A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position

Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and bizarre shape

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position

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honoured to receive this award from Chemistry Europe! 🤩 big thanks to the Swedish Chemical Society for the nomination 🇸🇪 this will help me start up some exciting research with @jakeylg.bsky.social at the University of St. Andrews in the near future 💡

Chemistry Europe@chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎉 Congratulations to the CE Travel Grant 2025 (Round 2) awardees! Six early‑career researchers have been selected for a €2,000 grant. More info about the program: chemistryviews.org/chemistry-eu... #ChemistryEurope

If you’re doing #Veganuary this month, or even just aiming to eat less meat, you might try plant-based alternatives. How are these made and how does chemistry improve their appearance and flavour? This edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social has the answers: cen.acs.org/food/food-sc...

A late Christmas gift - our new paper on using dynamic covalent pericyclic reactions to control host-guest chemistry in water has just been accepted in @commschem.nature.com. Massive congrats @mariusgaedke.bsky.social @anjaramstrom.bsky.social @daisypooler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Controlling cyclodextrin host-guest complexation in water with dynamic pericyclic chemistry - Communications Chemistry

Water-soluble macrocycles are useful in drug delivery and other applications, yet controlling their host–guest interactions under physiological conditions remains challenging. Here, the authors employ...

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For this organic charge carrier, conductivity is more than just a phase! @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social and team devised a clever new material that keeps ions flowing in more-ordered states of matter, thanks to diffused charges and a lil ordered chaos: cen.acs.org/materials/el...

This molecule conducts charge like a liquid, even when it’s a solid

Loose ion pairing helps this organic electrolyte maintain conductivity through phase changes

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Other highlights included @daisypooler.bsky.social showing her amazing postdoc work on biocompatible MIMs for the first time, and the group Christmas Dinner and subsequent karaoke!! Was an absolute blast - love working with this team ✨️🎊🎄!!!

great to see @fschaufelberger.bsky.social present our recent work on our lanthanide chelate rotaxane emitters pioneered by @anjaramstrom.bsky.social! 📡💡 and a sneak peek into the main work of my postdoc too 😉 #MASC2025

Congrats to Dr Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg) who were awarded the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award trophy 🏆 given in memory of John Fossey! #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

A coffee break after a fantastic first session at MASC 2025 here in Milton Keynes! @openuniversity.bsky.social #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

always an exciting day! #nobellectures

I'm advertising a funded opportunity for a postdoc to join the Fielden Research Group for 24 months: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC150/r... We're looking for a researcher with expertise in supramolecular and/or colloid chemistry to help kick start our ERC-funded project into dynamic emulsions. 😃

my last day at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social today! a trip that was short but sweet. I'm looking forward to be coming back here more often in the future 😇 it's so pretty and autumnal here, I am fully prepared for all of the trees in Stockholm to be completely bare once I'm back there

back again at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social to help get the new students started in the @fschaufelberger.bsky.social lab! 🤩🧪⚛️

KTH is very pretty at this time of year 🍂🍁

yay for MOFs!!!! when can I sign up for the lectures?? 😁 #chemnobel

🎖️ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 is awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson & Omar Yaghi! They have created molecular constructions, known as metal–organic frameworks, that can contribute to solving some of humankind’s greatest challenges. www.kva.se/nobelchemistry2025 #Nobelprize

hands up if you also forgot to 'thinky think' ✋ #chemsky 🧪

Nature@nature.com · 11mo ago

As the new term begins, here are 99 lab hacks to make your working lives easier go.nature.com/4pEZ6ZJ

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

here at Vetenskapens Hus today to prepare for the Forskar Grand Prix later this month! #outreach

had to walk past/through FIVE (not an exaggeration) separate dance troupes this morning at 8:30 on my way to the lab. the students are well and truly back... and there are some rather odd fresher's celebrations happening at KTH

In beautiful Jyväskylä together with @sgoldup.bsky.social and Fabien Cougnon holding a summer school on mechanically interlocked molecules! Brilliant students, great discussions and fantastic weather as a bonus 🤩🍀.

Great to see this paper published today !! Phenomenal work by @benjaminoacid.bsky.social in collaboration with Erica Del Grosso and Francesco Ricci at Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Many thanks to @epenocchio.bsky.social for contributing. 1/n rdcu.be/eyPBc

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.

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This week in Science, researchers report an artificial molecular motor that can twist a molecular thread to form a mechanically interlocked molecule. The approach creates opportunities to fabricate mechanically interlocked molecules with precise structural control. Learn more: scim.ag/40FboGP

Delighted to follow @mvdelius.bsky.social into the 1st issue of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Novit! Congrats to Jiankang, Enzo, Patrick, Axel, Andrei & Dan on the spontaneous assembly of catenanes lacking strong recognition sites🔗😃 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Oh, you have a machine that goes bing? Well guess what chemsky? @science.org has a machine that goes RING! On the cover this week, Michael Kathan’s group use a Feringa-type rotary motor to produce catenanes! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A molecular machine directs the synthesis of a catenane

Precise mechanical manipulation of molecules is inherently difficult owing to random thermal motion. Although directed movement on the molecular scale has been achieved, using it to impose specific—es...

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lab maintenance day 🛠️ @anjaramstrom.bsky.social and I took three barely working rotavaps and created two fully functional ones 👩‍🔬💪 demanding work, but well worth it #chemsky

note to self: there is enormous fikabröd in Norway... bigger than in Sweden

6) Organic chemistry is a language course with grammar and vocabulary and if it was presented that way it wouldn’t be as hard

Transition-path times of individual molecular shuttles under mechanical equilibrium show symmetry: Chem www.cell.com/chem/fulltex... Molecular machines operate out of thermodynamic equilibrium, but as molecules in solution (low Reynold's number) are always in mechanical equilibrium.

Transition-path times of individual molecular shuttles under mechanical equilibrium show symmetry

This study explores microscopic reversibility to understand the operation of molecular devices.

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