This July, Larissa and Bea presented their research at the 27^th International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Electronic Materials (ICSM) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bea’s talk entitled Light-responsive structural control in liquid crystals for solar energy storage and beyond, discussed her recent publication in JACS (https://pubs.acs.org/jacsat/article/147/32/29349/3737792/Phase-Behavior-of-Light-Responsive-Lyotropic). Larissa presented on the Influence of host properties and molecular organisation on triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion, focussing on the group’s work published in ACS Applied Optical Materials earlier this year (https://pubs.acs.org/aaoma6/article/4/4/1169/5141524/Interplay-between-Host-Structure-Oxygen-Quenching). 

Beyond their talks, they had a great time catching up with old friends and collaborators, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio, and propping up the dancefloor at the conference dinner! Bom demais!