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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

Bio-Organic Group

Detection Technology Group

Intelligent Materials Chemistry Group

Materials Chemistry Research Group

Natural Chemistry Research Group

Physical Chemistry Group

Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Group

Smart Energy Materials group

Newest Publications

3D printed glass-based biophotonic scaffolds for in situ activation of photoswitchable drugs (2026)

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Magalhães, Evellyn Santos; Ojha, Nirajan; Ghanavati, Sonya; Opar, Ekin; Smet, Philippe F.; Lastusaari, Mika; Riefolo, Fabio; Matera, Carlo; Massera, Jonathan; Gorostiza, Pau; Petit, Laeticia

(A1 Refereed original research 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

Fock, Ville; Agrawal, Anurag; Salminen, Juha-Pekka

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Pilot scale hydrodynamic cavitation and hot-water extraction of Norway spruce bark yield antimicrobial and polyphenol-rich fractions (2025)

Separation and Purification Technology

Tienaho, Jenni; Liimatainen, Jaana; Myllymäki, Laura; Kaipanen, Kalle; Tagliavento, Luca; Ruuttunen, Kyösti; Rudolfsson, Magnus; Karonen, Maarit; Marjomäki, Varpu; Hagerman, Ann E.; Jyske, Tuula; Meneguzzo, Francesco; Kilpeläinen, Petri

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Influence of Fe/Mo Stoichiometry on Structural and Magnetic Properties in Sr2FexMo2-xO6 : A Theoretical and Experimental Study (2025)

Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Naushahi, Naman A.; Angervo, I.; Huhtinen, H.; Lastusaari, M.; Chromy, M.; Ernst, A.; Paturi, P.

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Synthesis of higher alcohols from syngas: Exploring the parameter space and conceptual process design (2025)

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Aho, Atte; Suomalainen, Marjut; Peuronen, Anssi; Mikkonen, Hannu I.; Heikkinen, Niko; Mäki-Arvela, Päivi; Simakova, Irina; Eränen, Kari; Lastusaari, Mika; Lehtonen, Juha; Murzin, Dmitry Yu.

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Graphene nanoplatelet-coated electrodes with cellulose binders for 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine 1-oxyl-based aqueous posolyte (2025)

Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Eken, Taha Yasin; Kaykilarli, Cantekin; Tuna, Ali; Şam Parmak, Ebru Devrim; Uzunsoy, Deniz; Peljo, Pekka

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Highly tenebrescent hackmanites from natural nepheline (2025)

Dalton Transactions

Agamah, Cecilia; Vuori, Sami; Mäkilä, Ermei; Peuronen, Anssi; Lastusaari, Mika

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Electroactive naphthalimide and naphthalenediimide interlayers for inverted perovskite solar cells (2025)

Journal of Materials Chemistry. C

Armadorou, Konstantina-Kalliopi; AlSabeh, Ghewa; Vezzosi, Andrea; Najafov, Murad; Nasturzio, Pietro; Zimmermann, Paul; Hinderhofer, Alexander; Kim, Jinhyun; Zheng, Likai; Caldara, Tiziano Agostino; Carnevali, Virginia; Slama, Vladislav; Lempesis, Nikolaos; Schreiber, Frank; Zakeeruddin, Shaik M.; Rothlisberger, Ursula; Pfeifer, Lukas; Eickemeyer, Felix T.; Milić, Jovana V.; Grätzel, Michael

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Quantitative synthesis of dynamic combinatorial macrocycles accelerated by preorganization of AIEgens for live visualization of drug release (2025)

Cell Reports Physical Science

Yang, Jinghui; Wang, Xin; Wu, Xiaoxia; Lyu, Yonglei; Papageorgiou, Anastassios C.; Li, Jianwei

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

Rapid cleavage of 6-[18F]fluoronicotinic acid prosthetic group governs BT12 glioblastoma xenograft uptake: implications for radiolabeling design of biomolecules (2025)

EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry

Dillemuth, Pyry; Ayo, Abiodun; Zhuang, Xiaoqing; Lövdahl, Petter; Liljenbäck, Heidi; Kärnä, Salli; Auchynnikava, Tatsiana; Kunnas, Jonne; Ponkamo, Jesse; Miner, Maxwell W. G.; Rajander, Johan; Rosenholm, Jessica M.; Roivainen, Anne; Airaksinen, Anu J.; Laakkonen, Pirjo; Li, Xiang-Guo

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)

All publications

Keywords

Department of Chemistry

New technologies and digitalisation

Biodiversity and sustainability