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
The effect of instructional activities and collaborative tasks on interest and effort in a climate change education module (2026)
Research in Science and Technological Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Students' sense of belonging and its impact on effectively teaching about environmental changes in high latitudes during a master's programme (2026)
Geoscience communication
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Synthesis and Characterization of Glyco‐Decorated Silsesquioxane‐Metallosalen Complexes (2026)
ChemistrySelect
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Across disciplines of emerging neuromorphic systems: from neuroscience to physical chemistry of materials and devices (2026)
JPhys: Materials
(B1 Other refereed article (e.g., editorial, letter, comment) in a scientific journal)
Ion migration in perovskite solar cells (2026)
Nature Reviews Chemistry
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
Development and application of targeted UHPLC-MS/MS methods for the analysis of 31 groups of cardenolide glycosides (2026)
Talanta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Limited responses of plant defence traits to recent climate change (2026)
Evolutionary Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Isoeugenol hydrodeoxygenation over sustainable biochar-supported cobalt catalysts: Synergistic Co0/Co2+sites and mechanistic insights (2026)
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Metabolic effects and biotransformation of perfluorohexyloctane in human hepatocytes (2026)
Environment International
(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)