Our research is divided into 2 main research areas:
Chirality in photochemistry and photophysics
A puzzling problem for the chemists was the situation where substances with the same elementary chemical composition held different physical properties. Currently, the homochirality of basic biological molecules continues being an intriguing puzzle in modern chemistry. On the other hand, photochemistry and photophysics are as old as our planet Earth. For instance, photosynthesis in plants and vision in our eyes are natural examples of their importance.
Our research activity is focused on photochemistry and photophysics of chiral nanomaterials. We are interested in the study of the chirality in process involving photoluminescence, charge and energy transfer, photoreactions or photoswitching.
Photoredox catalysis
Photoredox catalysis represents an efficient and sustainable approach to discovering new organic reactions. We concentrate our efforts on the combination of catalysis and photochemistry to develop novel synthetic organic reactions that allow us the construction of biomimetic molecular rotors.