Würzburg chemists have for the first time created a defect in graphene that allows ions to pass through. As they report in ‘Nature’, this could lead to new applications in water filtration or sensor technology.

Researchers at the University of Würzburg, led by Caroline Kisker in cooperation with Claudia Höbartner, discovered how the protein XPD detects a severe DNA damage and controls its repair.

Chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner is being honoured for her outstanding research on the nucleic acids DNA and RNA: She receives the prestigious Leibniz prize endowed with 2.5 million euros.

Ann-Christin Pöppler receives the Lecturer Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. Her scientific work and her excellent teaching efforts have already been awarded several times.

Their work is most frequently cited in publications of other scientists. Researchers from the University - among them Frank Würthner - are therefore included in the Highly Cited Researchers 2022 List.

Progress has been made on the path to sunlight-driven production of hydrogen. Chemists from Würzburg present a new enzyme-like molecular catalyst for water oxidation.

Completely unexpectedly, the enzyme ceramidase emerges as a new target structure for the therapy of SARS-CoV-2 infections. This is reported by Würzburg researchers in "Cells".

This current topic was presented by the Siegfried Hünig Lecturer 2022, Prof. Peter Bäuerle. A second talk given by Prof. Hans-Ulrich Reißig honored the scientific work of Siegfried Hünig who deceased in 2021.

The 48th German Liquid Crystal Conference (GLCC2022) was the first conference to be held in presence at the University of Würzburg after a two-year break.

Chemists at the University of Würzburg aim to develop a new class of chiral organic semiconductors – for applications of next generation organic electronics. The project is funded by the ERC with 1.5 million euros.

Dr. Prince Ravat, junior group leader at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, was awarded the 2022 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

Several layers of nanographenes stacked on top of each other: such functional elements could one day be used in solar cells. Würzburg chemists have paved the way for this.

Researchers from Konstanz, Novosibirsk and Würzburg make it possible to read out optically indistinguishable spin states with a new spectroscopy method - published in "Science".

With Kirsten Schöpf, a trainee of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy has once again achieved the best results in the IHK final examination.