Scientists from the University of Würzburg have been successful in their search for new, better materials to produce organic semiconductors. Their latest development has even broken a world record: It is a better electricity conductor than all other comparable materials.

The Institute of Organic Chemistry is becoming more and more attractive to outstanding young scientists from other countries. Consequently, in 2014 the university's press department already portrayed two of them.

Chief Technology Officer of Clariant International Ltd* Dr. Martin Vollmer continues the Winter Semester Lecture Series on December 4th, 2014.

Nanoscience for everybody – with members from “SolTech”

At the 4th International Meeting on Metal-Organic Frameworks MOF2014 held in Kobe, Japan in October, doctoral candidate Andreas Kraft from the Beuerle group received one of eleven MOF2014 Kobe Poster Awards.

The Winter Semester Lecture Series starts with a guest speaker from the USA: Timothy M. Swager* is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry and the Director, Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At the “248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition” in San Francisco Peter Spenst, Doctoral Candidate at the Würthner Group, received one of two poster prizes at the session “Metal-Containing and Metallo-Supramolecular Polymers and Materials”.

Due to his excellent research results, which were published in top chemistry journals and also received attention at international conferences, the 'Sofja-Kovalevskaja Awardee' was awarded with the newly established “Keck-Köppe-Förderstiftung” on July 12, 2014.

In 2014 there are only 16 active researchers from Germany posted on the website highlycited.com of company Thomson Reuters. One of them is Frank Würthner.