Research

The Faculty of Engineering at FAU has received a distinguished professorship from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts: As part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, Prof. Dr. Bastian Etzold, Chair of Power-to-X Technologies, has been awarded five million euros in funding. “Bastian Etzo...

MAP student Sahib Abdullayev carried out his miniproject in collaboration with the group of Prof. Nicolas Joly from the Department of Physics and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of the Light (MPI). The goal was the measurement of a chemical reaction catalyzed by an enzyme. During the course...

From May to August, I did my research internship at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. There I had the opportunity to work in the Soft Materials Laboratory (SMaL) of MAP Advisory Board Member Professor Esther Amstad. EPFL is renowned for its academic excellence and cu...

In the DynaMMO project, Prof. Dr. Tanja Franken is carrying out research into catalysts for dynamic reaction control. Thanks to the project’s major potential for innovation, the FAU professor has now received a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) entailing funding of over 1.8 mil...

Unwanted solar heat gain in buildings Air conditioning systems in residential and office buildings already consume around 10% of the energy consumed worldwide (approx. 2000 TwH). Most of the unwanted heat enters the buildings as sunlight through windows and glass facades. Energy-efficient renova...

Catalysts are of utmost relevance for the production of chemicals and energy storage with hydrogen. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now discovered that the formation of bubbles in ...

Crystals are not necessarily hard and resistant but also occur in soft matter when weakly bound molecules arrange in a regular order. Such organic crystals are widespread in pharmaceuticals products, but also occur as tiny nanocrystals in the active layer of organic solar cells. Here, the organic na...

The back cover to our publication ”Deformation Behavior of 2D Composite Cellular Lattices of Ceramic Building Blocks and Epoxy Resin” in Advanced Engineering Materials (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adem.202100536) in collaboration with our colleagues at NiTech Institute of Techno...

Dr. Stephan E. Wolf, MAP lecturer (Privatdozent, PD) at the Institute of Glass and Ceramics in the MAP host Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been accepted to the prestigious Heisenberg Programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). In this pro...

Have you ever spilled your cup of coffee? You may have noticed how the coffee dries into an intriguing stain with a bright centre and a dark ring encircling it. This “coffee ring” forms because the liquid evaporates faster at the edges, inducing a flow from the droplet interior towards the outsid...