Francis Perrin Laboratory CEA - CNRS URA 2453 (France)

URL: http://www-lfp.cea.fr/

The Laboratoire Francis Perrin (LFP) is a joint research unit of the Atomic Energy Commissariat (CEA) and the National Center for the Scientific Research (CNRS). It has about thirty permanent research scientists and technicians; some twenty PhD students and post-docs are trained there.

The LFP conducts research in the field of physical chemistry by focusing on the interaction of light with molecular systems and nanostructures. Light is used to induce various processes (photoluminescence, energy and charge transfer, photoreactions…) and to probe different types of molecular systems both in their ground and their excited states. An important part of the studies is carried out in the field of photochemistry at the Saclay Laser-matter Interaction Center.

The various research projects carried on in the LFP are organized in four groups:

1. Excited Biomolecules: The aim of the group is to contribute to the comprehension of physicochemical processes involved in some biological phenomena
2. Theoretical Chemistry: The aim of the group is to explain experimental data, to provide data which are difficult or impossible to access by experiment or to rationalize the construction of new molecules with specific properties
3. Reaction Dynamics: The aim of the group is to obtain information on the forces responsible for the evolution of a reactive system
4. Nanostructures: The aim of the group is to control the synthesis of nano-objects or nanostructured materials, to study their specific properties and to explore their potential applications.

The scientific results produced in the LFP are regularly published in high rated international journals (Nature, Angewante Chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society, etc.). Some important results are disseminated toward a broader public mainly via pathways developed by its one of the mother institutions, CEA and CNRS.

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