Boost for the Startup Scene in the Rhine-Main Region

Four Universities and Futury Launch the Future Factory

31-Mar-2025 - The Rhine-Main startup ecosystem is gaining momentum: Four leading universities – Goethe University Frankfurt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Technical University of Darmstadt, and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management – together with Futury, are launching the Future Factory, a ...

X-ray snapshot: How light bends an active substance

An imaging technique established for decades applied to complex molecules for the first time

12-Mar-2025 - With the help of the world's most powerful X-ray laser, European XFEL, a research team led by Goethe University Frankfurt and the research centre DESY has achieved an important breakthrough: Using the example of the pharmaceutically active substance 2-thiouracil, they applied a long-established ...

How the use of chemicals and biodiversity loss are connected

03-Jul-2023 - Science does not take a deep enough look at chemicals in the environment as one of the causes of the decline in biodiversity. Forty scientists in the RobustNature research network of Goethe University Frankfurt and collaborating institutes have corroborated this in a study that has now been ...

Final destination deep sea: microplastics impact ocean floor even more than assumed

The deep sea serves as the “oceans’ garbage dump” – and it is surprisingly dynamic when it comes to deposition

15-Jul-2022 - Senckenberg researchers Serena Abel and Angelika Brandt, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Goethe University in Frankfurt, have investigated microplastic pollution in the Western Pacific Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. ...

New biobattery for hydrogen storage

Microbiologists has succeeded in using bacteria for the controlled storage and release of hydrogen

27-May-2022 - The fight against climate change is making the search for carbon-neutral energy sources increasingly urgent. Green hydrogen, which is produced from water with the help of renewable energies such as wind or solar power, is one of the solutions on which hopes are pinned. However, transporting and ...

Green chemistry needs more green toxicology

Sustainable bioeconomy: Development of environmentally friendly bio-shampoos and plant protection agent technologies

16-Feb-2022 - With the early assessment of sustainable, newly developed chemicals and products it is possible to assess a potential risk of toxic substances being released at a later point in product cascades. This has been revealed in a proof-of-concept study jointly coordinated by Goethe University Frankfurt ...

New substance classes for nanomaterials

Nano spheres and diamond slivers made of silicon and germanium

09-Sep-2021 - Chemists at Goethe University Frankfurt have developed two new classes of materials in the field of nanomaterials and investigated them together with their cooperation partners at the University of Bonn: for the first time, they have succeeded in producing a nano sphere of silicon atoms and a ...

How diphosphorus can be used for chemical reactions

Team from Göttingen and Frankfurt succeeds in stabilisation

29-Jul-2021 - Chemical syntheses of new active ingredients or functional materials are based on the use of molecular building blocks. These must be simultaneously reactive but also stable enough to enable targeted incorporation into larger molecules. A research team from the University of Göttingen and the ...

How nitrogen is transferred by a catalyst

The detailed understanding will allow for the design of catalysts tailored for specific reactions

16-Nov-2020 - Catalysts with a metal-nitrogen bond can transfer nitrogen to organic molecules. In this process short-lived molecular species are formed, whose properties critically determine the course of the reaction and product formation. The key compound in a catalytic nitrogen-atom transfer reaction has ...

Snapshot of exploding oxygen

New experimental technique with reaction microscope allows “X-ray” of individual molecules

11-Jun-2020 - For more than 200 years, we have been using X-rays to look inside matter, and progressing to ever smaller structures – from crystals to nanoparticles. Now, within the framework of a larger international collaboration on the X-ray laser European XFEL in Schenefeld near Hamburg, physicists at ...