 entitled \u201cRaman Spectroscopy from Low Frequency to Overtones \u2013 Insight into the Electronic Structure of Self-assembling Materials\u201d. Joshua will also visit the Mike George lab in Nottingham, UK, to make some time-resolved IR measurements and visit Han Young Woo\u2019s group at Korea University Seoul. Joshua received funding from Claude McCarthy Fellowship to assist in this travel. He published a number of papers this year including: \u201cA Nona\u2010nuclear Heterometallic Pd3<\/sub>Pt6<\/sub> \u201cDonut\u201d\u2010Shaped Cage: Molecular Recognition and Photocatalysis\u201d in Angewandte Chemie.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Rooney<\/strong> is currently writing up his PhD thesis entitled \u201cLow Temperature Cured Waterborne Coil Coatings\u201d and recently gave a presentation to NZ Steel and Callaghan Innovation in Auckland. Jeremy and Matt Tarling have published a paper titled \u201cDistinguishing the Raman spectrum of polygonal serpentine\u201d.<\/p>\n

Joseph Mapley<\/strong> presented a poster at ICORS 2018 entitled \u201cElectronics of \u03b2-Indandione Modified Zinc Porphyrins\u201d and also published a number of papers including: \u201cComputational and Spectroscopic Analysis of \u03b2-Indandione Modified Zinc Porphyrins\u201d in Journal of Physical Chemistry A.<\/p>\n

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Keith with Ruth and Samanali with their awards from the Dodd Walls Centre symposium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ruth Eloisa Sales<\/strong> presented a talk entitled \u201cVibrational spectroscopy of lake snot: Conquering the New Zealand lakes invader\u201d at the Dodd Walls Centre Symposium for which she won the prize of Best Oral Presentation. Ruth also presented a talk entitled \u201cVibrational spectroscopy of New Zealand lake snot\u201d at ICORS 2018.<\/p>\n

Garagoda Arachchige Piumika Samanali<\/strong> presented a poster entitled \u201cProbing consolidant penetration into Harakeke fibres using Raman microscopy\u201d at the Dodd Walls Centre Symposium for which she won the prize of Best Poster Presentation.<\/p>\n

K\u0101rlis B\u0113rzi\u0146\u0161<\/strong> from Latvia has joined the Gordon group as a PhD student. K\u0101rlis\u2019s background is in pharmaceutical studies, and he will use Raman spectroscopy and multivariate analysis to probe solid state pharmaceutical systems. We are also joined by Chima Robert<\/strong> from Nigeria as a PhD student. Chima\u2019s background is in forensic chemistry and he will use Raman spectroscopy for a number of different analytical projects.<\/p>\n

Elliot Tay<\/strong> has been working on frequency dispersion in the Raman spectra of parrot feathers. This work follows on from the initial study using Raman spectroscopy to probe the nature of pigments in parrot feathers. Elliot plans to carry on research in the Gordon group next year.<\/p>\n

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Chemistry Outreach in Malaysia which included Sam (back row, third from left).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Undergraduate students Sam McIntyre<\/strong> and Lachlan Gaudin<\/strong> are also in the Gordon labs as part of their CHEM390 studies. Sam is using Raman spectroscopy to investigate quality control of apricots, while Lachlan is using low-frequency Raman spectroscopy to investigate crystallinity within organic photovoltaics. Sam recently got back from a Chemistry Outreach program in Malaysia and Lachlan was part of the winning team \u201cLive and diethylamine\u201d for the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Quiz night.<\/p>\n

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The winning team \u201cLive and diethylamine\u201d, including Keith (first left) and Lachlan (forth from left), from the NZIC quiz held in Dunedin in August.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recently, Bjarke S\u00f8gaard Laugesen<\/strong>, from the University of Copenhagen visited the group. He was making low-frequency Raman measurements of solid state pharmaceuticals, with a particular interest in polymorphic changes and drug stability.<\/p>\n

Wanghyo Kim<\/strong> is a visiting student from UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Ulsan, South Korea. Wanghyo has a background in organic synthesis of photosensitive dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). He is visiting to make some resonance Raman spectroscopy measurements with his supervisor, Professor Tae-Hyuk Kwon<\/strong> who is on sabbatical. Professor Makoto Yamaguci<\/strong> (Akita University) also on sabbatical with the Gordon group. Makoto is an expert in aeroplastics and will be investigating low-frequency Raman as a novel way to measure crystallinity in these systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keith Gordon was recently a finalist for the Otago University Science Division Supervisor of the Year award. He was nominated for his dedication to the growth of his students, both scientifically and personally. Keith gave an invited talk on \u201cInsight into organic photovoltaic materials through Raman spectroscopy and computational chemistry\u201d at ICORS 2018 (International Conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}