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10.3. Congratulations to Sergey! His supramolecular nanotube is now online in Chemistry A European Journal. It is open access, so you can read the work here.

7.2. New preprint on ChemRxiv from Juraj! Now, we understand what is behind the anomalous CPL that we recorded for Juraj's original Möbius [6]helicene nanohoop. Two new hoops with [5]helicene revealed that the topological bistability of their pi-system is the culprit.

29.1. We say goodbye to Noah who spent the last 10 months with us working on his Master thesis. What a great time it was, although it flew so fast. Noah, you will be missed, but we are excited about your next journey in the group of Michal Juríček. All the best for your PhD! :-)

2023

6.12. A perspective article of Juraj about topological bistability of pi-electron system in his helicene carbon nanohoops has been accepted to Synlett. A great read with a coffee :-)

30.11. New preprint on ChemRxiv from Kovida! She red-shifted the emission of circularly polarized light from carbon nanohoops and found out about the role of exciton delocalization in the process at the same time. Really cool stuff! Congrats, Kovida.

10.11. New preprint on ChemRxiv from Sergey! Fun project on inducing supramolecular nanotubes to form in the solid state. Sergey accomplished it, congrats and let's submit now.

9.10. We have an opening for a PhD student in time-resolved spectroscopy of our organic cages and more! Have a look here.

2.10. Sergey's paper has been accepted to JACS Au, hooray! Great collaboration with our colleagues in Basel and Vienna. We learnt a great deal about photochemistry in the gas phase and we look forward to do more in the future.

1.8. And finally Sergey is in Amsterdam. The last member from Uni Bern is with us and we are finally complete! It took only 2.5 years to gather the entire group in a single place :-D

19.7. Curo-pi5 has launched in Prague! Juraj, Kovida, Remek, and Tomáš are all there. The first three with exciting posters and Tomáš with a talk.

1.7. Juraj rejoined the group in Amsterdam for his postdoc. Looking forward to explore aromaticity in his Möbius molecules!

26.6. A result of Sergey's fun collaboration with Dr. Köhler (Uni Basel) and Prof. Arndt (Uni Vienna) is now on ChemRxiv. Learn about how one can trigger a heterolytic photorelease in high vacuum. Yes, you read it right, in high vacuum! Preprint here.

9.1. There is a new Dr. in the town! Congratulations to Juraj for his fantastic PhD defense. What a pleasure it was to have you in the group the past 4 years. Glad that more exciting collaboration is still to come :-)

6.1. Congratulations to Remek and Juraj for their paper exploring silyl protecting groups in the synthesis of carbon nanohoops published in Synthesis. Great job guys, really useful chemistry.

1.1. New Year, new opportunities! Our groups has just officially started its adventures in the new place. Welcome to the Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. All the best in 2023 everyone!

2022

21.9. Juraj presented his work on helicene carbon nanohoops at the 28. Lecture Conference on Photochemistry in Düsseldorf. Great job, Juraj!

5.9. Remek, Kovida and Sergey took the Graduate Student Symposium in Bern by storm this year. Great talks all of you and congratulations to Kovida for getting the prize for the best talk!

18.7. Juraj's work on CPL-active Möbius helicene nanohoop has just been accepted to Angewandte Chemie! Fantastic job by Juraj and a really exciting read can be accessed by clicking here. Enjoy!

22.6. Hooray! Big congratulations to Hua, the first graduate (Dr. Huang ;-)) from our lab who successfully passed her defense today. What a fantastic talk she gave. Hua, all the best in your job in Basel. Farewell :-)

11.6. Juraj's paper submitted again. It took us nearly a year to get crystal structure of his fancy Möbius nanhoop. It shines bright light with a twist. Cross the fingers to read it soon!

6.6. Remek, Kovida and Sergey are in Bologna at IX Ciamician Photochemistry School. Enjoy the lovely week in Italy with great lectures!

14.2. So many good news today! Warm welcome to master students Gianna and Simon who joined us for their first lab day today. All the best guys, let your chemistry work smoothly. Their bios are coming soon. Stay tuned!

14.2. Happy Valentine's day and happy birthday, Tomáš. As a gift, the triangulene story is now online in Chemical Communications, just look here!

4.2. The triangulene story with Juricek group has been accepted to Chem. Comm.! What a peer-review journey that was.

1.1. It is here again, a New Year! All the best and lots of personal and professional success to you all.