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The right temperature ensures the success of technical processes, the quality of food and medicines, or affects the lifetime of electronic components and batteries. Temperature indicators enable to detect (un)desired temperature exposures and irreversibly record them by changing their signal for a r...

The group around Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Harder, Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, just reported in Nature Communications a new class of catalysts for hydrogenation, one of the most important industrial processes for the production of bulk or fine chemicals. With smallest catalyst quantities...

The Career Service of FAU cordially invites students, PhD students and Postdocs to the Career Meeting for Chemistry and Molecular Science students on June, 22 2022 from 6 pm 15. The event will take place at the Chemikum, seminar rooms 00.110 and 00.111 (first floor, next to the Student Service Ce...

Dr Neha Patel has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship by the European Commission. Dr Patel has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (Prof. Sjoerd Harder PhD) since July 2021 and focuses on the reduction of nitrogen compounds ...

Molecular photoswitches are molecules which undergo geometric and physical changes upon light irradiation. Properties such as color, chemical reactivity or biological activity can be controlled by light of a certain color range. Nature also uses molecular photoswitches, with retinal being one of ...

The Chair of Physical Chemistry I (Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi) and the Chair of Materials Science (Materials of Electronics and Energy Technology, Prof. Dr. Christoph Brabec) cordially invite all interested students and (junior) researchers to the Next Generation Solar Energy Conference, which will tak...

The Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy cordially invites all students of Chemistry and Molecular Science who would like to start a thesis soon to "Unser Department Unsere Forschung 2021" (UDUF). During the four-day evening event, the professors of the Department will inform about their research...

The acidity of molecules can be easily determined, but until now it was not possible to measure this important property for atoms on a surface. By combining a new microscopy technique and quantum chemical calculations, this has now been achieved. The degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance...

Chemists at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg publish a breakthrough in magnesium chemistry in the highly renowned journal Nature. Magnesium (Mg) is an earth abundant early main group metal of low electronegativity that easily loses it’s both valence electrons. In combination w...

Environmental pollution caused by microplastics and nanoplastics is a ubiquitous problem which cannot be tackled using currently available cleaning concepts. Researchers at FAU have now demonstrated how magnets could be used to remove plastic particles of various types and sizes from water. They ...