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Würthner Group: Organic Materials and Nanosystems Chemistry

Contact:

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:

Eleonore Klaus

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.

Just published

Supramolecular Polymorphism in One-Dimensional Self-Assembly by Kinetic Pathway Control
M. Wehner, M. I. Silja Röhr, M. Bühler, V. Stepanenko, W. Wagner, F. Würthner
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, first published: March 20
DOI:10.1021/jacs.9b02046

Progress in the Synthesis of Perylene Bisimide Dyes
A. Nowak-Król, F. Würthner
Org. Chem. Front. 2019, first published: March 7
DOI: 10.1039/C8QO01368C

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

News & Dates

Professor Frank Würthner (Image: Ingo Peters / Universität Würzburg)

Dye Chemistry Transferred to Modern Times

Frank Würthner, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg, receives a highly renowned prize: He is awarded the Adolf von Baeyer Medal.

Humboldt Research Award and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award winners in our faculty

On Friday, March 29th, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research award winners were welcomed to Germany at its traditional annual awards symposium in Bamberg. Three of them are hosted in the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of JMU during their research stays.

Group photo in one of the most famous classical gardens in Foshan, a city next to Guangzhou.

Joint Seminar in Guangzhou

Since 2018 the groups of Zengqi Xie and Frank Würthner collaborate in the framework of a Chinese (NSFC) - German (DFG) project on the interlayer engineering for organic solar cells. The concept utilizes perylene bisimide dyes as photosensitizers in zinc oxide interlayers.

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