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Liquid-liquid phase transitions
Liquid water and its complex crystallisation and vitrification behaviour has been studied for at least 235 years. Despite extensive study, many of the strange properties of water – such as its density maximum at 4° C or its increasing heat capacity on cooling the liquid below the melting point – remain unexplained. In the 1970s, Speedy ...
Room-temperature ionic liquids
Our work on room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) is carried out in collaboration with a number of international research groups. At Glasgow University, we apply femtosecond optical Kerr effect (OKE) spectroscopy using two laser set-ups giving access to time delays from 15 fs to 8 ns. The time traces are Fourier transformed to produce reduced Raman spectra ...
Current members of the Wynne group
The main research interests in the ultrafast physical-chemistry group are the study of ultrafast dynamics in the condensed phase, structure and femtosecond dynamics of proteins, and terahertz technology. One of the most interesting aspects of the work is that we cover a very broad range of sciences from the most fundamental physics to ‘dirty’ chemistry ...