The Guild's Presidents have gathered at University of Groningen for their General Assembly ✨

On the agenda are timely discussions on #sustainability , #equitable partnerships, research #security , #competitiveness and #FP10 .

The morning started with a session on equitable partnerships

It's always fun to make content for science. Schwille Lab Ainoa Guinart

Opening of University of Groningen Strategic Partner Forum with partners from The Guild, Enlight-EU, Northwest Germany and Strategic Partnership Framework: Nobel Prize winner Prof Ben Feringa reflecting on his experience in the United States says don't forget to send your students abroad

Our motor&lipid vesicles want to celebrate workers’ day and can’t stop dancing 🎶🤘

Feringa Lab Schwille Lab Yusuf Qutbuddin

My second cover art being published and couldn’t be more proud to feature this amazing work from Thomas Freese !

Check it out 💚

An amazing piece of work of scientific communication from Ainoa Guinart! Have a look at what she has been doing in our lab during the last years condensed in just 1 minute.
#spotlightprize

Today at 13:00, Ben is going to be featured on the Noorderlingendingen live podcast (in Dutch) Dagblad van het Noorden amid the celebrations of University of Groningen's 410th birthday! 🥳 If you are in Groningen, you can register here: dvhn.nl/noorderlingend…

'When I draw a molecule in China or in Argentina, it is the same molecule. People understand immediately without knowing Spanish or Chinese. That is beautiful. Our common goal is not about power or borders of the country, it is about bringing forward human knowledge.' Ben Feringa

Building upon the inspiration from yesterday's talk during his visit to Budapest, today's highlight was the chance to connect with Ben Feringa from Feringa Lab and delve into intriguing scientific discussions with fellow group members. His insights are deeply appreciated!

Congratulations, Geneviève Geneviève Almouzni! 🏆

Proud that our ERC Scientific Council member won a 2024 Fondation L'Oréal-UNESCO
#ForWomenInScience International Award in life sciences.

It recognises female researchers for their impact on science & society.

erc.europa.eu/erc_member/gen… 🇪🇺

Werken aan duurzaamheid begint bij het eigen lab sciencelink.net/verdieping/wer… Mooi overzicht van onderzoek naar vergroening labs door Thomas Freese & collega's van Feringa Lab, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry. Minder uitstoot CO2 en een flinke €€ besparing!

Preparing for the move to the new Feringa building: alphabetically sorting all PhD thesis before packing them.
Among many others, we found this old gem from 1928, an almost 100 years old PhD thesis from University of Groningen

Who said that sustainable chem cannot be tough? Here, Yuanxin Deng and Qi Zhang 张琦 demonstrate how you can use abundant inorganic sulfur to produce self-repairing and degradable thermoplastics with high adhesion toughness. Can we ditch fossil-fuel-based plastics? Have a look!

Stiff-Stilbenes just got a visible💡upgrade! Check our latest work on para-formylated functionalization, offering full control using visible light with high PSS distribution. Exciting potential for future smart materials and dynamic systems! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

After a great forum in Fudan Univ. with 3 million audiences (including live online), the Feringa family completed the first assembly and group photo in Ben's office in ECUST. Looking forward to the next assembly more comprehensively.Feringa Lab

Two paraphrase von Neumann, with two colors I can make an elastomeric butterfly, and with three, I can make its wings flutter. Here, the authors cause the wings to flip with only one color of light, but a moving focal point.

What happens when you put molecular motors, liquid crystals and 3-d printing together? Have a look in our recent J. Am. Chem. Soc. @Photoresponsive Biomimetic Functions by Light-Driven Molecular Motors in Three Dimensionally Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomers@ led by Guiying Long

'Build your opinion on facts, data and knowledge.”

Chemistry laureate Ben Feringa urges us all to build our opinions on facts, data and knowledge.

Watch the full student roundtable here: youtu.be/pE0PB9AayGY

#NobelPrize

Excited to be at Fudan University in Shanghai with Qi Zhang 张琦 for the Shanghai Master Forum on Science! Looking forward to fruitful discussions and sharing perspectives