We are happy to welcome Cosima Sauer, who joined UnterlassLAB for a research internship in October 2026. Cosima is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Chemistry at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.

We are happy to share that our publication “Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)-free water-based, scalable inorganic-organic sol-gel coatings for hydrophobic and stain-resistant textiles”, has been accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

Alessandro and Celine recently visited BESSY II, the synchrotron radiation facility operated by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), to perform in situ small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS) experiments.

Celine attended the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Congress 2026, organized by the German Society for Materials Sciences (DGM), and held in Darmstadt, DE.

We are happy to share a new publication, “Microbiome-host communication via vaccenic acid modulates LRH-1/NR5A2 activity and ameliorates metabolic liver disease“, published in EMBO Molecular Medicine.

Miriam gave a plenary lecture at the GDCh Conference on Inorganic Chemistry in Jena.

After two months in our lab, the time has come to say goodbye to Kuzey!

We are happy to welcome Joël, who joined the lab for a research internship. His project explores synthetic strategies toward molecules designed to target liver receptor homolog-1 (LRH-1).

A new peer-reviewed book chapter by Timon Saatzer, Sabrina Syskowski, Miriam M. Unterlass, and Johannes Huwer presents the results of an exploratory study on the use of head-mounted augmented reality (AR) in solid-state chemistry teaching

We are pleased to share that both Rafael and Elisha successfully defended their Bachelor’s theses. Rafael presented his work entitled “Towards Polypyrrone-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks”, while Elisha presented her thesis “Polyimide-Intercalated MnO2 via Chemical Oxidation Strategies”

For our annual group excursion, we swapped the lab for the Franconian countryside and hiked around 10 km from Würzburg to Veitshöchheim

We are happy to share that Daniel successfully presented his Bachelor’s thesis.

We are delighted to welcome Kuzey Önçeken, who joined our group for an internship in June 2026.

We recently welcomed Prof. Dr. Nick Virgilio from École Polytechnique Montréal as a visiting professor at the Chair of Chemical Technology of Materials Synthesis at Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.