Limburg Lab
Vision
Nature performs selective chemistry in complex mixtures, and so can we! By studying complex systems we can advance chemistry in the areas of synthesis, energy transition, and nanoscale materials.
Mission
We use light as a versatile physical input and/or output to drive intricate chemical reactions and to develop a deep understanding of complex systems.

Research

Welcome to the group website of the Limburg Lab: Supramolecular Photochemistry and Catalysis (SPC). We are a young research group at the University of Barcelona started in October 2022. We study photochemistry and apply it in synthesis, energy transition and nanoscale materials. We are interested in Photocatalysis, Coordination Chemistry, Supramolecular and Nanoscale Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Mechanistic Elucidation, and Organic and Molecular Electronics. Our research projects therefore bridge the common divides in chemistry and contain elements from the traditional fields of Organic, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry. Our current research projects include:

  • Synthetic Neurons and Artificial Photoactivated Synapses (ERC-StG).
  • Novel Cobalt-Organophotoredox Catalytic Reactions.
  • Photocatalyst Design for Enhanced Quantum Yields in Synthesis and Energy production (Researcher Consolidation Project).
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News

Another academic year finished! We say farewell to our students Oscar, Patrick, Andrés, and Nagore. We hope to see you around! Best of luck for the future! Now for some well-deserved holidays...

01 August 2025

Today we had our group's team-building day on the beach playing volleyball! After a 2v2 tournament with rotating teams of 14 close matches with many smashes and unlikely saves, Patrick was crowned king of the beach.

30 May 2025

Welcome to Andrés who is starting his final project on making new photocatalysts with improved properties for organic synthesis. Good luck, Andrés!

03 March 2025

Today, Nagore is joining us for her bachelor thesis (TFG). Welcome, Nagore! In addition, we've made a new group photo. See it here.

17 February 2025

Two new group members have joined us: Oscar is back for his TFM, and Patrick is joining us for an Erasmus internship from the TU Dublin. Welcome!

10 February 2025

A warm welcome to Igor, the first postdoc in our group!

14 October 2024

Today we welcome Arnau back, now as a PhD student on the SYNAPS project. Best of luck, Arnau!

16 September 2024

Congratulations Arnau with finishing and obtaining a great result for the Final Master Project (9.7/10)!

15 July 2024

David expertly defended his TFG today. Congratulations, David! We wish you all the best in the Master next year!

26 June 2024

Our Master student Arnau has won a prize for his poster at the Masterquímica 2024 poster session! Congratulations, Arnau!

29 May 2024
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Latest Publications

An Extension of the Stern–Volmer Equation for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) Photocatalysts

Bart Limburg

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 10495-10499

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Connections to the Electrodes Control the Transport Mechanism in Single‐Molecule Transistors

Zhixin Chen, Steffen Woltering, Bart Limburg, Ming-Yee Tsang, Jonathan Baugh, Andrew Briggs, Jan Mol, Harry Anderson, James Thomas

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, , e202401323

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Charge-State Dependent Vibrational Relaxation in a Single-Molecule Junction

Xinya Bian, Zhixin Chen, Jakub K. Sowa, Charalambos Evangeli, Bart Limburg, Jacob L. Swett, Jonathan Baugh, G. Andrew D. Briggs, Harry L. Anderson, Jan A. Mol, James O. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 2022, 129, 207702

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