Martin Power

@FieldenStephen @UoBChemistry @ERC_Research Congrats Steve! Glad to see this

Chuffed to have been awarded an #ERCStG to explore how to exploit Ostwald ripening in emulsions. Thanks to everyone who helped me with the application. Look out for postdoc and PhD positions soon! @UoBChemistry @ERC_Research

🚨 New paper in Angewandte Chemie Novit! 🚨 Metal-free active template synthesis of catenanes — no strong binding or added templates needed!🧪 Huge thanks to Jiankang, Patrick, @enzoolivieri4, and Prof. @ProfDaveLeigh for the supervision! 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

#Enzymatic Stereodivergent Synthesis of Azaspiro[2.y]alkanes by Jennifer L. Kennemur, Yueming Long, Catherine J. Ko, Anuvab Das, and @francesarnold at @CaltechCCE in @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Fully funded PhD opportunity in the design, synthesis and characterisation of artificial molecular machines - 2 years at the University of Manchester; 1-2 years at Peking University. Open only to non-Chinese nationals. If interested, please email me asap. findaphd.com/phds/project/u…

15 PhD positions open Motorized nanomachines: fundamentals, innovations, applications cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101… Academic labs (Feringa, Lehn, Diez, Simmel, Credi, Duwez, Giuseppone) and companies (Soprema, Syensqo) Details for applications available soon through EURAXESS website

PhD positions (SNSF) available at the University of Basel (Switzerland🇨🇭)! Join a new research group working on innovative catalytic pathways to produce endergonic/endothermic molecules🔥. For more details: endergo.net/joinus.html & enzo.olivieri.basel@proton.me

A Catalysis-Driven Dual Molecular Motor | Journal of the American Chemical Society @OfficialUoM pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@Toufic_Mrad @ProfDaveLeigh @ACSPublications @HuakuiLiu @AxelTroncossi @StefanBorsley @benjamino_acid @AlexBetts95 Congrats Toufic! Nice to see this out

Check out how we made a minuscule motor rotate 24 times in one direction on its own! Huge thanks to all involved, especially @ProfDaveLeigh for making this work possible @ACSPublications @HuakuiLiu @AxelTroncossi @StefanBorsley @benjamino_acid @AlexBetts95 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@Ella_Maru Thank you Ella, reversing the fuel chirality doesn’t 100% restore the original state as not all of the polymer chains will unravel at the same time. However, the gel does re-expand and reaches 80% of its original volume before contracting again.

@MartinJ_Power Congratulations Martin! Does reversing fuel chirality fully restore the gel’s original state?

Out now in Nature (nature.com/articles/s4158…)! Very happy to have been a part of this journey. We have integrated a catalysis-driven molecular motor into a polymer gel network to better understand the molecular-level transduction of chemical energy to mechanical force. (1/5)

A big thank you to our excellent first author Peng-Lai, @StefanBorsley, @ProfDaveLeigh, and our collaborators Alessandro and @GiusepponeLab in Strasbourg for making this happen. (5/5)

The direction of motor rotation and therefore polymer entanglement can be changed by switching the chirality of the chemical fuel, enabling a powered expansion and re-contraction of the gel. (4/5)

Very happy to be starting my postdoc at the Arnold group at Caltech. Time for a new biocatalysis-themed adventure.

Budding molecular magicians are invited to apply for a 4-year PhD studentship on catalysis-driven molecular machinery (e.g. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…; nature.com/articles/s4158…; etc) available in my group, autumn 2025 start: tinyurl.com/kdw6mtcr. Position open until filled😃

Just in time for Halloween💀☠️ skeletal editing of rotaxanes! @MaximeG43877226, Jess & Dan use @LevinChem’s N-deletion reagent to remove template site of dibenzylammonium rotaxanes enabling synthesis of otherwise inaccessible structures.Out now in @J_A_C_S pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…