Dr. Ian Pompermayer Machado is leaving IMC soon, so today Mika and Ari presented him with IMC’s highest honor, which has been given to fewer people than the Nobel Prize: the IMC Diploma of Honorary Citizenship i.e. Civis IMC Honoris Causa.
Thank you Ian for your service at IMC, and you are always welcome to visit us in the future!
OSA 5: LUMINESENSSISPEKTROMETRI
Kemistin työkalupakin viidennessä osassa tohtori Sami Vuori esittelee Lasersäde-labrassa sijaitsevaa luminesenssispektrometriä.
OSA 6: PYYHKÄISYELEKTRONIMIKROSKOOPPI
Kemistin työkalupakin kuudennessa osassa tohtori Ian Pompermayer Machado esittelee pyyhkäisyelektronimikroskooppia (SEM). Laite sijaitsee Fysiikan ja tähtitieteen laitoksella, ja se on myös keskeinen osa Turun yliopiston materiaalitutkimukseen suunnattua MARI-laitekantaa.
OSA 3: KUITUSPEKTROMETRI
Kemistin työkalupakin kolmannessa osassa tohtori Sami Vuori esittelee Lasersäde-labrasta löytyvän kuituspektrometrin.
OSA 4: ULTRAVIOLETTILAMPUT
Kemistin työkalupakin neljännessä osassa professori Mika Lastusaari esittelee Lasersäde-labran UV-lamppuja sekä materiaaleja, jotka reagoivat UV-säteilyyn.
This is a video series made for Finnish-speaking chemistry students for introductory purposes.
OSA 1: TERVETULOA
Tämän videon myötä IMC aloittaa videosarjan, jossa esittelemme erilaisia synteesi- ja analyysimenetelmiä sekä muuta hyödyllistä, mitä kemisti – tai etenkin älykkäiden materiaalien kanssa töitä tekevä kemisti – tarvitsee. Tässä ensimmäisessä osassa näytämme pintaraapaisuna, mitä kaikkea laboratoriomme kätkevät sisäänsä, ja tulevissa jaksoissa pureudumme näistä laboratorioista löytyviin laitteisiin syvällisemmin.
OSA 2: SCHLENK-LINJA
Kemistin työkalupakin toisessa osassa dosentti Ari Lehtonen esittelee isosta labrasta löytyvän Schlenk-linjan.
Say hello to our new BSc students! This year we have a lot of them, as can be seen from the photo! From left to right: Aino Kärsämänoja, Timo Laukkanen, Tommi Mäenpää, Jenni Ali-Penttilä, Ossi Mustonen, Kaisa Miller, Pekka Piivek, Miika Mäkipää and Aaron Söderlund.
From left to right: Postdoctoral Researcher Sami Vuori, BSc students Aino Kärsämänoja and Jenni Ali-Penttilä, Aalto Distinguished Professor Maarit Karppinen, Professor Mika Lastusaari, Doctoral Researchers Amr Ghazy and Topias Jussila.
Yesterday was a nice day for IMC as we had the honor to visit Aalto University for collaboration. Doctoral Researcher Amr Ghazy (second from right) hosted the lab excursion by showing us how atomic layer deposition and molecular layer deposition are conducted at Aalto. IMC’s BSc students Aino Kärsämänoja (second from left) and Jenni Ali-Penttilä (third from left) are doing a BSc lab work that deals with these materials, so it was very useful for them to learn about this technique, just as it was for IMC’s Postdoctoral Researcher Sami Vuori (left) and Professor Mika Lastusaari (third from right). Thank you for the collaboration Amr + Doctoral Researcher Topias Jussila (right), and Aalto Distinguished Professor Maarit Karppinen (middle).
Meet IMC’s new on-the-job learners Parinita Sharma, Kristiina Jounolainen and Anna Lehtinen from the Vocational Institute of Turku. Parinita and Kristiina are doing hackmanite-related work, while Anna concentrates on metal-organic syntheses. They will be working until October 13, 2023.
Dr. Minnea Tuomisto has started at IMC as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the JÄMOMAT project (“from waste to next generation molecular materials”) funded by Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation and Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation. Minnea obtained her PhD in 2019 at IMC and worked for a while in our research group. After this, she moved to work for Neste as a researcher. However, now our alumnus has come back to do research until at least 31 August 2025.
Read more about the JÄMOMAT project:
Dr. Hannah Byron‘s latest article “Highly Tuneable Photochromic Sodalites for Dosimetry, Security Marking and Imaging” was published in the prestigious journal Advanced Functional Materials with a whopping impact factor of 19.924! The article discusses e.g. about how modifying the structure of synthetic hackmanite enables the adjustment of its absorption maxima throughout the whole visible range, which leads to different colored, wonderful hackmanites.
The article can be read at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202303398
Last week was truly a super week of hackmanites, since Sami had his defense on Monday, and Hannah on Friday. Sami’s opponent was Professor Adrian Finch from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK, whereas Hannah’s was Professor Mark T. Weller from Cardiff University. Professor Mika Lastusaari was appointed as the Custos in both defenses. Both events went really well, and now both Sami and Hannah are PhDs!
After Sami’s defense. From left to right: Professor Adrian Finch, Professor Mika Lastusaari, and Dr. Sami Vuori.
Hannah’s defense, from left to right: Dr. Hannah Byron, Professor Mika Lastusaari, and Professor Mark T. Weller.