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Horizon Europe #MSCA Doctoral Network | Spread across Europe, we combine a wide set of expertise to tackle persistent issues in Quantum Dot stability! trackthetwin.ugent.be

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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
We recently had the opportunity to visit ESRF - The European Synchrotron to carry out a series of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) experiments on our latest quantum dot systems.
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
🚨 Excited to share an update on the upcoming summer school on semiconductor nanocrystals (Aug 16–20, Nendaz, Switzerland)!! This year’s edition is organized by the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) Division of Materials Chemistry in collaboration with the MSCA Doctoral Network TTT!
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Great to see members of the Track the Twin consortium contributing at the nanoGe Conferences #MATSUS26! 😊
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Welcoming DERLIN DAVIS, a new doctoral researcher to #trackthetwin project! 😊 Here's Derlin's journey in her own words: "Hi all! I’m Derlin, a chemistry graduate from #IiserTirupati! #phd #msca #TTT #quantumdots
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The summer school on semiconductor nanocrystals (Aug 16–20, Nendaz, Switzerland) is coming up! We’re glad that #TTT is partnering with the Swiss Chemical Society @swisschemistry.bsky.social , and we’ll continue the momentum with the next Track the Twin meeting right after the school!
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Meet Gabriele Dilena, our new PhD student in #TTT! Here’s his introduction, in his own words: "Hi! I'm Gabriele Dilena. I obtained my MSc in Chemistry at the University of Rome la Sapienza in 2021.
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Track the Twin is meeting again! This time in the Swiss mountains! The Swiss Chemical Society and TTT have come together to organize a multi-day summer school in the Alps.
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"Hello everyone! I’m Priyam Karmakar, originally from India. I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry, with a strong interest in nanochemistry, advanced photophysics, and their real-world applications.
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The third workshop of the consortium was such a success in Antwerp 🇧🇪! A lot of excellent scientific conversations about Quantum dots and new updates from the doctoral candidates! Here they are in Antwerp alongside the city and the @uantwerpen.be campus!
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
💡Did you know what a digital twin is? A digital twin is a model that aims to replicate the real-world behaviour (evolution, ageing) of a functioning device or process. A commonly referred example is the digital twin of a wind turbine! #trackthetwin #msca #quantumdots
source: https://www.prevu3d.com/news/understanding-digital-twins/
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🎙️Welcome to the first episode of our podcast series! Part one: The ideas behind Track the Twin; A discussion with Professor Zeger Hens. trackthetwin.ugent.be/podcasts
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We are ecstatic to announce the Track the Twin podcast series! 🎙️🎉 In this series, members of our team share their roles, vision, and achievements. Hear directly from professors, students, and collaborators as we work together to build a quantum dot digital twin! Stay tuned!
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We are delighted to welcome Claudiu Andrei Crîmpiță to #trackthetwin! He will be joining Prof. Sergio Brovelli's group at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, contributing to advanced research in nanoscience and ultrafast spectroscopy.
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Paper alert! 🚨 Another excellent paper by our very own, Lidiia Dubenska from @ethz.ch! Check it out here! t.co/fRPr63JQKF
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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02047
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We are ecstatic to announce that the third #trackthetwin Workshop will take place on February 4 in Antwerp 🇧🇪! Sign up to participate online through this link! trackthetwin.ugent.be/events
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨 New paper alert! Lidiia Dubenska, a TTT member working at @ethz.ch has co-authored a new paper revealing how dynamic disorder in hybrid perovskite QDs suppresses expected size-dependent electronic confinement! 🥳 #msca #phd #trackthetwin pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Local Electronic Structure in Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots as Captured by NMR Spectroscopy
Colloidal lead halide perovskite quantum dots (QDs) exhibit size-dependent optical and electronic properties due to quantum confinement, a feature that substantiates their widespread application as classical and quantum light sources. This property is commonly characterized by photoluminescence spectroscopy, where the emission peaks blueshift with decreasing QD size. Apart from the size of the QDs, the electronic structure is strongly influenced by phonons and local disorder, being vastly different between the all-inorganic and hybrid perovskite compositions. In this study, we demonstrate that nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy can serve as a powerful complementary tool to probe the local characteristics of the ground-state electronic structure. We combine optical and 207Pb NMR spectroscopy to investigate size-dependent confinement in three archetypal lead halide perovskite QDs: CsPbBr3, MAPbBr3, and FAPbBr3. While all compositions exhibit expected size-dependent photoluminescence energy, the hybrid perovskites (MAPbBr3 and FAPbBr3) display strongly reduced size-dependent confinement at room temperature when assessed via NMR. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations suggest that this effect arises from the disorder-induced wave function modulation driven by dynamic disorder in hybrid perovskites. Experimental support for the hypothesis is provided by freezing the cation dynamics in MAPbBr3 QDs, which leads to the reappearance of the size-dependent chemical shift. By integrating local and global probes of electronic structure, our findings challenge the conventional understanding of quantum effects in soft lead halide perovskite QDs and highlight the role of disorder in shaping the local electronic structure.
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
"I am Hridya Moothedath Biju. I graduated from IISER Thiruvananthapuram with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Data Science.
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"My name is Jayashree, and I am from India. My fascination with physics began in the 8th grade through a deep curiosity about astronomy. #msca #phd #trackthetwin
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"I am Masuma from Baku, Azerbaijan. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in my homeland, and further, did my MSc in Materials Science in France and Belgium. #MSCA #trackthetwin #phd
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"Hi, I’m Doğu Şeyda from Türkiye. I received my BSc and MSc degrees in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from #METU_ODTU. My research focused on the photothermal properties and applications of liquid metal-based core–shell particles.
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"I'm Chia-Kai Lin from Taiwan, with a Master's degree from the Department of Photonics. With a strong interest in light–matter interactions and nanomaterials, I have focused my research on QD systems, particularly their optical and electronic behaviours under excitation.
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Hello! My name is Eder Castillo. I come from Mexico and I graduated as a Materials Engineer and have a Master's degree in Materials Science from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León! #MSCA #PhD #trackthetwin
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"Hey! I'm Aishwarya from India. I started in a triple major Bachelor's program, but Chemistry's glow-in-the-dark magic kept me hooked. Now, as part of the Track the Twin consortium, I work on synthesising CdS and InP/ZnSe/ZnS quantum dots. #quantumdots #msca #trackthetwin
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The Amsterdam Modeling Suite (SCM) @ams-software.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚀 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗺! Join us to develop methods & software for simulating vibrational spectroscopies of chiral molecules. 3-year EU Marie Curie position with attractive benefits. Apply here: www.scm.com/news/job-ope... #matsky #compchemsky
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Hello world! My name is Beatriz and I am from Madrid, Spain. I graduated with a bachelor's in Chemistry from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. For my bachelor's thesis, I synthesised and characterised metal-organic framework and covalent organic framework composites. #msca #trackthetwin #phd
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"My name is Lidiia, I am from Ukraine. Chemistry has been my passion since early childhood. As a result, during my school years, I participated in various chemistry olympiads and competitions, culminating in a silver medal at the International Chemistry Olympiad in Paris in 2019. #msca #trackthetwin
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"Hello, everyone! I'm Gabriel, a physicist from Brazil currently pursuing a PhD @uantwerpen.be Nanomaterials have always captivated me due to their unique structure-dependent behaviour and diverse applications. In the picture, I'm in front of a transmission electron microscope
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Track the Twin @trackthetwinqd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Track the Twin has officially filled all its PhD positions! 🎓 Over the next few weeks, our doctoral researchers will introduce themselves and share what they’ll be working on. Stay tuned to meet the brilliant minds joining #TTT! #PhD #QuantumDots #MSCA
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