Frank Würthner, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Würzburg. (Photo: Christoph Weiss / University of Würzburg)

Congratulations! Professor Frank #Würthner receives the Izatt-Christensen Award, the highest international honour in the field of supramolecular #chemistry. @wuerthnergroup.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Alexander, who recieved the first Dr Reich scholarship for JMU students writing their Master's thesis at the Institute of Organic Chemistry. 🥳
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A sudden surge in luminosity: New method for stacking dyes Chemistry: A sophisticated process stacks dye molecules in such a way that their luminosity increases significantly as their size grows – a significant step forward for the electronics of tomorrow.

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Generating extended foldamer dye stacks and unravelling their evolving exciton dynamics - Nature Chemistry Synthetic dye-based analogues of biomacromolecules often rely on simple dimers to model solid-state photofunctional behaviour. Now an iterative block-based coupling protocol has been developed that ge...

Read about: Generating extended foldamer dye stacks and unravelling their evolving exciton dynamics - just published @natchem.nature.com! ✨
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Congratulations to M A Niyas, who recieved the 2026 SupraChem PhD Award @suprachem2026.bsky.social for his outstanding thesis in the field of supramolecular chemistry! 🏆🎓
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Guest‐Induced Activation of Multicolor Photoluminescence in Naphthalene Bisimide Liquid Crystals Supramolecular host–guest design in naphthalene bisimide liquid crystals activates charge-transfer emission and enables continuous tuning of color (511–685 nm) and lifetime, spanning prompt fluoresce...

Guest-Induced Activation of Multicolor Photoluminescence in Naphthalene Bisimide Liquid Crystals. Early View in Advanced Materials.
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Secondary Coordination Sphere Effects in Macrocycle-Embedded Mononuclear Ru(bda) Water Oxidation Catalysts Integration of Ru(bda) [bda = (2,2’-bipyridine)-6,6’-dicarboxylate] water oxidation catalysts together with dibenzofuran, dibenzothiophene, or carbazole heterocycles within macrocycles 1-3 affords str...

Secondary Coordination Sphere Effects in Macrocycle-Embedded Mononuclear Ru(bda) Water Oxidation Catalysts. Just published in Inorganic Chemistry.
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Flexibility Induced by Four Heptagons: A Negatively Curved Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cut-Out of Schwarzite P216 A key feature of the, so far only theoretically described, family of sp2 carbon allotropes called schwarzites is the negatively curved topology, which is introduced by the incorporation of heptagonal ...

Flexibility Induced by Four Heptagons: A Negatively Curved Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cut-Out of Schwarzite P216. Just published @jacs.acspublications.org.
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Self‐assembled Helical Tetramer Stack of Terrylene Bisimide in Solution and Crystalline State A TBI with sterically demanding imide substituents self-assembles in solution into a defined helical tetramer π-stack. Both the monomer and the tetramer can form complexes with polycyclic aromatic gu....

Self-assembled Helical Tetramer Stack of Terrylene Bisimide in Solution and Crystalline State. Just published @angewandtechemie.bsky.social.
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On February 17th, 2026 Philipp Kirchner successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Porous Materials for Water Oxidation Catalysis". Congratulations and all the best for your future career.☀️🧽

On December 11th, 2025 Ben Teichmann successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Perylene Bisimide Scaffolds Tailored for Conformationally Chiral Foldamers and Enantioselective Recognition". Congratulations and all the best for your future career. 🥳

On December 4th, 2025 Jiarong Wu successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Photoswitchable Imines: From Molecular Design to Out-of-Equilibrium Systems". Congratulations and all the best for your future career! 🎉

Coronene Bisimide as a Visible‐Light‐Mediated Triplet‐Triplet Energy Transfer Catalyst Coronene bisimide (CBI) with its efficient intersystem crossing was used as a visible-light-absorbing photosensitizer. Different reactions, including cycloadditions and oxidations, were demonstrated ...

Coronene Bisimide as a Visible-Light-Mediated Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer Catalyst. Just published in Chem. Eur. J.!

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Congratulations to Jonas for his poster prize at CURO-π6 2025 in St. John’s, Canada!

Boron‐Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Synthesis and Functional Properties Herein, recent research on boron-containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (B-PAHs) is presented with particular emphasis on their synthesis. Covered compound classes include kinetically shielded, ...

Boron-Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Synthesis and Functional Properties - See the review now online at ChemistryEurope.

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Leander visited Lewiston, Maine, USA to attend the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Photochemistry with the theme: "Moving to the Future at the Speed of Light". 💫

Daniel and Simon enjoyed their time at the 26th International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds (ISPPCC) in sunny Milazzo, Italy. Congratulations to Daniel for his poster award! 😎

Schwarzite - The holy grail of carbon allotropes. A Perspective article now online at Chem.

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Professor Frank Würthner receives his second ERC Advanced Grant. (Photo: Christoph Weiss)

Congratulations to our #chemistry professor Frank #Würthner on receiving his second ERC Advanced Grant! With funding of €2.5 million, he is pursuing a supramolecular approach to #Schwarzite carbon materials. @erc.europa.eu‬ #ERCAdG
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Congratulations to Jiarong @jiarongwu.bsky.social and Rikuto, who both recieved one of the few Excellent Poster Awards at #ISMSC2025 in Kyoto, Japan!

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