Mach-5: Scientific program

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Sunday, 6 September

(Chairperson: TBA)

15:40-16:40 Senior SSF Award | Nicolas Giuseppone: Using Artificial Molecular Motors to Drive Complex Chemical Systems out-of-Equilibrium
16:40-17:40 Junior SSF Award | Michael Kathan: Inventing Molecular Machines to Explore New Chemical Space
17:40-18:40 Roundtable discussion

(Chairperson: TBA)

9:00-10:00 Inspiration lecture | Ben Feringa: The Art of Building Small from Molecular Switches to Motors
10:00-10:20 Shuntaro Amano: Network-level Control of Chemoselectivity in a Dynamic Combinatorial Systém
10:20-10:40 Leonardo Andreoni: Electrochemically Switchable [C2]Daisy Chains as Prototypes of Molecular Muscles
10:40-11:00 Carlos Benitez-Martin: Engineering Photochemical Processes to Drive Multiphoton-Like Fluorescence Responses
11:00-11:40 Coffee
11:40-12:00 Stefan Borsley: Functional Work from Nonequilibrium Systems
12:00-12:20 Tessel Bouwens: Supramolecular Approaches to Enhance the Power Conversion Efficiency in Artificial Photosynthetic Devices
12:20-12:30 Kateřina Bezděková: Surface-Decoupled Altitudinal and Azimuthal Triptycene-Fused Tetrapodal Molecular Motors

(Chairperson: Jonathon Beves)

14:40-15:00 Artjom Businski: Bending Away from Light: Diazocine Photoswitches in Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers
15:00-15:20 Jakub Copko: Beyond Bistability: Multiplicity-Driven Three-State Photochromic Systém
15:20-15:40 Stefano Corrà: Light-Fueled Supramolecular Pumps
15:40-16:00 Massimiliano Curcio: Light-Driven Artificial Diazene Molecular Rotary Motors
16:00-16:40 Coffee
16:40-17:00 Wojciech Danowski: Photoresponsive Porous Solids – from Molecular Design to Function
17:00-17:20 Fabian Eisenreich: Switch, Stick, Solidify: Tuning Polymers with Light
17:20-17:40 Liang Fei: Photoswitches for Solar Energy Storage and Their Applications
17:40-18:00 Yohan Gisbert: Rational Design of Molecular Motors for Single-Molecule Force Experiments
18:00-18:20 Robert Hein: Design and Synthesis of Novel Geometric Redox Switches
18:20-18:30 Simona Sophie Capomolla: Catalysis by a Metastable Photoswitchable Cage

(Chairperson: Stefano Crespi)

9:00-9:20 Michael Howlett: Transmission of Autonomous Motion Through a Chemically Driven Molecular Gear
9:20-9:40 Xiaoran Hu: Atropisomer Mechanochemistry – Force Triggered Conversion of Atropisomer Stereochemistry
9:40-10:00 Petr Kovaříček: Light-Responsive Dynamic Covalent Systems: Out-of-Equilibrium States, Switching and Catalysis
10:00-10:20 Abhishek Mondal: Light-Enhanced Chloride Transport by Thiourea-Appended Molecular Motor
10:20-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:20 Enzo Olivieri: From Small Machines to Complex Assemblies
11:20-11:40 Emanuele Penocchio: Do Light-Driven Motors Really Work Differently? Kinetic Asymmetry in Photochemistry
11:40-12:00 Jacopo Perego: Machinery of Multiple Rotors and Switches in Porous Responsive Architectures
12:00-12:20 Yang Zhang: Functional Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Microscopy with Switchable Fluorescent Molecules
12:20-12:30 Takuma Miyamura: Spin-State Photoswitching Drives Dual Rotors

Afternoon excursion / Free time

Evening conference dinner

(Chairperson: Nadja Simeth-Crespi)

9:00-10:00 Inspiration lecture | Jonathon Beves: Visible Light Responsive Self-Assembly
10:00-10:20 Benjamin Roberts: A Brownian Approach to Transport
10:20-10:40 Rebecca Salthouse: Engineering Multistate Photoswitches for Molecular Solar Thermal (Most) Energy Storage and Beyond
10:40-11:10 Coffee
11:10-11:30 Stefan Schröder: Chemical Vapor Deposited Functional Polymer Thin Films for Light-Driven Actuation and Molecular Machines
11:30-11:50 Zbigniew L. Pianowski: Biocompatible Photochromic Systems: Gels, Cages, and Photopharmacology
11:50-12:10 Andrea Belluati: From Reaction Networks to Synthetic Matter in Biological and Cell-Like Systems
12:10-12:20 Jacob Jan van der Wal: The Nonadiabatic Nature of the Substituent Effects in Azobenzene