Autumn visitors

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After 5 weeks in the lab, Aiswarya Edakkandiyil is close to the end of her stay among us. She is a visiting phD student from Pr. K.George Thomas group who came to characterize her chiral molecules on our polarimetry experiment.

10 years after his departure from the lab, where he was working as a postdoctoral researcher, we are also hosting Atef Shalabney, but for a longer time. Indeed, Atef will be with us till next summer, in detachment from Ort Braude College. He is staying in room 131.

In the framework of the CAPES COFECUB program, we are welcoming since one week Felipe Rosa, assistant professor from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro for 2 months in our lab. Felipe is a specialist of Casimir forces. He will be in office 104. Don’t hesitate to pass by if you wish to meet him !

To finish, our former student, Shahana Nizar, now in postdoc in University of Parma, was missing the Mueller setup and she is back this week for some more experiments. You can find her behind the black curtain in room 121.

Welcome to all of you !

Seminar Pr K. George Thomas

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It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the seminar that Prof. K. George Thomas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram, India) will give on Thursday, September 25th at 2pm.

The seminar, entitled

Efficiency Determinants in Exciton–Biexciton Dynamics of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

will be held in the conference room of ISIS, central campus.

Do not hesitate to contact Cyriaque Genet if you would like to meet Prof. K.G. Thomas during his visit (Monday 22 to Friday 26).

Seminar Salambô Dago

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It is our pleasure to announce the seminar that Dr. Salambô Dago (Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) University of Vienna) will give on Friday, September 12th at 10:00 am, in the auditorium of IPCMS on the Cronenbourg campus.

Title and abstract are given below and here.

Do not hesitate to contact Cyriaque Genet if you would like to meet Salambô Dago during her visit on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 of September.

Welcome Audrey !

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On September 1st, we welcomed a new phD candidate, Audrey Pollien.  Audrey is a student from ENS Paris-Saclay. She already spent one year abroad in 2023/2024 as a predoctoral training, in Heidelberg, in the group of Pr Petra Tegeder. There she studied the optical properties of some molecules (3rd order generation and circular dichroism by two photons absorption). Then she completed her master 2, called CHIPS (Inorganic, Physical and of Solid Chemistry) during which she did another training in PPSM laboratory (Paris-Saclay) on chiroptical properties of 3D chiroplasmonic assemblies. She is now starting her phD under the supervision of Cyriaque Genet on the topic of chiral matter-chiral cavities coupling. Welcome Audrey !

Polaritonic

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Each year, the communication department of CNRS Chimie is publishing a booklet summarizing the important events that happened in chemistry in CNRS laboratories during the year. In the one recently published, concerning 2024, there is a full page article about our Polaritonic project, which is, with the one of Wiebke Drenckhan at ICS, one of the 2 for CNRS Chimie.

Crédit : CNRS Chimie

 

Summer reading

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Our latest research paper, “A Phenomenological Symmetry Rule for Chemical Reactivity under Vibrational Strong Coupling” has just been accepted in Angewandte Chemie and published online. We study the equilibrium constants of different charge transfer complexes by comparing isomers of trimethyl benzene having different symmetries (thus belonging to different point groups) with various acceptors. Our results show that depending on the vibrational band that is strongly coupled, the product formation is either favored or not. From this arises a general symmetry rule that can be extended to predict the outcome of chemical reactivity under VSC.

Football

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Last Thursday the annual football tournament of Strasbourg chemistry faculty took place and one team defended the colors of our labs (Nanostructures and LIMACS) : The Vibrators. Thanks to their intensive training (they played once together the day before), they reached the quarter finals. So maybe next year, with two more trainings, one can hope for a place in final ! Congratulations to them all for the participation !

Visit of Kalaivanan

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We had the pleasure to welcome Dr Kalaivanan Nagarajan, who was a postdoc in our lab from 2017 to 2022, for a few days this week. He naturally reinvested his office 108 shared with Dr Eloïse Devaux, as his name is still on the door, and gave us a nice talk entitled “Perturbing a Chemical Equilibrium through Vibrational Strong Coupling”, about the latest research that he is conducting in his group at TIFR (Tata Institute of Fudamental Research), Mumbai.

UnMySt

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We had the pleasure to host the kick-off meeting of the ERC Synergy project UnMySt (Unravelling the mysteries of vibrational strong coupling) in Strasbourg last week, from May 20 to 22. It was the opportunity for the participants to meet and start to know each other, their skills and projects, and to define together the way we would like to handle the next meetings and the topics to target for the future. Thanks to all for the fruitful discussions !

Happy birthday

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It’s been 10 years today that the first post of this website was published. During those 10 years, a lot of people have been part of the lab, for an internship, a phD or a postdoctoral position. I tried not to forget anybody, at least those whose stayed for three months or more with us since May 2015. Thanks to all for you past and present contributions and happy birthday to the website !