News and Events
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
The Resonate Festival of Science and Technology
Jack and Sofia presented the effects of lasers and light at the Resonate Festival of Science and Technology. Visitors got to see the effects of interference, absorption and emission, with a hands on demonstration of how to control light!
Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer Between Donor (Eosin-Y) and Acceptor (Naphthoquinone) in a Supramolecular Array Based on a Coordination Cage Host
M. B. Tipping, J. M. Woolley, J. R. Williams, M. Ward
Chem. Eur. J. 2025, e202404647.
Warwick Ultrafast Spectroscopy Symposium
A great event on Friday bringing together over 40 researchers with an interest in Ultrafast and THz Spectroscopy. A big thank you to all our speakers; Dr Greg Greetham (Central Laser Facility), Dr Joseph Beames (University of Birmingham) and Dr Jessica Boland (University of Manchester) and our amazing contributed talks. Also a special thanks to the Warwick analytical Science centre and Dr Chris Waldron for funding and organisation.