Research

Chemists at FAU have developed a process in which nitrogen oxides generated during industrial processes can be used in the manufacture of colourants and medicines. Using the method, businesses will in future be able to combine the decontamination of exhaust fumes with the production of new substance...

Light microscopy continues to reveal the microscopic world at an ever increasing resolution. Using a new method coined COLD, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen have now visualized protein structures with a resolution of around 5 Å. COLD achieves this unpreced...

Together with colleagues from Universität Mainz and Universität Kassel, FAU researchers have built the world’s smallest heat engine: the tiny engine consists of just one atom and is able to effectively transform heat into power. The British magazine Physics World included the researchers’ invention ...

When migrants or refugees are the topic of political discussion or news articles, the words ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims’ usually appear too – migrants from certain parts of the world are often perceived on the basis of religion. Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze from FAU believes that this is a problem, because it me...

FAU chemists are developing an artificial intelligence application which can predict which molecule structures will produce or suppress specific odours. The Volkswagen Foundation has granted the project 96,100 euros of funding for the next 18 months as part of its ‘Experiment!’ programme. It’s so...

A researcher in Germany is studying why fish sometimes smells ‘fishy’ and why customers often smell other aromas when they buy fish. Mohamed Mahmoud, doctoral candidate at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at FAU, identified various off-flavours of fish raised in aquaculture as part of his do...

Nanotechnology is a 21st century technology. It allows products of just a few nanometres in size to be produced in any shape desired: for microprocessors, for electronic circuits in computers and in telecommunications, and for applications in medicine and biotechnology, to name just a few of the are...

FAU scientists aim two-coloured laser beams at tungsten tips

Simulations reveal new insights into the function of a protein involved in cancer metastasis and AIDS. Cholesterol may act as a selective glue that binds proteins into paired structures that enable human cells to respond to outside signals, according to a new study in PLOS Computational Biology. ...

A combination of experiments and theory has enabled physicists to understand the diffusion of individual atoms in periodic systems for the first time. The interactions of individual atoms with light at ultralow temperatures close to absolute zero provide new insight into ergodicity, the fundamental ...