News
27 March 2019 Front cover for our work in Accounts of Chemical Research
Intensively used for more than 60 years in industry (in Xerox process, OLEDs, solar cells…), triarylamines have revealed only very recently their capacity to undergo supramolecular polymerization....[more]
06 March 2019 CCS Chemistry 1st issue now available
CCS Chemistry is the new Chinese Chemical Society’s flagship journal, publishing highly selected articles (about 150 in total per year) available in Diamond Open Access...[more]
07 January 2019 Welcome to Chloé and Lara
Dr. Chloé Laure, with a PhD in polymer chemistry, has joined our group since December 1st 2018 as post-doctoral fellow to develop the Dynamics project supported by SATT Conectus Alsace. Dr. Lara...[more]
05 October 2018 Our Angewandte Chemie paper on Supramolecular Electropolymerization selected as a “hot paper”
Reported in this article is that supramolecular nucleation‐growth of triarylamine monomers can be triggered by electrochemistry in various solvents. The involved mechanism offers new opportunities to...[more]
01 October 2018 Welcome to Wenzhi, Nicolas, Raphaël and Christian
From October 1st 2018, four young researchers join the SAMS research group as PhD students: With a fellowship from the China Scholarship Council, Wenzhi Wang will focus on the synthesis and the...[more]
20 February 2018 “Magnify” H2020 FET-Open project
The MAGNIFY project has been awarded 3 M€ by the European Union in the Horizon 2020 Framework Program within the FET-Open research and innovation actions call. MAGNIFY aims to develop a new...[more]
18 December 2017 Our work highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News
The research work performed in the SAMS team on molecular machines was selected by Chemical & Engineering News (December 18th, 2017) as "Research of the Year".[more]
12 October 2017 Rotaxane-based contractile gels
In our last JACS communication, we show that the integration of double-threaded bistable rotaxanes within polymer networks can produce contractile materials by amplifying the actuation of the...[more]
02 October 2017 Welcome to Marie-Céline, Alexis and Joakim
From October 2nd 2017, Marie-Céline Samy-Arlaye joins the group as technician and will be in charge of some chromatographic techniques available in the group (mainly UPLC-MS) and help in the...[more]
06 June 2017 A molecular gearbox controlled by light
Please read here our Nature Nanotechnology paper about the tiniest gearbox ever ! See also the nice related news and views by Prof Ke and a video explaining this work[more]