Finally - after 5+ years of intensive collaborative research effort with Bizan Balzer and others - our paper on contact electrification via redox-active organic molecules is out in Angewandte Chemie! @uniulm.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de @livmats.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

With Ron Naaman, we investigate an exciting new application avenue for chiral conjugated nanohoops. Dibenzopentalene-based SMe-terminated nanohoops show a high spin polarization by magnetic-conductive atomic force microscopy. With @philippseitz.bsky.social, @uniulm.bsky.social

Excited to share our newest JACS publication on double nanohoops featuring a tetrahydroindenoindene linker! In a systematic approach with single-hoop reference compounds, we uncover how geometry and asymmetry enhance optical properties, giving record-breaking PLQYs and amplified CD and CPL.

Your newly designed battery material does not show electrochemical activity? Have you tried turning it off and on again? We have. Using viologen zwitterions we could activate them with the electrolyte salt and generate an electroactive disalt with anion insertion. doi.org/10.1002/batt...

Working with pyrenetetraone (PTO) building blocks? Check out our new protective group strategy to facilitate their syntheses! As a joint venture with @DumeleLab, we present a simple solution to some preparative difficulties of using PTOs in functional materials. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

We are excited to report on poly(1,4-anthraquinone) synthesis using only catalytic amounts of nickel! This route furnishes P14AQ in higher yields and molecular masses and improves the environmental impact categories climate change, human toxicity and cumulative energy demand. @uniulm.bsky.social

We had a lot of fun at ESOC 2025 in Copenhagen @esoc2025.bsky.social with current and former group members. Fantastic science and great community! @ppenert.bsky.social @robinwess.bsky.social

Discover the hidden potential of the antiaromatic [4]cyclodibenzopentalene for tomorrow's electronics. It enables two stable conduction pathways, unlocking new possibilities in molecular-scale switching. Compared to conventional [10]CPP, it shows remarkable versatility. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

We are thrilled that our latest article in Accounts of Materials Research was selected as ACS Editors’ choice article. We provide an account of our activities on phenothiazine polymers as battery electrode materials, exhibit interesting characteristics, such as the formation of π-π-interactions.

Great collaborative work with Matthias Naumann @tugraz.bsky.social, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and @uniulm.bsky.social within SPP 2248 (Polymer-based batteries) @dfg.de on the 3D morphology of X-PVMPT electrodes in ACS Materials Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Congratulations to Wojciech Stawski from Ulm University for winning the CCDC/CCG Prize 2025, announced this afternoon at the @crystallography.org.uk Spring Meeting. Discover more about Wojciech Stawski's ground-breaking work here: ccdc-info.com/4imVWF3 #Crystallography #BCA25

We also made the move to bluesky, check out our latest conceptual review about batteries, written by organic chemists for (but not only) organic chemists. We discuss basic concepts of electrochemistry and materials design for (all-)organic batteries. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...