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Enzyme-like water preorganization in front of a Ruthenium water oxidation catalyst. (Image: Team Würthner)

Progress has been made on the path to sunlight-driven production of hydrogen. Chemists from Würzburg present a new enzyme-like molecular catalyst for water oxidation.

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The cells in the top row were treated with the fluoxetine-like molecule AKS466 and then infected with SARS-CoV-2. The cells at the bottom were only infected; more viral RNA is detectable in them (lighter dots). (Image: Jan Schlegel / Universität Würzburg)

Completely unexpectedly, the enzyme ceramidase emerges as a new target structure for the therapy of SARS-CoV-2 infections. This is reported by Würzburg researchers in "Cells".

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Two nanographenes (blue) with bulky substituents (grey) have each attached a PAH (red) to give a quadruple dye stack. (Image: Arbeitsgruppe Würthner / Universität Würzburg)

Several layers of nanographenes stacked on top of each other: such functional elements could one day be used in solar cells. Würzburg chemists have paved the way for this.

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Chemists and virologists from the University of Würzburg are currently testing substances on a large scale to fight the new coronavirus. Some of them have been proven surprisingly effective.

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The DIACAT team with (left) project coordinator Anke Krueger, chemistry professor at the University of Würzburg.

At the end of the European research project DIACAT a public symposium takes place at the University of Würzburg: "Carbon Materials for Sustainable Applications – Perspectives in PhotoElectroCatalysis".

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As the loading with curcumin (yellow) increases, the dissolution rate of the containers made of polymeric micelles (blue) decreases. (Image: Ann-Christin Pöppler / Universität Würzburg)

Junior Professor Ann-Christin Pöppler and colleagues from Würzburg report why nanocontainers for drugs can have their pitfalls: If they are too heavily loaded, they will only dissolve poorly.

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A fascinating Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2019, given by Prof. Makoto Fujita, showed that chemists are able to revert the principle "Form Follows Function", which is very common in architecture and was fundamental for the famous German art school "Bauhaus".

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Nach der Verleihung der Verdienstmedaille: Gerhard Bringmann mit Laudatorin Univizepräsidentin Ulrike Holzgrabe und Unipräsident Alfred Forchel (r.)

On the occasion of its Anniversary Celebration 2019, the University of Würzburg has awarded Gerhard Bringmann the medal Bene Merenti in Gold, in recognition of his extraordinary merits to the University.

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The graduate student from Würzburg was awarded for the presentation of her work in the field of liquid-crystalline porphyrins at the German Liquid Crystal Conference in 2019.

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At the Hasselt Diamond Workshop SBDD XXIV, one of the most important conferences in the field of diamond research with more than 230 participants and 120 posters, the PhD student from Würzburg was awarded one of the two Diamond Poster Awards for his excellently designed poster and the competent discussion with the jury.

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All participants of the SupraChem 2019 in Würzburg

More than 200 participants met for the fifth edition of SupraChem in Würzburg in February 2019. Besides 27 short lectures and 111 poster contributions by German and European participants, three plenary lectures by internationally renowned scientists were given as true highlights, one of them from the 2016 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart.

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