Danowski’s Group
Subprogram IA: Molecular machines
- Design and synthesis of novel molecular photoswitches and light-powered molecular machines.
- Development of new scaffolds of light-driven molecular motors.
- Optimization of operational efficiency of light-driven molecular machines.
Selected publications:
- Formylation boosts the performance of light-driven overcrowded alkene-derived rotary molecular motors, Nature Chemistry, 2024
- Visible-light-driven tunable molecular motors based on oxindole, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019
- Braking of a Light‐Driven Molecular Rotary Motor by Chemical Stimuli, Chemistry–A European Journal, 2018
Subprogram IB: Light-responsive and porous materials
- Design and synthesis of novel photo-responsive porous materials based on MOF, COF and HOF.
- Novel synthetic methodologies for construction of porous materials with tailored morphologies.
- Design and synthesis of novel light-orthogonal systems based on block copolymers.
- Construction of isoporous membranes based on amphiphilic stimuli-responsive polymers.
Selected publications:
- Orthogonal Photoswitching in a Porous Organic Framework, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 2024
- Modulation of porosity in a solid material enabled by bulk photoisomerization of an overcrowded alkene, Nature Chemistry, 2020
- Unidirectional rotary motion in a metal–organic framework, Nature Nanotechnology, 2019