Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Nitrogen’s Solid Phase

Unprecedented insights into the gradual molecular-to-polymeric transformation of nitrogen and the formation of amorphous nitrogen

13-Oct-2023 - In a ground-breaking study led by the University of Bayreuth researchers, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and the University of Linköping, Sweden, the mysteries of nitrogen’s solid phases were solved, shedding light on its complex behaviour. Their findings, ...

Researcher develops high-performance digital system for tailoring polymers

Rapid and precise prediction of polymer properties

24-Jul-2023 - Polymers have become an indispensable part of everyday life. However, the current polymers represent only a small fraction of the huge number of polymers that theoretically exist. Prof. Dr. Christopher Kuenneth at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, together with research partners in Atlanta, ...

International research team creates previously unknown nitrogen compounds

The study exemplifies the great, as yet untapped potential of high-pressure research for nitrogen chemistry

13-Dec-2022 - Non-metal nitrides are compounds in which nitrogen and non-metallic elements are linked by covalent bonds. Because of their technologically interesting properties, they have increasingly become the focus of materials research. In the journal "Chemistry – A European Journal", an international team ...

New spectroscopic insights into hydrogen bonds

Surprising results

21-Jun-2022 - Hydrogen bonds are of fundamental interest in materials science, physics and chemistry. An international team including scientists from the University of Bayreuth has now achieved surprising insights into the formation of hydrogen bonds using a novel method that enables the application of NMR ...

Researchers discover carbon material with unique structure

"The material we synthesized is a hermaphrodite: for the first time, it forms a bridge between crystalline and amorphous, i.e. completely disordered, structures"

29-Nov-2021 - Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, together with partners in China and the USA, have for the first time produced a carbon material that does not have the strictly ordered structures of a crystal, but is not amorphous either. It is paracrystalline diamond with unique optical, mechanical ...

Light, strong, and tough: Researchers discover unique polymer fibres

16-Dec-2019 - Strong and tough yet as light as a feather – materials with this exceptional combination of properties are urgently needed in many industrial sectors and in medicine, as well as being of great interest for scientific research. A research team from the University of Bayreuth has now developed ...