Damla Inan

My name is Damla Inan, I am from Izmir, Turkey. I obtained my BSc degree in Chemistry from Bilkent University, Ankara. I joined an Erasmus Mundus Master Program called SERP+ (Former Serp-Chem) where I was able to attend classes in three different universities. (Universita degli studi di Genova-ITALY, Univerisidade do Porto-PORTUGAL and Universite Paris Sud-FRANCE). I completed my master thesis in INESC Porto.  I joined Optoelectronic Materials Group in September 2014 as PhD student. My work based on photophysical processes on bichromophoric arrays.

• Substitution Effects on Charge Transfer: A comprehensive study of the photophysical properties of these molecules has shown a highly systematic trend in the magnitude of CT as a function of increased electron deficiency of the perylene core and solvent polarity. Importantly, just by changing the attachment of electron-donating group from “bay” to “imide” position, we are able to block the CT process.

• Artificial Light Harvesting: We report the synthesis and excited-state dynamics of a series of five bichromophoric light-harvesting antenna systems, which are capable of efficient harvesting of solar energy in the spectral range of 350–580 nm.

• Tailoring Photophysical Properties of Artificial Light Harvesting Systems with Solvent Polarity    In this work, we will try to tune the photophysical properties of antenna systems by changing the electron donating and electron deficiency of model systems and solvent polarity. 

• The distance Dependence of Energy Transfer Rates  In this work, we will try to see the decrease of energy transfer rate with the distance between donor and acceptor chromophores. 

Publications

• Substitution Effects on the Photoinduced Charge Transfer Properties of Novel Perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic Acid Derivatives, Damla Inan, Rajeev K. Dubey, Nick Westerveld, Jorrit Bleeker, Wolter F. Jager, and Ferdinand C. Grozema; The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b03806
• Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Conjugated and Nonconjugated Phthalocyanine–Perylenediimide Systems, Jorge Follana-Berná, Damla Inan, Vicente M. Blas-Ferrando, Natalie Gorczak, Javier Ortiz, Félix Manjón, Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Ferdinand C. Grozema, and Ángela Sastre-Santos; The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2016 120 (46), 26508-26513 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07160
• Tunable and Highly Efficient Light-Harvesting Antenna Systems Based on 1,7-Perylene-3,4,9,10-Tetracarboxylic Acid Derivatives, R. K. Dubey, D.Inan, S. Sengupta, E. J. R. Sudholter, F.C.Grozema, W. F. Jager, Chem. Sci. 2016, 7,3517.

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