Happy to share our work on synthetic lectins for glucuronate featured as cover art! @pubs.acs.org #MyACSCover bit.ly/4o8oA0S

Proud to share our new paper in ACS Central Science! We show that hydrogen bonding—often considered ineffective in water—can enable strong, selective binding of the hydrophilic carbohydrate glucuronate, when combined with [C–H···π] and electrostatic interactions. bit.ly/4o8oA0S

Our latest paper shows emissive organic cations can be brought together by certain counterions, giving emission from the monomer, excimer or dimer state onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

First page of Irving Langmuir's laboratory notebook from his time at Göttingen, where he obtained his PhD with Nernst. Dated 6 August 1904. Image was taken at the U.S. Library of Congress (yes it's still open).

In collaboration with Prof. Hongliang Chen, we reported perylene diimide-based molecular wires encapsulated by XCage, which effectively insulates the molecular wire, suppressing charge disturbance and shielding radiation within its interior, making it a molecular-scale Faraday cage. bit.ly/4jnOkmj

Check out our latest work @chemistryeurope.bsky.social on a dicationic tetralactam macrocycle that binds hydrophilic sulfate in water. Structural and thermodynamic studies highlight the critical roles of H-bonding, electrostatics, and water release in overcoming desolvation barriers. bit.ly/4ky5QFH

Binding hydrophilic molecules is challenging due to high hydration energy. So why not bind them with their water? Our work (the Cai group at USF and us) shows a flexible proline cage capturing fluoride along with its hydration shell with strong affinity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big congrats to Qingkay & the Zhang group team (@ncstate.bsky.social) on the new @jacs.acspublications.org article! 🎉🧪 We show how tuning hydrazone emission leads to fluorogenic PALM probes unlocking high-res live-cell plasma membrane imaging. 🔬✨ Check it out 👉 bit.ly/3EKwxHT #MolSwitch #ChemSky ⚗️💡

Click chemistry is a powerful way to stitch molecules together — but in our new @jacs.acspublications.org paper bit.ly/4cNBqMK we find that not all triazoles are equal! When it comes to #photoswitch the 1,5-regioisomer (not from "click") surprisingly outperforms the classic 1,4🧪⚗️ #molswitch #chemsky

Glad to see our work on charge assisted hydrogen bonding for anion recognition in water is selected as the 2024 most polular articles by @chemicalscience.rsc.org. Check it out: rsc.li/4dgwyOI

Excited to see our mini review featured as the front cover of @cp-trendschem.bsky.social . The cover art illustrates hydrogen bonding receptors making a splash in water, highlighting the growing significance and exciting opportunities of this emerging field in supramolecular chemistry.

Very pleased that my first post presents these affinity tunable partially sulfated pillar[5]arenes lead by Ayona Goswami. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has committed to a $1.4 billion loan for a project that will use an emerging technology to separate lithium from geothermal brines in California. cen.acs.org/energy/energ...

Twelve identical helical macrocycles assemble to form this right-handed snub cube supramolecule. The new snub cube supramolecules’ creators say they could be used for chiral separations or asymmetric catalysis: cen.acs.org/materials/na... #chemsky🧪 #scinews

Check out this supramolecular snub cube. Cool chemistry from Huang Wu and the late Fraser Stoddart of the University of Hong Kong along with Wenping Hu and Yu Wang of Tianjin University. My latest in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/materials/na...

In his last email to me just before Xmass, Fraser asked me to keep an eye for this @nature.com paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). It is "a blockbuster in my humble opinion" eh added. His excitement about the project and pride in the students who work on it for 5 years was palpable. RIP Fraser

Check out our review @cp-trendschem.bsky.social on recent advances in synthetic hydrogen bonding receptors in water—mimicking nature's precision in aqueous molecular recognition. Dedicated to Sir Fraser Stoddart and Dr. Wei Jiang for their unwavering support and enduring inspiration. bit.ly/3C6GBK0

A more extensive news story from Northwestern about Fraser 👇 #Chemsky

Our 3D volumetric display is on the front cover of the December issue of Chem! Congrats to all involved including awesome collaborator @alexlippert.bsky.social 🧪⚗️#molswitch #photoswitches bit.ly/4ckn44N

A second paper on tuberculosis vaccines! Here, we present two new transmembrane protein antigens in a proteoliposome. Proteoliposomes are too delicate for a TB vaccine, so, of course, we cover them in MOFs. Shena (probably not on Bsky) showcases her work on that other site:

How to write a grant? 1. The application is for the reviewer, not you, the applicant. 2. Communicate in stories. 3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps. 4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading. 5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

A huge thanks to @natureportfolio.bsky.social for shining a light on the often-overlooked issue of #snakebite #envenoming and our recombinant #antivenom research at the Center for Antibody Technologies at the Technical University of Denmark. Check out the article here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#Myfirstpost and looking to reconnect with the #chemsky! My group is interested in organic supramolecular chemistry and stimuli-responsive crystalline solids. Last year we moved to the University of Missouri Department of Chemistry (chemistry.missouri.edu) and MatSci (msei.missouri.edu/)!

A repost for all the new followers. Here is our report in Science on a photoswitch that pumps Cl- against a gradient, by taking advantage of compartmentalization & kinetic asymmetry, thus converting light energy into useful work, i.e., a molecular machine that functions as an anion pump #ChemSky🧪