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Announcement EAM Starting Grant 2025/2026 Call for proposals (first summary April 30, 2025 - final deadline May 31, 2025) Dear FAU researchers, To support the most talented young scientists working in the field of new materials and processes, the FAU Competence Center Engineering of Advanced Ma...

FAU EAM member Carolin Müller is one of just three awardees The three new winners of the Hector Research Career Development Award have been announced: chemist Carolin Müller, medical scientist Carolin Schneider and psychologist and neuroscientist Sofie Valk will receive the award, with which the He...

Nanocrystals Shaping the Future Nanomaterials represent a class of materials with enhanced and new functionalities. Among these, nanocrystals stand out as a key category. They take crystal features to the next level by the interaction of nanocrystal shapes with electromagnetic waves – most notably,...

After a high level of competition, the Executive Board of the FAU Competence Center EAM decided to award two new Starting Grants to FAU researchers. The EAM Starting Grant aims to support young researchers to pursue their own research projects and thus gaining a boost for a successful academic caree...

FAU study shows that the extent of cross-linking between the polymer molecules is one of the key factors here. Soft materials like rubber or silicone tear easily under tensile stress. In a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlang...

FAU-Physik wird mit über 900.000 Euro für zukunftsweisendes Projekt gefördert Ein Quantencomputer, gerade mal so groß wie ein Smartphone – wie das Realität werden könnte, erforschen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Physiker und...

Thanks to high-throughput experiments and machine learning, FAU researchers are accelerating the search for chemical compounds for high-performance elements. A team of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable E...

Unlocking the Future of Catalysis with SCALMS (Supported Catalytically Active Liquid Metal Solutions): A Dynamic Approach to Heterogeneous Catalysis While catalysts significantly contribute to our daily lives, their impact often goes unnoticed. By accelerating reaction rates, catalytic processes ar...

Since 2020, very many people across the globe have been vaccinated against Covid-19, but the exact structure of this vaccine has remained largely unknown until now. FAU EAM member Prof. Dr. Tobias Unruh from the Chair of Crystallography at FAU and his team are now taking a closer look. The results o...

Solar cells typically base on a comparatively brittle, half-millimeter thick slice of silicon as the semiconductor. Exploiting alternative materials can provide flexibility as to the appearance of the cells such as their color, and their integration into everyday objects. Furthermore, this strategy ...