Minjung Son

Transfer-learning enhanced adaptive sampling for accelerating ultrafast spectroscopy Ultrafast transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy is a versatile tool for probing photoinduced dynamics in complex materials, but it often requires dense tempora

New paper from the group!

In collab. with Huimin Cheng in the Biostatistics Department, we report a smart sampling strategy that reconstructs ultrafast spectroscopy data using less than 1% of the measurements normally required. Read here @aip-publishing.bsky.social: pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...

New paper from the group @jmaterchem.rsc.org - we characterized how strong light-matter coupling impacts the photophysical properties of chlorophyll a. Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Allenes as Stimuli-Responsive Chromophores for Visible to Near-Infrared Optical Modulation Despite their rigid, orthogonal π-systems and synthetic modularity, allenes remain underexplored in functional material design. Here, we report that tetraaryl-substituted allenes undergo clean and rev...

Super stoked about our second JACS! We establish allenes as reversible halochromes with dramatic optical property switching. This work could not have been this successful without the amazing support from @minjungson.bsky.social at BU and the Ding Lab at WFU. Check it out
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Outshining molecular disorder with light Experiments quantify an important criterion for polariton-mediated energy transport

(2/2) In my latest perspective article @science.org, I discuss the recent breakthroughs from the Xiong group on overcoming molecular disorder in polariton cavities: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Allenes as Stimuli-Responsive Chromophores for Visible to Near-Infrared Optical Modulation Despite their rigid, orthogonal π-systems and synthetic modularity, allenes remain underexplored in functional material design. Here, we report that tetraaryl-substituted allenes undergo clean and rev...

Check out these two new papers from our group (1/2): With @cschaack.bsky.social and Wendu Ding's groups at Wake Forest University, we demonstrate how protonation can significantly modulate the optical properties of allenes @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Welcome to the first cohort of NSF Research Trainees in ‪bostonu.bsky.social's ENERGIZE Program! The initiative, hosted by IGS, prepares PhD students from across disciplines to develop new #CleanEnergy solutions: sites.bu.edu/energize/tra...

Mapping the dynamics of energy relaxation in exciton–polaritons using ultrafast two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy Exciton–polaritons are quasiparticles that are formed by strong interactions between light and electronic transitions of matter. Polariton states exhibit the ch

Excited to share the first publication from the Son group! We discuss how ultrafast spectroscopy can help unravel the exciting photophysics that take place in exciton-polaritons. pubs.aip.org/aip/cpr/arti...