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Educational and
professional goals:
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Achieving multidisciplinary view on the absorption of light and subsequent processes. Student will know all processes which occur with molecule in the excited state and their relationship to properties of dyes and their applications. Student will be able to predict some of properties (absorption, fluorescence) based on structure of dye. Student will be prepared to start PhD in research groups working on advanced functional materials, photosynthesis models, non-linear optics etc.
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Course description:
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The course will start from introducing such concepts like: absorption of photons, emission, fluorescence, phosphorescence. Subsequently a various classes of organic dyes (such as polymethin dyes, porphyrinoids, carbonyl dyes etc) will be described (structure, structure-property relationship, synthesis and applications). The course will then move to electron and energy transfer processes will a special emphasis given to photosynthesis. Finally more elaborated concepts and phenomena will be introduced: two-photon absorption, non-linear optics, excited state intramolecular photon transfer, phodynamic therapy and the-likes. The applications of dyes in technology (both classical and modern), biology and medicine will be described in detail.
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