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Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 MJ/kg Storing sunlight in a compact and rechargeable form remains a central challenge for solar energy utilization. Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage systems, which harness photon energy and rel...

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/...

Wavelength-steered directional rotation in an autonomous light-driven molecular motor - Nature Chemistry The rational design of autonomous light-powered molecular motors remains a formidable challenge in nanoscience. Now, a photochemically driven diazene-based rotary motor has been shown to rotate around...

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

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No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking

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...

Many congrats to a wonderful coworker and collaborator! We had a blast during so many chemical biology and photopharmacology projects! All the best for Fritzi!!!

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:
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JACS Cover - Week of July 28, 2025

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

Huge achievement for unique molecular motor applications! We applaud for this incredibly important step into the new territory of mechanical chemical synthesis! Cudos to the team and big congratulations for this true milestone in molecular machine research!

Huge achievement for unique molecular motor applications! We applaud for this incredibly important step into the new territory of mechanical chemical synthesis! Cudos to the team and big congratulations for this true milestone in molecular machine research!

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

Semi‐Automated Pipeline for Transition State Search of Molecular Photoswitches A semi-automated pipeline for the transition state search of molecular switches (PiTS3) is reported, which facilitates the search, optimization, and conformational analysis of transition states of ph...

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🧵

Congrats lad! Mid-career is also an end of a beginning :))))

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

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Check out this collaborative work of Carolin Müller lab (www.chemie.nat.fau.de/person/carol...), @guldi-group.bsky.social‬, and ‪@dubelab.bsky.social at ‪@angewandtechemie.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1002/anie...

We show PAT double bond rotation occurs exclusively from the triplet state – but it is stable in air due to very favorable energy levels.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202510626

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!
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Confinement Induced Chiroptical Photoswitching – An Encapsulation Approach for Advanced Photochemical Functions Molecular control of chiroptical properties lies at the heart of advanced photonic applications including molecular information processing, optical memories, sensing, or absolute asymmetric synthesis....

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

From Triplet to Twist: The Photochemical E/Z-Isomerization Pathway of the NIR Photoswitch peri-Anthracenethioindigo In recent years, significant progress has been made in the effort to shift the absorption of photoresponsive molecules into the long-wavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum. A breakthrough i...

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...

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