Day 1
Sunday, March 8, 2026
2:00 - 4:30 pm
Arrival & Registration
4:30 - 4:40 pm
Opening SupraChem2026
4:40 - 4:50 pm
Introduction of the GDCh subgroup Supramolecular Chemistry and the YoungSupras Initiative
Session 1: Materials
4:50 - 5:40 pm
Keynote Lecture: Takuzo Aida
“Supramolecular Polymerization for a Sustainable Future”
5:40 - 6:00 pm
Alex J. Plajer
“Hydrogelation via Supramolecular Copolymerisation of Water within Metal-Organic Fibres”
6:00 - 6:15 pm
Marcos Martínez-Fernández
“Integrating Organic Cages into Covalent Organic Frameworks: Matryoshka Materials for Selective Gas Adsorption”
6:15 - 6:30 pm
Tobias Thiele
“Using the Photostationary State of Arylazopyrazoles to Control Phase Transitions of Liquid Crystals”
6:30 - 6:50 pm
Frank Biedermann
“Challenges in the Determination of Binding Constants: The Role of Fitting Algorithms, Improved Assay Design, and Open-Access Solutions”
6:50 - 9:30 pm
Welcome Reception & Party
Day 2
Monday, March 9, 2026
Session 2: Aromatic Macrocycles
9:00 - 9:50 am
Keynote Lecture: Harry L. Anderson
“Porphyrin-Based Molecular Wires, Nanorings and Nanobelts”
9:50 - 10:10 am
Oliver Dumele
“Confined Spaces in Carbon Nanorings: Unusual Cavities in Highly Strained Aromatic Macrocycles”
10:10 - 10:25 am
Adriana Sacristán-Martín
”HoopCat: Confinement Enhanced Asymmetric Organocatalysis”
10:25 - 10:40 am
Anika Haidisch
“Functionalized Calix[4]nanocones”
10:40 - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
Session 3: Supramolecular Interactions
11:10 - 11:30 am
Bartosz Szyszko
“Mechanically Interlocked Porphyrinoids – Activating Intramolecular Dynamics with Pyrrole”
11:30 - 11:50 am
Sarah J. Pike
“Solvent Controlled Assembly of Lanthanide-Foldamer Metallosupramolecular Architectures”
11:50 - 12:10 pm
Frederik Haase
“Guiding the Covalent Bond Formation in Covalent Organic Frameworks through Supramolecular Interactions”
12:10 - 12:20 pm
Conference Picture
12:20 - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:10 pm
SupraChem PhD award ceremony and prize lectures
Session 4: Systems and Reactions
2:10 - 2:30 pm
Ivan Aprahamian
“Hydrazone-Based Adaptive Materials”
2:30 - 2:50 pm
Dibyendu Das
“Non-equilibrium self-assembly for living matter-like properties”
2:50 - 3:10 pm
Yang Yu
“Selective Molecular Transformations under Confinement”
3:10 - 3:30 pm
Konrad Tiefenbacher
“How Can Alkanes Be Bound in Organic Solvents? Application to the Medial C–H Oxidation of Alkanes”
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Coffee Break
Session 5: Biohybrid and Bioinspired Systems
4:00 - 4:50 pm
Keynote Lecture: Amelie Heuer-Jungemann
“ Programming Matter Beyond the Molecule – DNA Origami as a Supramolecular Architecture”
4:50 - 5:10 pm
Jun-Li Hou
“Artificial Junctional Channels Assembled within Intercellular Gaps”
5:10 - 5:25 pm
Kun Dai
“Peptides oligomerisation regulated by acyl phosphate”
5:25 - 5:40 pm
Aaron Torres-Huerta
“Formation of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes in Liposome-Based Nanoreactors”
5:40 - 6:00 pm
Line Næsborg
“Photochemistry in aqueous micellar systems”
6:00 - 6:15 pm
Rigaku: Khai-Nghi Truong
"Overcoming Size Limitations: Structural Elucidation by Electron Diffraction"
6:15 - 8:30 pm
Posters, beer and finger food
Day 3
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Session 6: Photochemistry
9:00 - 9:50 am
Keynote Lecture: Stefan Hecht
“Gating and Driving Dynamic Covalent Exchange with Light”
9:50 - 10:10 am
Robert Hein
“Chiral Induction and Memory via Supramolecular Deracemization”
10:10 - 10:30 am
Andreas Vargas Jentzsch
“Supramolecular Photogenerated Qubit Candidates”
10:30 - 10:45 am
Zoe Nonie Scheller
“Light-Induced Increase in Bond Strength ─ from Chalcogen Bond to Three-Electron σ Bond”
10:45 - 11:05 am
Irene Regeni
“Ru(II)-peptide conjugates for photoactivated chemotherapy”
11:05 - 11:30 am
Coffee Break
Session 7: Coordination Cages
11:30 - 11:50 am
James E. M. Lewis
“Molecular Engineering of Low Symmetry Coordination Cages”
11:50 - 12:10 pm
Dipak Samanta
“Self-Assembled Palladium(II) Cages for Iodine Capture and Selective Guest Encapsulation”
12:10 - 12:25 pm
Zack T. Avery
“Dual Proton/Anion Binding Through Reciprocal Allostery in Platinum(II) Lantern-Shaped Cages“
12:25 - 1:15 pm
Keynote Lecture: Nathalie Katsonis
„Supramolecular Chemistry at the Origins of Life”
1:15 - 1:30 pm
Closing remarks