Controlling supramolecular polymerization by external stimuli holds great potential toward the development of responsive soft materials and manipulating self-assembly at the nanoscale. Photochemical...

Molecular motors have found a wide range of applications, powering a transition from molecules to dynamic molecular systems for which their motion must be precisely tuned. To achieve this adjustment,...

Nature Catalysis - General and efficient methodologies for the construction of homochiral phosphorus stereocentres are sought-after. Now, merging Pd-catalysed cross-coupling with phosphorus...

Rosalind Franklin Fellowships at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Control over supramolecular interactions is an important part of the toolbox for developing functional materials. The design of supramolecular polymers with light-triggered molecules allows remote...

Shift from ultraviolet to near-IR light brings biological applications of these tiny machines closer to reality

Researchers use an azobenzene group to create a switchable clock modulator

Unidirectional photochemically driven molecular motors (PMMs) convert the energy of absorbed light into continuous rotational motion. As such they are key components in the design of molecular...

Molecular photoswitches are potent tools to construct dynamic functional systems and responsive materials that can be controlled in a non-invasive manner. As P-type photoswitches, stiff-stilbenes...

Mimicking the native extracellular matrix (ECM) as a cell culture scaffold has long attracted scientists from the perspective of supramolecular chemistry for potential application in regenerative...

Circadian clocks, biological timekeepers that are present in almost every cell of our body, are complex systems whose disruption is connected to various diseases. Controlling cellular clock function...

What if your car could clean itself? And a scratch in its paint could repair itself? Ben Feringa, Nobel prize winner in chemistry, explains why he made a car of a few nanometers big to make this...

The development of very fast, clean, and selective methods for indirect labeling in PET tracer synthesis is an ongoing challenge. Here we present the development of an ultrafast photoclick method for...

Sixteen thousand academics urge EU leaders to increase investment over the next seven years.

¿Cómo consigue ponerle un motor a una molécula? Copiando la naturaleza. A ver, mueva el brazo. ¿Así? Acaba usted de mover miles de millones de moléculas con motor,

Photocleavable protecting groups (PPGs) enable the light-induced, spatiotemporal control over the release of a payload of interest. Two fundamental challenges in the design of new, effective PPGs are...

Controlling chiral recognition and chiral information transfer has major implications in areas ranging from drug design and asymmetric catalysis to supra- and macromolecular chemistry. Especially...

Short, complementary DNA single strands with mismatched base pairs cannot undergo spontaneous formation of duplex DNA (dsDNA). Mismatch binding ligands (MBLs) can compensate this effect, inducing the...