Dr René Williams

Position:

Assistant Professor, Molecular Photonics Group, Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam

Background:

Dr. Williams is assistant professor in the Molecular Photonics group of the HIMS at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) since 1999. In 1998 he worked with Prof. Nick J. Turro on triplet sensitization of commercial photoinitiators (at Columbia University in the city of New York). At the Max-Planck institut in Mülheim he worked with Prof. Silvia E. Braslavsky on opto-acoustics in 1997. In 1996 he did his PhD on buckyballs (C₆₀) and electron transfer with Prof. Jan W. Verhoeven at UvA.

Role in POLYTHEA:

• Member of the Supervisory Board
• Leader of WP5 – Photo-Optimization
• Supervisor of ESR 2 and 3

Key publication:

• Ultrafast Charge and Triplet State Formation in Diketopyrrolopyrrole Low Band Gap Polymer/Fullerene Blends: Influence of Nanoscale Morphology of Organic Photovoltaic Materials on Charge Recombination to the Triplet State.
  Williams, R. M., Chen, H-C., Di Nuzzo, D., Meskers, S. C. J., & Janssen, R. A. J. (2017). Journal of Spectroscopy, 1-16. DOI: 10.1155/2017/6867507 
• Halogenated earth abundant metalloporphyrins as photostable sensitizers for visible-light-driven water oxidation in a neutral phosphate buffer solution.
  Chen, H-C., Reek, J. N. H., Williams, R. M., & Brouwer, A. M. (2016).  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18(22), 15191-15198. DOI: 10.1039/c6cp01352j 
• Platinum(II)-porphyrin as a sensitizer for visible-light driven water oxidation in neutral phosphate buffer.
  Chen, H-C., Hetterscheid, D. G. H., Williams, R. M., van der Vlugt, J. I., Reek, J. N. H., & Brouwer, A. M. (2015). Energy & Environmental Science, 8(3), 975-982. DOI: 10.1039/c4ee03302g 
• Triplet Formation by Charge Recombination in Thin Film Blends of Perylene Red and Pyrene: Developing a Target Model for the Photophysics of Organic Photovoltaic Materials.
  Williams, R. M., Nguyên, V. A., & van Stokkum, I. H. M. (2013). The journal of Physical Chemistry. B, 117(38), 11239-11248. DOI: 10.1021/jp402086p 
• Charge separation and (triplet) recombination in diketopyrrolopyrrole-fullerene triads.
  Karsten, B. P., Bouwer, R. K. M., Hummelen, J. C., Williams, R. M., & Janssen, R. A. J. (2010).  Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 9(7), 1055-1065. DOI: 10.1039/c0pp00098a 

Links :

http://www.uva.nl/profiel/w/i/r.m.williams/r.m.williams.html
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rene_Williams