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Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · May 29

Yay! @gracegdhan.bsky.social for receiving the Cram Lehn Pedersen (CLP) Award in Supramolecular Chemistry at #ISMSC2025

Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · May 27

#ISMSC2025 favorite anions, in order are BArF, PF6 and BF4. Least favorite is Cl. Favorite write-in was hydride — thanks to Yun Liu at PKU for the photo

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Michaela K. Loveless @michaelakloveless.bsky.social · May 2

Have you ever wanted to make Cyanostar for yourself? Now you can! Here, we share the detailed synthesis of CS on a large scale or in a rapid timeframe. @floodgroup.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cyanostar synthesis on large or rapid scales†

Cyanostar is a pentagonal macrocycle that is selective for polyatomic anions. Use of cyanostar in research and technology has grown since its debut in 2013 with more than 40 publications and 5 pate...

www.tandfonline.com

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · Apr 29

The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help!
#ChemSky #ScienceSky

Take two polls to help Iupac define molecular machines

An Iupac committee wants your input to guide its recommendations for key terms in the field

www.chemistryworld.com

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Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · Apr 27

We found a way to clean polluted water using a cyanostar molecules to grab bad ions—and then let go when hit with light! 🌟 Cyanostar removes fluorinated and radioactive anions, even at low levels (4 ppb) and with Dead Sea competition #WaterCleanup @nabarupa.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Selective Binding and Light-Driven Release of Fluorous PF6– and Radioactive 99TcO4– Anions for All-to-Nothing Liquid–Liquid Extraction

The removal of anions from aqueous media using molecular receptors in liquid–liquid extraction is a long-standing strategy to clean up contaminated water sources. Therein, high selectivity is needed t...

pubs.acs.org

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Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · Apr 5

Stoked for Banruo and IU chemistry to welcome such an awesome new colleague.

Banruo Huang @banruohuang.bsky.social · Apr 3

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the outstanding Department of Chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington as an Assistant Professor starting January 2026!

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Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · Apr 5

Always great to have a fan. Check out this cool photo of a kiwi 3D printed using SMILES 😁 by @kiwismile.bsky.social (guess who @bowlaursen.bsky.social)

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Bo W. Laursen @bowlaursen.bsky.social · Mar 23

Sunday 8:00 #ACSSpring2025 meeting in room 32B. Amar Flood @floodgroup.bsky.social and I will both be talking about our super bright #fluorescent SMILES materials. Including recent work in #ChemSci (doi.org/10.1039/D3SC...) #nanoparticles and in #AngewandteChemie (doi.org/10.1002/anie...) on #CPL.

Supramolecular Control of Helicene Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emitters in Molecular Solids and Bright Nanoparticles

The intrinsic molecular chiroptical properties (electronic circular dichroism and circular polarized luminescence) of helicences are perfectly transferred from solution to the crystal state and to wa....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · Jan 30

What do you get when you mix 2D networks with silicon? You get January’s #POTM! This month’s paper comes from @dichtel.bsky.social. It was “stiff” competition this month, but these 2D mechanically interlocked materials (2D MIMs) have some “strong” properties.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · Jan 21

Good luck! I’m sure you and your students are going to have a lot of fun!! And I look forward to comparing notes.

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Kristin Hutchins @kristinhutchins.bsky.social · Jan 21

First day teaching Supramolecular Chemistry (at Mizzou, it is Jerry Atwood's former class🙂)! Excited for a fun semester ahead. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Amar Flood @floodgroup.bsky.social for sharing materials!!

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Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · Dec 18

Great time at #NASC with the team. And a poster prize for Devika. Well done

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Flood Group @floodgroup.bsky.social · Dec 11

From Spotify wrapped to anions wrapped -- check out the favorites from University of South Florida's Chemistry students and faculty (thanks to Vince Liu for a great visit - vincentchemistry.com) phosphate, chloride, and cyanide top the charts #anions

The favorite anions of USF -- the big 3 are phosphate, chloride and cyanide

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