Greg Greetham

[Central Laser Facility @CLF_STFC]

The @LivUni group is looking at what’s happening inside lithium-ion batteries (like in our phones) as they lose efficiency over time🪫
Li-ion batteries are notoriously hard to study due to the obscuring fluorescence they emit when you try to extract Raman light from them

[Central Laser Facility @CLF_STFC]

For the first time ever, a user groups is using our Artemis, Ultra and Octopus facilities simultaneously for one experiment!
Why? Because what they’re studying is an especially awkward specimen…

[Central Laser Facility @CLF_STFC]

These have to be put together in a very particular order.
Once finished these will hold all the control equipment for the lasers and experiments. 🧪
This concludes another step in the HiLUX project! ✅
➡️ https://t.co/2fuU4hX3W9

[Central Laser Facility @CLF_STFC]

Specifically designed to fit together like a jigsaw, the gantry that’s part of the HiLUX upgrade has just been installed in the rooms where Ultra A used to be. 🧩✨

[Central Laser Facility @CLF_STFC]

While installations for the HiLUX labs are underway elsewhere, this little room harbours a very important setup!

This is a miniature replica of the new Ultra laser system which allows scientists test stuff, such as fully automated processes, ahead of the real thing! 🧑‍🔬

[Central Laser Facility @CLF_STFC]

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[The Journal of Physical Chemistry @JPhysChem]

Study of guanine photo-oxidation by DNA binding Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes containing either a linear or a hooked intercalating ligand by time-resolved spectroscopy and cellular studies. @QuinnGroupUCD @mark_stitch_ @CLF_STFC
https://t.co/zzloHZOJQO

[Didcot Town Football Club @DidcotTownFC]

Come down and be part of history this evening as Didcot Town Ladies play their first ever game. 

The railwaywomen welcome the ladies from Wantage Town for a friendly as they continue their pro preparations for their first season in the league. 

The game kicks off at 7pm on the Didcot Town training pitch. 

The bar at the club. will be open for refreshments this evening.

[Rutherford Appleton Laboratory @RutherfordApLab]

Welcome to episode 2 of #BigScienceTinyMic! 👨‍🔬🎤

Next up to the mic is Igor Sazanovich who works on the ULTRA laser at @CLF_STFC. He tells us how lasers are being used to help develop even better solar panels! 😎☀

#SolarCells #CleanEnergy

[Central Laser Facility @CLF_STFC]

This research may help pave the way towards further studies of catalysis and energy storage 🌱🔋 🧵🔚

[Greg Greetham @gregorygree]

@SilverstoneUK having real trouble booking my single seater experience gift. Discuss with your online people, then they do not confirm a slot. 3 weekends in a row I thought I would be coming over, but no confirmation.

[Central Laser Facility @CLF_STFC]

Scientists at the CLF’s Ultra facility have demonstrated how intense infrared laser pulses can be used to heat catalysts in order to study their chemical processes. 🧪

Read more about the paper that featured on the cover of @ChemicalScience here!➡https://t.co/Ku6CqmMKsZ

[Jason Lynam @LynamChemistry]

Fantastic to see this published. Read about how you can observe catalyst behaviour from the fastest to the slowest events. Part of a great collaboration with @Ian_Fairlamb - we have over 50 papers together now 😀
@ChemistryatYork
https://t.co/TqzVneVU39

[Marius Horch @horch_lab]

New 2D-IR work on a [NiFe] hydrogenase mimic by @ChemistryatYork, @CLF_STFC and @horch_lab reveals the influence of hydrogen bonding on the active site:

https://t.co/J3KHARUqiu

[Central Laser Facility @CLF_STFC]

Published recently in Accounts of Chemical Research, a CLF team has described how they used our own Ultra laser to break barriers in ultrafast spectroscopy! 🔬💨💨

This has earned them the front cover spot on the journal!

➡️ https://t.co/Ah9hhLt9HV

[Greg Greetham @gregorygree]

Overview article of how high repetition rate ultrafast ytterbium lasers have advanced time resolved spectrosopies!Nice collab with leading ultrafast vibrational spectroscopists. @CLF_STFC @csu_chemistry @UZH_Chemistry @UWMadisonChem #phasetech
https://t.co/NlEThZzFK6

[Darren Dutton @Darren_Dutton]

I did a google image search for men next to potholes and put them all in a montage.

[The Journal of Chemical Physics @JChemPhys]

Catalysts are important for industrial chemistry. Now 2D-IR spectroscopy can study them in their solid form, offering a deeper view of these types of materials’ vibrational spectra. https://t.co/QsjcSu7tcj @CLF_STFC

[Science and Technology Facilities Council @STFC_Matters]

The idea is simple, we love foil in science, we love foil on sandwiches, but which is it going to be? You'll have 5s to guess.

Bonus points if you can guess the equipment or the filling. Let us know how you do!

#ScienceOrSandwich 🔬🥪