Ultrafast Chemical Physics facilities
Glasgow University, School of Chemistry
- Ultrafast femtosecond optical Kerr-efect spectroscopy with a low-power high repetition rate laser system (800 nm, 84 MHz, 15 fs)
- Ultrafast femtosecond optical Kerr-efect spectroscopy with a high-power laser system (800 nm, 1 kHz, 23 fs). System also equiped with an optical parametric amplifier for generation of microjoule level IR pulses.
- Confocal fluorescence microscopy with fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM). Cryogenic microscopy stage (80-300 K). Microfluidics.
University of Strathclyde, Dept. of Physics
- Ultrafast femtosecond 2D-IR spectroscopy
- Step-scan FTIR
- FTIR with far-IR capability
Nature Chemistry
The 2011 UCP meeting in Glasgow was discussed in the March 2012 issue of Nature Chemistry: Ultrafast chemical physics: In search of molecular movies. The future is ultrafast!
Selected UCP publications
- D.A. Turton, C. Corsaro, D.F. Martin, F. Mallamace, K. Wynne, ‘The dynamic crossover in water does not require bulk water’, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.(2012). (http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1039/C2CP40703E)
- D.A. Turton, J. Hunger, A. Stoppa, G. Hefter, A. Thoman, M. Walther, R. Buchner, and K. Wynne, ‘Dynamics of Imidazolium Ionic Liquids from a Combined Dielectric Relaxation and Optical Kerr Effect Study: Evidence for Mesoscopic Aggregation’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 11140-11146 (2009).
- 'The Role of CN and CO Ligands in the Vibrational Relaxation Dynamics of Model Compounds of the [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Enzyme’ Kaziannis, S.; Wright, J. A.; Candalaresi, M.; Kania, R.; Greetham, G. M.; Parker, A. W.; Pickett, C. J.; Hunt, N. T.PhysChemChemPhys2011, 13, 10295-10305.
- 'Relationship between protein structural fluctuations and rebinding dynamics in ferric haem nitrosyls’ Hunt, N. T.; Greetham, G. M.; Towrie, M.; Parker, A. W.; Tucker, N. P.Biochemical Journal2011, 433, 459-468.
