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
Radiolabeling of Theranostic Nanosystems (2021)
(A3 Book chapter)Expanding the Scope of the Cleavable N-(Methoxy)oxazolidine Linker for the Synthesis of Oligonucleotide Conjugates (2021)
Molecules
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Luminescent (Er,Ho)(2)O-3 thin films by ALD to enhance the performance of silicon solar cells (2021)
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Advances in upconversion enhanced solar cell performance (2021)
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
(A2 Review article in a scientific journal)
Structure-function analysis of purified proanthocyanidins reveals a role for polymer size in suppressing inflammatory responses (2021)
Communications Biology
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Recognition of single- and double-stranded nucleic acids by covalently mercurated oligonucleotides (2021)
(G5 Doctoral dissertation (article))Introduced populations of the garden lupine are adapted to local generalist snails but have lost alkaloid diversity (2021)
Biological Invasions
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Branch-Localized Induction Promotes Efficacy of Volatile Defences and Herbivore Predation in Trees (2021)
Journal of Chemical Ecology
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Poplar MYB117 promotes anthocyanin synthesis and enhances flavonoid B-ring hydroxylation by up-regulating the flavonoid 3 ',5 '-hydroxylase gene (2021)
Journal of Experimental Botany
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
A zeolite-free synthesis of luminescent and photochromic hackmanites (2021)
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
(A1 Journal article – refereed)