Check out our new collaboration publication about fluorophosphate glasses.
Cui, S., Massera, J., Lastusaari, M., Hupa, L., and Petit, L., Novel fluorophosphate glasses and glass-ceramics, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 445-446 (2016) 40-44.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2016.05.005
You can spot us in two conferences next week.
Emilia and Tero are participating in the 1st Conference and Spring School on Properties, Design and Applications of Upconverting Nanomaterials (UPCON) in Wroclaw, Poland on 23-27.5. with the topics “Sensitising Up-Conversion Materials with Layer-by-Layer Method” and “Extensive Study of NaYF4:Yb3+,R3+ Up-Conversion Luminescence Materials”. Come see their posters on Tuesday.
Mika is participating in Biosensors 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden on 25-27.5. and will be presenting his topic “Using Synthetic Hackmanites as Sensors of Solar UV radiation” on Friday afternoon so go check him there!
UPCON 2016 conference (www)
Biosensors 2016 conference (www)
Check out our new interesting publication about the mechanisms of tenebrescence and persistent luminescence in synthetic hackmanites. Well done, everyone!
Norrbo, I., Gluchowski, P., Hyppänen, I., Laihinen, T., Laukkanen, P., Mäkelä, J., Mamedov, F., Santos, H.S., Sinkkonen, J., Tuomisto, M., Viinikanoja, A., and Lastusaari, M., Mechanisms of tenebrescence and persistent luminescence in synthetic hackmanite Na8Al6Si6O24(Cl,S)2, ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 8 (2016) 11592−11602.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b01959
“Kemian kevät ’16 – Innovaatioiden alkulähteillä” which is a seminar event where BSc and MSc students present their thesis topics is held in Arcanum on 26.-28.4.2016. This year also PhD students give a brief introduction about their research topics.
Inorganic materials chemistry has plenary lection on Thursday afternoon when our students will have their presentations – also as an added bonus Emilia and Minnea will have their Science Slam presentations on Tuesday.
You can find the program and from the Kemian kevät website below.
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Program (pdf)
Isabella got a funding her doctoral studies from “Young researchers grant” from Turun yliopistosäätiö for a year. Congratulations, Isabella!
A new teaching enviroment has been launched to help with university pedagogical studies for university teachers and doctoral students at the University of Turku. If you’re clever enough you can spot familiar faces when browsing at the pages or looking the videos. 🙂
UTUPS news in intranet (in Finnish, only UTU accounts)
http://utupedasupport.utu.fi/ is the link to the teaching enviroment for those in need. Password can be found from the news page above (only UTU accounts).
Check out our latest collaboration article about semiconductor junctions!
Kuzmin, M., Laukkanen, P., Mäkelä, J., Yasir, M., Tuominen, M., Dahl, J., Punkkinen, M.P.J., Kokko, K., Hedman, H.P., Moon, J., Punkkinen, R., Lastusaari, M., Polojärvi, V., Korpijärvi, V.-M., and Guina, M., Toward the Atomically Abrupt Interfaces of SiOx/Semiconductor Junctions, Adv. Mater. Interfaces (2016) 1500510-1-5.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.201500510
Today we had an afternoon break to celebrate Minnea and Isabella for their achievements. Minnea got her first publication out about the effect of Mn and Cr doping on the up-conversion luminescence from NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+ and Isabella graduated as a Master of Science. Congratulations to both!
Minnea’s article can be found behind a link here http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2016.01.016. It will be added to our publication list after it has got page numbers.
For the year 2016 we have a pleasure to have additional power to our group in the form of two new post docs from Brazil, Liana and Zé. Liana’s research area is focused on studies of photoluminescence properties on aluminates materials doped with Cr3+ and rare earths and Zé is investigating the photoluminescence of sunlight-activated persistent phosphors based on Ti3+ and Cr3+.
We hope that you guys have a pleasant time in Finland with us and also that the snow would melt before 1st of May.
Check out a new publication from our collaborators about persistent luminescence in glass-ceramics:
Massera, J., Gaussiran, M., Głuchowski, P., Lastusaari, M., Petit, L., Hölsä, J., and Hupa, L., Effect of the glass melting condition on the processing of phosphate-based glass–ceramics with persistent luminescence properties, Opt. Mater. 52 (2016) 56-61.
Read online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2015.12.006