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Come and join my group at @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social! We have an opening for a postdoc position in photopharmacology. Prior experience with photoswitches and photopharmacology essential. Deadline 27th April.

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Great to see Samuraciclib still doing well and importantly showing benefits to cancer patients www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

Matt Fuchter's @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social research group has for the first time discovered an approach to electrically switch organic LEDs (OLEDs) to emit either left- or right-handed circularly polarized light without changing the light-emitting molecules. https://ow.ly/urf150XGiyk

Nice write up of our work by @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social www.chem.ox.ac.uk/article/chem... #Chemsky #Matsky #Physics

New research from Chemistry Fellow @fuchtermatt.bsky.social! 👏

Our paper on the electrical control of circularly polarized electroluminescence in OLEDs is out now in @natphoton.nature.com. Special congratulations to Francesco, Jess and Nicola. #ChemSky, #MatSky, #Physics

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Azobenzene/Triptycene‐Based Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Dopants Chiral, photoswitchable dopants composed of triptycene and azobenzene exhibit exceptionally large helical twisting powers that change dramatically upon isomerization when incorporated into the liquid...

Congrats to Brandon & Kai on their new paper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social where they show how azobenzene/triptycene-based chiral dopants tune the photophysical properties of liquid crystals. In addition to the structure property insight 1/2
bit.ly/3JT9Ljo #NSFFunded #chemsky #molswitch

Our new article on Faraday rotation in chiral supramolecular polymer assemblies is finally published! Check it out!

Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social

Promotional image for the paper titled Aryl azopyrroles as visible light photoswitchable TRPA1 ligands. The image shows the interconversion of the E-isomer and Z-isomer of the new molecule TRPswitch C with 405 nm light and 525 nm light, respectively. The text reads: novel photoswitch class, visible-light switching, and in vivo PMR testing.

New in Chemical Science!

"Aryl azopyrroles as visible light photoswitchable TRPA1 ligands" by Pui-Ying Lam (Medical College of Wisconsin) and Matthew Fuchter (Imperial College London, Oxford University) et al. @fuchtermatt.bsky.social

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

#molswitch #photopharma

The two photoswitchable isomeric forms of an aryl azopyrrole ligand for TRPA1

Check out our latest photopharmacology paper in @chemicalscience.rsc.org. We discover azopyrroles can be powerful tools to control movement phenotypes via TRPA1. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... #ChemSky

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Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk

Impressions from two amazing weeks of Chirality & Spin at the #Chirality 2025 Conference in New York City and the GRC in New Hampshire! #sciencerocks #collaboration #friendship 🌀so much fun and great research from friends across the globe!

Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - Nature A high-sensitivity, broadband, transient, full-Stokes spectroscopy setup is demonstrated, which can detect quickly varying small signals from chiral emitters.

Excited to share in @nature.com today: Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - detecting the most subtle changes in light polarization over time with unprecedented sensitivity. Grateful for the team that made this possible!😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chirality #light

Welcome to supramolecular dye chemistry research in Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de.
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For more information have a look at our group website: www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/oc/wuerthner...

RSC Nanoscale special edition on #chiral #nanomaterials

#chemsky #chirality

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Molecular Steganography Using Multistate Photoswitchable Hydrazones The development of photochromic compounds that can have multiaddressable and -stable states is desirable for imparting multistate responses in soft materials. Here, we report on two such photochromes,...

🎉 Congrats to Brandon on the new @jacs.acspublications.org paper! bit.ly/3ZcZEdR
A multistate photoswitchable hydrazone is used as a chiral dopant in liquid crystals ➡️ steganography in action!
#NSFfunded #molswitch ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

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Thanks the invite^. Sure, I’ll consider publishing in @jacs.acspublications.org. Oh wait, you mean the *other* JACS?! 😬 #Chemsky

^assuming you me not my former PhD student 🤔

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Near enough 😂

Spring flowers in the sunshine

Spring has sprung in Oxford! 😍

#ACSSpring2025 was ace! Until the next time you stay classy San Diego

Grace Han giving a lecture at the ACS national meeting

@gracegdhan.bsky.social smashing it, as always, during her award lecture at #ACSSpring2025

Which is the best symposium at #ACSSpring2025? Light-Matter Interactions in Molecular Systems and Emerging Semiconductors! Come along to the amazing lineup put together by @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @dcongreve.bsky.social and Lea Nienhaus

Supramolecular Control of Helicene Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emitters in Molecular Solids and Bright Nanoparticles The intrinsic molecular chiroptical properties (electronic circular dichroism and circular polarized luminescence) of helicences are perfectly transferred from solution to the crystal state and to wa....

Sunday 8:00 #ACSSpring2025 meeting in room 32B. Amar Flood @floodgroup.bsky.social and I will both be talking about our super bright #fluorescent SMILES materials. Including recent work in #ChemSci (doi.org/10.1039/D3SC...) #nanoparticles and in #AngewandteChemie (doi.org/10.1002/anie...) on #CPL.

A group photo of Alyssa-Jennifer Avestro, Matthew Fuchter and Paul McGonigal

The Glen T Seaborg medal award symposium and dinner at UCLA, honouring posthumously Sir Fraser Stoddart, was excellent. So many great talks and touching memories. And look @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social, I bumped into our new #Chemsky colleagues

I should also shout out Davia Prischich from my group who delivered a wonderful #photopharma #ChemBio talk on her photoswitchable peptide work.

Prof. Matthew Fuchter standing at a podium in front of a screen to give a research lecture

It was wonderful to be back in Hong Kong to present at the LSCCB’s conference. Now off to Cali to see some of my fav #Chemsky folks including @conway-group.bsky.social, @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @floodgroup.bsky.social, @gracegdhan.bsky.social and @swagergroup.bsky.social