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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
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
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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07NOV 2016
Department of Biology
Cholesterol May Help Proteins Pair Up to Transmit Signals Across Cell Membranes
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. G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a family […]
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18OCT 2016
Department of Physics
Physicists observe diffusion of individual atoms in light baths
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 principle of thermodynamics. Diffusion refers to a universal physical phenomenon which […]
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27SEP 2016
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
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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