Chemists from the University of Würzburg have combined different dye molecules in aggregates and thereby observed surprising properties. Their discovery may help to use sunlight more efficiently for the generation of energy.
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Elsevier Lecture Award for Frank Würthner
09/07/2016Frank Würthner receiving the Elsevier Award from Elsevier Senior Publisher Nicolette van Dijk and the president of the Japanese Photochemistry Association, Prof. Hiroshi Miyasaka from Osaka University.
moreBavarian Polymer Institute launched
07/26/2016Novel materials essential for key technologies in the fields of energy, communication, climate change and health: these are the focal areas of research at the Bavarian Polymer Institute. The partner universities have now signed a cooperation agreement.
moreDr. Agnieszka Nowak-Król, Humboldt fellow in the group of Prof. Frank Würthner, was awarded the 'Wojciech Świętosławski Prize 2nd degree' by the Warsaw branch of Polish Chemical Society on June 17, 2016, for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of chemistry, chemical technology and related sciences.
moreCNC Lecture by Professor Guido Clever on May 27, 2016; 11:00 am, seminarroom 4. floor (AK Würthner)
05/27/2016The Summer Semester Lecture Series in 2016 starts with a lecture about "Stimuli-responsive Self-Assembly: Guest-binding and Structural Reorganization in Coordination Cages and DNA G-Quadruplexes"
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Mimicking the ingenuity of nature
05/03/2016A clean, climate-friendly energy source that is virtually inexhaustible: This is the promise artificial photosynthesis holds. Chemists from the University of Würzburg have now got one step closer to reaching this goal. The scientists present their work in the journal Nature Chemistry.
moreFrank Würthner has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), an honour that is given to a very small number of non-British RSC members.
moreA Nanographene Hungry for Electrons
04/13/2016In autumn 2015 the Research Training School on molecular biradicals took up its work at the University of Würzburg. Currently the cooperation between chemists and physicists led to a first result: a publication on a new molecule, which is of interest for organic electronics.
moreThe Winter Semester Lecture Series in 2015/16 ends with a lecture about „Light-Induced Charge Carriers in Covalent Organic Frameworks“
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Professor Dr. Harald Schwalbe, Institute for Organic Chemistry und Chemical Biology of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany
moreGustavo Fernández now Professor in Münster
10/26/2015Congratulations to Gustavo Fernández. After five very successful years as a junior research group leader at the University of Würzburg he accepted a call from the University of Münster as professor (W2) of organic chemistry.
moreCNC Lecture by Prof. Dr. Ian Manners on October 29, 2015, 5:15 pm, Lecture Hall C (copy 1)
10/20/2015Prof. Dr. Ian Manners, Professor and Chair of Inorganic, Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, European Union Marie Curie Chair, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK
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Perfect light absorption
09/01/2015Physicists study how to achieve perfect absorption of light with the help of rough ultrathin films.
moreFrank Würthner recently has become a member of the editorial board of Organic Chemistry Frontiers. He will particularly strengthen the area of functional organic molecules.
moreThe Summer Semester Lecture Series in 2015 ends with a lecture about "Programmed Self-Assembly of Bioactive Architectures"
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