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23JAN 2017
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Artificial intelligence to predict odours
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 something that everyone has experienced. You buy an inflatable exercise ball to […]
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23JAN 2017
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
A good nose in service of science: when fish smells ‘fishy’
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 doctoral thesis. His goal is to discover how […]
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23JAN 2017
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Strengthening nanotechnology for Europe
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 areas where it can be used. The economic […]
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09NOV 2016
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New Humboldt scholarship holder at the Chair of Organic Chemistry II
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 Wei conducts research on carbon materials, particularly fullerenes, […]
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27SEP 2016
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Synthetic-chemical milestone: new ferrocenium molecule discovered
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 consist of two organic, ring-shaped compounds, the cyclopentadienyl ligands, which are arranged […]
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19SEP 2016
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International team of researchers develops a new pain reliever which does not cause dependency or respiratory failure
An international team of researchers including involvement from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has developed a new opioid pain reliever with a characteristic of special significance: the new analgesic appears to have virtually no serious side effects. The active ingredient has been successfully tested in model experiments to date. The researchers’ findings were recently published in the renowned […]An international team of researchers including involvement from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has developed a new opioid pain reliever with a characteristic of special significance: the new analgesic appears to have virtually no serious side effects. The active ingredient has been successfully tested in model experiments to date. The researchers’ findings were recently published in the renowned […]
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