Name: Jacek Waluk, Department IX, Team 29 Destination: Bordeaux
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Name: Jacek Waluk, Department IX, Team 29 Destination: Bordeaux
NanOtechnology, Biomaterials and aLternative Energy Source for ERA integration FP7–REGPOT–CT–2011–285949-NOBLESSE Name: Jacek Waluk, Department IX, Team 29 Destination: Bordeaux, France Duration: July 13- 28, 2014 REPORT OF FOREIGN TRAVEL Participation at the International Conference: XXVth IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry In the period of July 13-28, 2014, I attended the XXVth IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, held in Bordeaux, France. The IUPAC meeting, held every two years, alternates with International Conference on Photochemistry series, both being the annual most important event for scientists working not only in the field of photochemistry, but also in photophysics, spectroscopy, and, recently, also in materials science, photobiology, and photomedicine. This year, the conference gathered over 600 participants from all over the world. The scientific program consisted of plenary, invited, and award lectures, oral contributions, organized in three parallel sessions, and poster sessions (two, 360 posters in total). The subjects included photoinduced charge transfer, photochromism and other forms of light-induced transformations. One can note the bias towards applications, such as artificial photosynthesis, phototodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy, design of building materials for nonlinear optics, photovoltaic cells, etc. My contribution to the conference was threefold: oral contribution entitled: Competition between different ultrafast channels in the excited state deactivation in anils and boranils; this was a collaborative effort of four research groups (Strasbourg – Geneva – Warsaw), including thirteen coauthors: Jacek Dobkowski, Paweł Wnuk, Joanna Buczyńska, Maria Pszona, Grażyna Orzanowska, Denis Frath, Gilles Ulrich, Sandra Mosquera-Vazquez, Eric Vauthey, Czesław Radzewicz, Raymond Ziessel, and Jacek Waluk. It has to be stressed Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences address: M. Kasprzaka 44/52, PL-01-224 Warsaw, Poland website: http://ichf.edu.pl phone: 48 22 3433109 fax: 48 22 3433333 NanOtechnology, Biomaterials and aLternative Energy Source for ERA integration FP7–REGPOT–CT–2011–285949-NOBLESSE that cooperation with Geneva started as a result of NOBLESSE by a visit to Geneva by dr Jacek Dobkowski. I was also a contributing author of two posters: (i) Cellular uptake of porphycenes in different carrier media (with Natalia Masiera, Hubert Piwoński, Agnieszka Bojarska, and Iwona Gawryszewska); (ii) Photophysics of gold-silica core-shell nanoparticles functionalized with twisted intermolecular charge transfer molecules (with Anna Kelm, Jakub Ostapko, Ana Sánchez-Iglesias, and Luis M. Liz-Marzán). During the conference, some possible future collaborations were discussed with the group of Prof. Santi Nonell, University of Barcelona. Summarizing, I believe the conference provided a good opportunity to learn about new trends in photochemistry and spectroscopy. Attending this meeting was useful and instructive, also for my younger colleagues, Natalia Masiera and Anna Kelm, who start their PhD work in the area of photochemistry and photobiology. Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences address: M. Kasprzaka 44/52, PL-01-224 Warsaw, Poland website: http://ichf.edu.pl phone: 48 22 3433109 fax: 48 22 3433333