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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Aug 1

💡 💡💡New in Nano Letters! A one-step method to create stable, tunable gold nanoparticle vesicles using NHC-functionalized peptoids. Simple, powerful nanostructure design for sensing & catalysis. @ling0901.bsky.social
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#nanotech #materials #chemistry

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy to share our new review: Rational design of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) as hosts for nanoparticles in catalytic applications: concepts, strategies, and emerging trends - published in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Rational design of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) as hosts for nanoparticles in catalytic applications: concepts, strategies, and emerging trends

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a versatile class of porous coordination materials that have found widespread application in various fields, particularly as heterogeneous catalysts. Due to the mod...

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

We had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Ali Nazemi from UQÀM on Friday to give a talk on his recent results, we throughly enjoyed!

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

We also had the defense of the new Dr. Eisen, congratulations Constantin 🎉🎉🎓

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Guillermo Moreno-Alcántar @gmalcantar.bsky.social · Jun 10

Marike's shiny new paper is out!! she's a PhD student of @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social. Her work about the incorporation of fluorine radiopharmaceuticals within metallacages is now available in @inorgchemfront.rsc.org. Congrats to all the authors! @timwitney.bsky.social
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Sophie Thomas @sophierthomas.bsky.social · May 14

Great talk by Prof. Michael Reithofer on NHC@AuNPs at Gold2025 🥳🥳 @reithoferlab.bsky.social

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Angela Casini @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social · May 14

At the end of a Golden conference with friends, Sophie Thomas @sophierthomas.bsky.social , Cider 🍺 and Chorizo … 😉😁🥂 @lrraurell.bsky.social @conchitagimeno.bsky.social

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Sophie Thomas @sophierthomas.bsky.social · May 13

Great talk by Prof. Angela Casini at the GOLD 2025 conference 🥳🥳🥰 @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social

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Sophie Thomas @sophierthomas.bsky.social · May 11

Very excited for the next few days 🥳🥳

Angela Casini @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social · May 11

Excellent start of the Gold 2025 conference in San Sebastián/ Donostia! Stay tuned if you want to know everything about gold that you always dreams of 😉 @sophierthomas.bsky.social @reithoferlab.bsky.social

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Sophie Thomas @sophierthomas.bsky.social · May 8

A pleasure as always ❤️

Riccardo Bonsignore @rbonsignore-unipa.bsky.social · May 8

Our new paper is out in #chembiochem!
Even more special because it was coauthored with my longtime friend and collaborator @sophierthomas.bsky.social
Always a pleasure to turn shared ideas into shared results ❤️
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/cbic...

Harnessing Organometallic Gold(III) Complexes as Precision Scaffolds for Next‐Generation Therapeutic and Imaging Agents

Gold(III) organometallic complexes, particularly cyclometalated Au(III) compounds, have emerged as powerful tools in catalysis and bioinorganic chemistry, offering unique reactivity distinct from the...

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Sophie Thomas @sophierthomas.bsky.social · Apr 26

Super happy to have won the 1st place poster prize at the symposium ‘Metal-Based Anticancer Drugs: New Perspectives’ in Vienna! 🥳 thank you @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social for the photo 😉🥰 @reithoferlab.bsky.social

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Apr 25

Yesterday Sophie received her official certificate for her FWF ESPRIT fellowship 💐 👩🏻‍🔬 @sophierthomas.bsky.social

Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social · Apr 24

Spitzenforscherinnen aus ganz Österreich nehmen heute Auszeichnungen von Karriereprogrammen des #FWF entgegen. Bundesministerin Eva-Maria Holzleitner sowie Christof Gattringer & Ursula Jakubek (FWF) überreichten die Urkunden an Elise-Richter(-PEEK) u. ESPRIT-Stelleninhaberinnen. Wir gratulieren! 🌷

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Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social · Apr 24

Spitzenforscherinnen aus ganz Österreich nehmen heute Auszeichnungen von Karriereprogrammen des #FWF entgegen. Bundesministerin Eva-Maria Holzleitner sowie Christof Gattringer & Ursula Jakubek (FWF) überreichten die Urkunden an Elise-Richter(-PEEK) u. ESPRIT-Stelleninhaberinnen. Wir gratulieren! 🌷

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Angela Casini @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social · Apr 17

A dream came true with this manuscript: we use N-heterocyclic carbene complexes to stabilise radioactive 198Au(I) for radiopharmaceutical applications! Featuring @sophierthomas.bsky.social Prof. Sarah Spreckelmeyer and fantastic collaborators! Happy Easter everyone ;-)
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Ligands to 198Au(I) Radiolabeled Compounds: a New Platform for Radiopharmaceutical Design

The application of Au(I) ions in pharmaceuticals, including in nuclear medicine, is limited by their instability towards reduction in vivo. The gold radionuclide 198Au with a half-life of 2.7 days emi...

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Guillermo Moreno-Alcántar @gmalcantar.bsky.social · Apr 11

Our new paper is here!! "Gold #metallacages: Design principles and applications". With the contribution of @sophierthomas.bsky.social, Nina Willnhammer and @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social. Check it out #Openaccess in @cp-chem.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... enjoy the read!! @tum.de

Gold metallacages: Design principles and applications

Metallacages (MCgs) are three-dimensional (3D)-supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) obtained by the self-assembly of metal ions with donor lig…

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Sophie Thomas @sophierthomas.bsky.social · Apr 10

Very proud of this one, first as a corresponding author and with the best people, thank you @gmalcantar.bsky.social for involving me and pushing this forward 🥳🥳 and Nina for your great work! And of course Angela for your continued support @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social 🥰

Iñigo Iribarren @iiribarren.bsky.social · Apr 10

Go check out many beautiful metallacages in this review by the @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social group!

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gold metallacages: Design principles and applications

Metallacages (MCgs) are three-dimensional (3D)-supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) obtained by the self-assembly of metal ions with donor lig…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Mar 28

This week we have Dr. Sophie Thomas 👩🏻‍🔬💊 @sophierthomas.bsky.social

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Feb 25

This week we have Robert Richstein 🧪⚡️ @sophierthomas.bsky.social

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Feb 19

Next up we have Lingcong Ge 🧪⭐️ @ling0901.bsky.social @sophierthomas.bsky.social

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Feb 4

Next up we have Monnaya Chalermnon 🧪💡 @monnaim.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @sophierthomas.bsky.social

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Jan 14

As promised, each week we will be introducing a member of the Reithofer group… first up is Alexia Tialiou 🧪🧬

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Sophie Thomas @sophierthomas.bsky.social · Jan 8

Congratulations both!! 🥳🥳🥳

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Riccardo Bonsignore @rbonsignore-unipa.bsky.social · Jan 8

Celebrating with friends and colleagues the latest 2024 news: Angelo and I both got promoted to Associate Professor! Looking forward to the future!!! 🩷 @giampaolobarone.bsky.social @bip-unipa.bsky.social

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Reithofer Lab @reithoferlab.bsky.social · Jan 7

Our first Bluesky post… featuring brand-new group photos! Stay tuned over the next few weeks as we introduce each of our group members 🥳🧪🧬 @sophierthomas.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at

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Angela Casini @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social · Dec 8

Our new publication with @gsoveral.bsky.social is now online!!! Congratulations to all coauthors 😊👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @sophierthomas.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/16...

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