Research project

Photoresponsive Mechanically Interlocked Polymers

Research groups:
Lead researchers:

Dr George Williams
Research funder

Royal Society
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr George Williams

Lecturer

Connect with George

Email: G.T.Williams@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Organic and Biological Chemistry

We focus on the synthesis and discovery of novel compounds, the development of sustainable methodologies, and the application of organic chemistry to explore and manipulate biological systems

Research outputs

Mechanically interlocked indigo photoswitches

Alexander M. Wilmshurst, Taegeun Jo, Rebecca L. Kerridge, Akanksha Ashok Sangolkar, Zhihao Ling, Alex Buchanan, Neil Wells, Yael Ben-Tal, Stefano Crespi & George T. Williams, 2026, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 65(34)

DOI: 10.1002/anie.4283917

Type: article

‘Click’-able hemiindigo triazole photoswitches with switchable fluorescence

Zhihao Ling, Robert C.P. O’Toole, Rebecca Kerridge, Alex Buchanan, Maria Storm Thomsen, Alexander M. Wilmshurst, Roman Yu Peshkov, Richard C. Knighton, Stefano Crespi & George T. Williams, 2026, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 14(32), 14389-14393

DOI: 10.1039/d6tc01405d