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
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)
Catalyst development for the hydrogen to propylene oxide process with in-situ generated hydrogen peroxide and intensification in a trickle bed reactor (2026)
Applied Catalysis A: General
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Biosynthetic optical waveguide interface integration using biomimetic - de novo design ELP for optoelectronic applications (2026)
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
3D printed glass-based biophotonic scaffolds for in situ activation of photoswitchable drugs (2026)
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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)
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)
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)
Investigation of Novel Hybrid Europium/TEMPTMA-based Neutral pH Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries (2025)
Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society Section A: Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)