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Self-assembly of materials with empty spaces... and use of these spaces to encapsulate, store, separate, react and deliver molecules of interest.

🌐 http://nanoup.org
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📢 NEW JOB OFFER❗

➡️ 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 
🤝 For our @wearenanoup.bsky.social, led by ICREA Prof. Daniel Maspoch 

🎯 More details and application here! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jhrxugnirw
🔃 Feel free to spread the word with your contacts!

#PhDPosition #ClipOff #BarcelonaJobs
October 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Congratulations also from our side to @jalbalad.bsky.social for winning with his talk on the excision of macrocycles from COFs at the @euromof.bsky.social 2025 Young Scientist Symposium! 👏
Big congrats to @jalbalad.bsky.social for snipping out the win with his talk on the excision of macrocycles from COFs at the Young Scientist Symposium of @euromof.bsky.social 2025! ✂️
September 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Big congrats to @jalbalad.bsky.social for snipping out the win with his talk on the excision of macrocycles from COFs at the Young Scientist Symposium of @euromof.bsky.social 2025! ✂️
September 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Closing up our contributions to the XL Bienal of the RSEQ, @pfserinan.bsky.social was awarded Best Flash Communication for her talk showing how we make metal-organic nanosheets via Clip-Off Chemistry ✂️
July 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Enlightening talk by Dr. Arnau Carné sharing his work on meltable MOPs at XL Reunión Bienal of @rseq-quimica.bsky.social 🔥
July 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Very proud of @sararuizr.bsky.social awarded Best Flash Communication award at XL Reunión Bienal of @rseq-quimica.bsky.social with her talk on the synthesis of metal-organic polyhedra through Clip-Off Chemistry ✂️
July 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Round of applause for our very own Gerard Pena for a fantastic flash communication about the use of spray-drying to synthesize organic molecules at the
XL Reunión Bienal of @rseq-quimica.bsky.social in #Bilbao 👏🏻
July 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Thrilled to announce that Dr. Arnau Carné got one of the highly competitive BBVA Leonardo fellowships! 👏🏻

www.redleonardo.es/noticias/adj...
July 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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A research collaboration led by @icn2.bsky.social researchers uses #ClipOff chemistry for fast and precise production of complex molecules known as macrocycles.

📝 Published in @science.org

@wearenanoup.bsky.social #BISTCommunity

➡️ bist.eu/innovative-c...
June 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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📢 NEW PAPER OUT❗

🔬 ICN2 researchers used #ClipOff chemistry for fast and precise production of complex molecules, known as macrocycles.

🚀 Led by @wearenanoup.bsky.social
🤝 @icmabcsic.bsky.social @uab.cat @univgirona.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

📄 In @science.org

#Collaboration
June 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What if complexity was already built in — just waiting to be released?
In our latest @science.org, we show how COFs can selectively excise organic macrocycles with precision.
A chemistry that reveals what’s already there. Clip-off Chemistry.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🌞 Join us for an exciting seminar by Carla Casadevall on artificial photosynthesis! We will explore innovative photocatalytic systems, bioinspired platforms and cutting-edge membrane technologies for a greener future 🌍
 
📅 29th May 2025 
📍 ICN2 
🕒 12pm
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May 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Go big or go home” 🚀 We applied the isoreticular expansion approach to synthesize novel Metal-Organic Cages/Polyhedra permanently porous in the mesoporous regime! We meet some Metal-Organic Polygons along the way… what? how? Check it out at @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1002/anie...
Isoreticular Synthesis of Mesoporous Metal‐Organic Polyhedra with Permanent Porosity to Gas and Water
Synthesis of mesoporous metal-organic cages or polyhedra (MOCs or MOPs) that retain their porous functionality in the solid state remains challenging, given their tendency to collapse upon desolvatio...
doi.org
May 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Don't miss out on Prof. Hexiang Deng's seminar on mesoporous MOFs for carbon neutralization! 
 
Make sure you registered at 👉 forms.office.com/e/27HqEzFVgb
May 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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MOPs meet DNA! We developed a method to use MOPs as crosslinking nodes for DNA, creating robust, porous networks that form hydrogels and aerogels. A promising strategy to upcycle biomass-derived DNA into functional materials. Check it out at @jacs.acspublications.org 👇🏻 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
DNA-Based Networks Formed by Coordination Cross-Linking of DNA with Metal–Organic Polyhedra: From Gels to Aerogels to Hydrogels
Herein, we introduce a supramolecular method to form DNA-based networks by cross-linking DNA with Rh(II)-based metal–organic polyhedra (MOPs), which entails coordination of DNA to the exohedral Rh(II)...
pubs.acs.org
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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May The 4th... be with you. 🌠
Happy #starwarsday2025. I used this artwork multiple times to highlight the #MOFs clip-off chemistry ✂️💎concept we developed with @wearenanoup.bsky.social, and happy to reuse it again!
Lab work was fun.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
🎨 @3dato.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
MOPs meet DNA! We developed a method to use MOPs as crosslinking nodes for DNA, creating robust, porous networks that form hydrogels and aerogels. A promising strategy to upcycle biomass-derived DNA into functional materials. Check it out at @jacs.acspublications.org 👇🏻 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
DNA-Based Networks Formed by Coordination Cross-Linking of DNA with Metal–Organic Polyhedra: From Gels to Aerogels to Hydrogels
Herein, we introduce a supramolecular method to form DNA-based networks by cross-linking DNA with Rh(II)-based metal–organic polyhedra (MOPs), which entails coordination of DNA to the exohedral Rh(II)...
pubs.acs.org
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
We're delighted to welcome Professor Hexiang Deng for an upcoming seminar, showing how MOFs and 'molecular compartments' enable CO₂ capture and conversion. Save the date!

📅 12 May 2025
📍ICN2 Seminar Room
April 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Thrilled to see our paper has been featured on the front cover of @chemicalscience.rsc.org! Congratulations to the team and thanks to Maria Àngels Vilella for her artwork to design this cover picture 🎉 Check it out at 👉https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/sc#!recentarticles&adv
April 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Congratulations on your #MyFirstChemSci @wearenanoup.bsky.social! Spray drying = microdroplet chemistry applied for large scale organic synthesis. #ChemSky
March 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Could spray-drying be used for organic synthesis? Find out in our latest research paper on the synthesis of organic molecules through spray drying! Kudos to Gerard and the team!  #MyFirstChemSci is all I need 🕺🏼

👉🏻 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Synthesis of organic molecules via spray-drying
Confining chemical reactions within microdroplets has attracted significant attention from chemists due to the accelerated reaction rates resulting from the drastically smaller reaction volumes than i...
pubs.rsc.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
📝 It is out! We have come up with a clever recipe by mixing lipid bubbles with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), creating hybrid structures perfect to encapsulate and supply beneficial compounds 👉🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Kudos to Mary Cano and the team!
Lipid/ZIF‐8 Biocomposites Based on Liposomes or Vesicles: In Situ Formation, and Preliminary Evaluation as Delivery Vehicles for Hydrophobic Drugs
Integrating lipid self-assemblies with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) creates biocomposites ideal for encapsulation, protection, and delivery of functional species. This study reports the in situ fo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Don't miss out on an enlightening talk from @stecanossa.bsky.social ! Join us for a dive into 3D total scattering today at @icn2.bsky.social 📍
February 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Exciting news! 🚀 Our website just got a fresh redesign! ✨Head over to discover all new updates from NanoUP at nanoup.org
NanoUp Supramolecular NanoChemistry and Materials Group, Barcelona
Supramolecular NanoChemistry and Materials Group, CIN2(ICN-CSIC), Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology in Barcelona (Spain), led by Dr. Daniel Maspoch
nanoup.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Still over the moon over @sararuizr.bsky.social and @pfserinan.bsky.social being awarded Best Flash and Best Oral Communications at the Reunió de Química Inorgànica i Organometàl·lica of the Societat Catalana de Química 👏🏻 Congratulations!
February 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM