Welcome to the Laser Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Laboratory in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia. We use lasers to:
- study molecular dynamics and gain detailed insight into energy flow within molecules
- develop new nanomaterials and energetic materials in collaboration with industry and defence partners.
We also develop software in-house for data collection and analysis. Some of this software is available for other researchers to use for similar experiments.
News
Velocity Map Imaging (VMI) circularisation analysis method and software published
Image analysis software for processing of VMI images is available from our article in the Journal of Chemical Physics "Special Topic: Developments and Applications of ...
Carbon nanotube slicing features on Catalyst Science Show
Slicing of carbon nanotubes using our lasers and the Vortex Fluidic Device features in the 'Unboiling an Egg' story on ABC's Catalyst program broadcast ...
Media interest growing
Articles about the slicing nanotubes research, recently published in Nature Scientific Reports, have appeared on several news websites: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-12/new-use-found-for-unboil-an-egg-machine/7241532 http://phys.org/news/2016-03-egg-unboiling-machine-cooks-carbon.html
Nature Scientific Reports publishes carbon nanotube work
We report on the use of a laser-based method to slice carbon nanotubes into small, constant-sized lengths. This is achieved by placing a solution of ...