Under the co-ordination of last year’s Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Prof. Brian Kobilka of Stanford University, an interdisciplinary team of researchers has been formed to research pharmaceuticals. Its members include Prof. Peter Gmeiner and his research group at FAU’s Department of Chemistry and Ph...
In a strategic collaboration with the global producer of consumer goods Procter & Gamble (P&G), FAU researchers are examining the material properties of everyday products – and trying to optimise them.
On 30 July, P&G board member Dr. Helen Neville and FAU President Prof. Dr. Karl-Dieter...
Wind and solar power plants often generate more energy than is needed. That is why it is important to store this energy in such a way that it can be made usable again without difficulty or delay. Storing hydrogen in the form of methanol is seen as a promising method. However, this requires a powerfu...
A cross with a tiny sphere in the middle and four outstretched arms: a simplified way of depicting a carbon atom. In their first year of chemistry, students learn from this model that all such atoms can form no more than four bonds. This is undoubtedly true for the conventional particles that have b...
Winning fuel from water is an intriguing idea, but separating water into hydrogen and oxygen initially costs energy. The fuel yield is increased when the sun is used as an additional energy source in the splitting process; the better catalysts utilise the radiation, the more efficiency increases. Th...
Hydrogen sulphide regulates vital biological processes
Scientists from Bioinorganic Chemistry at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have broken new ground by researching the role and function of hydrogen sulphide in the human body. The findings presented by the researchers from...
FAU receives €10.6 million for research into carbon for high-performance applications and resilient alloys for use in the energy industry
Scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are celebrating a major success: Erlangen is to become home to two of the eight Collaborati...
FAU researchers seek to improve drug design
The effects of millions of natural biological compounds are now known to modern health and pharmaceutical research. If, for instance, the body’s levels of protein A are too low or too high, reaction B or C can occur. Pharmacists use this knowledge to prod...
Different components increase the capacities of tiny particles
All football experts know that to be successful a team needs players with different skills. A similar rule evidently applies to complex chemical processes that can be accelerated with catalytic materials. These catalysts are composed of...
European Research Council rates research proposal as excellent
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch, from the Department for Organic Chemistry 2 at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, and his research team received an “Advanced Investigator Grant” from the European Research Council (ERC). The research project “Grap...
