Dr. Kaspars Leduskrasts

Dr. Kaspars Leduskrasts

Former PhD student, Laboratory Staff, Scientist

Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD in chemistry, University of Latvia, 2022
Thesis: “Intermolecular interactions in the design of solid state luminophores”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Suna

MSc in chemistry, University of Latvia, 2014
Thesis: “Reductive Elimination from Pd(IV) Complexes”
Supervisor: Prof. E. Suna

Experience

Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis
Research Assistant, 2014-present
Laboratory Assistant, 2011-2014

University of Groningen (Netherlands)
ERASMUS exchange student, October, 2013 – February, 2014

Publications

  1. Leduskrasts, K.; Kinens, A.; Suna, E. “The emission efficiency of cationic solid state luminophores is directly proportional to the intermolecular charge transfer intensity” Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 6905 – 6908. DOI: 10.1039/d3cc01674a
  2. Leduskrasts, K.; Suna, E. “Intermolecular Charge-Transfer Luminescence by Self-Assembly of Pyridinium Luminophores in Solutions” ChemistryOpen 2021, 10, 1081-1086. DOI: 10.1002/open.202100191
  3. Leduskrasts, K.; Suna, E. ” Aggregation induced emission in one easy step: pyridinium AIEgens and counter ion effect ” RSC Advances 2020, 10, 38107-38113. DOI: 10.1039/D0RA07137D
  4. Leduskrasts, K.; Kinens, A.; Suna, E. “Cation–π interactions secure aggregation induced emission of planar organic luminophores” Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 12663-12666. DOI: 10.1039/C9CC06829E
  5. Leduskrasts, K.; Suna, E. “Aggregation induced emission by pyridinium–pyridinium interactions” RSC Advances 2019, 9, 460-465. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA08771G
  6. Karpavičiene, I.; Jonušis, M.; Leduskrasts, K.; Misiūnaite, I.; Suna, E.; Čikotiene, I. ” Synthesis and photophysical properties of 3,5-diaryl-2-heteroarylthiophenes” Dyes and Pigments 2019, 170, 107646. DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2019.107646
  7. Griniene, R.; Liu, L.; Tavgeniene, D.; Sipaviciute, D.; Volyniuk, D.; Grazulevicius, J. V.; Xie, Z.; Zhang, B.; Leduskrasts, K.; Grigalevicius, S. “Polyethers with pendent phenylvinyl substituted carbazole rings as polymers for hole transporting layers of OLEDs” Opt. Mater. 2016, 51, 148–153. DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2015.11.030