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Enzyme-like water preorganization in front of a Ruthenium water oxidation catalyst. (Image: Team Würthner)

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.

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Prince Ravat in his laboratory. (Image: Kristian Lozina/Uni Würzburg)

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.

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Two nanographenes (blue) with bulky substituents (grey) have each attached a PAH (red) to give a quadruple dye stack. (Image: Arbeitsgruppe Würthner / Universität Würzburg)

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.

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