Matt Fuchter
@fuchtermatt.bsky.social
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Sydney Bailey Fellow at St. Peter’s College Oxford. Founder, NK:IO Ltd.
Materials ⬅️ Molecules ➡️ Medicines.
Fan of switches + chirality science.
https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-fuchter
Materials ⬅️ Molecules ➡️ Medicines.
Fan of switches + chirality science.
https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-fuchter
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Congrats to Brandon & Kai on their new paper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social where they show how azobenzene/triptycene-based chiral dopants tune the photophysical properties of liquid crystals. In addition to the structure property insight 1/2
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Azobenzene/Triptycene‐Based Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Dopants
Chiral, photoswitchable dopants composed of triptycene and azobenzene exhibit exceptionally large helical twisting powers that change dramatically upon isomerization when incorporated into the liquid...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Congrats to Brandon & Kai on their new paper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social where they show how azobenzene/triptycene-based chiral dopants tune the photophysical properties of liquid crystals. In addition to the structure property insight 1/2
bit.ly/3JT9Ljo #NSFFunded #chemsky #molswitch
bit.ly/3JT9Ljo #NSFFunded #chemsky #molswitch
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Our new article on Faraday rotation in chiral supramolecular polymer assemblies is finally published! Check it out!
Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Our new article on Faraday rotation in chiral supramolecular polymer assemblies is finally published! Check it out!
Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social
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New in Chemical Science!
"Aryl azopyrroles as visible light photoswitchable TRPA1 ligands" by Pui-Ying Lam (Medical College of Wisconsin) and Matthew Fuchter (Imperial College London, Oxford University) et al. @fuchtermatt.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
"Aryl azopyrroles as visible light photoswitchable TRPA1 ligands" by Pui-Ying Lam (Medical College of Wisconsin) and Matthew Fuchter (Imperial College London, Oxford University) et al. @fuchtermatt.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
October 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New in Chemical Science!
"Aryl azopyrroles as visible light photoswitchable TRPA1 ligands" by Pui-Ying Lam (Medical College of Wisconsin) and Matthew Fuchter (Imperial College London, Oxford University) et al. @fuchtermatt.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
"Aryl azopyrroles as visible light photoswitchable TRPA1 ligands" by Pui-Ying Lam (Medical College of Wisconsin) and Matthew Fuchter (Imperial College London, Oxford University) et al. @fuchtermatt.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
Check out our latest photopharmacology paper in @chemicalscience.rsc.org. We discover azopyrroles can be powerful tools to control movement phenotypes via TRPA1. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... #ChemSky
September 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Check out our latest photopharmacology paper in @chemicalscience.rsc.org. We discover azopyrroles can be powerful tools to control movement phenotypes via TRPA1. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... #ChemSky
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Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk
Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk
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August 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk
Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk
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Impressions from two amazing weeks of Chirality & Spin at the #Chirality 2025 Conference in New York City and the GRC in New Hampshire! #sciencerocks #collaboration #friendship 🌀so much fun and great research from friends across the globe!
August 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Impressions from two amazing weeks of Chirality & Spin at the #Chirality 2025 Conference in New York City and the GRC in New Hampshire! #sciencerocks #collaboration #friendship 🌀so much fun and great research from friends across the globe!
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Excited to share in @nature.com today: Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - detecting the most subtle changes in light polarization over time with unprecedented sensitivity. Grateful for the team that made this possible!😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chirality #light
Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - Nature
A high-sensitivity, broadband, transient, full-Stokes spectroscopy setup is demonstrated, which can detect quickly varying small signals from chiral emitters.
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June 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Excited to share in @nature.com today: Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - detecting the most subtle changes in light polarization over time with unprecedented sensitivity. Grateful for the team that made this possible!😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chirality #light
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Welcome to supramolecular dye chemistry research in Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de.
Follow us to stay informed about acitivities and publications of the Würthner Group.
For more information have a look at our group website: www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/oc/wuerthner...
Follow us to stay informed about acitivities and publications of the Würthner Group.
For more information have a look at our group website: www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/oc/wuerthner...
June 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Welcome to supramolecular dye chemistry research in Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de.
Follow us to stay informed about acitivities and publications of the Würthner Group.
For more information have a look at our group website: www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/oc/wuerthner...
Follow us to stay informed about acitivities and publications of the Würthner Group.
For more information have a look at our group website: www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/oc/wuerthner...
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RSC Nanoscale special edition on #chiral #nanomaterials
#chemsky #chirality
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#chemsky #chirality
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June 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
RSC Nanoscale special edition on #chiral #nanomaterials
#chemsky #chirality
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#chemsky #chirality
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🎉 Congrats to Brandon on the new @jacs.acspublications.org paper! bit.ly/3ZcZEdR
A multistate photoswitchable hydrazone is used as a chiral dopant in liquid crystals ➡️ steganography in action!
#NSFfunded #molswitch ⚗️🧪 #chemsky
A multistate photoswitchable hydrazone is used as a chiral dopant in liquid crystals ➡️ steganography in action!
#NSFfunded #molswitch ⚗️🧪 #chemsky
Molecular Steganography Using Multistate Photoswitchable Hydrazones
The development of photochromic compounds that can have multiaddressable and -stable states is desirable for imparting multistate responses in soft materials. Here, we report on two such photochromes,...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🎉 Congrats to Brandon on the new @jacs.acspublications.org paper! bit.ly/3ZcZEdR
A multistate photoswitchable hydrazone is used as a chiral dopant in liquid crystals ➡️ steganography in action!
#NSFfunded #molswitch ⚗️🧪 #chemsky
A multistate photoswitchable hydrazone is used as a chiral dopant in liquid crystals ➡️ steganography in action!
#NSFfunded #molswitch ⚗️🧪 #chemsky
Thanks the invite^. Sure, I’ll consider publishing in @jacs.acspublications.org. Oh wait, you mean the *other* JACS?! 😬 #Chemsky
^assuming you me not my former PhD student 🤔
^assuming you me not my former PhD student 🤔
April 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Thanks the invite^. Sure, I’ll consider publishing in @jacs.acspublications.org. Oh wait, you mean the *other* JACS?! 😬 #Chemsky
^assuming you me not my former PhD student 🤔
^assuming you me not my former PhD student 🤔
🏴 This Is Wales 🏴 😍
April 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🏴 This Is Wales 🏴 😍
Spring has sprung in Oxford! 😍
April 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Spring has sprung in Oxford! 😍
#ACSSpring2025 was ace! Until the next time you stay classy San Diego
March 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
#ACSSpring2025 was ace! Until the next time you stay classy San Diego
@gracegdhan.bsky.social smashing it, as always, during her award lecture at #ACSSpring2025
March 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@gracegdhan.bsky.social smashing it, as always, during her award lecture at #ACSSpring2025
Which is the best symposium at #ACSSpring2025? Light-Matter Interactions in Molecular Systems and Emerging Semiconductors! Come along to the amazing lineup put together by @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @dcongreve.bsky.social and Lea Nienhaus
March 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Which is the best symposium at #ACSSpring2025? Light-Matter Interactions in Molecular Systems and Emerging Semiconductors! Come along to the amazing lineup put together by @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @dcongreve.bsky.social and Lea Nienhaus
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Sunday 8:00 #ACSSpring2025 meeting in room 32B. Amar Flood @floodgroup.bsky.social and I will both be talking about our super bright #fluorescent SMILES materials. Including recent work in #ChemSci (doi.org/10.1039/D3SC...) #nanoparticles and in #AngewandteChemie (doi.org/10.1002/anie...) on #CPL.
Supramolecular Control of Helicene Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emitters in Molecular Solids and Bright Nanoparticles
The intrinsic molecular chiroptical properties (electronic circular dichroism and circular polarized luminescence) of helicences are perfectly transferred from solution to the crystal state and to wa....
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March 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Sunday 8:00 #ACSSpring2025 meeting in room 32B. Amar Flood @floodgroup.bsky.social and I will both be talking about our super bright #fluorescent SMILES materials. Including recent work in #ChemSci (doi.org/10.1039/D3SC...) #nanoparticles and in #AngewandteChemie (doi.org/10.1002/anie...) on #CPL.
The Glen T Seaborg medal award symposium and dinner at UCLA, honouring posthumously Sir Fraser Stoddart, was excellent. So many great talks and touching memories. And look @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social, I bumped into our new #Chemsky colleagues
March 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Glen T Seaborg medal award symposium and dinner at UCLA, honouring posthumously Sir Fraser Stoddart, was excellent. So many great talks and touching memories. And look @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social, I bumped into our new #Chemsky colleagues
I should also shout out Davia Prischich from my group who delivered a wonderful #photopharma #ChemBio talk on her photoswitchable peptide work.
It was wonderful to be back in Hong Kong to present at the LSCCB’s conference. Now off to Cali to see some of my fav #Chemsky folks including @conway-group.bsky.social, @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @floodgroup.bsky.social, @gracegdhan.bsky.social and @swagergroup.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I should also shout out Davia Prischich from my group who delivered a wonderful #photopharma #ChemBio talk on her photoswitchable peptide work.
It was wonderful to be back in Hong Kong to present at the LSCCB’s conference. Now off to Cali to see some of my fav #Chemsky folks including @conway-group.bsky.social, @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @floodgroup.bsky.social, @gracegdhan.bsky.social and @swagergroup.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
It was wonderful to be back in Hong Kong to present at the LSCCB’s conference. Now off to Cali to see some of my fav #Chemsky folks including @conway-group.bsky.social, @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @floodgroup.bsky.social, @gracegdhan.bsky.social and @swagergroup.bsky.social
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AI-based imaging of zebrafish
Position with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @fuchtermatt.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
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Position with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @fuchtermatt.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant or Research Fellow
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
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March 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
AI-based imaging of zebrafish
Position with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @fuchtermatt.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
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Position with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @fuchtermatt.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
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January 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Who wants to come and work with our group @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social on photoswitches and photopharmacology 🙋♀️🙋🏻🙋♂️
Apply for our open #chempostdoc position now! Deadline 28th Feb. Reposts appreciated #Chemsky
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Apply for our open #chempostdoc position now! Deadline 28th Feb. Reposts appreciated #Chemsky
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January 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Who wants to come and work with our group @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social on photoswitches and photopharmacology 🙋♀️🙋🏻🙋♂️
Apply for our open #chempostdoc position now! Deadline 28th Feb. Reposts appreciated #Chemsky
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Apply for our open #chempostdoc position now! Deadline 28th Feb. Reposts appreciated #Chemsky
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Delighted to join Bluesky on the day our article for Nature Reviews Clean Technology got published! www.nature.com/articles/s44... Especially excited on the section on the potential of emerging materials for indoor energy harvesting. Great collaboration with Murthy, Paola and many others
Promises and challenges of indoor photovoltaics - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Indoor photovoltaics can meet the power demands of the rapidly increasing number of Internet-of-Things devices and reduce the reliance on batteries. This Review describes materials best suited for ind...
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January 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Delighted to join Bluesky on the day our article for Nature Reviews Clean Technology got published! www.nature.com/articles/s44... Especially excited on the section on the potential of emerging materials for indoor energy harvesting. Great collaboration with Murthy, Paola and many others