Prof. Matsumoto had the great opportunity of the outreach activity to talk about our research and dream to the citizen in Shizuoka city. The title of his talk was “Invitation to Molecular Science in Optical Cavity: Sandwiching Molecules between Two Mirrors”.
Research proposal is accepted
Our research proposal “Study on aromatic charge resonance complex probed by IR spectroscopy” has been accepted by the Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices. This study will collaborate with Prof. Masaaki Fujii at Tokyo Institute of Technology. We will study IR spectroscopy of solvated clusters with pyrrole dimer cations to investigate the relationship between solvated structures and intra-cluster charge distribution.
Start spring-summer semester in 2023
We started the research activity of our laboratory in 2023 today.
Graduation
Congratulations to everyone!
Collaborative Study with Prof. Otto Dopfer
Prof. Matsumoto visited the laboratory of Prof. Otto Dopfer at Technical University Berlin on December 5-16 2022. This was the opportunity for our collaborative study supported by the JSPS Bilateral Exchange Program between Japan and Germany. We proceeded to write our manuscript on IR photodissociation spectroscopy of microhydrated pyrrole cations with a lot of fruitful discussions. Fortunately, our paper “Microhydration of the pyrrole cation (Py+) revealed by IR spectroscopy: Ionization-induced rearrangement of the hydrogen-bonded network of Py+(H2O)2” was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c00363).
Research proposal is accepted
Our research proposal “Gas-phase IR spectroscopy of light-matter hybrid states generated by vibrational strong coupling” has been accepted in Matsuo Foundation for Academic Promotion.
The 16th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Molecular Science
We had the 16th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Molecular Science on 19-22 September at Keio University (Yokohama). Ms. Arisu Hirota (M2) and Mr. Yusuke Ishihara (M2) have provided their oral and poster presentations, in which their titles are “Dual dihydrogen-bond formations of jet-cooled acetylene-alkylsilane clusters studied by IR spectroscopy” and “Study on 13C6H6 large clusters by IR spectroscopy”, respectively. Prof. Matsumoto has also presented an oral talk about “Charge resonance interactions in pyrrole dimer cations and its hydrated clusters probed by IR spectroscopy”.
24th International Conference on Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research
The conference of “HBOND2022” was held on 12-15 September at Bilbao, Spain. Prof. Matsumoto has presented the invited talk “Microscopic chiral recognition in propylene oxide dimer induced by H-bond of an achiral pyrrole molecule”.
Research proposal is accepted
Our research proposal “Study on aromatic charge resonance complex probed by IR spectroscopy” has been accepted in the Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices. This study will be collaborated with Prof. Masaaki Fujii at Tokyo Institute of Technology. We will study on IR spectroscopy of solvated clusters with pyrrole dimer cations to investigate the relationship between solvated structures and intra-cluster charge distribution.
37th Symposium on Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics
Prof. Matsumoto have presented the contributed talk of “Microscopic chiral-recognition in propylene oxide dimer induced by hydrogen bond of an achiral pyrrole molecule” in 37th Symposium on Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan on 1-3 June.