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Chemistry In Pictures

Chemistry in Pictures: Rose in a flask

by Manny I. Fox Morone
February 16, 2022

A glittery fuchsia swirl at the bottom of a round-bottomed flask seen through the neck of the flask.
Credit: Gianluigi Albano

Gianluigi Albano stared into this swirling pink design after evaporating the solvent in his flask. Albano, a postdoc in the lab of Gianluca Maria Farinola at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, wants to see how chiral diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) dyes, such as the colorful compound seen in this photo, interact with light. Because DPP dyes are known to absorb visible light strongly—a quality that creates their intense colors—related chiral compounds might show useful properties when made into thin films and exposed to circularly polarized light.

Credit: Gianluigi Albano. Follow Gianluigi on Instagram (@gianluigialbano) and Twitter (@GianluigiAlbano).

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