On August 3rd, 2026 Felix Brust successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Supramolecular Emitting Systems in OLEDs". We congratulate Felix and wish him all the best for his future career. 🎓💡
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Self-assembly, supramolecular structures, functional properties and device applications of organic dye materials @uni-wuerzburg.de. Account managed by group members. https://www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/oc/wuerthner-group/
Congratulations to @jiarongwu.bsky.social and Paul Bachmann, who recieved the awards for the best doctoral and best master's degree from the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy of @uni-wuerzburg.de! 🎓🧪
Have a look at: Planar Chiral Carbazole-Naphthalene Bisimide Hetero-Cyclophane for Circularly Polarized Delayed Fluorescence. Now online @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Planar Chiral Carbazole‐Naphthalene Bisimide Hetero‐Cyclophane for Circularly Polarized Delayed Fluorescence
Tightly stacked carbazole and 1,2:5,6–naphthalene bisimide units afforded a planar chiral hetero-cyclophane. The architecturally refined system, with strong charge-transfer interaction and enhanced s....
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Read about - Fluorescent merocyanines: from fundamental properties to applications as molecular probes, in bioimaging and as emissive dye aggregates. Now in Chem Soc Rev. 😎 pubs.rsc.org/cs/article/d...
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From July 5th to 10th, 2026 supramolecular chemists assembled in Bordeaux, France for the ISMSC 2026 conference. On that occassion Prof. Frank Würthner was awarded the prestigious Izatt-Christensen Award 2026.
On June 18th, 2026 Simon Soldner successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Self-Assembly and Complexation of Shielded Aromatic Bisimides in Solution and Solid State". Congratulations and all the best for your future career! 🦾
It was a pleasure to have Prof. Makoto Fujita with us for one month as a Humbold Research Award winner, providing three highly interesting lectures on molecular confinment, giant cages and the crystalline sponge method.
Read about: Enzyme-Like Synthetic Cleft for Light-Driven Water-Oxidation Catalysis Via an Oxide Relay Pathway - just published @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! 🫧 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Enzyme‐Like Synthetic Cleft for Light‐Driven Water‐Oxidation Catalysis Via an Oxide Relay Pathway
A carboxylic acid group introduced into the second coordination sphere of a Ru(bda) water oxidation catalyst forms a defined hydrogen bond within the catalytic cleft. This interaction locks the group...
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Colour by Design: Tuning the Solid-State Emission of Coronene Bisimide by Tailored Matrices - now available as accepted manuscript @chemicalscience.rsc.org. Congratulations to the authors! 🎨
Colour by Design: Tuning the Solid-State Emission of Coronene Bisimide by Tailored Matrices
A photofunctional coronene bisimide (CBI) has been equipped with two bulky terphenyl imide substituents that control self-assembly, restricting it to the formation of well-defined dimers with a remark...
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Congratulations! Professor Frank #Würthner receives the Izatt-Christensen Award, the highest international honour in the field of supramolecular #chemistry. @wuerthnergroup.bsky.social ➡️ www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/first-pag...
Congratulations to Alexander, who recieved the first Dr Reich scholarship for JMU students writing their Master's thesis at the Institute of Organic Chemistry. 🥳 ➡️ www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/oc/news-e...
Read about: Generating extended foldamer dye stacks and unravelling their evolving exciton dynamics - just published @natchem.nature.com! ✨ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
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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! 🏆🎓 Photo: Ralf Maserski, TU Dortmund
Guest-Induced Activation of Multicolor Photoluminescence in Naphthalene Bisimide Liquid Crystals. Early View in Advanced Materials. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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...
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Secondary Coordination Sphere Effects in Macrocycle-Embedded Mononuclear Ru(bda) Water Oxidation Catalysts. Just published in Inorganic Chemistry. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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...
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Flexibility Induced by Four Heptagons: A Negatively Curved Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cut-Out of Schwarzite P216. Just published @jacs.acspublications.org. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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 ...
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Self-assembled Helical Tetramer Stack of Terrylene Bisimide in Solution and Crystalline State. Just published @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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....
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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. Just published in Chem. Eur. J.! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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 ...
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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 - See the review now online at ChemistryEurope. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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, ...
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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. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
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 ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...
Congratulations to Jiarong @jiarongwu.bsky.social and Rikuto, who both recieved one of the few Excellent Poster Awards at #ISMSC2025 in Kyoto, Japan!
Welcome to supramolecular dye chemistry research in Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de. Follow us to stay informed about acitivities and publications of the Würthner Group. For more information have a look at our group website: www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/oc/wuerthner...
