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This article, recently published in Nature Communications, presents a breakthrough approach to light-driven catalysis by translating enzymatic precision into artificial photocatalysts. The study was carried out by an international team from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU...

Elena Alma Mack was awarded the Zonta Club Erlangen Women in STEM prize for her research in the field of 2D semiconductors. Her commitment to empowering women, being the coordinator of the Women in Science Symposium during from 2023 to 2024, was also weighted into this decision. Zonta is an interna...

We are proud to announce that Yifan Bo has been awarded the prestigious Hans-Wilhelm und Helga Schüssler-Preis. This award recognizes Yifan's outstanding research contributions in photochemistry and spectroscopy, highlighted by her 23 publications, including a notable review in Accounts of Material...

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Dirk Guldi has been awarded the prestigious Masuhara Lectureship at the ACP Conference 2025, held in Kochi, India. This esteemed recognition highlights his significant contributions to the field of photochemistry. During the conference, Prof. Guldi deli...

Excellent ideas for a strong industry – VAA Foundation honors a successful young researcher from FAU in the field of chemistry 2025: At the VAA Annual Conference on November 7, 2025, in Essen, Dr. Jakob Reichstein (at the chair of Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel, FAU), Dr. Maximilian Baur, Dr. Ieva A. Cec...

The STAEDTLER FOUNDATION promotes cutting-edge research and honors doctoral students at FAU at its 2025 annual meeting For the 27th consecutive year, the STAEDTLER Foundation honored doctoral students from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) at its 2025 annual meeting. This y...

The Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy wishes all students and employees a happy and peaceful holiday season and a successful start to the New Year. From December 20, 2024 up to and including January 6, 2025, lectures will be suspended. The Student Service Center Chemistry and Molecular Science wi...

The research team from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg (HI ERN) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) led by Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi and Prof. Dr. Christoph Brabec has developed a closed-loop workflow that can be used to fi...

In a great collaboration with the team of Alan Lyons (City University of New York) and the colleagues from the Fraunhofer ISC, we demonstrate how to contribute to enhanced self-cleaning of glass, partly coated with dagger-shaped features from silica nanoparticles. The article was just accepted in So...

Step by step we understand better how interactions among magnetic nanoparticles in supraparticle structures yield certain signal fingerprints in MPS. The latest work was just accepted by Particle and Particle Systems Characterization. Wolf A., Zhou H., Groppe P., Stiegler L.M.S., Kämäräinen T., P...