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Congratulations to Luca for his talk to EuChemS Chemistry Congress 2022!
On the 1st of September 2022, Luca presented our latest results at EuChemS Chemistry Congress 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, with a focus on the use of multivariate tools for copper complexes design. We re-though the way of approaching ligands design introducing multivariate analysis and highlighting the relevance of second order terms in this stage. Thus, we reached the milestone of white-emitting fully copper-based LECs.
We welcome our new team member Dr. Santosh Kumar Behera
We are very pleased to welcome our new team member Dr. Santosh Kumar Behera.
Dr. Behera is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at our chair. His research focuses on the design and development of phosphorescent and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)
small molecules for white light-emitting electrochemical Cells.
President of TUM Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann visited our Chair
On 25th of July 2022, Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann (president of the TUM) came together with a group of students to visit the laboratories of the Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials. They were very much impressed about our research and advances on protein-based technologies. Stephanie Grümbel and Marco Hasler presented our promising work on bio-hybrid-LEDs based on fluorescent proteins. Our PhD students showed the procedure from the production of the fluorescent proteins over the phosphor preparation until the final characterization of our bright devices.
We welcome our new team member Dr. Jesús Agustín Banda Vazquez
We are very pleased to welcome our new team member Dr. Jesús Agustín Banda Vazquez.
Dr. Banda Vazquez is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at our chair. His research focuses on prediction and improvement of suitable sustainable materials for Bio-hybrid LEDs.
Congratulation to Yanyan for new paper in Adv. Opt. Mater!!
Our new paper entitled Rational Amphiphilic Ligand Engineering Enables Enhanced Stability and Efficiency of CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals Based Light Emitting Diodes has been published online.
Local business meets Science!
On 19/07/2022 Rubén, Alex and Sophia participated on the meeting with local industry to discuss the new technologies developed in the frame of sustainable lighting and photovoltaic.
ITN-STiBNite Consortium meeting in Vienna!
Rubén, Luca and Sanchari met the other members of H2020 granted ITN-STiBNite in Vienna. It was a great opportunity to get update on the scientific results made by the consortium about sustainable 2D-materials! We also attended to the 1st Summer School on Self-Assembled Organic Materials. Great time and future collaborations!
Great honor teaching the best undergraduate students of Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium!!
Around 40 students spanning from 7 to 11 course of Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium visited our Chair (Biogenic Functional Materials) at TUM Campus Straubing. Their curiosity was amazingly fresh. We all enjoyed the discussions about how nature produces their own light using chemical reactions, interference, among others. What is more, we discussed about the future of our technology and how our surprises looking at nature, which generates real solutions towards developing a more sustainable technological society.
We are looking forward to meeting them again next year!!
Thanks a lot to Nico Schambeck (Teacher at the Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium) for this initiative and again many thanks to Stephanie Grümbel, Kelly Lim-Trinh, Marco Hasler and Alexander Mauz for the organization of the exciting experiments and the nice atmosphere working with the new generation of Straubinger scientist.
Accompanying AseBio!
Rubén participated in the annual meeting of AseBio (https://www.asebio.com/; Spanish Association of Bio-companies) in which the advances in the biotechnological sector in Spain are summarized. He presented our advances and ideas in the frame of the European Projects ARTIBLED and InOutBioLight. You can check the details of the interview and discussion in the following link:
https://asebio.com/directo_presentaci%C3%B3n_informeasebio2021
Nice Surprise! New MSCA Fellow
Dr. Banda was ranked at the top of the reserve list for the MSCA Fellowship 2021. Yesterday, we got the invitation for the grant preparation. This was a great surprise and honor for all of us!! EU will further strengthen us to redesign proteins for optoelectronics. We are very happy to work together with Dr. Banda.