Great honor to participate as Keynote speaker 6th International School and Conference on Biological Materials Science Bioinspired Materials 2022 held in Kostenz!!!

Rubén has shown our recent results in bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes and solar cells in the BioINSP conference https://dgm.de/bioinsp/2022/.

Fruitful scientific bio-inspired discussions and new collaborations.

Special thanks to Prof. Zollfrank and Petra Peklo as well as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM) for organizing this excellent conference!!

Check out our last paper on Advanced Functional Material!

Congratulations to Sara for her last contribution ´´Designing Artificial Fluorescent Proteins: Squaraine-LmrR Biophosphors for High Performance Deep-Red Biohybrid Light Emitting Diodes´´, about a new protein-dye system for long-living and highly efficient deep-red Bio-HLEDs. Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202111381

Great honor to participate as plenary speaker in the Italian Photochemistry Meeting 2021 held in Torino!!!

Rubén has discussed our recent results in bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes and solar cells in the GIF conference https://www.moflabunito.com/gif2021.

Fruitful scientific discussions and new collaborations.

Special thanks to Nadia, Andrea, Matteo, Lucia, Polyssena, Marco, Ivana for organizing this excellent conference!!

Article selected for the prestigious Horizons Community Board collection!!!

Our recent work entitled ‘Biogenic fluorescent protein-silk fibroin phosphors for high performing light-emitting diodes’ (Mater. Horiz., 2020, 7, 1790-1800) has been specially selected by the Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards to be featured in a Horizons Community Board collection focusing on optical and photonic materials and devices.

This is a great honor that highlights the high level of interest and quality of our work!

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Congratulations to Sara for winning the Best Presentation Award at E-MRS Spring Meeting 2021!

Sara was awarded the Best Presentation Award for her talk “Towards highly stable eco-friendly squaraine-protein phosphors for Bio-HLEDs”, held on the 3rd of June 2021 at EMRS Spring 2021 Meeting.

Presentation of Prof. Costa at the short lecture evening: “KoNaRo: Straubing researches for sustainability. For 20 years”

The topics at the short lecture evening on Thursday, November 11 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. are as diverse as the focal points of the work at KoNaRo – Competence Center for Renewable Resources. Under the title “KoNaRo: Straubing researches for sustainability. For 20 years”, six speakers will present their forward-looking topics.

Bio-based LEDs are the topic of Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa from the TUM Campus Straubing. LEDs are considered the future of artificial lighting and are particularly popular because of their low power consumption. But are they really a sustainable technology that our grandchildren will still be using? After all, they also come with some disadvantages, such as problematic ingredients. A more sustainable alternative could be protein-based LEDs, which Prof. Costa will present in the lecture.