Research Profile

Our research is devoted to the development of advanced organic materials based on functional dyes such as perylene and naphthalene bisimides, merocyanines, squaraines, chlorins and diketopyrrolopyrroles by employing supramolecular approaches. Towards this objective, we design and synthesize novel molecular building blocks and explore their self-assembly into nanoscale architectures and liquid-crystalline and crystalline solid-state materials that are applied in (opto-)electronic and photovoltaic devices as well as in photocatalytic water splitting.

Key Publications

N. Noll et al., Nat. Cat. 2022, 5, 867-877: Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-022-00843-x

M. Mahl et al., Nat. Chem. 2022, 14, 457-462: Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00861-5

C. Wolf et al., Nat. Energy  2018, 3, 862-869: All-in-one visible-light-driven water splitting by combining nanoparticulate and molecular co-catalysts on CdS nanorods.
DOI: 10.1038/s41560-018-0229-6

 CV of Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner

since 2010Director of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry, University of Würzburg
since 2002Chair Professor, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Würzburg
1997-2001 Habilitation, University of Ulm
1995-1996BASF Central Research Laboratories, Ludwigshafen
1994-1995Feodor Lynen postdoctoral fellow (AvH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge/MA (USA)
1993Dr. rer. nat. (Organic Chemistry), University of Stuttgart

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner
Phone: +49 931 31-85340
Fax:      +49 931 31-84756
wuerthner@uni-wuerzburg.de