Dr. Bernd M. Schmidt

Super happy to share that our Chemical Science article ‘Structural control of dynamic covalent cages: kinetic vs. thermodynamic assembly and PFAS removal from water’ (pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5SC02247A) has been selected for the 2025 most popular supramolecular articles collection 🎉

We wish you all some happy holidays, a Merry Christmas 🎄🎁, and all the best for the upcoming New Year 2026 🎆🎇
We are looking back on a successful year 2025 and are grateful for all the support 🙏🏻

This year's card was kindly made by Marcos @notlillittle.bsky.social

Selective CO2 uptake mimics dissolution in highly fluorinated non-porous crystalline materials - Nature Chemistry Separation of CO2 from gas mixtures is a major application focus for porous materials. Now it has been shown that fluorinated non-porous crystalline materials can uptake CO2 via mobile perfluoroalkyl ...

And check out the original article, if you like
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CO2 sorption in fluorinated non-porous coordination polymers Nature Chemistry - Porous materials have long been a focus of research for gas separations. Now, flexible, highly fluorinated coordination polymers lacking permanently built-in cavities have been...

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CO2 sorption in fluorinated non-porous coordination polymers - Nature Chemistry Porous materials have long been a focus of research for gas separations. Now, flexible, highly fluorinated coordination polymers lacking permanently built-in cavities have been shown to adsorb CO2 thr...

Tobi and I were invited to highlight the recent paper of the team led by Vitórica-Yrezábal and Brammer in Nature Chemistry, so please enjoy "CO2 sorption in fluorinated non-porous coordination polymers" 😍 @chemiehhu.bsky.social @hhu.de
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Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting the @szyszkobart.bsky.social group and meeting their hardworking students. In addition to amazing organisation and hospitality, all invited speakers also had the opportunity to present at the 67th PTChem Meeting. 🇵🇱🙏🏻 @chemiehhu.bsky.social

Porous Organic Cages as Building Blocks for Framework Materials Confined nanospaces are key to the design of porous materials like COFs, MOFs, and molecular cages for applications in molecular recognition, catalysis, and energy storage. This Minireview explores t....

Our latest mini review on Porous Organic Cage-based Frameworks is finally edited now! 🚀
Dive into Cage-COFs, Cage-POPs, Cage-MOFs, and more next-gen porous materials for catalysis, separation, and sustainability!

@hhu.de @angewandtechemie.bsky.social

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The Et2F2 cage looks like that, the amine building block is connected twice to the same linker:

Structural control of dynamic covalent cages: kinetic vs. thermodynamic assembly and PFAS removal from water Dynamic covalent chemistry is a powerful tool to synthesise complex structures from simple building blocks. However, even minor variations in the numerous parameters governing self-assembly can drasti...

Structural control of dynamic covalent cages: kinetic vs. thermodynamic assembly and PFAS removal from water using our novel dynamic covalent Tri2Tri2 cages!

Check it out now in @chemicalscience.rsc.org, if you like 👀
@hhu.de
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Porträt von Marcos Martínez Fernández

Im Rahmen eines Forschungsstipendiums für Postdocs der @humboldt-foundation.de forscht der spanische Chemiker Dr. Marcos Martínez Fernández seit April 2025 in der Arbeitsgruppe für Supramolekulare Chemie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf @bmschmidtlab.bsky.social. 1/3

Verfication post, please ignore.

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Visible‐Light Switchable Rings and Chains in Dynamic Covalent Imine Chemistry The combination of a visible-light switchable azobenzene A with aliphatic diamines X of variable chain lengths gives access to various macrocyclic isomers. While diamines with even numbers of methyle...

Even–odd effects meet visible-light switching! 💡
Our latest paper shows how simple diamines direct the formation of azobenzene macrocycles. A bit of a lighter read in comparison to current news everywhere..:
@hhu.de @jonavoss.bsky.social

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Supramolekulare Chemie | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.

Supramolecular chemistry has officially "grown up" in Germany. On behalf of the 10-person Founding Team👇, I am happy to announce the creation of section SupraChem within the German Chemical Society! 🍾 GDCh members please consider joining asap via www.gdch.de/suprachem @gdch.bsky.social

I was there 😀👍

Thank you so much for taking that picture and coming to my talk! It's a shame we could not/barely talk this time.

Yaaaaay!

Really great work!

Thank you, it really means a lot to us 😊
When writing such articles, and it always is a lot of work and I promise myself to never to do it again, I often think this is never going to be found ^^

Our review on photoswitchable self-assembled cages and macrocycles was selected as one of the most popular articles of 2023 & 2024! It's amazing to hear it being read and well received. @jonavoss.bsky.social @hhu.de

Check out the review here:
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A profound loss for science overall. An extraordinary chemist with remarkable contributions to the field of self-assembly. Condolences to the family.

Slowly, this very stressful year is coming to and end and we want to wish all of you a Happy Christmas time🎄 and all the best for the upcoming year 2025 🎉🐍

Tim's article on porous organic Tri4Tri4 cages was selected as the front cover of ChemComm🏆🥊🎉
celebrating the 60th anniversary of ChemComm. @hhu.bsky.social

Fluorinated Squareimines for Molecular Sieving of Aromatic over Aliphatic Compounds Squareimines are a new class of electron-deficient macrocycles with a unique rectangular structure that facilitates interactions with the electron-deficient panels, enabling selective separation of a....

Please check out our square macrocycle-based material by dynamic-covalent chemistry, if you like: Fluorinated Squareimines for Molecular Sieving of Aromatic over Aliphatic Compounds @hhu.bsky.social now early online in ACIE 😍

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It's a shame that gifs do not seem to work on bluesky yet 😱

We studied a fluorinated and a non-fluorinated tetrahedral Tri4Tri4 porous organic cage for H2, CO2, and CH4 adsorption. Finally something porous from our lab again with quite some surprises regarding selectivities and stabilities 🧪⚗️ #pocs @hhu.bsky.social
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Microcrystal electron diffraction promises a revolution in study of proteins, small molecules Microcrystal electron diffraction microED promises revolution study proteins small molecules

I was very fortunate to be asked to comment on #microed in the realm of supramolecular chemistry. Extremely interesting article in @chemistryworld.bsky.social

Microcrystal electron diffraction promises a revolution in study of proteins, small molecules:
www.chemistryworld.com/news/microcr...

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