News and Events
Jack Attends the RSC
Last week Jack attended the Royal Society of Chemistry's Technician relaunch event. At it the RSC launched their plan to support technicians in the chemical sciences. While there Jack was presented with his award from the 2025 RSC prizes, and was given the chance to present some of the research that led to the award.
Excited state deactivation in phytochemical flavonoids: astragalin and kaempferol
M. Hymas, J. Eller, M. Salehi, R. Omidyan, S. Poigny, V.G. Stavros.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2025, Accepted Article.
Counterintuitive Photochemistry of an Isolated Acridinyl Radical: ConPET via Preassembly, Solvated Electrons, or a Long-Lived Excited State?
S. J. Horsewill, K. M.M. Sharrock, P.P. Fehér, J.M. Woolley, I. Pápai, D.J. Scott
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2025, Accepted Article
RTProf Jack Woolley wins RSC Technical Excellence Prize
Fantastic news that our Research Technology Professional, Dr Jack Woolley, has been awarded the Technical Excellence Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry for "providing outstanding technical and scientific support to users of the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy, enabling many researchers to conduct impactful science." Well done, Jack, on a brilliant achievement!
BoostCrop team wins prestigious RSC Horizon Prize
The BoostCrop team, which originated at Warwick and led by Prof. Vasilios Stavros (now University of Birmingham), has been named winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Horizon Prizes, which celebrate discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science. Staff involved at Warwick still include: Ed Greenough, James Lloyd-Hughes, Adrian Fowle and Jack Woolley. [Read more]
Structural chemistry of the n=3 Dion-Jacobson phases: controlling polarity and band gap
A. Ali, V. Cascos, F. Pritchard, J.R.R. Verlet, N. Sutherland, J.M. Woolley, J. Lloyd-Hughes, M. Avdeev, A. Beeby, S. Clark, E.E. McCabe
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, 13, 23073-23086
A Tutorial on THz Pulse Analysis: Accurate Retrieval of Pulse Arrival Times, Spectral Energy Density and Absolute Spectral Phase
J. Lloyd-Hughes, N. Chopra, J. Deveikis, R. Pandya, J.M. Woolley
Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 46, 2025
Terahertz harmonic generation and nonlinear spectroscopy of metamaterial-gated/graphene resonators
R. Degl’Innocenti, Y. Lu, A. M. Zaman, J. M. Woolley, N. Chopra, W. Tadbier, W. Michailow, S. Hofmann and J. Lloyd-Hughes
APL Photonics, 10, 2025.
UK-wide Equipment Sharing Fund
Molecular Heaters: A green route to boosting crop yields
J.M. Woolley, N.d. N. Rodrigues, J.M. Toldo, B. Rioux, C. Groves, X. Schrama, J. Alarcan, T.T. Abiola, M.M. Mention, M.T. do Casal, S.E. Greenough, M. Borja, W.J. Buma, M.N.R. Ashfold, A. Braeuning, T. Munnik, K.A. Franklin, F. Allais, M. Barbatti, and V.G. Stavros.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2025, 27, 7375-7382