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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Two PhD positions still available! Please check the job openings! PhD Position 1 (application deadline Jan 5th): www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... PhD Position 2 (application deadline Jan 22nd): www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... Apply with cover letter and CV! Re-posts appreciated!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Fantastic way to wrap up this year with our traditional Christmas dinner (Indian cuisine, as always). Thanks to everyone for their work and dedication in 2025! It was an eventful and fun year!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

PhD position available! We are happy to announce another PhD Position in our group! This is a joint project with South Korea, so you will have the chance to spend 4-6 months in Seoul! Application deadline: Jan 22nd 2026 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... Re-posts appreciated!

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Universität Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Schaltbare Molekül sollen Stoffe in Wasser oder Blut aufzeigen: Chemiker:innen der UDE entwickelt dafür gemeinsam mit Partnern in Seoul winzige Systeme, die über Lichtsignale reagieren. Die DFG fördert das Projekt für drei Jahre.

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Two prizes for group members! Sophia was awarded with the faculty prize for her voluntary commitment in the faculty. Tim received the prize for the best Master-degree and best Master-thesis, which he carried out in the lab of Ben List. Congratulations to both of you! We are proud of you!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Great news! We have received funding for a joint project with Prof. Joohoon Kim (analchem.khu.ac.kr/xe/jkim) from South Korea. Here, we will look at the use of rotaxanes for electroanalytical chemistry. Thanks to the DFG and NRF for funding (www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...)!

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Joint Korean-German Research Projects 2025 in the Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences (NRF-DFG 2025)

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

PhD position available! You are passionate about Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis? Then please apply! Starting date is April 2026 (a later start is possible). Application deadline: Jan 5th 2026! Please see here: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... Re-posts appreciated!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The Niemeyer group started the Christmas season with a visit to the Christmas market! Cheers and a wonderful Advent season to everyone!

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suprachem2026.bsky.social @suprachem2026.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Registration for SupraChem2026 is open! Join us in Dortmund from March 8th - 10th 2026 for sharing the latest developments in supramolecular chemistry, including poster presentations, about 20 contributed talks and prize lectures for the new GDCh SupraChem PhD award!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Watching the Nobel Prize announcement with pizza! Congratulations to the awardees! Well deserved! @nobelprize.bsky.social

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Bela, Jey, Jochen, Shounak @shounakhinge.bsky.social and Sohom @sohomkundu.bsky.social presented the group´s research at the Symposium for Confinement Controlled Chemistry @grk2376.bsky.social in Bochum @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Good to see chemistry from a different perspective! Good work everyone!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The work by Somayyeh, Maike and Jan @riebe-chem.bsky.social on optimized synthetic routes towards BINOL-based crown ethers has now been published in Beilstein J. Org. Chem.! @beilstein-institut.bsky.social Congratulations to all! www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...

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3,3'-Linked BINOL macrocycles: optimized synthesis of crown ethers featuring one or two BINOL units

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Congratulations to Matthias, who became PhD no. 8 from our group! He made great progress towards mechanically chiral catenanes, plus writing a review and contributing to other projects! See www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article... and enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Found this in our local shopping center. The fascination of the mechanical bond is everywhere 😂 #catenane

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Happy to share that the recently founded Working Group „Supramolecular Chemistry“ of the German Chemical Society will Award its very first PhD Prize in memory of Carsten Schmuck. Please apply! www.gdch.de/netzwerk-str...

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Preise & Ehrungen | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Happy to share that our recent paper in Chem. Eur. J. was highlighted with a Cover Feature! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to Sasha Ediger (designmodus.com) for the beautiful image!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Sophia obviously has a good time at the 2025 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! Enjoy your last day Tomorrow!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We are happy to share that Sophia from our group has been selected as a participant for this year´s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Chemistry. Congratulations Sophia and enjoy your time in Lindau in July! www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/meetings/2025

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74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting | Lindau Mediatheque

The 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry) takes place from 29 June to 4 July 2025. #LINO25 welcomes around 35 Nobel Laureates in Lindau. They will exchange ideas with more than 600 Young ..

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

After a record-breaking 18 days from submission to final decision, we are happy to share the latest work by Sohom, Shubhadip and Jan ‪in Chem. Eur. J.! They developed a rotaxane transporter for reversible macrocycle release and recapture! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Directional Macrocycle Transport, Release and Recapture enabled by a Rotaxane Transporter

A transporter for a directional macrocycle transport, release and recapture was constructed. This was achieved using a rotaxane featuring a dibenzo-24-crown-8 macrocycle, dibenzylammonium (DBA)/methy...

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Most happy that you are staying with us, Jan! Looking forward to many years of science together!

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Delius Lab @mvdelius.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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

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Supramolekulare Chemie | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

After almost one month of hard work, we have finished our move. The Niemeyer group can now be found on the fifth floor of the chemistry building (S07 S05)! Following Jochen´s promotion to full professor in 2023, we could now move into wonderful new synthesis labs, analytical labs and offices!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We have a new publication! The group by Ivo Leito investigated acidity-reactivity relationships of acidic catalysts, including one of our phosphoric acid catalysts! Now online in Molecular Catalysis! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Towards quantifying catalytic activity of homogeneous Brønsted acid catalysts

A novel approach is presented for the quantification of catalytic activity of acid catalysts used in homogeneous general acid catalysis, based on the …

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Jamie Lewis @lewischemistry.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🚨PhD available - UK home fees ONLY🚨 we will shortly be advertising for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend) to work in our group on molecular capsules. For informal enquiries send me an email including your CV. Retweets appreciated! Full details to come soon.

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Group news! We welcome Zihan (left) and Tibor (right) as new PhD students in our group! Tibor finished his Master in Bielefeld and joined in Nov 2024. Zihan just finished his Master in our group and joined this month. All the best for your research in the coming years. Great to have you with us!

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Dave Leigh @profdaveleigh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Peng-Lai, @stefanborsley.bsky.social, Martin & our collaborators Alessandro and @giusepponelab.bsky.social demonstrate how a catalyst transduces chemical energy to perform mechanical work in www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @nature.com. tinyurl.com/jny7nen5. Animation @scicommstudios.bsky.social😀

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Following his successful PhD defense in October, Jan @riebe-chem.bsky.social was awarded with the prize for the best PhD thesis at the Faculty in 2024. Next to obtaining some prize money, Jan also had the chance to present his research to the entire faculty. Congratulations for this great award!

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Matthieu Sollogoub @msollogoub.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here is a tentative Supramolecular Chemistry starter kit. Please let me know if you wish to be added ! #ChemSky go.bsky.app/RjRgi6n

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Reposting this #molswitch #molmachine starter pack. If you want to be included in it, please let me know go.bsky.app/EwimNbK

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We wrapped up the year with our traditional Christmas Dinner at Taste it India! An eventful year for the group, thanks to everyone for their excellent work and dedication! The Niemeyer group wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a great start of 2025!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

We will start moving from Twitter to this place! So let‘s kick it off with some seasonal greetings from the Niemeyer group! We said goodbye to Jey, who headed back to Nanjing, and enjoyed mulled wine with the group!

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