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Stephen Fletcher is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, specializing in synthetic organic chemistry. His research group focuses on photonics, particularly in projects related to making synthetic retinal derivatives. The goal of the work is to determine the molecular prerequisites necessary for the fast, selective photoisomerizations observed in rhodopsin, which is essential for vision in vertebrates, and in bacteriorhodopsin, which plays a key role in the photosynthetic apparatus. The group is involved in synthesizing new rylene-based dyes and in building ‘functional nano-devices’ based on chiral, photoisomerizable monomers. These monomers can be polymerized to form light-sensitive materials that have a variety of potential applications in the field of photonics.
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