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The team around Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Harder, Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry at FAU, has been funded with the highest European research grant. With a highly competitive ERC-Advanced Grant of 2,5 Million Euro, the scientific team will investigate how non-noble metals can carry out noble t...

In the new collaborative research center (CRC) 1719 “ChemPrint – the next generation of printed semiconductors: Engineering on the atomic level using molecular surface chemistry”, researchers at FAU are investigating how to improve the manufacturing processes and quality of semiconductors under spec...

As part of the 76th working conference of the Bavarian Regional Association of the Food Chemistry Society (Lebensmittelchemische Gesellschaft), students of the study program Food Chemistry,  doctoral students and researchers in Food Chemistry at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg took...

Effective April 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel has been appointed by FAU President Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Hornegger to the Chair of Particle-Based Materials Chemistry (PBMC) at our Department. Since 2020, Karl Mandel has held a W2 professorship in Inorganic Chemistry, associated with the chair of Pr...

The German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (DBG) has awarded the 2025 DBG Master’s Award to Mr. Daniel Schauermann. Each year, the society honors outstanding Master’s theses in the field of physical chemistry completed at German universities. Mr. Schauermann conducted his award-winning researc...

Perovskite cells may soon offer an alternative to silicon solar cells. These semiconductors are cheaper to manufacture and feature a high degree of efficiency and a high defect tolerance. This means that defects in the crystal lattice structure barely reduce their performance. One disadvantage, howe...

Chemists use pressure to reveal the mechanisms behind electron transfer – an important step towards controlling energy conversion and redox catalysis. They form the basis of many fundamental processes in life. Without them, cell respiration and photosynthesis would be impossible. Redox reactions ...

Digital teaching methods are playing an increasingly important role in higher education. To further optimize training in food chemistry lab courses, a combination of the flipped classroom approach and electronic lab notebooks (ELN) has been developed. This innovative concept enhances the efficiency ...

As a reminder: A few years ago a team around Professor Sjoerd Harder reported a breakthrough in the chemistry of magnesium (Nature 2021, 592, 717). Magnesium (Mg), which in chemical compounds is always charged 2+, was stabilized in the zero oxidation state and found to react as a nucleophile instead...

Controlled movements at the nanoscale are fundamental to a variety of biological processes, such as ATP synthesis – the universal energy carrier in our cells or cell deformations necessary for muscle contraction. All these processes are made possible by biological molecular machines that convert che...