Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...), a collaborative effort with @braeselab.bsky.social, Andy Monkman and Anna Painelli groups on the effect of nitrogen substitution and bridging unit on D-A #TADF photophysics. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

A satisfying moment for Aniket from today's #sensitizer synthesis. 💚🤩 @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Excited to reveal our keynote speakers: David Beljonne (UMons), Richard Friend (@Cambridge_Uni), Hironori Kaji (Kyoto University), Barry Rand (@princeton.edu), and Eli Zysman-Colman (@ezc-group.bsky.social). Join us at #icel2026 for inspiring talks on innovative light-emitting applications

Not all glow is meant to be seen by the naked eye. 🔦💚Thanks, Piotr, for getting the shot.😍 #Fluorescencefriday @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Last weekend, members of the EZC group💙 were at #Dundee Science Festival, chatting to visitors all about #fluorescence and what makes a good scientist! 😍 Kudos to the team.👏 (Emily, Stavros, André, Kaitlin, and Máire) @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

A striking visualisation of the red-shift occurring upon #COF formation in Tabea's compound under daylight (left - yellow monomer💛) and UV light (right- red COF❤️). 😍🥳 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

A bright Monday morning 🌞and bright #crystals 😎from Piotr. (pre and post wash)😍🥳 @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Who said love only glows red? Salil fell for green long-lived, low-temperature phosphorescence.💚 Some love doesn't fade… they keep glowing.😁✨ #FluorescenceFriday @standrewsosc.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Our paper in @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xc...) on Ir NHC photocatalysts has been identified by the editors as one of the best catalysis papers in the journal (www.cell.com/cell-reports... @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations to Joydip and Abhi for their paper accepted in @Adv. Funct. Mater., a collaborative work with the Lehmann and Gather groups, where we designed a discotic liquid crystalline #mrtadf emitter and showcased its performance in #oleds. @standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...), where we highlight the use of BINAP motifs to modulate the photophysics of hashtag#mrtadf emitters. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

An engaging session at yesterday’s Chemistry Inaugural Lecture Showcase, where @chemguyeli.bsky.social presented a compelling overview of illuminating a research career in #optoelectronic materials.😍👏🏻 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Signing off the week with some freshly fabricated #OLED devices from Dongyang. 😍😍😍 #fluoresencefriday @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...), where we highlight VOC sensing using coumarin #tadf emitters. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations 🎊 to Karthik and Abhi for their paper accepted in @materchemfront.rsc.org (doi.org/10.1039/D5QM...), reporting an unusual RTP material. ⚗️🧪 @standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social

Congratulations to Angi and Mahni for their paper accepted in Adv. Optical Mater (dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom...). This is the group's first collaborative paper with Milan Kivala's group at Heidelberg University. @standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social

Congrats 🎊 to Julius and Tomas for their paper accepted in @jmaterchem.rsc.org (doi.org/10.1039/D5TC...), demonstrating the use of boron-based #mrtadf #lc emitters. This paper continues a productive collab/w the group of Sabine Laschat.⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

The group welcomes Dr. Jake Barker, who will be working on #tadf emitter design.💐🧪⚗️ @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Our second invited speaker from the University of St Andrews (@standrewsosc.bsky.social) is Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman (@ezc-group.bsky.social). We are excited to see the new molecular design for #oleds materials he is going to showcase at #icel2026 in Namur!

Our paper dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie... in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social was highlighted by Hepatochem (hepatochem.com/2025-photoch...) as one of their favourites of 2025.😍🧪⚗️ @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congrats to Janine, Tomas, Quan, André & Dongyang for their paper published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie...), a wonderful collaboration with the group of Marc Vendrell, where we show FLIM multiplexing in bioimaging.⚗️🧪 @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Our first preprint of 2026 is out in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...), and it highlights the rational design of a potent, strongly photoreducing, and high triplet energy Ir #photocatalyst that can be excited in the visible. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

SEM image of Sagarika's sample, revealing distinct butterfly-like microstructures. 😍🦋 @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations🎊 to Dianming for his paper accepted in Adv. Mater. Tech., (dx.doi.org/10.1002/admt...), a collaboration with the group of Ludvig Edman, demonstrating #LEC fabricated by bar-coating using #tadf dendrimers.🧪⚗️ @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Happy New Year from the Zysman-Colman group!🎊 A great way to start 2026 with a perspective on #mechanophotocatalysis! 🥳🎆 Congratulations to Fran for his paper published in ACS Central Sci. (dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsc...). 👏 @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Ending the year the best way possible with the group.😍 Christmas dinner filled with loads of laughs, celebrating group wins, in-house awards, & of course… secret Santa surprises.🎁🎄 Grateful for this amazing bunch and all we achieved together.🎊 HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ALL OF US!😁💃

Congratulations to Máire for her paper accepted in Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. (doi.org/10.1016/j.xc...), demonstrating the value of NHC iridium complexes as strongly photoreducing and high triplet energy photocatalysts. @standrewschem.bsky.social #johnsonmatthey @standrewsosc.bsky.social

It’s winter, even @suraksharajan.bsky.social's compound on Kühlrohr distillation decided to make snow. ❄️😍 @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Many congratulations to Michele on passing her PhD viva today. 😍👏🎊

Check out our latest in @ChemRxiv (doi.org/10.26434/che...) where we report a compound that looks like an #mrtadf emitter but in fact shows #RTP. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social 🧪⚗️

Many Congratulations to Dr.Máire.👏🏻🎊🤩

A fantastic representation of our group's research at this year’s Postgraduate Symposium held @st-andrewschem.bsky.social. Posters from Aniket & @suraksharajan.bsky.social on mechanophotochemistry, and brilliant talks on #TADF emitter design by Emily, Mahni & Praveen. 🎊 🧪⚗️

Congrats 🎊 to Fran, Jay, Suraksha, Aniket, Violaine, Máire, Megan, Tom, Lea, & Aminata for their paper accepted in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie...) a collab effort w/ Grzybowski group, on an #ML agent for recommending #photocatalysts. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Sagarika captures nature's fluorescence, and no UV torch is required.😝The sky #glows as the birds trace their winter path.😍 #fluorescencefriday @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Today at the synthesis and catalysis departmental seminar, Wenrui gave a talk on blue emissive heavy atom-free MR-TADF #emitters, which show ultra-fast #RIC.😍⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congrats to Michele for her paper accepted in Adv. Sensor Res. (dx.doi.org/10.1002/adsr...), where we show how singlets and triplets are quenched at different rates, which can be exploited in explosives sensing. w/ collab with Graham Turnbull. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations🎊 to Ollie, Chloe, and Lea for their paper (dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs....) accepted in #Macromolecules, work in collaboration with the group of Amit Kumar on disulfide-containing self-healing polyamides. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social #PhotoReAct ⚗️🧪

Check out our latest collaborative paper with the group of Ifor Samuel in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...), where we disclose a fast and reliable method to extract rate constants from the turn-on of the PL of #TADF emitters. @standrewsosc.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Congratulations to Janine, Sen, & Mahni for their paper accepted in Adv. Optical Mater. (dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom...) on spirofluorene-decorated #dikta bases #mrtadf emitters, work in collab w/ @braeselab.bsky.social & the group of Ifor Samuel. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Our latest in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...), a collaborative work w/group of Ifor Samuel, where we disclose a heavy-atom-free #mrtadf emitter that delivers deep blue emission & ultra-fast RISC. #OLEDs show mild efficiency roll-off. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations Fran🎊🤩👏

Today, at the synthesis and catalysis departmental seminar, @suraksharajan.bsky.social gave a talk on Dual Ir/Lewis base mechanophotoredox #catalysis, and Aniket gave a talk on lighting up EDA complexes in #mechanophotochemistry. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Yinxuan's red solution went into the rotavap… abracadabra🔮… and came out purple after drying.🤪 Happy #spooky spectra day! 👻🧪 @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations to Lea, Dave, Elliot, and Tabea for their paper (doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...) accepted in @chemicalscience.rsc.org that demonstrates how diindolocarbazole #mrtadf compounds act as potent energy transfer #photocatalysts. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social #photoreact

The group welcomes Blair,💐who will be doing his MSc(res).🧪⚗️ @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest preprint in @chemrxiv.org (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...) on liquid crystalline #mrtadf emitters, this time using semiperfluorinated mesogenic units. This work has been done in collaboration with the @laschatgroup.bsky.social 🧪⚗️ @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...) where we disclose a light-assisted Ir-catalysed #borylation protocol that works over a wide substrate scope at shorter reaction times.🧪⚗️ @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

The group welcomes new PhD students,💐Stavros, who will work on photophysical characterization #automation for emissive materials,🤩, and Jiaxuan, who will work on chiral #MR-TADF emitter design.🤩 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations to Fran👏for his paper accepted in Helv. Chim. Acta (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...) demonstrates the use of sustainable ascorbate as a sacrificial reductant in mechanophotocatalysis.⚗️🧪 @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Many congratulations to Yan for passing her viva. 😍🎊👏