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Young female scientists of the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg invite you to the first "Women in Science" Symposium of FAU. One of the outstanding characteristics of this symposium, which takes place from December 9th - 11th, 2018, is that the...

The Departments of the Faculty of Sciences welcome the new students who will begin their studies in winter semester 2018/19 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. There are several introductory courses for the international study programmes and welcoming events that those students should attend. Fo...

Nanoparticles are to be used like transporters to deliver medication in a targeted manner exactly where it is required in the human body? All over the world, scientists are working on so-called drug delivery technologies, as are researchers at FAU. The idea is that nanoparticles should react to ultr...

The earliest predators appeared on Earth 480 million years ago – and they even had teeth which were capable of repairing themselves. A team of palaeontologists led by Bryan Shirley and Madleen Grohganz from the Chair for Palaeoenviromental Research at FAU have been able to discover more about how th...

Physicists at FAU have proven that incoming light causes the electrons in warm perovskites to rotate thus influencing the direction of the flow of electrical current. They have thus found the key to an important characteristic of these crystals, which could play an important role in the development ...

Dr. Gonzalo Abellán Sáez, Chair of Organic Chemistry II, has been fascinated by natural sciences from a very young age, possibly inheriting his talent and interest in science from his father, who was himself a chemistry professor. He is particularly interested in developing new materials and studyin...

Chemists at FAU have developed a process which can be used to significantly boost the performance of solar cells. Thanks to a process called singlet fission, researchers were able to double the number of electrons excited by incoming photons. The results were published in the renowned scientific jou...

Everyone knows what happens if you drop a coffee cup – it usually shatters into several pieces. Ideally, we just smile and say ‘break a thing, mend your luck’. However, the consequences of material fracture if it occurs in aeroplanes, ships or trains are far more serious and can cost lives, such as ...

Scientists led by Prof. Dr. Dirk Guldi from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius and Michael Teders from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU) have presented a new chemical reaction that could be of interest for investigating and manufactu...

The extinction of the dinosaurs was not the first clear indication that changes in the environment and the climate have considerable effects on the biosphere. Smaller organisms, for example belemnites, similar to the squid of today, reacted to climate change in a somewhat less spectacular manner – n...