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Nanomaterials

Chemistry In Pictures

Chemistry in Pictures: Like a green glow from a distant planet

by Yogesh Kumar Maurya
December 18, 2020

 

A photo of a chromatography fraction that glows an eerie green under UV light.
Credit: Daniel Matuszczyk

This picture demonstrates green-glow fluorescence, which arises from a pyrrole-based chromophore and resembles a wildfire on an exoplanet. Daniel Matuszczyk, a graduate student in the Stępień research group at the University of Wroclaw, is working on the various π-extended chromophores of the azacoronene family, an emerging class of nanographene analogs. While purifying one of his precursors with column chromatography, he obtained a fraction that shows a beautiful emission, even in the solid state, under UV light. Such pretty, fluorescent colors are seen in the Stępień Lab in #everydayfluorescence photos from daily synthesis reactions.

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