Feringa Lab

Synthetic organic chemistry @univgroningen @StratinghInst
| #ChemNobel 2016 | Making smart molecules & forging stereocenters since '88

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

After much thought, we will be reducing our activity here following recent developments. For open, thoughtful discourse, we encourage you to join @bluesky. Science thrives on collaboration, freedom, and clarity. Let’s build a better space for ideas. 🌌 #ScienceTwitter #Bluesky

[Nazario Martín Group @nazariolab]

Our team and friends celebrating the 200 years of bencene at the 2025 Solvay Workshop: Aromaticity. @isra_group @FeringaLab @depena33

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

We are hiring! We are looking for a Postdoc in Catalytic Approaches toward Bio-Based Peptide Surfactants. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Application deadline is January 12th 2026

For more information please check out the link 👇
https://t.co/o7MLkejkqA

[David Canevet @D84Ka]

Re-ver-si-ble CPL inversion at the molecular level promoted by light and heat!
This collaborative work between the @FeringaLab and our group, the PulSAr team @UnivAngers, is now online on ChemArXiv.
Special congrats to @HardoinLouis and Eric Sidler!!

https://t.co/v098TQcnDa

[Robert Hein @RobertHeinChem]

Thrilled to share our most recent work with @FeringaLab on switchable hydrogels! We combine the advantages of both light💡 and redox⚡️to get large-scale, patterned changes in gel properties (colour and swelling) with high spatio-temporal precision:
https://t.co/o4FeKPA74S

[Qi Zhang 张琦 @Dr_QiZhang]

Combining noncovalent with dynamic covalent bonds constructs dual dynamic helical polymers that fold and recycle. Glad to see this long project finally coming out in @NatureChemistry @FeringaLab https://t.co/px7u6t2lc4

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

Wow! A rare artifact from a simpler time: dial-up internet, flip phones, and great haircuts.
Thank you for sharing!

[Vicente Martí Centelles👨🏻‍🔬⚗️🧪 @vtemarticent]

Feeling a bit nostanling today, look at what I found on my computar on the 2002 International Chemistry Olympliad held in Groningen about the molecular motors of @FeringaLab

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

@GavinCTsui It was great to meet you!

[Robert Hein @RobertHeinChem]

Another great collaboration with @SidlerEric and @FeringaLab is now published in @angew_chem!
Building on our previous work, Eric prepared a few large, formally antiaromatic systems with interesting (chir)optical and redox properties. Check it out here:
https://t.co/qLVJBp3zmO

[Robert Hein @RobertHeinChem]

🔥 Hot of the press: Chiral induction and stable chiral memory via non-covalent host-guest binding now published in @angew_chem! One of my favourite projects and a super rewarding collaboration with @SidlerEric, Yohan and @FeringaLab! Hot paper here:
https://t.co/gvif7qP1yM

[Nazario Martín Group @nazariolab]

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of benzene's discovery and its extraordinary legacy, we are excited to announce that @RoySocChem will release a thematic special issue edited by @FeringaLab and @nazariolab.
Read here "Benzene at 200", by Prof. Martín:
https://t.co/AWsYSCratt

[Marco Ovalle @MarcoOvalleMA]

Yesterday, I defended my PhD — closing one of the most enjoyable and rewarding chapters of my life with one of its most unforgettable days.

Huge thanks to everyone at @FeringaLab, especially Ben, Lotte, and Lili, my thesis committee, friends, and family.

[RSC_MASC @RSC_MASC]

Our next seminar will be from @MarcoOvalleMA (UGroningen) and @JeanneCrassous (URennes) speaking this Thursday 29th April 09:30 (UK). Register at https://t.co/YAWv03BM9V to attend and hear talks on helicenes and photoisomerisation!

[Marco Ovalle @MarcoOvalleMA]

I am super excited to present my PhD work at vMASC this Thursday! I'm also honored to share the (virtual) floor with @JeanneCrassous
Register by following the link down if you want to join the free online seminar👇👇

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

Aaand now we also have a Post-Doc position on Biobased Butenolides as Acrylate Replacement for Coatings!

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

We have opened opened 3 more positions:

PhD positions
- 2x Artificial Molecular Machines
- 1x The Origin of Homochirality

1x Engineering Doctorate (EngD) - Sustainable Process Design

https://t.co/JkgIDizXBT

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

We have opened opened 3 more positions:

PhD positions
- 2x Artificial Molecular Machines
- 1x The Origin of Homochirality

1x Engineering Doctorate (EngD) - Sustainable Process Design

https://t.co/JkgIDizXBT

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

With our recently co-founded startup Circolide we are looking for enthusiastic candidates who would like to pursue a Chemical Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Sustainable Process Design. Please find more information here:

https://t.co/DY8462nb3K

[Ainoa Guinart, PhD @AinoaGuinartP]

👩‍🔬Our new paper is out in Chem! @FeringaLab. We unveil how light-driven rotary motors behave in lipid membranes—and why system-specific characterization is crucial.

Structure & polarity shape membrane interaction and function. Read (or see comments): https://t.co/KqiL33WMbt

[Chemical Communications @ChemCommun]

New from @FeringaLab:

'Diastereoselective C(sp3)–H acetoxylation of phosphoramidites'

#OpenAccess 🔓

https://t.co/XRSTgDy9ZL

[Robert Hein @RobertHeinChem]

Just published in @J_A_C_S, one of my main projects @FeringaLab on responsive crown ethers! Redox-switching? Light-switching? Why not both and get the best of all worlds, including guest shuttling, pseudorotaxanes, cascades and and (non)volatile states.

https://t.co/hU9NrlFRzJ

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

Great work Marco and Daniel!

[Angewandte Chemie @angew_chem]

Azobenzene-Oxindole Photochromic Dyads (Ben L. Feringa and co-workers) @FeringaLab #openaccess 🔓 https://t.co/OPX2YoYYjC