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Designing, devising, synthesizing, and testing novel nanometer-scale structures at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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🚨 PhD Position Available! 🚨

Join our group at FAU as part of RTG 2861! 🎓🔬 We are looking for a PhD candidate to study carbon planar lattices via transient spectroscopies.

📌 Details & application: rtg2861-pcl.chm.tu-dresden.de/joboffer/

🔄 Retweets appreciated!

#chemsky #pisky #PhD #Spectroscopy
PCL — Open Positions
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That’s a wrap for #ICP2025 in Aachen! Huge thanks to all speakers and poster presenters for the outstanding talks and engaging discussions. It was an inspiring and successful week!
July 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The countdown is on—less than 10 days until #ICP2025 kicks off in Aachen! 🎉 Get ready for exciting talks, great discussions, and new connections. Don’t forget to check the program: icp2025.de
July 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Huge congratulations to our Giovanni for this big achievement! 🎉
It was a great honor to receive the Early Career Researcher Lectureship Prize from the RSC Photophysics and Photochemistry Group!
I had the chance to present my results on nanographenes at the Imperial College during the latest RSC meeting.

Many thanks for the recognition and kind invitation!
Congratulations to Giovanni Benevento on winning the @rsc-photochem.bsky.social 2025 Early Career Researcher Lectureship Prize.

#chemsky
June 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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How does Near-Infrared-Photoswitching work? Our newest research delivers an ultrafast molecular movie of the all-red-light photoswitch peri-Anthracenethioindigo (PAT) in action! Aided by excited state theory, its mechanism of motion is fully revealed.
June 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Years in the making, finally published! Congrats Bob and Yanwen, and thanks for the great collaboration ‪‪@guldi-group.bsky.social‬!

Excited State Dynamics of Odd [n]Cumulenes
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Excited State Dynamics of Odd [n]Cumulenes: Chain Length and Conformational Effects
Over the past decades, carbon allotropes have been extensively studied and applied to various technological applications due to their unique electronic and optical properties. Contemporary research ha...
pubs.acs.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Prof. Guldi delivered four different presentations at the Electrochemical Society Meeting in Montreal, covering a broad range of topics — from nanoribbons and singlet fission to cumulenes and carbon nanodots!

www.chemistry.nat.fau.eu/2025/05/22/p...
Prof. Dirk M. Guldi’s Presentations at the ECS Meeting in Montreal
We are thrilled to report that Prof. Dirk M. Guldi recently represented our chair and FAU Solar at the prestigious Electrochemical Society (ECS) meeting held in Montreal from May 18 to May 22, 2025.
www.chemistry.nat.fau.eu
May 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
📣 The abstract submission deadline for the 32nd International Conference on Photochemistry has been extended to 12 May 2025!

🔬Join us in Aachen, 13–18 July 2025, for great science in a historic setting!
April 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We are pleased to announce that our latest Nature Communication article on singlet fission (doi.org/10.1038/s414...) was selected in the Editors’ Highlights webpage!

Check it out here:
nature.com/collections/...

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Reversible gating of singlet fission by tuning the role of a charge-transfer state - Nature Communications
Singlet fission is an efficient way to generate excitons but is rarely responsive to external stimuli. Here the authors design a linked tetracene dimer where acid/base interactions can control singlet...
doi.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Had a fantastic week of measurements at @mpip-mainz.mpg.de — thanks a lot to @giulialavarda.bsky.social for hosting me. Honored to be the first guest of her group!

Really enjoyed learning about THz spectroscopy in the group of Prof. Bonn. And many thanks to Prof. Blom for the fruitful discussions!
April 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Was great connecting with you all in beautiful Burlington House @rsc.org ! @guldi-group.bsky.social @chemguyeli.bsky.social and many more. To the next years to come!😊
Good @rsc-photochem.bsky.social committee meeting in sunny London this afternoon, including the opportunity to meet some of the new recently elected committee members.
April 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Just out in @naturechemistry.bsky.social!
When optical features miss excited-state PCET, environmental effects step in. We show that pressure not only reveals mechanistic sensitivity but can even switch the reaction from stepwise to concerted.
Big congrats to Daniel!

🔗 Read more: rdcu.be/eelOE
March 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Singlet fission and charge-transfer state compete in individual graphene nanoribbons, showing huge thermal and polarity dependence. Check it out!
Happy to share our latest JACS publication on twisted molecular nanoribbons! Our study reveals that both external factors and ribbon length greatly influence their deactivation—longer ribbons even enable intramolecular singlet fission. Many thanks to everyone involved! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Intramolecular Singlet Fission in Individual Graphene Nanoribbons─Competition with a Charge Transfer
Graphene nanoribbons (NRs) constitute a versatile platform for developing novel materials, where their structure governs their optical, electronic, and magnetic properties while also shaping their excited-state dynamics. Here, we investigate a set of three twisted N-doped molecular NRs of increasing length, obtained by linearly fusing perylene diimide to pyrene and pyrazino- or thiadiazolo-quinoxaline residues. By employing various temperature-dependent time-resolved spectroscopy techniques, we reveal how the flexible twisted NR geometry promotes the formation of a mixed electronic state with varying contributions from locally excited and charge-transfer (CT) states. The fate of this mixed state is highly sensitive to the molecular geometry, length, and solvent polarity. For the shortest NR, intersystem crossing dominates the deactivation pathway, efficiently generating triplets in low-polarity solvents. In contrast, for the extended NRs, intramolecular singlet fission (SF) takes place within a single nanoribbon. This is enabled by enhanced superexchange coupling due to a pronounced push–pull nature and the existence of multiple localized π-electron states caused by heteroatom doping, thereby circumventing the need for dimeric interactions typically associated with conventional SF systems. In higher-polarity environments, evidence of a (diabatic) CT state emerges. These findings underscore the intricate relationship between geometry, energy levels, and excited-state dynamics in twisted N-doped NRs.
pubs.acs.org
March 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
🚨 PhD Position Available! 🚨

Join our group at FAU as part of RTG 2861! 🎓🔬 We are looking for a PhD candidate to study carbon planar lattices via transient spectroscopies.

📌 Details & application: rtg2861-pcl.chm.tu-dresden.de/joboffer/

🔄 Retweets appreciated!

#chemsky #pisky #PhD #Spectroscopy
PCL — Open Positions
rtg2861-pcl.chm.tu-dresden.de
March 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🥳 Last Tuesday, we celebrated Fasching in style with our traditional Bavarian breakfast—white sausages, pretzels 🥨, and Weizen 🍺. Also this year’s celebration we had a lots of amazing costumes, Alaaf! 🎭🎉
March 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Hi BlueSky community - the nanoscale journal family here at @rsc.org are so excited to have joined BlueSky!

Follow us @nanoscale-journals.rsc.org for the latest in nanoscience research published across our portfolio Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances #ChemSky
March 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Check out our latest work on a N-triangulene mixed-valence system, in collaboration with Prof. Kivala! 👏 Congrats to Simon, Marcel, and all co-authors!

Read more: doi.org/10.1002/anie.202423516
Helically Chiral Mixed‐Valence Systems Comprising N‐Heterotriangulenes: Stabilization of the Cationic Species by π‐Expansion
[5]Helicene-bridged dimeric N-heterotriangulenes were synthesized. Their successive oxidation allowed the study of the electronic coupling between the nitrogen centers. The radical cation with its st....
doi.org
February 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Ultrafast IR spectroscopy of photoinduced mixed-valence systems reveals a fully delocalized Class III behavior in the excited state @fau.de @guldi-group.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Barrierless Electron Transfer in a Photosynthetic Reaction Center Model
Ultrafast IR absorption spectroscopy was utilized to interrogate excited-state electron transfer in a strongly-coupled, cyanide-bridged photoinduced mixed-valent system. Despite structural asymmetry,...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🧪A fresh take on Carbon Nanodot Photocatalysis! Embedding chromophores in CNDs reshapes their photochemistry—suppressing phenazine disproportionation and enabling hydrogen generation.

👏 Congrats to all co-authors! Check it out here 👇

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/anie.202418626
Improving Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation via Polycitric Acid‐based Carbon Nanodots
The influence, that polycitric acid-based carbon nanodot (CND) can pose on the properties of incorporated N-hetero-π-conjugated chromophores was investigated. Phenazine was used as the probe chromoph...
doi.org
February 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Registration for the 32nd International Conference on Photochemistry is now open! Secure your spot at #ICP2025 and join us in Aachen for an exciting week of cutting-edge photochemistry.

Register now at 👉 www.icp2025.de
ICP2025
The 32nd International Conference on Photochemistry will take place from July 13 (Sunday) to July 18 (Friday), 2025 in Aachen (Germany). The event is jointly organized by the RWTH Aachen University…
www.icp2025.de
February 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations at the 32nd International Conference on Photochemistry #ICP2025 are now open! 🧪

Submit via our website icp2025.de by April 30, 2025.

#ICP2025 will be held from July 13 -18 , 2025, in Aachen, Germany. Find the program & details online.
January 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Excited to join the #chemsky community!
December 20, 2024 at 1:48 PM