Research at the Department of Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry developes new tools for the needs of drug development and diagnostics as well as new solutions for sensors, energy storage and energy transfer.
Chemistry is a very practical field of science, which helps finding solutions to many globally essential problems. The research carried out at the Department of Chemistry currently seeks answers to for example the following questions:
- How to store and utilize Solar energy more efficiently?
- Can drugs be targeted in the body by attaching chemical address tags in them?
- Can the defense compounds of plants be used to slow down the climate change and also as anti-parasite drugs?
- How to make the penetration of antiviral drugs into the desired parts of cells more efficient?
- Is it possible to manufacture functional and biocompatible films for sensor, drug delivery, reaction and bio applications?
- Why do all plants produce a different variety of defense compounds?
- How to use bioinspire molecules and solvents in biodegradable electronics and environmentally friendly electrochemical applications? What is the physical basis of these processes?
- How to convert carbon dioxide to fuel?
- How to produce efficient energy storage materials?
Research groups
Newest Publications
Metabolic effects and biotransformation of perfluorohexyloctane in human hepatocytes (2026)
Environment International
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Luminescence and Photochromism in Lanthanide-Doped Hackmanites (2026)
Advanced Optical Materials
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Precursors by Aldol Condensation of Cyclopentanone and Furfural on Ce-Based Catalysts (2026)
Energy and Fuels
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Toward a sustainable protection group approach for solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis employing 5′-O-(2-methoxyisopropyl) protection (2026)
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Beyond compound‑specific methods: Group‑specific UHPLC-MS/MS enables rapid detection and quantitation of all glucosinolates (2026)
Journal of Chromatography A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Ellagitannins as Al(III) chelators: Determined binding sites with a predictive model (2026)
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Effect of heavy Nd3+ doping on defect-sensitive low-temperature properties of yttrium-aluminium garnet laser ceramics (2026)
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Turning NIR into blue afterglow: UV upconversion in CaWO₄:Yb,Tm for blue afterglow from the CaAl2O4:Eu2+,Nd3+ persistent luminescent phosphor (2026)
Materialia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Development of an In Vitro Assay for Evaluation of Intracellular SPAAC Reactions Using Hoechst-DBCO (2026)
Chemical & Biomedical Imaging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Effect of Cu-Fe-Co Catalyst Pretreatment in Higher Alcohol Synthesis (2026)
Topics in Catalysis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)