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
Recovery of rare earth elements from mining wastewater with aminomethylphosphonic acid functionalized 3D-printed filters (2025)
Separation and Purification Technology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Species swarms and their caterpillar colonisers : phylogeny and polyphenols determine host plant specificity in New Guinean Lepidoptera (2024)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Organometallic modification confers oligonucleotides new functionalities (2024)
Chemical Communications
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Micro and mesoporous materials based on zeolite Y for the florol synthesis via the prins cyclization of isoprenol (2024)
Catalysis Today
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Electrocatalysts for environmental mitigation: Synthesis, characterization and application (2024)
(Doctoral dissertation (article) (G5))Comparative Metabolomics and Microbiome Analysis of Ethanol versus OMNImet/gene•GUT Fecal Stabilization (2024)
Analytical Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Plant metabolic responses to soil herbicide residues differ under herbivory in two woodland strawberry genotypes (2024)
Science of the Total Environment
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Endemic island plant-herbivore interactions: Kamehameha butterfly (Nymphalidae) and Hawaiian Urticaceae (2024)
Biotropica
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Cobalt(III) complex with a redox non-innocent bis (o-aminophenol) (2024)
Inorganic Chemistry Communications
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Metal Complexes of Redox Non-Innocent Ligand N,N′-Bis(3,5-di-tertbutyl-2-hydroxy-phenyl)-1,2-phenylenediamine (2024)
Molecules
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )