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MSG Research interests and activities

Solid State Chemistry and Physics have greatly affected our daily lives. Semiconductor electronics (used in computers, phones, vehicles and countless other products), modern plastics and composite materials form the basis of the current technological and industrial revolution.
Our research interests cover a wide variety of systems, including solids, liquids, glasses, Gases, organic and biological molecules. These systems are characterized by interactions between large numbers of atomic or molecular components, which lead to qualitatively new cooperative behaviour at the macroscopic scales.
Experimental techniques such as UV, visible, PL, FTIR and Raman spectroscopic methods, together with X-ray measurements, allow the investigation of very interesting problems. The effects of temperature or pressure may be studied with cryostats or diamond anvil cells (DAC). The phenomena which can be observed with these techniques include phase transitions, chemical and photo-chemical reactions.