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Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · 6d

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"Aryl azopyrroles as visible light photoswitchable TRPA1 ligands" by Pui-Ying Lam (Medical College of Wisconsin) and Matthew Fuchter (Imperial College London, Oxford University) et al. @fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Promotional image for the paper titled Aryl azopyrroles as visible light photoswitchable TRPA1 ligands. The image shows the interconversion of the E-isomer and Z-isomer of the new molecule TRPswitch C with 405 nm light and 525 nm light, respectively. The text reads: novel photoswitch class, visible-light switching, and in vivo PMR testing.

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · 21d

#molswitch #photopharma

Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · 21d

Check out our latest photopharmacology paper in @chemicalscience.rsc.org. We discover azopyrroles can be powerful tools to control movement phenotypes via TRPA1. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... #ChemSky

The two photoswitchable isomeric forms of an aryl azopyrrole ligand for TRPA1

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Lars Østergaard @larsostergaard.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · Aug 8

Impressions from two amazing weeks of Chirality & Spin at the #Chirality 2025 Conference in New York City and the GRC in New Hampshire! #sciencerocks #collaboration #friendship 🌀so much fun and great research from friends across the globe!

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Sascha Feldmann @feldmannlab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share in @nature.com today: Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - detecting the most subtle changes in light polarization over time with unprecedented sensitivity. Grateful for the team that made this possible!😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chirality #light

Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - Nature

A high-sensitivity, broadband, transient, full-Stokes spectroscopy setup is demonstrated, which can detect quickly varying small signals from chiral emitters.

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Würthner Group @wuerthnergroup.bsky.social · Jun 23

Welcome to supramolecular dye chemistry research in Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de.
Follow us to stay informed about acitivities and publications of the Würthner Group.
For more information have a look at our group website: www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/oc/wuerthner...

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Lewis MacKenzie @lemackz.bsky.social · Jun 12

RSC Nanoscale special edition on #chiral #nanomaterials

#chemsky #chirality

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Chiral Nanomaterials Home

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · Jun 2

🎉 Congrats to Brandon on the new @jacs.acspublications.org paper! bit.ly/3ZcZEdR
A multistate photoswitchable hydrazone is used as a chiral dopant in liquid crystals ➡️ steganography in action!
#NSFfunded #molswitch ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

Molecular Steganography Using Multistate Photoswitchable Hydrazones

The development of photochromic compounds that can have multiaddressable and -stable states is desirable for imparting multistate responses in soft materials. Here, we report on two such photochromes,...

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thanks the invite^. Sure, I’ll consider publishing in @jacs.acspublications.org. Oh wait, you mean the *other* JACS?! 😬 #Chemsky

^assuming you me not my former PhD student 🤔

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Apr 6

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Apr 1

Near enough 😂

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Apr 1

Spring has sprung in Oxford! 😍

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Mar 27

#ACSSpring2025 was ace! Until the next time you stay classy San Diego

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Mar 24

@gracegdhan.bsky.social smashing it, as always, during her award lecture at #ACSSpring2025

Grace Han giving a lecture at the ACS national meeting

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Mar 23

Which is the best symposium at #ACSSpring2025? Light-Matter Interactions in Molecular Systems and Emerging Semiconductors! Come along to the amazing lineup put together by @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @dcongreve.bsky.social and Lea Nienhaus

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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....

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Mar 22

The Glen T Seaborg medal award symposium and dinner at UCLA, honouring posthumously Sir Fraser Stoddart, was excellent. So many great talks and touching memories. And look @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social, I bumped into our new #Chemsky colleagues

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Mar 20

I should also shout out Davia Prischich from my group who delivered a wonderful #photopharma #ChemBio talk on her photoswitchable peptide work.

Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Mar 20

It was wonderful to be back in Hong Kong to present at the LSCCB’s conference. Now off to Cali to see some of my fav #Chemsky folks including @conway-group.bsky.social, @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @floodgroup.bsky.social, @gracegdhan.bsky.social and @swagergroup.bsky.social

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Mar 20

It was wonderful to be back in Hong Kong to present at the LSCCB’s conference. Now off to Cali to see some of my fav #Chemsky folks including @conway-group.bsky.social, @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @floodgroup.bsky.social, @gracegdhan.bsky.social and @swagergroup.bsky.social

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Serge Mostowy @sergemostowylab.bsky.social · Mar 4

AI-based imaging of zebrafish

Position with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @fuchtermatt.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social

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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant or Research Fellow

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Jan 31

👇Come be our colleague!👇

OxfordChemistry @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social · Jan 31

Are you a chemist with research interests in computational chemistry? We need someone whose focus is on organic chemistry or chemical biology, including (but not limited to) areas such as automation, AI/ML, and molecular modelling.

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Jan 30

Who wants to come and work with our group @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social on photoswitches and photopharmacology 🙋‍♀️🙋🏻🙋‍♂️

Apply for our open #chempostdoc position now! Deadline 28th Feb. Reposts appreciated #Chemsky

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Hoye Group Oxford @hoyegroupox.bsky.social · Jan 29

Delighted to join Bluesky on the day our article for Nature Reviews Clean Technology got published! www.nature.com/articles/s44... Especially excited on the section on the potential of emerging materials for indoor energy harvesting. Great collaboration with Murthy, Paola and many others

Promises and challenges of indoor photovoltaics - Nature Reviews Clean Technology

Indoor photovoltaics can meet the power demands of the rapidly increasing number of Internet-of-Things devices and reduce the reliance on batteries. This Review describes materials best suited for ind...

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Jan 28

What has remained unclear is how the intrinsic chiroptical activity and the anomalous mechanism relate to one another in these materials and how one can select for a preferred mechanism to control the favoured handedness of circularly polarised light. This is what we address in this preprint. 6/n

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