Congrats to Mahni for passing his viva with flying colours on a glorious spring day. Many thanks to @jakeylg.bsky.social and Dan Congrave for acting as examiners and to David O’Hagan as convener. #tadfsolutions @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social @ezc-group.bsky.social

Get out of here! Black coffee, all day, everyday

Left them speechless 😀

This is very useful Jon, Its always felt like one of those properties where it is highly dependent on the user and the setup/settings used on the day (different currents/temperature of LED) so removing some of the user error and getting an indication of the error associated is incredibly useful

Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social gives her award lecture on designing photoswitchable imines and driving them out-of-equilibrium during her PhD

#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC

Very proud of @jiarongwu.bsky.social! Great talks from both winners!

Jiarong’s award is “for groundbreaking work on bringing imine photoswitches to practical use and pioneering their application in driving chemical systems to non-equilibrium steady states with light”.

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Congrats to both of you! Exceptionally proud of @jiarongwu.bsky.social and her dedication to her PhD. This is really well deserved recognition of her efforts!

📢Our team will be advertising a number of fully-funded positions in the coming months (new photoswitch-based projects)💡🚨 Applicants from the 🇪🇺 and 🇨🇳 are encouraged. More info will be coming soon and advertised on our website imineswitch.com
#photoswitch #imine

It is also great that it is awarded to an all round nice guy/team! (In addition to impressive work!).

Check out this new Perspective in Chemical Science from @jiarongwu.bsky.social and @jakeylg.bsky.social (Universitat Würzburg, Germany)!

'Light them up: photoresponsive imine-containing systems'

Read it here for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

#ChemSciHOT #ChemSky

See the collection on Molecular Motors and Machines:
www.nature.com/collections/... and learn from Curie, Einstein, and Lewis
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
how directionality can be controlled at the molecular level through kinetic asymmetry.

Thanks Subhabrata 😀

Some easter eggs are hidden in the video-game inspired TOC, relating to our groups upcoming move to
@standrewschem.bsky.social

📢New perspective on light responsive imine-based systems out now in @chemicalscience.rsc.org with @jiarongwu.bsky.social 💡🚨🔦 This is part of the 2025 Leading Investigators Collection, Thank you to the reviewers for input 🙏 #hot #photoswitch #imine imineswitch.com
doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Thanks Subhabrata, I hope all is well 😀

Thank you Nishant 😀

Yeeee! Thank you Kasper! 😀 I really appreciated the advice you shared when I was in the initial stages of planning this.

📢 🎉🎊 Really honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu StG for our project (HeliOS)💡🌞This project will be looking at out-of-equilibrium helical structures... more on this soon... (big thanks to those who helped along the way🙏) imineswitch.com #ERCStG

Thanks you Manuel 😀

Equally, I would like to extend my thanks to the School of Chemistry at St Andrews for all of the organisational support, it's not easy to bring a team and a bunch of chemicals across countries! A special thanks to
Andy Smith and his team for logistical help😀🙏

I couldn't have asked for a better start-up or support than that offered by the Institute for Organic Chemistry in Würzburg🇩🇪 I look forward to maintaining close ties to Würzburg and completing the habilitation.

📢Very excited to announce that our team will be moving to
@standrewschem.bsky.social
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 later this month. I am so very grateful to
@wuerthnergroup.bsky.social
🇩🇪for support over the last 3-years and stoked for our teams future! Check out an updated website at imineswitch.com 🚨🔦💡

Three-state molecular switch based on terarylene photo- or redox-induced reversible isomerisation Multi-addressable molecular photoswitches whose isomerisation can be triggered not only by light, but also by other stimuli are appealing for the development of novel smart materials as well as for br...

Just shortly after the 3rd (😱) anniversary of my PhD defense, a work of my thesis got accepted in @chemicalscience.rsc.org 🚀

If you're interested in dual-responsive #photoswitches, check the link out, it's 💎🔓!

#ChemSky #ChemPubs

I forgot that it had so many paragraphs... 😂 Thanks for posting it!

That was a once in a lifetime thing... I don't think we could handle it again... 😂

Hi Dean, I think I recall your talk but I was not familiar with the field back then and too shy of a PhD student to approach most people back then!
It was exciting enough for me to just be able to attend these talks 😀

Thanks Felix! 😀

That's awesome! We are really honored that you chose to look at our work at your journal club 😀

Only possible with the efforts of the whole imine team :D