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Guillaume Vives @vivesgui.bsky.social · 27d

Our work on the unidirectional motion of a CD is now in the September issue of Chem and on the cover!
Many thanks to the whole team and @cp-chem.bsky.social for the highlight!
@ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social @msollogoub.bsky.social @enxuliu.bsky.social

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · Sep 2

In this piece for Aeon, I argue that, while nanotechnology is now a very real and mature field, a popular early vision of it was an example of what I am calling an "oneiric technology": a fantasy of the sort that Silicon Valley loves.
aeon.co/essays/no-su...

No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays

Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking

aeon.co

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · Aug 12

Many congrats to a wonderful coworker and collaborator! We had a blast during so many chemical biology and photopharmacology projects! All the best for Fritzi!!!

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ZANIN LAB @zaninlab.bsky.social · Aug 12

Joyful day for the lab! 🎉 🥳💫🍻
Fritzi defended her PhD thesis with outstanding honors.
Congratulations on this amazing thesis!

Here is a list of some of her projects:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) @jacs.acspublications.org · Aug 4

On the cover of this week's issue: "Photoswitchable Fluorescence of Peptide-Based Hemipiperazines Inside of Living Cells"

Read it here 🔗: buff.ly/tQkMt7v
#ChemSky #JACS

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · Aug 1

Huge achievement for unique molecular motor applications! We applaud for this incredibly important step into the new territory of mechanical chemical synthesis! Cudos to the team and big congratulations for this true milestone in molecular machine research!

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · Aug 1

Huge achievement for unique molecular motor applications! We applaud for this incredibly important step into the new territory of mechanical chemical synthesis! Cudos to the team and big congratulations for this true milestone in molecular machine research!

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Tommy Wachsmuth @tommywachsmuth.bsky.social · Jul 31

I‘m thrilled to see our group‘s inaugural paper published in @science.org! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this project!

Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 31

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

This illustration shows consecutive stages during operation of a molecular catenating machine.

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Stefano Crespi @screspi.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our pipeline to compute thermal barriers of photoswitches💡 is out!🥳 We especially focused on NBDs for MOST🔋 and imines, but also stilbenes and DAEs. Try it out! You need just chemdraws and freeware to get libraries computed

doi.org/10.1002/cptc...

Semi‐Automated Pipeline for Transition State Search of Molecular Photoswitches

A semi-automated pipeline for the transition state search of molecular switches (PiTS3) is reported, which facilitates the search, optimization, and conformational analysis of transition states of ph...

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · Jul 13

A new photocaging strategy bringing boronic acids under photo-control!

Boronic-Acid Photocaging for Visible Light-Controlled Applications in Synthesis | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

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Svetlana Tsogoeva @svetlanatsogoeva.bsky.social · Jul 11

It was a great pleasure to host Prof. Paolo Melchiorre for his brilliant #GDCh lecture at @nat.fau.de! Paolo’s talk highlighted how core #photochemical insights spark innovation in #AsymmetricSynthesis!

@gdch.de @dubelab.bsky.social @spanlabfau.bsky.social @harder-research.bsky.social

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Svetlana Tsogoeva @svetlanatsogoeva.bsky.social · Jul 8

What a fantastic outing with our Organic Chemistry Institute today – an amazing team and a great atmosphere all around!! 🚣‍♂️👍 @dubelab.bsky.social @ekatl.bsky.social @nat.fau.de @fau.de

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Steve Goldup @sgoldup.bsky.social · Jun 30

Honored to receive the #RSCPrizes Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. Credit has to go to the hard work and creativity of many outstanding researchers over 10 years at 3 institutions (@qmul.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social, @unibirmingham.bsky.social). Short🧵

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congrats lad! Mid-career is also an end of a beginning :))))

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Svetlana Tsogoeva @svetlanatsogoeva.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our recent work on #organoautocatalyzed transamination metathesis is featured on the #FrontCover of #AngewandteChemie! Congrats to Volker, Florian, Jonas!🎉 @nat.fau.de

#chemsky #organoautocatalysis #transamination

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · Jun 24

Check out this collaborative work of Carolin Müller lab (www.chemie.nat.fau.de/person/carol...), @guldi-group.bsky.social‬, and ‪@dubelab.bsky.social at ‪@angewandtechemie.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1002/anie...

DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · Jun 24

We show PAT double bond rotation occurs exclusively from the triplet state – but it is stable in air due to very favorable energy levels.

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · Jun 24

How does Near-Infrared-Photoswitching work? Our newest research delivers an ultrafast molecular movie of the all-red-light photoswitch peri-Anthracenethioindigo (PAT) in action! Aided by excited state theory, its mechanism of motion is fully revealed.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202510626

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FAU Faculty of Sciences @nat.fau.de · Jun 4

Der Antrag für den neuen Sonderforschungsbereich "ChemPrint – Gedruckte Halbleiter der nächsten Generation" war erfolgreich! @ctfm-lab.bsky.social

www.nat.fau.de/2025/06/04/n...

Neuer SFB: ChemPrint – Gedruckte Halbleiter der nächsten Generation

Im neuen Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 1719 „ChemPrint – Gedruckte Halbleiter der nächsten Generation: Ingenieurskunst auf atomarer Ebene mittels molekularer Oberflächenchemie“ untersuchen…

www.nat.fau.de

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ZANIN LAB @zaninlab.bsky.social · Jun 2

Deeply honored that our story was chosen for the cover!
🎉 💫🧬

Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · Jun 2

Our June issue is here! rupress.org/jcb/issue/22...
The cover shows end-on views of the cleavage planes during #cytokinesis in one-cell embryos of the nematode #Celegans. From Lebedev et al. @zaninlab.bsky.social‬: (doi.org/10.1083/jcb....).

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · May 27

Enabling chiroptical photoswitching by confinement - our recent work on encapsulation boosted chirality is out: | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

Confinement Induced Chiroptical Photoswitching – An Encapsulation Approach for Advanced Photochemical Functions

Molecular control of chiroptical properties lies at the heart of advanced photonic applications including molecular information processing, optical memories, sensing, or absolute asymmetric synthesis....

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · May 24

Our newest research is online at ChemRxiv: A comprehensive investigation of the PAT photoswitch excited state mechanism! It's a triplet-switch!

From Triplet to Twist: The Photochemical E/Z-Isomerization Pathway of the NIR Photoswitch peri-Anthracenethioindigo | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

From Triplet to Twist: The Photochemical E/Z-Isomerization Pathway of the NIR Photoswitch peri-Anthracenethioindigo

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the effort to shift the absorption of photoresponsive molecules into the long-wavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum. A breakthrough i...

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DUBE-Lab @dubelab.bsky.social · May 24

Dube-Lab is on Bluesky!

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