Céline Jégat awarded with JSPS Summer Program grant

She just started her PhD second year but Céline Jégat was awarded with the JSPS Summer Program grant allowing young researchers to persue their scientific work during two monthes in Japan, in an academic laboratory. This rich scientific and human experience offers a unique opportunity to discover the research in an other continent, to create or strengthen a collaboration and to get access to scientific setups the students do not have in their own laboratory.

Céline Jégat project is about the photochromic molecule (diarylethene) study by transient absorption spectroscopy resolved in time, to understand the de-excitation proccesses, in presence or not of gold nanorod. She will be hosted by Pr. Hiroshi Miyasaka - specialist of the diarylethene characterization with this technique - in Osaka University. The scientific links between PPSM and Pr. Miyasaka team are strong and led to the creation the NanoSynergetics international research project, which aims to developp photoactive materials showing synergy between its components in nanoscopic scale.

This two monthes project is a part of her PhD work, that is about the spectroscopic study of photo-switchable hybrid materials and the characterization of self-assembled gold nanorods with enhanced properties by electronic microscopy. This PhD project is supervised by Keitaro Nakatani and Guillaume Laurent and is included in the research theme D Functionalized and switchable surfaces of PPSM.