Inorganic Photophysics and Photochemistry - Fundamentals and Applications: Dalton Discussion 13

Topics: Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Science, Supramolecular Chemistry, Keywords: Photophysics, Photochemistry, Metal complexes, Renewable energy, Artificial photosynthesis

Date: /10/11/12/ September 2012, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Europe

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The fields of photophysics and photochemistry of metal complexes - and their associated spectroscopic methodology - have never been more topical. The efficient use of light as a renewable energy source on a large scale, including artificial photosynthesis, is becoming paramount, as is use of light scale for photocatalysis. On a smaller scale, use of light in emission-based sensors for analytical and diagnostic applications, and as a means for information processing, transfer and data storage, and in OLED-type display devices, are all areas where real world applications either already exist or are close to development. The recent Dalton special issue on 'Supramolecular Photochemistry' is a case in point.

This Discussion will bring together people from a wide range of disciplines - from theory and ultrafast spectroscopy to medicinal chemistry and biology - but all with a shared interest in the use of light.

Themes:

• Solar energy
• Energy and electron transfer
• Applications of strongly emissive complexes
• Bond breaking and isomerisation