Dave Leigh
Royal Society Research Professor & Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK. European. molecules・ machines・ magic
- Reposted by Dave LeighEl Prof. Emilio M. Pérez es nombrado nuevo director del Instituto IMDEA Nanociencia, continuando nuestra misión de impulsar la investigación de excelencia en nanociencia y nanotecnología. +info nanociencia.imdea.org/es/imdea-nan...
- Reposted by Dave LeighOur latest collaborative preprint from the group and @kilbinger-group.bsky.social is out - tinyurl.com/3bbrfyhw - we've been looking at creating stably folded, helical, and polyfluorinated transmembrane channels with rates of water transport exceeding Aquaporins. Great to see the manuscript up!
- Out today in @natchem.nature.com 😃 Huakui, @stefanborsley.bsky.social @benjaminoacid.bsky.social & co illustrate why catalysis-driven motors (like motor proteins) can't use designs based on light-driven motors or molecules-that-rotate-through-multi-reaction-sequences www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Here is a full text, view only, version of the paper: shorturl.at/7ISdf
- Wow, that’s a lot of brilliance in one photo! 😍 Are you sure you’re allowed to all be in the same place at the same time? Merry Christmas all! 🎄🎅#MASC2025 #RSC_MASC
- Brilliant news!😃🇪🇺 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
- Unfortunate 😳
- Reposted by Dave LeighGreat to see this collaborative work out in @natureportfolio.nature.com , led by Michael James @manchester.ac.uk and James Douglas @astra-zeneca.bsky.social Congrats to Ethan Lim and everyone involved! www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Chemistry #Collaboration #AcademicIndustry #compchem
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- Fantastic talk from @marklautens.bsky.social, our 2025 T Y Shen Lecturer! Ably supported by…
- Drs Clare Megarity & Jack Rowbotham😃
- Reposted by Dave LeighA trip “home” - back to the area my family emigrated from in 1951! They left Oldham after WWII, when jobs were in short supply for unskilled workers. I return a few years later to give the TY Shen Lecture University of Manchester with my kind host @profdaveleigh.bsky.social
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- Chemistry involves such large and small numbers that it’s often hard to take in just how fast some processes occur. Dethreading a ring off the open end of a chain when there are no binding interactions present, or passing the end of one strand past another, are incredibly fast processes...
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- 'Ullo @jacs.acspublications.org, Hua-Kui, Axel, @benjaminoacid.bsky.social & @stefanborsley.bsky.social have gotta new motor! doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
- Delighted to follow @mvdelius.bsky.social into the 1st issue of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Novit! Congrats to Jiankang, Enzo, Patrick, Axel, Andrei & Dan on the spontaneous assembly of catenanes lacking strong recognition sites🔗😃 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Lovely evening at the fabulous @nationalgalleries.bsky.social in Edinburgh for the unveiling of portraits of recent Scottish chemistry Nobel laureates Sir Fraser Stoddart, Richard Henderson & Sir Dave MacMillan😃. Sir Fraser captured looking like he wanted to get back to work!😆
- Walking through Harrods unexpectedly spotted a familiar X-ray structure!😍Received free sample for my skincare regime😎
- Wombling free!🎾
- Great 16th century #WomeninChemistry (apothecaries) at l'Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune👩🔬
- Reposted by Dave LeighThere are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
- Reposted by Dave Leigh@profdaveleigh.bsky.social giving the Fraser Stoddart memorial talk at #ismsc2025
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- Excellent recent mini-review on autonomous molecular motors & pumps by the Corra group chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @masscurcio.bsky.social
- 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. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Dave LeighJoin The University of Manchester, AstraZeneca, and Syngenta in a fully funded PhD program on Quantum Mechanics, Machine Learning, and Catalyst Design. 📢 Only one week left to apply! Don't miss out! #PhD #Scholarship #QuantumChemistry #MachineLearning #CatalystDesign #CompChem
- 🚀 Join Us! We have an exciting opportunity to join our research group! This fully funded PhD position is part of the IPCat training programme. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or need more information. 👉 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD #compchem
- Reposted by Dave LeighDelighted to share the first publication from our group at @livunisps.bsky.social in collaboration with @barryblight.bsky.social! In this work, we combine two of our favourite things: #automation and #photocatalysis! 🤖💡🧪 Huge congrats to Harri Jones and Chris Bradshaw 🎉 shorturl.at/A67BG
- Reposted by Dave LeighSupramolecular chemistry has officially "grown up" in Germany. On behalf of the 10-person Founding Team👇, I am happy to announce the creation of section SupraChem within the German Chemical Society! 🍾 GDCh members please consider joining asap via www.gdch.de/suprachem @gdch.bsky.social
- Thou shalt knot...
- Pleased to see our work published: The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies. Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter. doi.org/10.1017/S095...
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- Reposted by Dave LeighI’m excited to share that I will be moving to the University of Ulm as a junior group leader and I have a fully-funded open PhD position co-supervised by me and Max von Delius @mvdelius.bsky.social . Apply at benjamin.roberts@unipd.it, any shares would be appreciated! www.bmwrlab.com/work-with-us
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- Free-to-view version now available here: rdcu.be/d8zyN
- Reposted by Dave LeighObituary: James Fraser Stoddart (1942-2024) chemist and nanotechnology pioneer who built molecular machines go.nature.com/40MvkI9
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