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Monday - March 11
08:00 Registration
Session 1 - Opening:
09:00 Welcome Prof. Klaus Meerholz - University of Cologne
09:15 Nanographene Dicarboximides as Templates for Organic Electronics Prof. Frank Würthner - University of Würzburg
10:00 Enhancing the photostability of persistent luminescent radicals via structural modification Prof. Will Skene - Universite de Montreal
10:22 Tailoring of rubrene thin film crystallinity via organic epitaxy Dr. Luisa Raimondo - University of Milano-Bicocca
10:45Coffee Break
Session 2:
11:15 The Road From Semiconductors to Metals: Engineering Topological States in Nanographenens Prof. Felix Fischer - UC Berkeley
12:00 Uniaxial Structure Induction by Graphene Nanoribbon Templated Growth Philipp Weitkamp - University of Cologne
12:22 Excitation dynamics in rubrene crystalline films grown via organic epitaxy Dr. Alessandro Minotto - University of Milano-Bicocca
12:45Lunch
Session 3:
13:45 2D materials + molecules (superlattices & networks) Prof. Paolo Samori - Universite de Strasburg
14:30 Strategies toward electrically driven polariton lasing Julia Witt - University of Cologne
14:52 Obtaining blue delayed fluorescence via N-quaternisation of carbazole – pyridine isomers Ruth Pollard - Northumbria University
15:15Coffee Break
Session 4:
15:45 Identifying aggregates in organic solar cells by optical spectroscopy Prof. Anna Köhler - University of Bayreuth
16:30 Resolving Structure, Exciton Interactions and Ultrafast Dynamics in Aggregates of Chiral Squaraine Molecules Robin Bernhard - University of Cologne
16:52 Identifying the origin of delayed electroluminescence in a polariton organic light-emitting diode Ahmed Abdelmagid, University of Turku
17:15 End of Sessions
18:00Poster Session
Tuesday - March 12
Session 5:
09:00 Exploring New Carbon Allotropes and Nanographenes: On Surface Synthesis and Single-Molecule Manipulation Prof. Michael Gottfried - University of Marburg
09:45 Magnetic behaviour in metal-free radical thin films Prof. M. Benedetta Casu - University of Tübingen
10:07 Single-molecule readout of spin quantum beats in a charge-separated radical pair state Eva Schmid, Universität Regensburg
10:30Coffee Break
Session 6:
11:00 Design of Optoelectronic Properties in 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks Prof. Dima Perepichka, McGill University
11:45 Flexible Phenanthracene Nanotubes for Explosive Detection Simon Rickert - University of Bonn
12:07 Unidirectional Molecular Adaptation by Coupled Stimuli Sebastian Baumert, University of Münster
12:30Lunch
Session 7:
13:30 Chiral organic semiconductors: predicting molecules and motifs for high charge carrier mobility (via Zoom) Prof. Kim Jelfs - Imperial College London
14:15 Modelling charge transport properties of dipolar self-assembly merocyanines beyond the hopping regime Nora Gildemeister - University of Cologne
14:37 Enhancing Anisotropic Polariton Lasing Efficiency in Organic Microcavities through Molecular Conformation, Orientation and Schlieren Texturing Dr. Florian Le Roux - University of Cologne
15:00Coffee Break
Session 8:
15:30 Organic semiconductors: from displays to neuromorphic circuits Prof. Karl Leo - TU Dresden
16:15 Orientation distributions of OLED emitters probed by single-molecule microscopy Dr. Francisco Tenopala-Carmona, Universität zu Köln
16:37 Design strategies for high performance light-emitting triarylmethyl radicals Prof. Alexander Kühne, Uni Ulm
17:00End of Sessions
18:30Conference Dinner
Wednesday - March 13
Session 9:
09:00 Can molecular processes be modified in the strong light-matter coupling regime? Prof. Stephane Kena-Cohen, Polytechnique Montréal
09:45 Polarization-controlled strong light-matter interaction with templated molecular aggregates Roland Schäfer - University of Cologne
10:07 Linear optical properties of organic microcavity polaritons with non-Markovian Quantum State Diffusion Dr. Kimmo Luoma, University of Turku
10:30Coffee Break
Session 10:
11:00 Solvation Layer Mapping at Solid-Liquid Interfaces Prof. Angelika Kühnle, Bielefeld University
11:45 Complex structure formation of merocyanines on the Ag(100) surface Anna Kny - University of Bonn
12:07 On the orientation mechanism of non-polar dyes in light-emitting guest-host systems Binh Minh Nguyen, University of Augsburg
12:30 Lunch
Session 11:
13:30 Decoding the mechanisms underlying optoelectronic properties of conjugated diradicals: insights from quantum-chemical modeling (via Zoom) Prof. Fabrizia Negri, University of Bologna
14:15 A Semi-AutomatedWorkflow for Surface Docking of Merocyanine Monolayers Using a Special Purpose Parametrization of GFN1-xTB Julia Kohn - University of Bonn
14:37 High-throughput Virtual Screening of Existing Organic Chromophores for Materials Discovery Dr. Omer Omar, University of Liverpool
15:00 Coffee Break
Session 12 - Closing:
15:30 Evaporated organic solar cells – process, structure and function Dr. Pascal Kaienburg, University of Oxford
15:55 Rigid, Aromatic Polymer Architectures Prof. Ullrich Scherf, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
16:40 Closing Remarks Prof. Arne Lützen - University of Bonn