Great project on the combined use of light- and redox-switching in hydrogels is now published in Nat. Commun. We can generate all types of stable redox patterns and actuation under ambient conditions using light for spatio-temporal control!

An international team of scientists including Jun.-Prof. Marcel Rey from @uni-muenster.de has developed laser driven microgears. For the first time, movable gears smaller than a hair's diameter were presented, breaking the former threshold of 0.1 mm. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another great collaboration with @sidlereric.bsky.social and @feringalab.bsky.social is now published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Building on our previous work, Eric prepared large, formally antiaromatic pi-systems with interesting (chir)optical and redox properties: doi.org/10.1002/anie...

🔥Hot of the press: Chiral induction and chiral memory via host-guest binding now published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! One of my favourite projects and a super rewarding collaboration with @sidlereric.bsky.social, Yohan and @feringalab.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just returned from an awesome 3-week lecture/conference tour in Japan🗾 with stops in Kyoto, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Osaka and Nagoya. Had an amazing time with great food, awesome people and inspiring science! Arigato gozaimasu!

Molecular machines won a Nobel prize nine years ago, but we still can’t decide what one is www.chemistryworld.com/news/molecul...

Very happy to announce that I got a little upgrade; as of this month I am Juniorprofessor of Organic Chemistry @uni-muenster.de! Very grateful for all the support from my group, colleagues and also for additional funding from the state of NRW via a Return Fellowship!

Just published in @jacs.acspublications.org, our project @feringalab.bsky.social on responsive crown ethers! Redox-switching? Light-switching? Why not both and get the best of all worlds, including guest shuttling, pseudorotaxanes, cascades and (non)volatile states. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

This is a great initiative, I recommend everyone who is in the GDCh and interested in supramolecular chemistry to join!

Had a great time at this year's #Chemiedozententagung in Braunschweig! Looking forward to the next meeting in Essen

Hello bsky world! I also made the jump from the other platform and will be active here now. Happy to share a new publication on host guest chemistry: "Regioselective Dimerization of Methylcyclopentadiene inside Cucurbit[7]uril" published in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/chem...

Strengthening our scientific community is more important than ever. The 2025 Molecular Switches & Motors GRC brings together scientists in the areas of molecular switches & motors, DNA nanotech, emergent materials, haptics, biological motors, and more. Apply today! www.grc.org/artificial-m...

🚨Fresh out🚨 We're especially proud of this one: Supramolecular chemistry lends a helping hand in developing new photo-generated molecular qubits. A fantastic collaboration with the @sabine-richert.bsky.social group! www.nature.com/articles/s41...