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

Selected UCP publications

• J. Reichenbach, S.A. Ruddell, M. González-Jiménez, J. Lemes, D.A. Turton, D.J. France, and K. Wynne, Phonon-like hydrogen-bond modes in protic ionic liquids, JACS 139, 7160-7163 (2017).
• M. González-Jiménez, G. Ramakrishnan, T. Harwood, A.J. Lapthorn, S.M. Kelly, E.M. Ellis, and K. Wynne, Observation of coherent delocalised phonon-like modes in DNA under physiological conditions, Nature Commun., 7, 11799 (2016).