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Welcome!

 

Welcome to the Laboratory of Photochemistry and Spectroscopy. LPS is part of the Division of Molecular Imaging and Photonics  of the Department of Chemistry of K.U.Leuven.

Our research group consists of staff members (Prof. Dr. N. Boens, Prof. Dr. S. De Feyter, Prof. Dr. J. Hofkens, Prof. Dr. M. Van der Auweraer, Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Uji-i, Prof. Dr. Em. L. Viaene, and Prof. Dr. Em. F. C. De Schryver), two technical/administrative staff and an international group of post-docs and doctoral students.

 

LPS has over the years established an ensemble of techniques with special emphasis on time and space resolved optical and non-optical microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. Research topics cover a broad range: from the fluorescence properties of multichromophoric systems to the in real-time visualization of the activity of single enzymes and catalysts.  From molecular pattern formation on surfaces to nanoscale reactivity. From the photoconductivity of polymers or nanoparticles with a potential for OLEDS and solar cells to the design and optical characterization of new fluorescent sensors.

 



 

NEWS

*Prof. Dr. Steven De Feyter
Laureate Natural Science 2010
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten

*Gert De Cremer
wins first prize in DSM Sciene & Technology Awards (North) 2010

*Rob Neely
Highlights article on "Visualising DNA sequences

*Virgile Adam
interviewed by Kanaal Z (TV channel) on "Fluorescent Protein Data Storage"

*Jelle Hendrix
third prize in the BSM Poster Award
"The transcriptional co-activator LEDGF/p75 displays a dynamic scan-and-lock mechanism for chromatin tethering"

*Elke Ghijsens
(winner poster prize Analytical Chemistry)
Nanoporous Supramolecular Networks at the Liquid-Solid Interface: Towards 2D functional materials

*Willem Vanderlinden
(winner oral presentation prize Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Biomolecular interactions with circular DNA in the atomic force microscope

10th Flemish Youth Conference of Chemistry, Blankenberge, Belgium

*Elke Ghijsens
(winner poster prize)
Chiral Nanoporous Structures at the Liquid/Solid Interface
Self-assembly of molecular nanostructures, Sønderborg, Denmark

*Hong Xu
(winner poster prize)
A Multivalent Hexapod:  Conformational Dynamics of Six-Legged Molecules in Self-Assembled Monolayers at a Solid – Liquid Interface

The 27th European Conference on Surface Science, Groningen, The Netherlands

*Jinne Adisoejoso
(winner 2nd poster prize)
Self Assembly and Self Organisation at Surfaces and Interfaces, Cambridge, UK