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Yoghurt, beer, bread and specialities such as tasty blue cheeses or good wine – special microorganisms and refining processes first produce the pleasant flavours and enticing aromas of many foodstuffs. FAU researchers have now investigated the formation of rot in grapes and have shown that when this...

Individual pieces of a jigsaw puzzle joined together as if moved by magic – that is what FAU materials researchers imagine when they apply molecules to surfaces to produce materials for new technologies such as organic solar cells. To date, researchers knew very little about how large molecules atta...

The EU is granting FAU chemist Andreas Hirsch 2.49 million euros to conduct research into black phosphorus on the molecular level. The holder of the Chair of Organic Chemistry II at FAU aims to develop new areas for its application, for instance in the fields of electrical energy storage and solar c...

FAU has an excellent international reputation. This is reflected in the large number of renowned international researchers who choose FAU as their host university in order to work with FAU researchers as part of a scholarship or research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Tao W...

Researchers at FAU working together with colleagues from Freie Universität Berlin have discovered a new molecule: the iron compound in the rare oxidation state +4 belongs to the ferrocenes and is exceptionally difficult to synthesise. Metallocenes are also known as sandwich compounds. They consis...

The Departments of the Faculty of Sciences welcome the new students who will begin their studies in winter semester 2016/17 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. There are several introductory courses for the international study programmes and welcoming events that those students should attend: ...

FAU has performed excellently in the recently published Shanghai subject ranking: the natural sciences appear in the top 100 in the world for the first time at number 92, while medicine has gone up by 80 places compared to last year and now ranks at number 111. In the Shanghai subject ranking (of...

FAU researchers make key break-through. Graphene is one of the most promising new materials. However, researchers across the globe are still looking for a way to produce defect-free graphene at low costs. Chemists at FAU have now succeeded in producing defect-free graphene directly from graphite fo...

Physicists at FAU and the Vienna University of Technology have successfully created one-dimensional magnetic atom chains for the first time. Their break-through provides a model system for basic research in areas such as magnetic data storage, as well as in chemistry. Their results were recently pub...

Further proof that FAU’s reputation as an innovative research university is well deserved can be seen in the Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars Supplement. The University is ranked at number 76 in the world and number 19 in Western Europe in the Supplement, which rates universities based on the increase...