Prestigious Funding for our new materials research topics! Fantastic opportunity to venture into new fields supported by the @volkswagenstiftung.de!

photopharmacology fun: add photonic capabilities to your proteasome inhibitors!

Molecular confinement enables chiroptic enhancement and ECD photoswitching. Our newest work on advanced photonic functions is published in Chem! Huge effort from Fabien and the team – we are so proud of you! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @cp-chem.bsky.social @fau.de

Exciting chemsky work out First Release in @science.org from @gracegdhan.bsky.social and collaborators, scrunching up pyrimidones so tight with UV light that the strain release can boil water! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There's a new motor in town! 🏎️ 🔬 Out in @natchem.nature.com , our latest study introduces a light-driven diazene molecular rotary motor able not only to achieve directional motion, but also to invert the rotation by varying the colour of the light supplied. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bravo Jeanne! 👏👏👏 @jeannecrassousiscr.bsky.social

Thrilled to report another milestone: 900 nm photoswitching enables NIR-light detection and reversible invisible writing of high-contrast 2D and 3D displays! Check out our newest molecular photoswitch PBFT (peri-benzo[a]fluoranthenethioindigo) at ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

Considering how often his name still comes up, even in the most random settings, it’s difficult to believe that he is no longer with us. RIP, Fraser #chemsky #chemchat

Our work on the unidirectional motion of a CD is now in the September issue of Chem and on the cover! Many thanks to the whole team and @cp-chem.bsky.social for the highlight! @ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social @msollogoub.bsky.social @enxuliu.bsky.social www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...

In this piece for Aeon, I argue that, while nanotechnology is now a very real and mature field, a popular early vision of it was an example of what I am calling an "oneiric technology": a fantasy of the sort that Silicon Valley loves. aeon.co/essays/no-su...

Joyful day for the lab! 🎉 🥳💫🍻 Fritzi defended her PhD thesis with outstanding honors. Congratulations on this amazing thesis! Here is a list of some of her projects: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... www.cell.com/cell-reports... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On the cover of this week's issue: "Photoswitchable Fluorescence of Peptide-Based Hemipiperazines Inside of Living Cells" Read it here 🔗: buff.ly/tQkMt7v #ChemSky #JACS

I‘m thrilled to see our group‘s inaugural paper published in @science.org! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this project!

Our pipeline to compute thermal barriers of photoswitches💡 is out!🥳 We especially focused on NBDs for MOST🔋 and imines, but also stilbenes and DAEs. Try it out! You need just chemdraws and freeware to get libraries computed doi.org/10.1002/cptc...

A new photocaging strategy bringing boronic acids under photo-control! Boronic-Acid Photocaging for Visible Light-Controlled Applications in Synthesis | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

It was a great pleasure to host Prof. Paolo Melchiorre for his brilliant #GDCh lecture at @nat.fau.de! Paolo’s talk highlighted how core #photochemical insights spark innovation in #AsymmetricSynthesis! @gdch.de @dubelab.bsky.social @spanlabfau.bsky.social @harder-research.bsky.social

What a fantastic outing with our Organic Chemistry Institute today – an amazing team and a great atmosphere all around!! 🚣‍♂️👍 @dubelab.bsky.social @ekatl.bsky.social @nat.fau.de @fau.de

Honored to receive the #RSCPrizes Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. Credit has to go to the hard work and creativity of many outstanding researchers over 10 years at 3 institutions (@qmul.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social, @unibirmingham.bsky.social). Short🧵

Our recent work on #organoautocatalyzed transamination metathesis is featured on the #FrontCover of #AngewandteChemie! Congrats to Volker, Florian, Jonas!🎉 @nat.fau.de #chemsky #organoautocatalysis #transamination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How does Near-Infrared-Photoswitching work? Our newest research delivers an ultrafast molecular movie of the all-red-light photoswitch peri-Anthracenethioindigo (PAT) in action! Aided by excited state theory, its mechanism of motion is fully revealed.

Der Antrag für den neuen Sonderforschungsbereich "ChemPrint – Gedruckte Halbleiter der nächsten Generation" war erfolgreich! @ctfm-lab.bsky.social www.nat.fau.de/2025/06/04/n...

Deeply honored that our story was chosen for the cover! 🎉 💫🧬

Enabling chiroptical photoswitching by confinement - our recent work on encapsulation boosted chirality is out: | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

Our newest research is online at ChemRxiv: A comprehensive investigation of the PAT photoswitch excited state mechanism! It's a triplet-switch! From Triplet to Twist: The Photochemical E/Z-Isomerization Pathway of the NIR Photoswitch peri-Anthracenethioindigo | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

Dube-Lab is on Bluesky!