Jorge S. Valera

vMASC Call For Abstracts (for 2025/26) vMASC Early-Career Seminars: Call for Abstracts The organising committee of the virtual Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (vMASC) seminar series are inviting abstracts from all early-career …

📣 Call for Abstracts - vMASC 📣

We are currently inviting abstracts from all early-career researchers (Master’s, PhD, PDRA) for oral presentations in 2025/2026 as part of our monthly vMASC seminar series.

Submission deadline 📆 18th Aug 2025

Find out more on mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/vmas...

An information ratchet improves selectivity in molecular recognition under non-equilibrium conditions - Nature Nanotechnology An abiotic information ratchet mechanism increases selectivity for the correct DNA duplex from 2:1 at equilibrium to 6:1 under energy-dissipating conditions.

Information ratchets drive many molecular motors, but we can also use them for other nonequilibrium processes like performing error correction in a molecular recognition process to increase selectivity. Published today in @natnano.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Ascent of Supramolecular Polymers and Gels in Asymmetric Catalysis SPs and gels emerged as modular platforms for asymmetric catalysis. This review ranks literature reports according to the achiral or chiral nature of the monomers bearing the catalytic site. New para...

Great pleasure to write "state-of-the-art" on the use of supramolecular polymers and gels in asymmetric catalysis. Hope it will be helful for the community: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Magnificent days in Bilbao attending the XL Bienal RSEQ, where I had the opportunity to show my current research at @davidgrlab.bsky.social. Combining awesome food (and city) with outstanding discussions with brilliant researchers of the spanish scientific community made the past week unforgettable!

Awesome, Roberto!!! Super congrats!! 😊😊

We are very proud to share our latest work about our Clip-off Chemistry approach applied to COFs for the synthesis of novel macrocycles, now in @science.org. Huge congratulations to all our amazing team and collaborators that made this project possible!! ✨

🚀 New diffusion mechanism in biomolecular #condensates!
In our latest work in @natnano.nature.com, we report ballistic wave diffusion — a fundamentally different transport mode featuring ultrasharp fronts that propagate linearly in time. Congrats to Weixiang Chen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

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...

Congrats to Aritra! New in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social "Photoactivated Enzymatic Reaction Network Enables Spatiotemporal Programming of Thiol/Disulfide Redox Systems"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #systemschemistry #photochemistry #CRN #Noneqsys @humboldt-foundation.de #SFB1552

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I’m excited to share that I will be moving to the University of Ulm as a junior group leader and I have a fully-funded open PhD position co-supervised by me and Max von Delius @mvdelius.bsky.social . Apply at benjamin.roberts@unipd.it, any shares would be appreciated!

www.bmwrlab.com/work-with-us

Muy bonito Nishant, enhorabuena!!

‘Reactive’ coacervates out in @JACS"!! A molecular design enables complex coacervates which can be chemically triggered to react & transform into complex self-assemblies. These evolve to show life-like budding and membrane formation!! Super effort by stellar PhD Sudeep!!! more to follow 1/2

Enhorabuena Roberto!!

A BODIPY‐Containing Covalent Organic Framework as a Highly Porous Photosensitizer for Environmental Remediation and Pollutants Adsorption The direct incorporation of borondipyrromethene (BODIPY) subunits into the structural backbone of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) gives facile access to porous photosensitizers but is still a chal...

I'm thrilled to share my PhD work in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social, happy to expand a bit the cool BODIPY-COF library! Check out our latest work exploring the versatility of these dyes within COFs. Thank you #BeuerleGroup all the people who made it possible!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Case studies of dimensionality in chemical data The ambition to relate intrinsic features of chemical data to the underlying chemical reaction networks (CRNs) is not new, but has experienced only modest success. This may partly be attributed to a ...

Our companion paper was published for Christmas! ⛄🎄🧪, pdf: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
We illustrate new tools we developed exploiting dimensional information in reaction monitoring data, opening up new ways of doing kinetic and mechanistic studies. #chemsky #chemistry

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 m...

Dear all, I am a newbie on this social media. I am thrilled to share our last publication at @davidgrlab.bsky.social about #molecularcages based on #porphirins, recently accepted on #JACS. Many thanks to all my co-workers, it is a pleasure to work alongside all of you. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

As a heads up, I'll shortly be posting two PhD vacancies in Systems Chemistry at the University of Birmingham School of Chemistry, UK.

Yesterday we closed an intense month of science (together with Sara Cembellín, Paloma García and Diego Matesanz) with our workshop VisualChem, whose aim was to introduce to high school students to basic concepts in organic chemistry. The activity was funded by the STM-RSEQ.

(*And not so young. Indeed, the concept of "young chemist" has been subject of heated debates in certain phases of the nights. "Experimented young" and "former youngs"can be included in following editions!)

Awesome days in Ciudad Real in the JIQ conference, which constitutes an amazing platform to meet the young* chemists in the spanish community. Thanks to the organization for giving me the opportunity to contribute with an oral presentation!

🎨 No dejes de hablar de Palestina 🇵🇸

Esta mañana mi colega Dani Domingo y yo hemos tenido la suerte de poder compartir con las nuevas generaciones de argandeños nuestro paso por el mundo científico y lo que la ciencia ha aportado a nuestras vidas. Gracias al Ayuntamiento de Arganda por la iniciativa.

Ayer estuve en el IES Ignacio Aldecoa con Paloma García impartiendo el taller Química Orgánica y Luz, con el objetivo de introducir conceptos básicos en nanociencia y electrónica orgánica a estudiantes de Bachillerato. El evento estuvo patrocinado por el GENAM y la RSEQ.