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We love colours in all their forms! Finnerty Gardens is the perfect place for an artistic break to apply our arts-and-crafts skills.
So, you are about to graduate with a B.Sc. in chemistry or physics, and are looking for an exciting research opportunity? Consider applying for one of two graduate student positions in our group! We are a multidisciplinary and diverse team of chemists and physicists, and we are keen to work with you.
As part of her MSc research Sara Joulaei-Zonouz (UVic, MSc 2023) studied an organic dye molecule that was designed to exhibit an enormous solvatochromic shift from a twisted excited state geometry - these excited states are called Twisted Internal Charge Transfer (TICT) states. While the molecule behaved experimentally as it should (we checked!), Sara found out - through a lot of ab initio calculations - that it does all this without actually forming a TICT state. A real twist in that story..!
Read more at the New Journal of Chemistry.
