Scientific Program

Besides the dedicated poster session on Tuesday the coffee breaks provide additional opportunities for all participants to present their posters. All posters will be presented on Tuesday in a short lightning talk by the respective presenter.

There will be a welcome reception on October 7 at 7 pm followed by dinner.

 

Tuesday Oct. 8

 

9:00
Welcome and introduction

Session Chair: Grace Han

9:20
Announcement of the winners of the Young-Investigator award

9:30
Solar energy conversion and energy storage materials
Kasper Moth-Poulsen / Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Spain

10:10
 Converting light energy to mechanical energy with organic molecular crystals
Daichi Kitagawa / Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan

10:50
Coffee break

11:20
Going to the limit - Combining multiple photoswitches
Hermann Wegner / Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

12:00
Tuning the thermal half-life time of Z-isomers of azobenzenes
Anne Staubitz / University of Kiel, Germany

12:40
Flash talks for posters #1-7

13:00
Lunch

Session Chair: Rachel Evans

14:15
Molecular design of photoswitches for supramolecular soft matter
Bart Jan Ravoo / University of Muenster, Germany

14:55
Supramolecular assemblies of photoresponsive molecular amphiphiles
Franco King-Chi Leung / The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

15:35
Flash talks for posters #8-15

15:55
Coffee break

16:25
Multiphotochromic molecules incorporating diyhdroazulene
Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen / University of Copenhagen, Denmark

17:05
Mechanistic investigation of the isomerization of new (and old) photoswitches
Stefano Crespi / Uppsala University, Sweden

17:45
Flash talks for posters #16-21

18:05
POSTER SESSION

19:30
End of poster session and Dinner

 

 

Wednesday Oct. 9

 

9:00
Welcome

Session Chair: Bart Jan Ravoo

9:05
A molecular anion pump
Ivan Aprahamian / Dartmouth College, USA

9:45
Enzyme-mediated dynamic combinatorial chemistry with Cyclodextrins
Sophie Beeren / Technical University of Denmark

10:25
Natural product-inspired molecular photoswitch
Sunkyu Han / KAIST, Republic of Korea

11:05
Conference photo

11:15
Coffee break

11:45
Molecular solar thermal energy storage (MOST) materials @ Flow chemistry
Helen Hölzel / Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

12:25
Insights into MOST systems through theoretical studies
Doreen Mollenhauer / Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

13:05
Lunch

14:45
Excursion
Guided tour through the cathedral of Limburg

19:30
Dinner

 

Thursday Oct. 10

 

9:00
Welcome

Session Chair: Sunkyu Han

9:05
Optical and spin functions in chromophore assemblies
Nobuhiro Yanai / University of Toyko, Japan

9:45
Coarse-grained modelling for chiral materials design
Emma Wolpert / Imperial College London, UK

10:25
Combining the best of organic and inorganic photochemistry with molecular and coulombic dyads
Christoph Kerzig / University of Mainz, Germany

11:05
Coffee break

11:35
Designing molecular crystals for solar energy storage and heat release
Grace Han / Brandeis University, USA

12:15
Stain engineering of molecular photoswitches for solar thermal energy storage
Ravinder Pawar / National Institute of Technology Warangal, India

12:55
Lunch

Session Chair: Hermann Wegner

14:25
Photoswitchable soft self-assembled materials for controlled release and delivery
Rachel Evans / University of Cambridge, UK

15:05
On "life-like", light-driven soft actuators
Arri Priimägi / Tampere University, Finland

15:45
Coffee break

16:15
Photoresponsive polymers: from photoresists to reversible adhesives
Si Wu / University of Science and Technology of China

16:55
From batch to flow: Advancing synthetic organic chemistry through technological innovation
Timothy Noël / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

17:35
Announcement of the poster award winner

17:45
Closing remarks

19:00
Dinner

Posters

#1
Light Powered Mechanically Active Materials
Navneet Kaur Gill / University of Queensland, Australia

#2
Harnessing light with carbon quantum dots – bright and colorful fluorescence emissions and photoinduced redox processes driving photocatalysis and antimicrobial functions
Ya-Ping Sun / Clemson University, USA

#3
Systems controlled by light: A series Of thieno[3,2-b]thiophene imines
Harry Robson / VŠCHT Praha, Czech Republic

#4
Designing new organic photosensitizers for solar light conversion: applications in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) and Photoelectrochemical Cells (DS-PECs)
Alessio Dessì / National Council of Research, Italy

#5
Making the MOST of the photodimerization of 1,4-aryl-substituted anthracenes
Till Staschko / University of Siegen, Germany

#6
New polymer and macrocyclic hybrid photoswitches: their synthesis and study
Martin Šetek / VŠCHT Praha, Czech Republic

#7
A fiber-optic spectroscopic setup for isomerization quantum yield determination
Jorn Steen / Uppsala University, Sweden

#8
Synthetic advances towards cyclohexaazobenzene for increased storage energy density
Silke Müsse / Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany

#9
Vis-to-UV photon upconverting porous monoliths
Sakura Nakagawa / Kyushu University, Japan

#10
Application of fluorescent organic materials in luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) and visible light communication (VLC)
Massimo Calamante / National Council of Research, Italy

#11
Novel organic dyes for DSSC cells utilizing the intramolecular Förster energy transfer (FRET) to enhance light harvesting
Elena Ermini / National Council of Research, Italy

#12
Functionalisation of gold nanoparticles with arylazopyrazole-modified N-heterocyclic carbene ligands
Dominik Mählmann / University of Münster, Germany

#13
Monoaryl-substituted norbornadienes for efficient molecular solar thermal energy storage
Robin Schulte / University of Siegen, Germany

#14
Investigation of the photoinduced electron transfer-induced cycloreversion of quadricyclanes to norbornadienes
Julian Hebborn / University of Siegen, Germany

#15
Fast T-type photochromism of aza-diarylethenes
Shota Hamatani / Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan

#16
Investigation of the photoinduced electron transfer-induced cycloreversion of quadricyclanes to norbornadienes
Paul Gueben / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

#17
Teamwork makes the dream work - Symbiotic lone-pair/pi and C-H/pi interactions in meta-bis-azobenzenes
Dominic Schatz / Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany

#18
Electronic effects on Dithienylethene-based organocatalysts
Debashis Majee / National University of Singapore, Germany

#19
Surface tension manipulation with visible light through sensitized disequilibration of photoswitchable amphiphiles
Bastian Stövesand / University of Münster, Germany

#20
Hemipiperazines as novel peptide-derived molecular photoswitches
Peter Gödtel / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

#21
Hemipiperazine-based photochromic sensors and nanomaterials
Valentin Schäfer / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany