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Import 2022-12-08 21:42

Rank Prize symposium on exciton processes in molecular materials

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Patrick Parkinson

22 Sep 2015

Patrick gave an invited talk at the Rank Prize Symposium on exciton processes in molecular materials, in Grasmere (Lake District). The talk was entitled “Exciton dynamics in bio-mimetic nanoring systems“, and discussed the role of exciton delocalisation in energy transfer processes.

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