🚨 POLYMAT Spotlight 2026 — 1 month left to submit your abstract!

📍 Miramar Palace, San Sebastián (Spain)
📅 29 June (Mon) – 2 July (Thu) 2026
⏳ Deadline: 15 March 2026

👉 Submit here: polymat-spotlight.eu

Ikerbasque Building. 2 years, 296 pictures, ~1 min

The new Ikerbasque Building lit up!

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

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

🚀 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

Excited to join the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (BJOC) as an associate editor for π-conjugated, macrocyclic & supramolecular chemistry! BJOC is a diamond open-access journal—free for authors & readers—supported by the Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social #OpenScience 💎

A photo of coralline crystals captured by Yogesh Maurya
has been selected for @cenmag.bsky.social's Chemistry in Pictures! See more here 👉https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/Chemistry-Pictures-Coralline-crystals/103/web/2025/03

@polymat.bsky.social @Ikerbasque @upvehu.bsky.social

Out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Introducing Joa-COF-1: a wavy mesoporous 2D COF with a 6-nm hexagonal pore lattice! Sonication unlocks its tubular nature! Details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@polymat.bsky.social @manuelmellelab.bsky.social

Had a fantastic visit to IMDEA-Nano @imdeananociencia.bsky.social this week! 🚀 Huge thanks for the hospitality—it was great to see what a fantastic institute you have put together! #IMDEA #Science @imdeainstitutes.bsky.social

Out in @acs.org JACS! Intramolecular singlet fission in individual graphene nanoribbons: One graphene nanoribbon, two independent triplets! More here: pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10....

@polymat.bsky.social @guldi-group.bsky.social @manuelmellelab.bsky.social @phillipgreissel.bsky.social

Out in @naturechemistry.bsky.social! Moiré 2D COF superlattices—synthesized straight from the monomers! 🤔2D polymer bilayers or bilayer 2D COFs? 🚀 Exciting collaborative work with @ZGaolei @yihanzhu @manuelmellelab.bsky.social @DeFeyterGroup and LohKP!
🔗 Read more: nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉 We had an amazing time at @Aromaticity2025 a couple of weeks ago! Here’s a collection of great memories. Huge thanks to Gabriel Merino @miquelsola.bsky.social and @henrikottosson.bsky.social for making it all possible! 🙌 #Aromaticity

Out in @J_A_C_S @pubs.acs.org! Using overcrowded polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as monomers leads to the formation of mechanically interlocked 🔗 2D #COFs! Discover more 👉https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c14453👈 @polymat.bsky.social @manuelmellelab.bsky.social @brentnannenga.bsky.social

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2025!🎄

Out in Chemical Science! Cathodes formulated with a [3+6] trigonal prismatic cage constituted by three redox-active dibenzotetraazahexacene subunits show enhanced performance! #openaccess 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Wonderful to celebrate the 20th anniversary of RSEQ’s Young Researchers Symposium, meet the old guard, and feel young again for a couple of days! Thanks to Antonio Rodríguez, Carla Casadevall and Marian Herrero for their efforts in organizing and preserving the spirit of this fantastic event!

We had a terrific time last week at the QatarACS / @roysocchem.bsky.social Conference in Doha! Thanks Mohammed Al-Hashimi and Emily Pentzer for a memorable event!