Structural dynamics of isolated biological and synthetic photoswitches

E.M.M. Tan ; W.J. Buma

University of Amterdam

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【 摘 要 】

Over the past few decades, molecular photoswitches, as building blocks in pharmaceutical applications and molecular machines,have contributed largely to the advances in nanotechnology. Observations on how nature uses simple molecules to execute higher,order tasks give the inspiration of this PhD thesis. Eric Tan Meng Meng studied the biological chromophores and synthetic,molecules that work on the principle of converting absorbed light into biological and mechanical functions. High-resolution,laser spectroscopy and molecular beam were used to study those molecules under isolated conditions with techniques like REMPI,,double-resonant depletion and pump- probe delayed ionization. Experimental results on the structural and dynamics of the molecules,are accompanied by quantum-chemical calculations to investigate the primary processes of the molecules upon absorption of,light, thus elucidating its modus operandi at the molecular scale.