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ITN "iSwitch" Final Symposium

Controlling chirality transfer by light

CRC "F3" will be funded by DFG!

Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship

Sebastian's defence & Ivan's talk

Highlighting some recent efforts

Electrochemistry of "stiff" DTEs

Stefan new Associate Editor of JOC

UniSysCat has been granted!

Light-driven Dean-Stark trap

Dipoles steer self-assembly

Anne's successful thesis defense

Remote-controlling polymerization

Photoswitchable 2D lattices

Boosting switch performance

Photoswitches for 3D Printing

Nobel Revival with Ben Feringa

Smart amine sensing probes

BBQ: BBB...

Anne wins Carl Roth Award of GDCh

Bistable pKa-switches

After a long drought

Photoswitching on insulator surface

All the best for 2018

Switching with near infrared light

It finally "clicked"...

Indigo renaissance

Tayloring & bending LOPPs

Copy of our work finally retracted

Tethering photoredox sensitizer

Photoswitches as drivers

Optimizing thermal healing

Micha & Alex @ Lindau Meeting

Overview in "Nachrichten"

Aromaticity in push-pull systems

No competition

Aurelio wins poster award

Releasing stored light energy

Tuning energy levels with light

Happy new year

Repair control by light

Light-activated amine detection

Switching azos with electrons

Anne strikes: Two is better than one

Albert Weller-Prize for Martin

Disentangling cause and effect

Assembly of molecular circuits

Doctoral Fellow of Studienstiftung

Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship

Sunlight-driven actuators

Photodegradation unraveled

Flexible optical memories

Gluing polymers with light

Switching mindsets

Cooperative switching

Being first again

Photomodulation of charge injection

Anne wins oral presentation award

Adlerhof Dissertation Award

Catalytic activity tuning

Special symposium in honor of JPR

CRC 765 renewed

Two-photon NIR switching

New family of photoswitches

Photoswitchable fluorophores

Exploiting the triplet state

Brain storming & team building

Mirko and Javier successfully defended their dissertation

Flexible molecular wires

Fabian has been awarded a Chemiefonds Fellowship

Correlating solution conformation with diastereoselectivity

Polymerization directly on semiconductor

CRC 951 "HIOS" renewed

Andi successfully defended his dissertation

Discrete assemblies based on multivalency

Gating photochromism by host-guest interactions

Defending in style

First efficient hybrid LEDs

Being first

Two Humboldt Fellowships

Optically switchable transistors

Bienvenue Fernand!

Molecular zippers based on polyazobenzenes

How to switch with visible light

Making photoswitches robust

Welcome Niels!

Following diarylethene photochromism on surfaces

New project "iSwitch" started

Smart release platform developed

Watching single molecule rods bend by light

Welcome Sebastian, Wenjie, Christopher and Petr

Robert successfully defended his dissertation

In-depth study of fluorinated azobenzenes

Deciphering photodegradation of organic emitters

Europe's leaders in materials chemistry gather

Dramatic effect of linkage chemistry in helical polyazobenzenes

Philipp successfully defended his dissertation

Welcome Virginia

Making insoluble sexiphenyl bricks

Welcome Alexis, Derk Jan and Anne

The effect of bridge fluorination on ladder oligo(para-phenylene)s

Remote-controlling a dynamic covalent equilibrium by light

Photoswitches for remote-controlling chemistry

Maria successfully defended her dissertation

Controlling the unfolding pathway in photoswitchable foldamers

Rendering TTF donor moieties photoswitchable

Controlling charge recombination with light

Elucidating foldamer structure by VCD

Exploring sequence-switch-folding relationship in multi-azobenzene foldamers

Zhilin successfully defended his dissertation

Volker and Erik successfully defended their dissertation

Collaborative research center SFB 658

White Paper on Organic Electronics

N-doped graphene nanoribbons

Special Issue on Gated Optoelectronic Devices

Monomers for graphene nanoribbons

Taking azobenzenes to the next level

Switches with orthogonal stimuli

Mary defense

Welcome Antti and Julien

Photoswitchable guanidine organocatalysts

Improved diarylethene photoswitches

ERC Starting Grant

Marie defense

Photoadressable organic thin-film transistors

Cooperative switching in foldamers unraveled

Welcome Callisto

Ryo and Philipp's work on Ti(IV) catalyst has been accepted for publication in Organometallics

Spiropyran-Nanotube Constructs

Giant folded dendrimer discs

David received a prize for his talk at the CECP 2012 meeting

Taking on-surface polymerization to the next level

JJ Defense

Björn's work on ladder oligo(para-phenylene)s has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry

Jan's work...

Tamer's work on the self-assembly of responsive click dendrons has been accepted by Nanoscale

David's work on light-orchestrated macromolecular accordions...

Contribution of the group to the IYC 2011

Welcome Javier

Three in a row

Tamer's work on click dendrimers on surfaces just got accepted

David's work on the photoswitching of linear multiazobenzene architectures...

Chandan defended his dissertation successfully.

Gülsiye Öztürk joined the group

Denise has successfully defended her dissertation

New collaborative research center SFB 951

Congratulations to Robert for his excellent Diplom thesis defense

Matthew Stevens joined the group - once again

Welcome Ryo

Welcome Takeshi

Tamer has successfully defended his dissertation

Integrated European project

Photoswitchable Foldamers with Maximum Efficiency

David's work on a a new azobenzene platform

Postdoctoral fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation for Sonia

Klung-Wilhelmy-Weberbank-Preis 2010 in Chemistry for SH

Denise' work on designing and evaluating various clickamer motifs

Congratulations to Martin and Torben for excellent Diplom thesis defenses

Key publication to appear in Chemistry - A European Journal

Welcome Sonia

Philipp just started as a Ph.D. student

Matthew Stevens joined the group

Inaugural issue of Polymer Chemistry

THREEPEAT again

THREEPEAT

Ragnar, Sebastian, and Robert PhD

Matthew Golder joined the group

Collaborative research center SFB 658 "Molecular Switches at Surfaces" funded for a 2nd period of four years

Marie has just been selected to receive a prestigious Kekule Doctoral Fellowship

Our joint efforts with the group of Prof. Paolo Samori (ISIS Strasbourg)

On-surface polymerization methodology

Our work on periodic switching

Recent work by Ragnar & Maike on photoswitchable bases

Maike's & Ragnar's work on photoswitchable bases

Mary Nguyen (UT Austin) is joining the group over the summer as an NSF CESRI Fellow.

Robert's work on

Covalent nanoarchitectures take center-stage

Chemistry double header

David's work on light-orchestrated macromolecular accordions