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Guillaume De Bo
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Mechanochemist and Molecular Machinist. Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester.🇧🇪 in 🇬🇧.
Can I flip it? Yes you can!

Elusive pillar[5]arene conformation formed by flipping an aromatic ring with mechanical force!

An @angewandtechemie.bsky.social hat trick for Lei with the help of @tomasnicolas.bsky.social and @ironcevic.bsky.social !

Read at doi.org/10.1002/anie.202516485

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August 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Dual release with a bit of logic!

We show the release of a double cargo payload with 2 stimuli, force and water, with an AND gate mechanism.

Great work from Lei Chen, now available in #openaccess as a #HotPaper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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July 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The University of Manchester, making an impact since 1824 !

As 2024 draws to a close, we wanted to celebrate our university's 200th anniversary mechanochemically 🔨

@official-uom.bsky.social purple and gold colours are revealed by the impact of a hammer on a mechanochromic elastomer. #UoM200
December 16, 2024 at 4:22 PM