DRACULA

Sunday dinner in the spirit of my Romanian heritage and Vlad Tepes.

Supa de  Pui (chicken soup)  -  Move over Jamie!

Mititei  cu Salata de iarna  = ('vitlöksjärpar' med vintersallad)

Now I know why Anna Anka likes brosk!

Before frying:

After frying:

I'm so full. I can't move.

SPINNING ELECTRONS

This add on an electron spin was the closest I came to find one which I understood:

Spin-polarized transport 

Spintronics

Electrons have an electrical charge, which enables them to carry an electrical current. However, electrons also have another property, which is the electron spin. Although the electron spin is from quantum mechanical origin and strictly speaking does not have a classical analog, it can be imagined as a "spinning top" which rotates clockwise ("spin-up") or anti-clockwise ("spin-down"). Due to its spin property the electron behaves like a little magnet, which can orient itself along or opposite to an external magnetic field. In the field of spin-based-electronics or "spintronics" one tries to use the electron spin and its sensitivity for a magnetic field in electrical circuits and sensors.
It is our interest is to explore how the electron spin can affect the electron transport properties when it traverses the path from a ferromagnetic material into a non-magnetic material, e.g. a normal metal, a semi-conductor (2DEG) or a superconductor.

(University of Groningen/Physiscs)

FLOW, SWEAT AND MOZZARELLA

You want fame?!? 
Well, fame costs!

N' right here's where you start payin', in sweat!!

=( had to cancel SATS dance aerobic, work out home instead )=

freakin' flow jo

Good food the only thing that gets me through this flow jo Sunday.
I didn't eat on the table, just took away the plate in the photo editing. 

Move over Nigella!

KOBE

How did this end up in my sink? Conference 3017 - I'll be there!

It is time for me to get serious. I have to book hotels in Kobe and flights and start working on my poster. Happy days.


ICI2010   14th International Congress of Immunology, Kobe Japan. August 22-27, during the birthday of Katarina which is onthe 26th of August:

Go to Kobe ICI

Kobe Sannomiya Union
Hotel
(14:00 / 11:00)  

PROF NIKITA'S RESEARCH

Prof Nikita Matsunaga is an Associate Professor in Computational and Physical Chemistry

at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University.

I had the pleasure of working on one of his projects in the summer of 2001.

My work with him unfortunately ended after I moved back to Sweden after 9/11,

and now looking back at the opportunity I was given, being right in the middle of

adventure, my heart starts beating faster when I read the stuff his doing.

Check this out:

Nikita Matsunagas Webpage 

(proudly find my name on his page Students  -post students... =)

Role of surface crossing

In the undergraduate program, you are taught that a chemical reaction is a 

process that transforms reactants to products via a transition state.

For simple reactions, this is a good picture.

Life is a lot more complicated than man! How does an excited state decay?

How does the spin of an electron get flipped during reaction to get diradicals?

These are the questions we can not answer from the conventional single potential

energy surface picture.

Photochemistry has full of these examples. One of such reactions we are interested in

is called spin-forbidden reaction.

The reaction starts out having all electrons paired (singlet state).

During the reaction, one of the electrons flips its spin to become a diradical state (triplet state).  We need to consider both the singlet and triplet potential energy surfaces.  The most important feature common to both potentials is the lowest energy crossing point between the two states. 

By investigating the minimum energy crossing point, we can learn about what geometry of the molecule the spin is likely to flip as well as probability of the event can be calculated.

 Part of Medicinareberget, Gothenburg.

Unfortunately could not put Nikita's picture of S-T crossing in.