Molecular Rotor Workshop 2025 – Scientific program

Thursday, 25 September

8:30-8:45 – CONFERENCE OPENING
8:45-9:35 – Ben FERINGA: Light-powered Rotary Molecular Motors
9:35-10:25 – Angiolina COMOTTI: Engineering Rotors and Switches in Porous Materials: Dynamics Control by Guests and Irradiation
10:25-11:00 – COFFEE BREAK+POSTER SESSION
11:00-11:50 – Steve GOLDUP: Making the Mechanical Bond Useful: the Synthesis, Symmetry and Applications of Interlocked Molecules
11:50-13:30 – LUNCH
13:30-14:20 – Alberto CREDI: Using Light to Operate Artificial Molecular Motors and Pumps
14:20-15:10 – Miguel GARCIA-GARIBAY: Crystalline Molecular Rotors Under Viscous and Inertial Regimes
15:10-16:00 – COFFEE BREAK+POSTER SESSION
16:00-16:50 – Arri PRIIMÄGI: On Photoswitchable Surfaces and Moving Polymer Films
16:50-17:40 – Gwénaël RAPENNE: Prototypes of Molecular Motors, Winches and Gears
17:40-18:30 – Amar Hugh FLOOD: Switching and Dynamics in Anion-driven Assemblies
18:30 – CONFERENCE DINNER

9:00-9:50 – Nathalie KATSONIS: Mechanochemistry of Artificial Molecular Motors
9:50-10:40 – Rainer HERGES: Chiral Diazocines and Supramolecular Catalysis
10:40-11:10 – COFFEE BREAK+POSTER SESSION
11:10-12:00 – Zbigniew L. PIANOWSKI: Illuminating Biology with Molecular Photoswitches
12:00-13:40 – LUNCH
13:40-14:30 – Henry DUBE: Indigoid Molecular Machines
14:30-15:20 – Eric MASSON: Phantom Hosts: Predicting Binding Affinities to Macrocycles Without Ever Invoking Them
15:20-16:00 – COFFEE BREAK+POSTER SESSION
16:00-16:50 – Bo DURBEEJ: Improved Molecular Photoswitching and Photogearing: Some Insights from Computational Modeling
16:50-17:40 – Jiří KALETA: Surface Mounted Molecular Devices
17:40-18:00 – CLOSING REMARKS
18:00 – CONFERENCE DINNER