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The webinar series will take place from 12th May till 7th July, every Wednesday from 15:00 to 16:30 (central European time). The detailed information can be found in our website: https://lnkd.in/eMGykh4. Here you can download the Poster Photothermal webinar with the list of topics and speakers. Continue reading

Sergii Pud was awarded with a Veni grant for his project: “Molecular ping-pong to study proteins”.  In the next three years, he will develop a new methodology for label-free studying of protein dynamics in their native conditions. Overview of all 2019 Veni grants of NWO (The Dutch Research Council) can… Continue reading

Amin’s and Zoran’s work on the linear Stark effect has been published in ChemPhysChem! The article, also featured as a cover of the journal, presents the first demonstration of a large linear Stark effect by using a novel strategy of matrix-induced symmetry breaking in otherwise centro-symmetric DBT guest molecules. The article… Continue reading

Our latest work on two-photon-excited fluorescence of single quantum dots is now published in ACS Photonics! In a nutshell, we showed more than 10000-fold enhanced fluorescence of a single semiconductor quantum dot using a two-photon-excitation scheme. The high enhancement of this nonlinear effect arises mainly from the local field amplification… Continue reading

Congratulations to Dr Biswajit Pradhan, who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Fluorescence of Single Copper Proteins: Dynamic Disorder and Enhancement by a Gold Nanorod” on Tuesday 3 April 2018 at Leiden University’s Academy Building in the traditional manner. Dr. Biswajit Pradhan with his supervisor, Prof.dr. Michel Orrit. Continue reading

On 16 June 2017, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO announced that Professor Michel Orrit is among the winners of this year’s Spinoza prize. The Spinoza Prize is the highest Dutch scientific award, and comes with a grant of 2.5 million euro to be spent on further scientific research.… Continue reading

Congratulations to Dr Aquiles Carattino, who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Gold Nanorod Photoluminescence — Applications to Imaging and Temperature Sensing” on Thursday 9 March 2017 at Leiden University’s Academy Building in the traditional manner. Aquiles Carattino (ctr), flanked by his paranymphs Martín Caldarola (l) and Pravin Kumar (r) Continue reading

We are proud of our recent publication on single-molecule electrochemistry using enhanced fluorescence as readout. We used gold nanorods as nanoatennas to reveal single-molecules of a redox sensitive dye, Methylene Blue, and studied the electrochemical properties of this molecule one by one. Leiden University’s Press release can be found here and… Continue reading