Sustainable solvents — do they exist?
Many of the solvents used in industry are toxic and require elaborate disposal procedures. Researchers from Basel, Bern and Zurich are laying the groundwork for replacing these harmful liquids with safe new substances.
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Chromium replaces rare and expensive noble metals
Expensive noble metals often play a vital role in illuminating screens or converting solar energy into fuels. Now, chemists at the University of Basel have succeeded in replacing these rare elements with a significantly cheaper metal. In…
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New member of the RSC Board of Trustees
Ed Constable has been appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry following the 2023 elections
Teaching Excellence Award 2023 for Michael Nash
For the fifth time, the University of Basel has recognized outstanding achievements in the field of teaching with the Teaching Excellence Awards. Vice President Professor Thomas Grob presented the Teaching Excellence Awards in a ceremony on…
Luminous Molecules
Twisted molecules play an important role in the development of organic light-emitting diodes. A team of chemists has managed to create these compounds with exactly the three-dimensional structure that they wanted. In so doing, they are…
Most popular articles in 2022 for Journal of Materials Chemistry C
“TADF: Enabling luminescent copper(i) coordination compounds for light-emitting electrochemical cells”, was one of the most popular articles published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C in 2022.
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Publication in the journal Nano Today
“Hard” and “soft” nanoobjects asymmetrically tied together by DNA![The largest of the new cavitands has an acridane[4]arene base and triptycene-quinoxaline walls and can bind a bulky C70 molecule. Alkyl groups on the base are not shown.](/fileadmin/user_upload/chemie/News/acs-h.assetsadobe.jpg?1670837042)
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Molecules of the year for 2022
Check out C&EN's Molecules of 2022. C&En's editors present the coolest and most unusual molecules of the past year. One of these molecules comes from the Tiefenbacher research group.
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Appointment to assistant professorship with tenure track
The University Council has appointed Prof. Dr. Murielle Delley as Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.