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POLYMAT Spotlight @polymatspotlight.bsky.social · 23d

This is the complete speaker line-up for POLYMAT Spotlight 2026!
29 June – 2 July, 2026 hashtag#POLYMATsptl
More details at: polymat-spotlight.eu

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Aurelio Mateo-Alonso “Koke” @kokelab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Out in Organic Letters! Substituent flexibility controls AIE behaviour in tetraphenylbenzene! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #OpenAccess @polymat.bsky.social

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Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social · Sep 1

Invitation to submit: This new thematic issue – edited by Yui Sasaki and Tsuyoshi Minami, both @utokyoofficial.bsky.social – focuses on using #nanotechnology for "cross-scale analysis" to evaluate water 💦 quality from the cellular level to the oceans 🌊 .
👉 https://tinyurl.com/3p3xdree
#BJNANO 💎🔓

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GENAM @genam-rseq-rsef.bsky.social · Jul 23

Celebrando 200 años del benceno, la molécula que transformó la química 🧪De Faraday al grafeno, su anillo aromático sigue inspirando innovación y ciencia. Artículo en @el_pais por @nazariolab #Química #Ciencia elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Benceno: 200 años de la molécula que dio forma al siglo XXI

En 1825, Michael Faraday descubrió una sustancia que parecía inofensiva, un hexágono perfecto, que terminaría transformando la química, la industria y hasta la tecnología del futuro

elpais.com

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Apr 3

Congrats to #CENChemPics March winner Yogesh Kumar Maurya: cen.acs.org/synthesis/Ch...

Have cool images you want to share? Enter our contest by tagging your post with #CENChemPics or submit a photo at cen.acs.org/collections/...

Yogesh Kumar Maurya looked at this flask in which he’d collected a purified reaction product, only to discover the compound had spontaneously crystallized into this coral-like pattern. Maurya, a postdoc in Aurelio Mateo-Alonso’s lab at the Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering, investigates large π-conjugated aromatic systems, like nanographene and porphyrins. He saw these crystals as he was wrapping up the first reaction of a synthetic route for making a part of a larger molecule. After such a surprising start, who knows what the rest of his synthesis has in store for him?

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Beilstein-Institut @beilsteininstitut.hessen.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 4

📢 We are excited to welcome our newest Associate Editors Marine Desage-El Murr and Aurelio Mateo-Alonso @kokelab @ on the Editorial Board of #bjoc 💎🔓
Please join us in welcoming Marine and Aurelio (Koke)!
🔗 https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/news/KASPIWJ3Y53D4CTLDN56V3OCPM/?M=y

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RACiencias @raciencias.bsky.social · Jul 4

📢 Nuevos correspondientes:
🔭Valentín Martínez Pillet #IAC_Astrofisica

⚗️ Aurelio Mateo Alonso #Polymat_BERC

🧮 Charles L. Fefferman #Princeton

¡Bienvenidos! 💐
rac.es/noticias/414/

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RACiencias @raciencias.bsky.social · Jun 23

Avelino Corma, premio Fundación BBVA Fronteras del conocimiento: "Iremos a un mundo con cero emisiones"

Corma es, además, académico de la #raciencias

@cadenaser.com
cadenaser.com/nacional/202...

Avelino Corma, premio Fundación BBVA Fronteras del conocimiento: "Iremos a un mundo con cero emisiones"

El prestigioso químico español ha sido galardonado con el XVII Premio Fronteras del Conocimiento en Ciencias Básicas de la Fundación BBVA por su "trayectoria pionera en el campo de la catálisis hetero...

cadenaser.com

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RACiencias @raciencias.bsky.social · Jun 26

Benzene at 200
✍️ Nazario Martín

www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/benz...

Benzene at 200

Celebrating the molecule that changed the world

www.chemistryworld.com

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POLYMAT @polymat.bsky.social · Jun 26

Fluorescent orange and deep blue shimmer—this is 5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin synthesized by Yogesh Maurya , postdoc at #POLYMAT.

🧪 Part of his research on π-conjugated aromatic systems in @kokelab.bsky.social group

More info: cen.acs.org/synthesis/Ch...

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Aurelio Mateo-Alonso “Koke” @kokelab.bsky.social · Jun 19

There is a predoctoral position available in my group. Details here (www.polymat.eu/uploads/open...) and below.

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POLYMAT @polymat.bsky.social · Jun 4

A crystal shaped like a boat?
Federico Begato captured this stunning image of a fluorescent organic nanomaterial under UV light!
Based on perylene bisimide, this material is part of his research in @kokelab.bsky.social
More:

Chemistry in Pictures: Ship in a test tube

shorturl.at

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Maciej Serda @serdamaciej.bsky.social · May 21

Greetings from
Montreal. Nano-carbons rock!

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · May 30

Federico Begato studies carbon-based nanoribbons. The material in this particular crystal is based on perylene bisimide, a fluorescent dye often used to construct molecular electronics and nanomaterials. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/na...

#CENChemPics #FluorescenceFriday #chemsky 🧪

A photograph of a red, vaguely boat-shaped crystal in a test tube under ultraviolet light.

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POLYMAT Spotlight @polymatspotlight.bsky.social · May 21

The invited speaker line-up for POLYMAT Spotlight 2026 is now complete!

📅 29 June – 2 July, 2026 | 🌐#POLYMATsptl
🔗 polymat-spotlight.eu

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Carlos Romero-Nieto @cromeronieto.bsky.social · May 18

This is mind blowing!! 🤯🤯🤯 If you like the history of the chemistry, you can understand how this can feel!!! the original first Angewandte papers from 1888!!!
I feel so privileged that my eyes have been able to see that. 🤗🤗

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Aurelio Mateo-Alonso “Koke” @kokelab.bsky.social · May 7

Enhorabuena!!

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GENAM @genam-rseq-rsef.bsky.social · May 5

We would like to congratulate the recipients of the
@genam-rseq-rsef.bsky.social PhD Thesis Awards 2023!!
@rsequimica.bsky.social @rsef-esp.bsky.social

@uam.es @ucm.es @icmoluv.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social @dipcehu.bsky.social

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Organic Materials @orgmaterials.bsky.social · Apr 29

🔔 Thieme Cheminar – May 7, 3 PM CEST

2nd Talk with Prof. Ognjen Miljanić (U. Houston, FRSC) on:
Cyclobenzoins: Energy & Environmental Uses 🌍🔋
From iodine capture to CO₂ separation—discover the power of macrocycles!
🔗 Register: cassyni.com/events/UPApW...

#OrganicMaterials #Cyclobenzoins #Materials

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Curo-Pi6 @teamcuropi.bsky.social · Mar 28

🌟 Abstract Submission and Registration are Open!!! 🌟
Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations!

#CUROπ6 #ISNAFamily #MemorialUniversity

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Aurelio Mateo-Alonso “Koke” @kokelab.bsky.social · Apr 21

🚀 Check out this short video where we break down the results of our latest work published in @natchem.nature.com:
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ScienceCommunication @ec.europa.eu @ageinves.bsky.social @fct_pt @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @cdti-innovacion.bsky.social

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Carlos M. Cruz @cruzcarlosm.bsky.social · Apr 21

Very happy to share with all of you this review on Nanographenes exhibiting Circularly Polarized Luminescence! I hope you enjoy reading it! 😀 #PiSky #ChemSky

doi.org/10.1039/D4CS...

Chiral nanographenes exhibiting circularly polarized luminescence

Chiral nanographenes constitute an unconventional material class that deviates from planar graphene cutouts. They have gained considerable attention for their ability to exhibit circularly polarized l...

doi.org

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Aurelio Mateo-Alonso “Koke” @kokelab.bsky.social · Apr 21

🚀 Check out this short video where we break down the results of our latest work published in @natchem.nature.com:
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ScienceCommunication @ec.europa.eu @ageinves.bsky.social @fct_pt @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @cdti-innovacion.bsky.social

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