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
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How about a greener alternative medium for molecular solar thermal energy storage!?🌊🌊☀️

Have a look at our latest work "Surfactant-enabled strategy for molecular solar thermal energy storage systems in water"

(✨📚First paper as first author!✨)

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Please folks save the date for 2nd half of September 2027 - hopefully our "Quo Vadis Photoswitches" critical meeting in Frankfurt will get the greenlight & it seems you'd belong! #molswitch #photopharma

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Hetero‐Hydrazone Photoswitches Heterocycles dramatically change the performance of hydrazone photoswitches. Basic rings cause rapid thermal isomerization via tautomerization, while ones that can participate in H-bonding lower swit...

Congrats to Daniil & collabs from the Liu group at NTU on the #HOTpaper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social bit.ly/4ncBOJm where we show how heterocycle basicity and H-bonding ability affect the photoswitching and thermal isomerization mechanism of hydrazone switches 🧪⚗️#chemsky #NSFfunded #molswitch

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Coupling synthetic negative feedback loops While coupled biochemical feedback loops are optimized over millions of years of evolution, the rational design of synthetic counterparts, not possess…

🎉Congrats to David @anbismillah.bsky.social the whole crew + collab Albert Wong on the new @cp-chem.bsky.social paper bit.ly/3J5FFse What started with an effort to tune the activation thresholds in negative #feedback loops so we can couple them took a wild turn #ChemSky #molswitch #chemsky ⚗️🧪

Back to BCN after 5 days in Aachen for #ICP2025, where I had the chance to present some of my postdoc work (@moth-poulsen.bsky.social) on a crazy big stage 😱 and to meet many amazing researchers 🚀
Many thanks to the conference organisers (@guldi-group.bsky.social & Prof. Wöll)!

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Alkyne hydrazones for Raman scattering spectroscopy We explored alkyne-functionalized hydrazone photoswitches and enhanced their performance, achieving improved UV resolution, higher photostationary states, and tunable alkyne shifts (up to 34 cm−1), es...

Congrats to Daniil for his publication in @chemcomm.rsc.org bit.ly/4l8B3jd showing how hydrazone photoswitches can be used in Raman scattering spectroscopy. A step forward for using hydrazones in super-resolution stimulated Raman scattering microscopy #molswitch #chemsky 🧪⚗️

Excited to share the publication of our automated characterisation platform for measuring the quantum yield and half life of molecular photoswitches. The method is easy to use and reduce also the needed amount for characterisation.
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This week I had the opportunity to attend the great GRC Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors at Colby-Sawyer College, ☀️New Hampshire. A very enriching experience, full of interesting topics, meetings and fun!!🧪🏓🦐
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Photo‐Controlled Dynamics of Cholesteric Polymer Coatings via Hydrazone Crosslinking Here, we present an innovative approach, which integrates responsive molecules into larger ensembles, resulting in photo-controllable and photo-patternable colors. By covalently coupling hydrazone ph...

#HOT paper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social with a of my fav collaborators @nathaliekatsonis.bsky.social🧪⚗️We show how covalently linking hydrazone photoswitches to LC elastomers gives surfaces with light-tunable topography & structural color bit.ly/4l0usHf #OpenAccess #NSFfunded #chemsky #molswitch

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!
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Photoswitchable Fluorescent Hydrazone for Super-Resolution Cell Membrane Imaging Advancing the field of super-resolution microscopy will require the design and optimization of new molecular probes whose emission can be toggled “ON” and “OFF” using light. Recently, we reported on a...

Big congrats to Qingkay & the Zhang group team (@ncstate.bsky.social) on the new @jacs.acspublications.org article! 🎉🧪 We show how tuning hydrazone emission leads to fluorogenic PALM probes unlocking high-res live-cell plasma membrane imaging. 🔬✨

Check it out 👉 bit.ly/3EKwxHT
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What are molecular machines? Something I have been thinking about for a while (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...). Now you can help us (@deanast.bsky.social @daisypooler.bsky.social @sgoldup.bsky.social Pierangelo and Carson), maybe, define for @iupac.org Read the article and take the poll 🧪⚗️
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“Clicked” Hydrazone Photoswitches The length of the linker connecting a photoswitch to a material significantly influences the latter’s properties, with “zero-length” linkers being ideal for optimal photomodulation. The 1,2,3-triazole...

Click chemistry is a powerful way to stitch molecules together — but in our new @jacs.acspublications.org paper bit.ly/4cNBqMK we find that not all triazoles are equal! When it comes to #photoswitch the 1,5-regioisomer (not from "click") surprisingly outperforms the classic 1,4🧪⚗️ #molswitch #chemsky

This is a great GRC 🧪⚗️#molmachine #molswitch

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Reposting this #molswitch #molmachine starter pack. If you want to be included in it, please let me know
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One of the articles is this beauty www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @bala07.bsky.social And here is an interesting backstory - the actual TOC we wanted to use can be found below. It didn't make the cut because of the war in #ukraine #chemsky #molswitch 🧪⚗️

📯📯Photopharmacology and Switches communities📯📯

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Here is a Feed that reposts #molswitch #photoswitch #photopharma for tracking our community science posts - Ivan if you like it, please feel free to link it in the Pack description and add as a Recommended Feed

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