Highly renowned guest at the University of Würzburg: Chemistry professor Makoto Fujita from Tokyo joins Professor Frank Würthner's team as a Humboldt Research Award winner.

A sophisticated process stacks dye molecules in such a way that their luminosity increases significantly as their size grows – a significant step forward for the electronics of tomorrow.

For her pioneering work on catalytic nucleic acids, the Würzburg chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner has been awarded the Albrecht Kossel Prize by the German Chemical Society.

With her lecture on Exploring Functional Landscapes in Molecular Aggregates: Theoretical Methods for Electronic Structure and Property-Driven Design (GDCh Kolloquium Unterfranken, 13.11.2025) CNC Junior Group Leader Dr. Merle Röhr successfully finished her habilitation.

The 14th SolTech conference took place in Bayreuth from September 29th to October 1st 2025.

Prof. Colin P. Nuckolls (Columbia University, USA) is giving us his honor by visiting the CNC and he is giving us a lecture of "Contorted aromatics as building blocks for materials" at 4 pm.

We are looking forward to an exciting lecture.

On 17 September, the foundation's chairman, Kurt Weller, and its manager, Markus Hartmann, visited the Center for Nanosystem Chemistry and were shown the research on light-harvesting systems and organic semiconductors carried out by the two scholarship holders Lena Frank and Lia-Sophie Helbig as part of their master's theses.

Junior research group leader Jake Greenfield has prevailed in the tough competition for an ERC Starting Grant and thus raised a further 1.5 million euros for his research, following his recent success with a DFG application.

Getting Indo-German research projects off the ground: This is the aim of a joint programme of the Indian Ministry of Education and the German Federal Foreign Office. The University of Würzburg is represented with two projects.

For the second time, Würzburg chemistry professor Frank Würthner has received a prestigious award from the European Research Council: the ERC Advanced Grant is endowed with 2.5 million euros.

With artificial photosynthesis, mankind could utilise solar energy to bind carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. Würzburg chemists have taken this one step further.

Würzburg chemists have for the first time created a defect in graphene that allows ions to pass through. As they report in ‘Nature’, this could lead to new applications in water filtration or sensor technology.