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./ People
SNFS Starting Grant for Prof. Murielle Delley
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) awards a highly endowed sponsorship prize to Prof. Murielle Delley from the Department of Chemistry.
Stable membrane for therapeutic carriers
Cells can generate vesicles as a response to changes in their environment. Although such cell-derived vesicles have great potential for biomedical research, their membrane is fragile and they have tendency to cluster together. Researchers…
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George C. Pimentel Award 2022 for Prof. J.P. Maier
We congratulate Prof. J.P. Maier who received the George C. Pimentel Award 2022 for Advances in Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy. The award ceremony was held during the conference "Chemistry and Physics at Low Temperatures" which took place…