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05MAR 2025
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Reactive Metal Rings
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 of an electrophile. Now borders […]
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02SEP 2024
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Reprogramming Molecular Motors Enables Precise Control through Light and Solvent
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 chemical energy into controlled movements, ultimately performing work on the smallest […]
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18JUN 2024
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Tuning the Absorption, Fluorescence, Intramolecular Charge Transfer, and Intersystem Crossing in Spiro[fluorene]acridinone
Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications provide important guidance for designing novel functional materials for triplet sensitizers and fluorescent sensors. Intersystem crossing is a significant photophysical process in organic molecular systems on the way to create a triplet excited state, which is the cornerstone of photo-catalysis, photo-upconversion, […]Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications provide important guidance for designing novel functional materials for triplet sensitizers and fluorescent sensors. Intersystem crossing is a significant photophysical process in organic molecular systems on the way to create a triplet excited state, which is the cornerstone of photo-catalysis, photo-upconversion, […]
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13MAR 2024
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Researchers “film” the activation of an important receptor
An international team of researchers including the Chair of Medicinal Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Peter Gmeiner) has succeeded in “filming” the activation of an important receptor. They froze the involved molecules at different points in time and photographed them under the electron microscope. They were then able to place these still images in sequence. This sequence […]
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02FEB 2024
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Doctoral students from the FAU Profile Center Solar win GSMS Winter School Research Proposal Competition
An interdisciplinary team of doctoral students from the FAU Profile Center Solar has won this year’s Graduate School Molecular Science (GMSM) research project competition. The young scientists took part in the GSMS Winter School, which took place in Kirchberg, Austria, in January 2024. The aim of the competition was for interdisciplinary teams consisting of four […]
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12JAN 2024
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Switching molecules on & off by light to control cellular dynamics
Diseases are usually restricted to a certain organ or tissue in the human body. However, medications are typically not only administered to the site of disease but to the entire body. This can damage healthy tissue and cause unwanted side effects. To overcome this problem photopharmacology aims to develop light-responsive molecules whose activity can be […]
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