Topic: “Chiral Electro- and Photoactive Materials.”
The lecture will be held on October 25 at 11:00-12:30
Auditorium C-142 (building C), Radvilėnų pl. 19, Kaunas.
Duration – 90 min.
The lecture will be in English.
Pre-registration is not required.
A description of the lecture:
Chirality manifests itself in many areas of physics, chemistry and biology, where objects or materials can exist in two non super-imposable forms, one being the mirror image of the other. Introduction of chirality into conducting systems is a topic of much current interest as it allows the preparation of multifunctional materials in which the chirality might modulate the structural disorder or expresses its influence through the electrical magneto-chiral anisotropy effect. The access to various chiral electroactive precursors for molecular conductors is therefore of paramount importance. Our endeavor towards chiral molecular superconductors will be outlined.
In the same time, the most distinctive manifestation of chirality in chemistry is in the optical activity of chiral compounds, expressed as optical rotation or circular dichroism (CD). Additionally, when a chiral compound is emissive, circularly (CPL) can be expected to occur. In this lecture several photoactive systems will be discussed as well.
