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Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner

Institut für Organische Chemie &
Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC)
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg, Germany

Phone: +49 931 31-85340
Fax: +49 931 31-84756
wuerthner@uni-wuerzburg.de

Administrative Assistant:

Sarah Bullnheimer

Phone: +49 931 31-85339
l-oc2.chemie@uni-wuerzburg.de

Key research interests

The research programme of our group is devoted to functional dyes and the development of methodologies for the self-assembly of pi-conjugated molecules into nanoscale and condensed phase materials for highly desirable (opto-)electronic, photovoltaic and biomedical applications as well as(photo-)catalytic water splitting.

Since more than a decade, our group has been intensively investigating the organization of various classes of dyes, including merocyanines, squaraines, diketopyrrolopyrroles, chlorins, and in particularperylene bisimides by non-covalent forces into desirable nanoscale architectures as well as liquid-crystalline and crystalline solid state materials. Our efforts resulted in unique smart electronic and photofunctional materials based on self-assembled dyes that could be embedded in technical devices like organic field effect transistors and organic solar cells.

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Just published

Tuning phenoxyl-substituted diketopyrrolopyrroles from quinoidal to biradical ground states through (hetero-)aromatic linkers
R. Rausch, M. Röhr, D. Schmidt, I. Krummenacher, H. Braunschweig, F. Würthner
Chem. Sci. 2020, first published: November 11th
DOI: 10.1039/x0xx00000x

Control of self-assembly pathways toward conglomerate and racemic supramolecular polymers
M. Wehner, M. Röhr, V. Stepanenko, F. Würthner
Nat. Commun 2020, first published: October 29th
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02115

Conformation and Aromaticity Switching in a Curved Non-Alternant sp2 Carbon Scaffold
C. Zhu, K. Shoyama, F. Würthner
Angew. Chemie Int. Ed./Angew. Chem. 2020, first published: August 20th
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19189-8

For more papers, please visit our page "all publications"