Ihre Arbeiten werden in den Publikationen anderer außergewöhnlich oft zitiert. Fünf Forscher der Universität Würzburg erhalten dafür erneut das Prädikat „Highly Cited Researcher“.

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

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.

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.

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.