Matt Fuchter

Matt Fuchter

@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Sydney Bailey Fellow at St. Peter’s College Oxford. Founder, NK:IO Ltd. Materials ⬅️ Molecules ➡️ Medicines. Fan of switches + chirality science. https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-fuchter

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Matt Fuchter
@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Nice write up of our work by @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social www.chem.ox.ac.uk/article/chem... #Chemsky #Matsky #Physics

chem.ox.ac.ukChemists design OLEDs that electrically flip the handedness of light
Matt Fuchter@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Our paper on the electrical control of circularly polarized electroluminescence in OLEDs is out now in @natphoton.nature.com. Special congratulations to Francesco, Jess and Nicola. #ChemSky, #MatSky, #Physics www.nature.com/articles/s41... @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social

nature.comElectrical control of photon spin angular momentum in organic electroluminescent materials - Nature PhotonicsElectrical tuning of the recombination zone in circularly polarized (CP) OLEDs enables switching the CP generation mechanism between normal and anomalous CP electroluminescence. This is exploited to e...
Matt Fuchter
@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Our paper on the electrical control of circularly polarized electroluminescence in OLEDs is out now in @natphoton.nature.com. Special congratulations to Francesco, Jess and Nicola. #ChemSky, #MatSky, #Physics www.nature.com/articles/s41... @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social

nature.comElectrical control of photon spin angular momentum in organic electroluminescent materials - Nature PhotonicsElectrical tuning of the recombination zone in circularly polarized (CP) OLEDs enables switching the CP generation mechanism between normal and anomalous CP electroluminescence. This is exploited to e...
Matt Fuchter@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Why control photon spin from OLEDs using molecular handedness when you can do it electrically? Check out our new preprint. Very excited about this one! @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social #Chemsky #Physics 🧪 doi.org/10.26434/che... A short explainer 🧵 1/n

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Ivan Aprahamian
@aprahamian.bsky.social

Congrats to Brandon & Kai on their new paper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social where they show how azobenzene/triptycene-based chiral dopants tune the photophysical properties of liquid crystals. In addition to the structure property insight 1/2 bit.ly/3JT9Ljo #NSFFunded #chemsky #molswitch

bit.lyAzobenzene/Triptycene‐Based Cholesteric Liquid Crystal DopantsChiral, photoswitchable dopants composed of triptycene and azobenzene exhibit exceptionally large helical twisting powers that change dramatically upon isomerization when incorporated into the liquid...

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David Reger
@davidreger.bsky.social

Our new article on Faraday rotation in chiral supramolecular polymer assemblies is finally published! Check it out!

Matt Fuchter@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social

nature.comChiral supramolecular assembly to enhance the magneto-optical rotation of organic materials - Nature CommunicationsThe relation between magnetooptical activity and chirality has previously been confused. Chiral polymer films are presented with state-of-the-art Verdet constants, revealing the role of chirality, and...
Matt Fuchter
@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social

nature.comChiral supramolecular assembly to enhance the magneto-optical rotation of organic materials - Nature CommunicationsThe relation between magnetooptical activity and chirality has previously been confused. Chiral polymer films are presented with state-of-the-art Verdet constants, revealing the role of chirality, and...
Matt Fuchter@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Our preprint on the Faraday rotation of chiral organic polymer films is out! Wonderful collaboration with Tim Swager and his group @mitchemistry.bsky.social and Jess Wade. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social. #Chemsky 🧪 #Physics doi.org/10.26434/che... We learnt a lot in this one, so here's a short 🧵 1/11

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Sascha Feldmann
@feldmannlab.bsky.social

Impressions from two amazing weeks of Chirality & Spin at the #Chirality 2025 Conference in New York City and the GRC in New Hampshire! #sciencerocks #collaboration #friendship 🌀so much fun and great research from friends across the globe!

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Sascha Feldmann
@feldmannlab.bsky.social

Excited to share in @nature.com today: Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - detecting the most subtle changes in light polarization over time with unprecedented sensitivity. Grateful for the team that made this possible!😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chirality #light

nature.comBroadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - NatureA high-sensitivity, broadband, transient, full-Stokes spectroscopy setup is demonstrated, which can detect quickly varying small signals from chiral emitters.

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Ivan Aprahamian
@aprahamian.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to Brandon on the new @jacs.acspublications.org paper! bit.ly/3ZcZEdR A multistate photoswitchable hydrazone is used as a chiral dopant in liquid crystals ➡️ steganography in action! #NSFfunded #molswitch ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

bit.lyMolecular Steganography Using Multistate Photoswitchable HydrazonesThe development of photochromic compounds that can have multiaddressable and -stable states is desirable for imparting multistate responses in soft materials. Here, we report on two such photochromes,...

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Bo W. Laursen
@bowlaursen.bsky.social

Sunday 8:00 #ACSSpring2025 meeting in room 32B. Amar Flood @floodgroup.bsky.social and I will both be talking about our super bright #fluorescent SMILES materials. Including recent work in #ChemSci (doi.org/10.1039/D3SC...) #nanoparticles and in #AngewandteChemie (doi.org/10.1002/anie...) on #CPL.

onlinelibrary.wiley.comSupramolecular Control of Helicene Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emitters in Molecular Solids and Bright NanoparticlesThe intrinsic molecular chiroptical properties (electronic circular dichroism and circular polarized luminescence) of helicences are perfectly transferred from solution to the crystal state and to wa....
Matt Fuchter
@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

I should also shout out Davia Prischich from my group who delivered a wonderful #photopharma #ChemBio talk on her photoswitchable peptide work.

Matt Fuchter@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

It was wonderful to be back in Hong Kong to present at the LSCCB’s conference. Now off to Cali to see some of my fav #Chemsky folks including @conway-group.bsky.social, @feldmannlab.bsky.social, @floodgroup.bsky.social, @gracegdhan.bsky.social and @swagergroup.bsky.social

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Serge Mostowy
@sergemostowylab.bsky.social

AI-based imaging of zebrafish Position with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @fuchtermatt.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

jobs.lshtm.ac.ukJob Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant or Research FellowThe London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
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OxfordChemistry@oxfordchemistry.bsky.social

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Hoye Group Oxford
@hoyegroupox.bsky.social

Delighted to join Bluesky on the day our article for Nature Reviews Clean Technology got published! www.nature.com/articles/s44... Especially excited on the section on the potential of emerging materials for indoor energy harvesting. Great collaboration with Murthy, Paola and many others

nature.comPromises and challenges of indoor photovoltaics - Nature Reviews Clean TechnologyIndoor photovoltaics can meet the power demands of the rapidly increasing number of Internet-of-Things devices and reduce the reliance on batteries. This Review describes materials best suited for ind...
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Matt Fuchter
@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

What has remained unclear is how the intrinsic chiroptical activity and the anomalous mechanism relate to one another in these materials and how one can select for a preferred mechanism to control the favoured handedness of circularly polarised light. This is what we address in this preprint. 6/n

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Matt Fuchter
@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

In 2020 we reported a curious observation in OLEDs. Our data suggested the handedness of the emitted circularly polarised light is not solely controlled by the handedness of the chiral polymer material, but also by the direction of charge carrier flow! doi.org/10.1021/acsa... 4/n

doi.orgHighly Efficient Inverted Circularly Polarized Organic Light-Emitting DiodesCircularly polarized (CP) electroluminescence has been demonstrated as a strategy to improve the performance of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays. CP emission can be generated from both sma...
Matt Fuchter
@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

We and others have previously focused on chiral polymer thin films due to their ability to absorb and emit circularly polarised light (photons with spin) – chiroptical activity –with high selectivity. For example, www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2/n

nature.comNatural optical activity as the origin of the large chiroptical properties in π-conjugated polymer thin films - Nature CommunicationsPolymer thin films that emit and absorb circularly polarised light are promising in achieving important technological advances, but the origin of the large chiroptical effects in such films has remain...
Matt Fuchter
@fuchtermatt.bsky.social

Wonderful work from my @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social colleagues. And a great use of aryl azopyrazole switches 👍 #Chemsky

Nature Nanotechnology@natnano.nature.com

Now online: ON–OFF nanopores for optical control of transmembrane ionic communication. www.nature.com/articles/s41... α-hemolysin modified with arylazopyrazole photoswitches is shown to transition between iontronic resistor & diode modes in response to irradiation at orthogonal wavelengths.

nature.comON–OFF nanopores for optical control of transmembrane ionic communication - Nature NanotechnologyHere the authors present photo-nanopores in which α-haemolysin monomers are modified with arylazopyrazoles, allowing quantitative photoswitching of the transmembrane ionic current, analogous to electr...

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Steve Goldup
@sgoldup.bsky.social

PhD projects available in a range of areas - something for everyone! Join us to do cool chemistry using the mechanical bond in catenanes and rotaxanes for real world applications in the shiny shiny new Molecular Sciences Building @uobchemistry.bsky.social 😊 Reposts appreciated! #chemsky