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Quantum Light for Quantum Technology - Prof Pascale Senellart

Light, and more precisely quantum light, is a key ingredient of the emerging second quantum revolution. It is the cornerstone of many applications ranging from quantum computing to quantum networks, offering many flavors of “quantumness” and degrees of freedom to encode the information.

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Prof Glenn Solomon

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Optochemical Control of Therapeutic Agents through Photocatalyzed Isomerization.

As modern therapeutic agents continue to strive towards new levels of spatio- and temporal control, light provides unparalleled opportunities for improved precision. Traditionally, such approaches have leveraged irreversible photouncaging reactions but photoisomerization presents a reversible alternative.1,2 Herein,3 we demonstrate “up-hill isomerisation” from trans- to cis- to turn on the chemotherapeutic combretastatin A-4 (CA-4)4, as well as other structurally related stilbene natural products by exploiting a Ru(bpy)3Cl2 photocatalyst. This process can be extended to an in cellulo setting to allow selective activation of the CA-4 analogue trimethoxy resveratrol (Res-3M) with associated potent cytotoxicity and disruption of microtubule dynamics.

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Dark exciton states in a single semiconductor quantum dot

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are a promising system to produce non-classical states of light that will be used in a variety of emerging quantum technologies [1].

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