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Horizon Europe #MSCA Doctoral Network | Spread across Europe, we combine a wide set of expertise to tackle persistent issues in Quantum Dot stability!
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Track the Twin has officially filled all its PhD positions! 🎓

Over the next few weeks, our doctoral researchers will introduce themselves and share what they’ll be working on. Stay tuned to meet the brilliant minds joining #TTT!

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🚨 New paper alert!

Lidiia Dubenska, a TTT member working at @ethz.ch has co-authored a new paper revealing how dynamic disorder in hybrid perovskite QDs suppresses expected size-dependent electronic confinement! 🥳

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pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Local Electronic Structure in Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots as Captured by NMR Spectroscopy
Colloidal lead halide perovskite quantum dots (QDs) exhibit size-dependent optical and electronic properties due to quantum confinement, a feature that substantiates their widespread application as classical and quantum light sources. This property is commonly characterized by photoluminescence spectroscopy, where the emission peaks blueshift with decreasing QD size. Apart from the size of the QDs, the electronic structure is strongly influenced by phonons and local disorder, being vastly different between the all-inorganic and hybrid perovskite compositions. In this study, we demonstrate that nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy can serve as a powerful complementary tool to probe the local characteristics of the ground-state electronic structure. We combine optical and 207Pb NMR spectroscopy to investigate size-dependent confinement in three archetypal lead halide perovskite QDs: CsPbBr3, MAPbBr3, and FAPbBr3. While all compositions exhibit expected size-dependent photoluminescence energy, the hybrid perovskites (MAPbBr3 and FAPbBr3) display strongly reduced size-dependent confinement at room temperature when assessed via NMR. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations suggest that this effect arises from the disorder-induced wave function modulation driven by dynamic disorder in hybrid perovskites. Experimental support for the hypothesis is provided by freezing the cation dynamics in MAPbBr3 QDs, which leads to the reappearance of the size-dependent chemical shift. By integrating local and global probes of electronic structure, our findings challenge the conventional understanding of quantum effects in soft lead halide perovskite QDs and highlight the role of disorder in shaping the local electronic structure.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"I am Hridya Moothedath Biju. I graduated from IISER Thiruvananthapuram with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Data Science.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"My name is Jayashree, and I am from India. My fascination with physics began in the 8th grade through a deep curiosity about astronomy.

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November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"I am Masuma from Baku, Azerbaijan. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in my homeland, and further, did my MSc in Materials Science in France and Belgium.

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November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"Hi, I’m Doğu Şeyda from Türkiye. I received my BSc and MSc degrees in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from
#METU_ODTU. My research focused on the photothermal properties and applications of liquid metal-based core–shell particles.
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"I'm Chia-Kai Lin from Taiwan, with a Master's degree from the Department of Photonics. With a strong interest in light–matter interactions and nanomaterials, I have focused my research on QD systems, particularly their optical and electronic behaviours under excitation.
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"Hello! My name is Eder Castillo. I come from Mexico and I graduated as a Materials Engineer and have a Master's degree in Materials Science from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León!

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November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Hey! I'm Aishwarya from India. I started in a triple major Bachelor's program, but Chemistry's glow-in-the-dark magic kept me hooked.

Now, as part of the Track the Twin consortium, I work on synthesising CdS and InP/ZnSe/ZnS quantum dots.

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November 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Reposted by Track the Twin
🚀 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗺! Join us to develop methods & software for simulating vibrational spectroscopies of chiral molecules. 3-year EU Marie Curie position with attractive benefits. Apply here: www.scm.com/news/job-ope... #matsky #compchemsky
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"Hello world! My name is Beatriz and I am from Madrid, Spain. I graduated with a bachelor's in Chemistry from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. For my bachelor's thesis, I synthesised and characterised metal-organic framework and covalent organic framework composites.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"My name is Lidiia, I am from Ukraine. Chemistry has been my passion since early childhood. As a result, during my school years, I participated in various chemistry olympiads and competitions, culminating in a silver medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad in Paris in 2019.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"Hello, everyone! I'm Gabriel, a physicist from Brazil currently pursuing a PhD @uantwerpen.be

Nanomaterials have always captivated me due to their unique structure-dependent behaviour and diverse applications.

In the picture, I'm in front of a transmission electron microscope
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Track the Twin has officially filled all its PhD positions! 🎓

Over the next few weeks, our doctoral researchers will introduce themselves and share what they’ll be working on. Stay tuned to meet the brilliant minds joining #TTT!

#PhD #QuantumDots #MSCA
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM