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Access User Training for Advanced Optical Techniques in Bio-imaging and Bio-processing (OPTBIO)

Within the networking activity N4 - User Community Training CLLC offers short-term training visits which are designed to increase the experience of potential European Users and to provide special experimental skills and competencies in the scientific area related to the JRA OPTBIO to European scientists. Training actions will cover topics in the fields of Laser analysis and manipulation of biological samples, advanced microscopy and bio-medical imaging.

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Scientific Activities at CLLC:

Chemistry Laser Lab Coimbra, CLLC is a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to the study of interactions between radiation and matter at the molecular level. It is established at the University of Coimbra and supported by the Portuguese Science Foundation.

CLLC encompasses photochemical, photophysical and spectroscopic studies from the infrared through to the ultraviolet covering timescales from ps at room temperatures to ultra slow processes at cryoscopic temperatures. The laboratory is equipped for laser induced transient absorption and emission measurements with UV, visible and near infrared detection, (pico and nanosecond) time resolved photoacoustic calorimetry both for solutions and thin films, time resolved fluorescence decay and anisotropy measurements, fluorescence microscopy, vibrational photochemistry and low temperature (10 K) matrix isolation studies. It also has facilities for working with complex systems such as supercritical fluids, or for narrow band (0.2 cm–1) mid-infrared excitation. It also offers expertise in kinetic modelling.

Current work focuses on areas such as photodynamic therapy, organic and polymeric photovoltaics for solar energy conversion, optical sensors, matrix isolation photochemistry, photocatalysis, light emitting devices, biological systems such as DNA compaction and skin permeation studies by luminescent techniques and applications of photochemistry to art.