For his Master’s thesis, Lars teamed up with the Tamm and Frank research groups to carry out an in-depth photophysical study of trigonal Cu(I) complexes. Their results have just appeared in JACS Au under the title Photoactive Neutral Three-Coordinate Cu(I) Complexes of Anionic N-Heterocyclic CarbenesEnjoy the read!
May, 2025
Amino or Nitro - this is the question. How these simple substituents effect the properties you can check out in our latest paper by Nastia, Oli and Kurt in Chem. Eur. J. Have a look.
May, 2025
Alex finished all his research projects and lectures and is starting now his master thesis. Marla is continuing her work in the group by undertaking a bachelor’s thesis. Miriam and Till have joined her and are also beginning their own bachelor’s theses.
April, 2025
Adriana has joined our group as a student assistant. She will assist Johannes with temperature-dependent photophysical measurements.
April, 2025
Moritz was again successful. He was selected to attend the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2025. One week full of discussions and interactions with Nobel laureates and young researches. Enjoy the meeting.
March, 2025
Great success for Moritz. His application for a Kekulé scholarship for PhD students was successfull. The Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) will support him in the next 3 years. Congratulations.
November, 2024
The Cusanuswerk e.V. will support Johannes during his PhD studies with a scholarship. Congratulations.
November, 2024
Lars, Kurt and Johannes are back and starting their PhD's. Enjoy the time.
October, 2024
Lars has been awarded a PhD scholarship from the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) to investigate cage-escape yields — an area of growing importance for optimizing photocatalytic processes. Further information here.
October, 2024
Anton, Alex and Bennet will support the group as student assistants. Anton will join the synthesis subgroup, while Alex and Bennet will focus on laser spectroscopy and teaching.
September, 2024
Max finished his Bachelor thesis and will continue his work in the field of photocatalytic dehalogenation reactions. Lars, Kurt and Johannes have successfully completed their Master's theses. Congratulations!
September, 2024
We joined the 29th Lecture Conference on Photochemistry in Mainz with a talk by Micha and three posters. Lars won a Poster Prize. Great.
September, 2024
Volkan successfully defended his PhD thesis, making a fantastic conclusion to a three-year journey. He delved into the field of CO2 reduction and various energy transfer processes, with one of his topics focusing on Sb corroles. Moving forward, Volkan will be teaching several courses at the TU. Enjoy this new chapter, wishing you the very best of luck!
August, 2024
Marla joined our group as student assistant and Moritz is now accepted by the faculty as PhD student. Great success.
July, 2024
Sophie has successfully completed her Bachelor’s thesis, in which she configured a gas chromatograph to analyze photocatalytic reactions - particularly dehalogenation processes. Congratulations!
May, 2024
Moritz joined our group as Student assistant after finishing his Bachelor. Welcome.
April, 2024
Congratulations to Mo on successfully completing his Bachelor’s thesis, during which he designed and synthesized a novel series of substituted diimine ligands.
March, 2024
Volkan's paper with the Bröring group (IAAC at the TU BS) about Sb(V) dihalide corroles as efficient singlet oxygen photosensitisers is online. Read here.
March, 2024
We attended and presented our work at the Central European Conference on Photochemistry in Bad Hofgastein, the Koordinationschemie-Treffen in Innsbruck and the Bunsentagung as well as Chemiedozentagung in Aachen. A month of travelling.
March, 2024
Congrats to Tomke, she finished her Bachelor thesis about setting up Photon Upconversion experiments.
January, 2024
Lukas defended his bachelor’s thesis on the use of gas chromatography for qualitative and quantitative analysis of hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
November, 2023
Flo received the Walter-Benjamin PostDoc scholarship from the DFG. In 2024 he will join the group of Oliver Wenger in Basel (Link). Awesome.
September, 2023
A few days later, Flo successfully defended his PhD thesis - culminating his interdisciplinary research on substituted Cu(I) complexes through synthesis, time‐resolved spectroscopy, and theoretical calculations.
September, 2023
Yingya defended her PhD thesis about Cu(I) cmplexes with extended pi-systems. The long journey from Ulm to Braunschweig has reached a successful and joyful end. Wishing you every success in your future endeavors!
July, 2023
A long story come to an end. Marie-Ann's paper about the temperature dependency of Ru(II) complexes together with intensive TDDFT calculations by the Gonzalez group (Vienna, Austria) is published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Have a look.
July, 2023
Flo gave a talk at the y-ISPPCC in Ulm: How Chromophores and Substituents Impact the Photophysics and Activity of Cu(I) based Photocatalysts. Well done.
June, 2023
The impact of substitution pattern to phenanthroline ligands by Florian with our colleagues from the Uni Nantes are published in Catalysis Science & Technology. Read here.
May, 2023
Discover our latest publication by Flo and Yingya, exploring how the placement of pyrene units on phenanthroline ligands alters the structure and photophysics of their Cu(I) complexes. Read here.
May, 2023
Micha joined the French, Swiss and German Conference on Photochemistry, Photophysics and Photosciences in Mulhouse and gave an overview talk about our Cu(I) topic.
April, 2023
Alex finished his bachelor thesis about Sb corrols with the group of Martin Bröring.
December, 2022
Just before Christmas, Martin successfully defended his dissertation on the topic of "Tayloring of heteroleptic copper-based photosensitizers and their photophysical characterization". Well done, Dr. Martin!
September, 2022
Kurt and Lars have successfully completed their bachelor's theses. Kurt worked in Micha's subgroup on the synthesis of CuI, while Lars focused on emission quenching.
September, 2022
We attended the Bunsentagung in Gießen and the Photochemistry Lecture Conference in Düsseldorf. Volkan won a poster prize for his poster. Congratulations!
Sept, 2022
We attended the 17. Koordinationschemie-Treffen in Jena. Flo gave a talk about covalently linked vs. directly fused substituents on phenanthroline ligands in Cu(I) complexes. Well done.
August, 2022
Our TOC picture was selected by Inorg. Chem. as TOC of the week: Great
July, 2022
Mission accomplished. Our third paper on the special biipo ligand and an 'Unexpected Boost in Activity of a Cu(I) Photosensitizer by Stabilizing a Transient Excited State' is now published in Inorganic Chemistry. This was only possible through a great cooperative effort. Many thanks to the groups of Prof. Lochbrunner und Prof. Niedner-Schatteburg. Read more
July, 2022
Conference scholarship for our master student Oliver Lange. Oli received a scholarship to attend the Bunsen Conference 2022 in Giessen. There he will present the results of his master thesis on
"Computational and Spectroscopic Study of Excited States of 1,10-Phenanthroline-derivatives and
their Cu(I)-photosensitizers ". Enjoy
June, 2022
Johannes has successfully completed his bachelor thesis. He has built our new streak camera. Congratulations.
June, 2022
Congratulations to Yingya and Florian! Here is our latest study about the comparison of two different design strategies, i.e. covalent linkage vs. directly fusing of a naphthalimide unit, to improve Cu(I) based photosensitizers. For further details have a look to our paper in Frontiers in Chemistry.
June, 2022
A warm welcome to Nastia! Anastasiia Riabchunova did her Master of Science in Chemistry at the
Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. She joined our group to do her doctoral thesis with us.
March, 2022
Lecture by Steffi at the Amsterdam Centre for Electrochemistry (AMCEL) at the van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (University of Amsterdam). The talk was about the 'Design and Mechanistic Studies of Molecular Catalysts and Photosensitizers used for CO2 Reduction'. Thanks to Sonja Pullen. Infos about AMCEL: https://www.amcel.nl
February, 2022
Steffi has been elected for a four-year term as Chair of the GDCh Division of PHotochemistry.
This division exists since 1971 and has about 340 members: Link.
January, 2022
Marie-Ann's latest paper is highlighted with a Cover Picture and Cover Profile in Chem. Eur. J. - Great. Read here.
December, 2021
In collaboration with colleagues from the TU Kaiserslautern and Uni Rostock we analyzed the excited state dynamics of Cu(I) and Ru(II) complexes containing a ligand with an extended pi-system. Read more in our article in Inorg. Chem. Great job by Martin, Miguel and Pit.
December, 2021
Have a look to the latest article by Marie-Ann and Jannik about: "Merging of a Perylene Moiety Enables a RuII Photosensitizer with Long-Lived Excited States and the Efficient Production of Singlet Oxygen" in Chem. Eur. J. This work work was in collaboration with Sven Rau (Uni Ulm).
November, 2021
Aaron, who visited us in the summer with a DAAD scholarship, gave an interview about his time in Germany. Have a look.
November, 2021
A warm welcome to Sema. At November 1st she started in the subgroup of Dr. Karnahl with her PhD thesis.
October, 2021
Volkan started his PhD thesis right on time at the beginning of October. Welcome to the group!
September, 2021
Florian received the poster award at the 2nd Catalight Young Scientist (CYSS 2021) Symposium this year. Congratulations!
September, 2021
"Prolonged Luminescence Lifetime of a Dual Emissive Ruthenium Dipyridophenazine-Type Complex in Aprotic and Protic Solvents" this is Marie-Ann's latest article together with the Rau group from the Uni Ulm. Published in Inorg. Chem. Well done.
July, 2021
Florian presented his latest results about “Cross-Coupled Phenanthroline Derivatives and Their Impact on the Photophysical Properties of Heteroleptic Cu(I) Photosensitizers” at the 4. Ligand Design Workshop. Link. Well done!
July, 2021
Robin defended his excellent doctoral thesis on July 15th with great success. All the best for your future Dr. Giereth!
June, 2021
Our cooperation with the group of Martin Bröring bears its first fruits. Florian's new paper dealing with zinc isoporphyrins is accepted by EJIC and selected for a cover picture. Link.
June, 2021
Aaron Li our new DAAD awardee has arrived from the US. He received a DAAD RISE scholarship for 3 months to work with us. He deals with the photocatalytic production and the detection of singlet oxygen. (Link: https://www.daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/)
June, 2021
Christina, our first bachelor student from the TU Braunschweig, has successfully completed her bachelor thesis. She dealt with the “Characterization and monitoring of an isomerization reaction by means of in situ UV-vis spectroscopy”. We are pleased that she will continue her work as a student assistant.
May, 2021
Marie-Ann gave an excellent online talk at 120th Bunsentagung. She reported about: “Why substitution matters-temperature dependent emission lifetime of Ru(II) complexes with bi-pyridine ligands”.
May, 2021
Oliver Lange did a great job during his research internship. He was engaged in the ”Computational investigation of electronic transitions in phenanthroline-based Cu(I) photosensitizers”.
April, 2021
Michael joined the group. He moved from the University of Stuttgart to the TU Braunschweig and will lead the synthesis subgroup in the future. Synthesis + Spectroscopy = Physical Inorganic Chemistry and double the fun. Have a look.
March, 2021
Voilà, here it is. Robin`s latest publication about photocatalytic CO2 reduction using a dinuclear Re2Cl2 complex assisted by various photosensitizers got accepted by ChemPhotoChem. Big thanks to the good cooperation with the group of Matthias Schwalbe at the HU Berlin. Read more.
March, 2021
Flo`s new publication about “Cross-Coupled Phenyl- and Alkynyl-Based Phenanthrolines and Their Effect on the Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of Heteroleptic Cu(I) Photosensitizers” is accepted by Inorg. Chem. Congratulation to Flo, Yingya and Marie-Ann! Read more.
March, 2021
Cengiz Özmen starts right on time at March 1st as our new technician (CTA). Welcome to the group!
January, 2021
Martin has moved from Stuttgart to the TU Braunschweig and will finish his doctoral thesis here. He is now part of the Department of Energy Conversion. We wish you a good start.
December, 2020
"Elucidation of Cooperativity in CO2 Reduction Using a Xanthene-Bridged Bimetallic Rhenium(I) Complex" this is Robin's new article together with the Schwalbe group from the HU Berlin. Published in ACS Catalysis. Enjoy reading.
October, 2020
Our paper about a Ru(II) complex containing a rylene type diimine is highlighted with a cover picture and as Hot paper. Great job Jannik and Yingya! Read more
September, 2020
Rebecca, Katharina and Carla finshed their Bachelor thesis. Time to celebrate.
September, 2020
Steffi is appointed as professor of physical chemistry at the TU Braunschweig. The group is moving soon.
June, 2020
Together with the Rau (Ulm) and Karnahl (Stuttgart) groups we published an article about the excited state properties of a rylene type diimine ligand and its Ru(II) photosensitizer in Chem. Eur. J. Read more
We joint the 714th Hereaus Seminar in Bad Honnef with the title: Resolving the Full Picture: Complementary Spectroscopic Approaches to Explore Dynamics in Physical and Chemical Systems. Afterwards we visited the 16. Koordinationstreffen in Freiburg.
Februar, 2020
Steffi received the Mileva Mari&cacute-Einstein award of the Ulm University. Infos here.
November, 2019
Robin's continued his work about novel Cu(I) photosensitizers containing P^N ligands. The article is now online. Great job.
September, 2019
Together with the Rau group (Uni Ulm) we investigated a ruthenium complex based on a dipyridophenazine ligand having two emissive long-lived excited states. Read here.
March, 2019
We had the opportunity to present results of our group at the 15. Koordinationschemietreffen (KCT) in Munich and at the 21st JCF Frühjahrssymposium in Bremen.
March, 2019
Our latest work on the Impact of Alkyne Functionalization on Photophysical and Electrochemical Properties of 1,10‐Phenanthrolines and Their Ru(II) Complexes together with the Rau group (Uni Ulm) is online. Read here.
January, 2019
Celebrating the awarding of the didactic certificate of the " Hochschuldidaktik-Zentrums der Universitäten des Landes Baden-Württemberg" Read here.
November, 2018
Together with the Schwalbe group (HU Berlin) we investigated the wavelength dependency of the photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Read here.
November, 2018
Joint paper with the Karnahl group (Uni Stuttgart) in Sustain. Energy Fuels about very long-lived excited states of Cu(I) complexes - well done Robin. Read here.
October, 2018
Joint paper with the Streb group (Uni Ulm) in Sustain. Energy Fuels about hydrogen evolution with a molybdenum sulfide model. Read here our article.
October, 2018
Welcome to our new group member Yingya. She started her PhD studies in the SPP project. Welcome.
June, 2018
Marie-Ann joint us for her PhD studies in the BW-Stiftung project. Welcome.
April, 2018
Benedikt joint the group as HiWi and Jasmin for her Bachelor thesis. Her work will be in cooperation with Djawed Nauroozi from the Ulm University. Welcome.
March, 2018
Our joint project with Michael Karnahl (University of Stuttgart) has been selected for participation in the DFG Priority Program SPP2102 - Light-controlled reactivity of metal complexes. Link to SPP website.
December, 2017
Our new Frontispiece in Chem. Eur. J is online. Have a look to our Cover picture gallery.
November, 2017
The Baden-Württemberg Stiftung granted a new project on the photophysical characterization of Cu(I) complexes.
November, 2017
Robin's work about novel Cu(I) photosensitizers containing P^N ligands was recently published in Chemistry - A European Journal. Read here our article.
October, 2017
The new group website is online.
October, 2017
Robin joint the group for his PhD studies concerning CO2 activation. His work will be in collaboration with Matthias Schwalbe from the HU Berlin.
