Gonzalez-Rodriguez Lab

Feliz cumple!

Estamos ya de vuelta! Os iremos presentando a los ponentes del congreso. Y no olvidéis que ya os podéis inscribir en el congreso. Más información 👇👇👇

Tailoring Tubular Supramolecular Polymers with Polar Lumens to Host Hydrophilic Dye Molecules A unique class of tubular polymer structures that are soluble in apolar organic solvents but are endowed with polar pores has been created through the rational design of the monomer units, which self...

Thrilled to share our recently published work!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The MADPOL2025 conference will be held in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, in November 12th-14th, 2025.

In this meeting we will celebrate the full diversity of modern
polymer science research, and its strong technological projection.

🚨 Registrations are now open!
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Self-assembled nanotubes from the supramolecular polymerization of discrete cyclic entities Inspired by the extraordinary attributes displayed by nanotubes in Nature, the creation of self-assembled nano-sized hollow tubes is an area of significant and growing interest given its potential app...

Take a look to our last review in @chemsocrev.rsc.org, where we discuss the different strategies to obtain self-assembled nanotubes from the supramolecular polymerization of discrete cyclic entities. Congrats to Marina, Jacobo, Paula, Fátima and @davidgrlab.bsky.social
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations!

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Great job guys! An excellent review

📢📢 Postdoc Position
We're hiring! Join our ERC Starting Grant 🇪🇺 project on heat transport & defects in 2D materials. Important:
🔬 Hands-on experience designing, developing and assembling optical setups + Raman spectroscopy (preferably TERS)
All the info here 👇🏼 Please repost!

Postdoctoral Researcher | NIMS

We are currently recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work on developing solvent-free liquid materials from π-conjugated molecules, electret applications, and π-gel materials.

www.nims.go.jp/eng/employme...

Un mural gigante cosido con dos décadas de investigaciones lanza la protesta en la Complutense contra el “recorte” de Ayuso www.eldiario.es/madrid/somos...

We're hiring a postdoc to join our @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov plastics recycling team. Scope will include developing new reactions for selective functionalization of polyolefins, assessing properties and recyclability. phxc1b.rfer.us/LBLHM2EPD

Enhorabuena!!

Celebrating Marina's PhD defense. Congratulations to the new Doctor!

Frontier Molecular Group＠NIMS is recruiting for a postdoc research position. If you are interested, please get in touch with me. Please also spread the word about the job opening.

Liquid electrets
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A novel class of molecular containers, simple to make and with manifold possibilities, studied in great detail

Highly Rigid, Yet Conformationally Adaptable, Bisporphyrin sp2-Cage Receptors Afford Outstanding Binding Affinities, Chelate Cooperativities, and Substrate Selectivities If we aim to develop efficient synthetic models of protein receptors and enzymes, we must understand the relationships of intra- and intermolecular interactions between hosts and guests and how they mutually influence their conformational energy landscape so as to adapt to each other to maximize binding energies and enhance substrate selectivities. Here, we introduce a novel design of cofacial (ZnII)bisporphyrin cages based on dynamic imine bonding, which is synthetically simple, but at the same time highly robust and versatile, affording receptors composed of only sp2-hybridized C and N atoms. The high structural rigidity of these cages renders them ideal hosts for ditopic molecules that can fit into the cavity and bind to both metal centers, leading to association constants as high as 109 M–1 in chloroform. These strong binding affinities are a consequence of the remarkable chelate cooperativities attained, with effective molarity (EM) values reaching record values over 103 M. However, we discovered that the cages can still adapt their structure to a more compact version, able to host slightly smaller guests. Such a conformational transition has an energy cost, which can be very different depending on the direction of the imine linkages in the cage skeleton and which results in EM values 2–3 orders of magnitude lower. This interplay between cooperativity and conformational adaptability leads to strong and unusual selectivities. Not only these metalloporphyrin receptors can choose to bind preferably to a particular guest, as a function of its size, but also the guest can select which host to bind, as a function now of the host’s conformational rigidity. Such highly cooperative and selective associations are lost, however, in related flexible receptors where the imine bonds are reduced.

Thrilled to share our last paper of the year, yet our very first work on porphyrin nanocages.
A collaboration with E. Ortí - J. Aragó and M. García-Iglesias. Amazing job by Priscila and leadership from @albertodejuan.bsky.social
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Celebrating Priscila 1st JACS paper! Many more will come!

I have predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships for candidates with a strong background in computer modelling in condensed matter physics or computational chemistry/biochemistry.

Anybody interested contact me for details!