Die Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie hat Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy, Professor am Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, feierlich die Ehrendoktorwürde verliehen.

Prof. Kingsuk Mahata (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India) and Prof. Suhrit Ghosh (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata, India) are giving a Dual lecture on Friday 19th June at 11 am in the CNC-semianrroom (CNC, 1.001)

We are looking forward to an exciting Dual Talk

In May 2026, the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC) hosted Prof. Makoto Fujita (University of Tokyo) for a one-month stay.

Prof. Makoto Fujita (Tokyo University, Japan) is giving us a lecture on "Molecular Confinement Effects within Self-Assembled Cages" at 4:15 pm.

We are looking forward to an exciting lecture.

Frank Würthner, a professor of chemistry at the University of Würzburg, receives the Izatt-Christensen Award, the highest international honour in the field of supramolecular chemistry.

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.