This is really cool, congrats all!

Wow, so cool! Massive congrats Ben!

Agree! This summer feels like it's been especially crazy. We're peer reviewing ourselves to death!

Fantastic work Guillaume!!

Massive congratulations Steve, very well deserved!

Correct link - www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Massive thanks to you as well of course Spyridon, the editorial experience was awesome 😄😄😄

Finally, huge thanks to the referees. This was an unusual referee experience in that referees were incredibly supportive and kind, yet offered detailed, extensive and highly valuable feedback. A true prime example of how good peer review is supposed to work 🤩

Also thanks to Eszter Borbas (Uppsala) who both helped us get the lanthankde spectroscopy right and let us use her machine, and to @sgoldup.bsky.social for developing muxh of the rotaxane chemistry we used and for great discussions helping improve the work

Thanks to Daisy for a massive amount of tricky computational work, undergraduate researcher Huseyn for great help with synthesis, to Monika for being mega helpful with the photochemical experiments and to Ste for loads of help with the computations and photochem. You guys rock!!

This was a complicated piece of research and I'm incredibly grateful to the team for their hard work. This is the first of many papers on metal chelate rotaxanes from the incredible talented @anjaramstrom.bsky.social - tag not in first post. Much more to come!!

Furthermore, the rotaxane could act as a sensor for transition metal ions. It binds several metals via the bipyridine units, but only Cu2+ induced a response in the luminescence - leafing to complete turn-off of any luminescence!!

Through careful photochemical studies aided by Monika, she demonstrated that sensitization primarily occurs between the rotaxane components, and that this was due to through-space energy transfer. The compact nature of the rotaxane was key to this, as shown in simulations by Daisy and Ste.