Welcome to the Turro Group
The Turro Research Group – Summer 2019
Pictured (from left): Dr. Allen Pistner, Dr. Claudia Turro, Austin Lanquist, Matt Fortunato, Dr. Eric Piechota, Massiel Payero Garcia, Dr. Walter Dressick, Dr. Lauren Loftus, Sean Steinke, Dr. Barbara Dunlap, Jie Huang, Dr. Shaoyang Lin, Dr. Congcong Xue, Hemanthi Manamperi, Jessie Vandevord
The research in the Turro group encompasses a wide area of chemistry – including inorganic, physical, supramolecular, and biological chemistry. There is a variety of projects that students are working on in the group, many of which involve the use of optical instrumentation to measure electronic absorption, emission, and lifetime properties. In addition, ultrafast and nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopies, as well as ultrafast time-resolved infrared techniques are important tools that we use to obtain spectral and lifetime information on the excited states and short-lived intermediates involved in photochemical reactions on chemically relevant timescales.
Recent News
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1/2020 - Congratulations to Dr. Congcong Xue, who accepted a job offer at Yet2, an innovation consulting and technology scouting company, as an associate project leader.
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10/2019 - Hemanthi and Turro graduate Dr. Suzanne Witt published their work on dirhodium catalysts exhibiting different efficiencies and selectivity for HCOOH and H2 production in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
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1/2020 - Visiting student Camila da Silva, along with Congcong Xue and former post-doc Dr. Malik Al-Afyouni published their work on a series of μ-oxo-triruthenium carboxylates bearing orthometalated phenazines in Dalton Transactions.
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1/2020 - Group members Congcong and Jie, as well as alumnus Dr. Tyler Whittemore, published their work on a dirhodium photocatalyst for the production of hydrogen gas in Nature Chemistry.
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1/2020 - A recent publication from the Turro research group on an air-stable catalyst that uses light to produce hydrogen fuel was recently highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News. Work was performed by Dr. Tyler Whittemore, Congcong Xue, Jie Huang, and Judy Gallucci and was published in Nature Chemistry.