Domaines
Condensed matter
Physics of liquids
Nanophysics, nanophotonics, 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures,, surface physicss, new electronic states of matter
Type of internship
Expérimental Description
Chemistry under ultraviolet or visible irradiation increases reaction rates by exciting reagent species into higher energy electronic states which facilitates access to final product states. The energy of infrared photons is typically too small to accomplish this. Recently however, a series of tantalizing works have suggested that chemical reaction rates can be modified by performing reactions in Fabry-Perot cavities tuned to the (infrared) vibrational energy of molecule(s) along the reaction path. Since all molecules have vibrational modes in the infrared, this has given birth to a new field or research known as cavity chemistry. This exciting field offers not only the possibility to modify the energetic cost of chemical reactions, but may also help to shed light on their fundamental, rate-limiting mechanisms.
In this internship we propose to apply these concepts to electrochemical reactions.
Contact
Alistair Rowe