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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.
Congratulations to Elisa and Luca for the new paper!
Congratulations to Elisa and Luca for their last contribution on novel red emitting Copper (I) complexes, toward sustainable white emitting lighting sources. This is a great piece of the great collaboration with Prof. Galliard from U. Caen. The advance article is freely available in Advanced Optical Materials.
Special Issue in Advanced Energy Materials about Recent Advances Towards Sustainable Materials and Processes for Energy Conversion and Storage
Together with Prof. De la Peña O’Shea (IMDEA Energy) we have settled a special issue focused on Sustainable Materials and Processes for Energy Conversion and Storage.
This special issue highlights: i) the design/use of multifunctional hybrid systems as operational compounds/components in solar fuels, air purification, thermoelectric, water splitting, CO2 reduction, NH3 production, photovoltaic, storage, etc. ii) the development of novel heterojunctions for the smart management of photons and carriers, and iii) the distinctive ecological features of bio-compounds for energy technologies.
These contributions honor our efforts towards material and design models of sustainability without losing device performance for energy applications.
If you are interested, click below to get access to the editorial as well as our review on “How Nature helps sun-catching” that was highlighted by the cover of this special issue.
New Team Member: Dr. Nesibe A. Dogan – TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship
We are very pleased to welcome our new TUM Global Postdoc Fellower.
Welcome Nesibe!
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.
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.
Congratulations to Dr. Elisa Fresta for winning the Extraordinary PhD Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Elisa Fresta for winning the Extraordinary PhD Award (premio extraordinario de doctorado) awarded by the Autonóma University of Madrid.
Article selected in the themed HOT articles collection in Dalton Transactions!!
Great collaboration between TUM, IMDEA Nanoscience and UNICAEN!! Our last work on Copper(I) complexes for lighting applications has been selected in the themed HOT articles collection in Dalton Trans. Enjoy the read!!
Tittle of the article: Towards rainbow photo/electro-luminescence in copper(I) complexes with the versatile bridged bis-pyridyl ancillary ligand
Congratulations to Luca for his talk to e-MRS Fall Meeting 2021!
On the 23rd of September 2021, Luca presented our latest work at E-MRS Fall Meeting 2021 with a focus on Cu(I)-based light-emitting electrochemical cells. He presented promising results obtained about highly emissive copper(I) complexes towards rainbow devices.
Illuminating the world with bio-LEDs
Guest article by Prof. Costa on the Bioeconomy Year of Science
Prof. Rubén Costa from the Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials at TUM Campus Straubing has written a guest article on the bioeconomy for the “Science Year” portal, published by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In the section “Heads of Change”, Prof. Costa writes about how bio-LEDs can be used to light up the world and thus protect the environment.