MRI: Acquistion of Equipment Enhancing the Ultrafast Spectroscopy Capabilities of the Center for Photochemical Sciences at BGSU

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。通过主要研究仪器（MRI）项目的这项奖励，俄亥俄州动力学光谱实验室和州立鲍灵格林大学光化学科学中心将获得超快光谱仪器。该仪器包括一个超快放大激光系统，两个光学参数放大器，覆盖从深紫外到红外的波长，以及与现有激光系统一起使用的振动光谱的新设备。该基础设施将用于推进化学、生物和材料科学领域的一系列研究项目：1)用于OLED应用的高量子效率配位聚合物；2)铂（II）乙酰基配合物的超快电子动力学；化学和生物系统中的质子耦合电子转移；界面电子转移的单分子化学成像；5)有机反应机理；6)金属肽纳米组件的电子动力学；6)溶液有机光化学；7)用于复杂生物系统和核酸损伤研究的光亲和标记工具。此外，该仪器将作为博林格林州立大学令人印象深刻的光化学用户设施的一部分提供给广泛的外部用户。在该设施工作的年轻科学家将接触到尖端的光谱仪器，帮助他们获得一类重要研究工具的专业知识。光化学是研究物质与光的相互作用，以及随后吸收的能量在物质中的分布。光化学基础设施，就像这个奖项所支持的那样，帮助科学家更好地理解材料和光的相互作用。这对许多重要领域都有深远的影响——从太阳光到电能的转化到紫外线对DNA的损伤。更好地了解光化学有助于社会更好地利用光-物质相互作用的有益性质，同时减轻其有害方面。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program, the Ohio Laboratory for Kinetic Spectrometry and the Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University will acquire ultrafast spectroscopy instrumentation. The instrumentation comprises an ultrafast amplified laser system, two optical parametric amplifiers covering wavelengths from the deep ultraviolet to the infrared, as well as new pieces of apparatus for vibrational spectroscopy to be used with existing laser systems. The infrastructure will be used to advance a number of research projects in the chemical, biological and materials sciences: 1) high quantum efficiency coordination polymers for OLED applications; 2) ultrafast electronic dynamics in Pt(II) acetylide complexes; 3) proton-coupled electron transfer in chemical and biological systems; 4) single-molecule chemical imaging of interfacial electron transfer; 5) organic reaction mechanisms; 6) electronic dynamics in metal - peptide nanoassemblies; 6) solution organic photochemistry; and 7) photoaffinity labeling tools for the study of complex biological systems and nucleic acid damage. In addition, the instrumentation will be made available to a broad range of external users as part of the impressive photochemical user facility at Bowling Green State University. Young scientists working at the facility will have exposure to cutting-edge spectroscopic instrumentation, helping them gain expertise with an important class of research tools.Photochemistry is the study of the interaction of matter with light, and the subsequent distribution of the absorbed energy into a material. Photochemical infrastructure, like that supported in this award, helps scientists better understand how materials interact with light. This has profound implications in a wide variety of important areas -- from the conversion of sunlight to electrical energy to the damage of DNA by ultraviolet light. A better understanding of photochemistry helps society better harness the beneficial nature of the light-matter interaction, while mitigating its harmful aspects.