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- Self-healing plastic becomes biodegradable
Konstanz chemists develop mineral plastics with numerous positive properties from sustainable basic building blocks and, together with biologists, demonstrate the material's excellent microbiologic... - Puzzling glass vibrations
Sometimes the knowledge is already there - it has just been overlooked. For about half a century, physicists have puzzled over vibrations in glass at low temperatures. The reason: Glass carries sou... - Filming the interactions of light and matter with attosecond time resolution
Electron microscopes give us insight into the tiniest details of materials and can visualize, for example, the structure of solids, molecules or nanoparticles with atomic resolution. However, most ... - Biodegradable polyester plastic with high mechanical stability
How can plastics be designed so they retain their desirable properties but at the same time can be more effectively recycled? This and other questions concerning the eco-friendliness of plastics ar...
- Catalyst from hot water
The production of chemical substances normally requires environmentally harmful solvents. After the research group of Miriam Unterlass, professor of solid state chemistry at the University of Konst... - Environmentally-friendly coatings
Polyethylene (PE) is one of today's most important types of plastic. It is used in a wide range of everyday objects - from plastic bottles to pipes, ski coatings and toys. In the form of PE dispers... - The untapped nitrogen reservoir
Guanidine is one of the most nitrogen-rich compounds. It could be a valuable source of organic nitrogen, but only very few organisms can access it. However, certain bacteria manage to obtain nitrog...
- Eco-friendly process for synthesizing organic materials for high-performance materials industry
Until now, the production of materials from organic substances was only possible with the use of highly toxic solvents. A team led by chemist Miriam Unterlass, Professor at the University of Konsta... - Liquid glass, with previously unknown structural elements
While glass is a truly ubiquitous material that we use on a daily basis, it also represents a major scientific conundrum. Contrary to what one might expect, the true nature of glass remains somethi...
- New protein spin labelling technique
University of Konstanz researchers develop a new site-directed spin labelling approach based on genetically encoded noncanonical amino acids amenable to Diels-Alder chemistry as well as a new spin ... - Creating uniform-shape polymer nanocrystals
A team of researchers from the University of Konstanz's CRC 1214 "Anisotropic Particles as Building Blocks: Tailoring Shape, Interactions and Structures", which has been funded by the German Resear... - New technique for in-cell distance determination
Researchers from the University of Konstanz, Bielefeld University and ETH Zurich demonstrate for the first time that the pulsed EPR technique RIDME (relaxation-induced dipolar modulation enhancemen...
- Fundamental insights into the degradation pathway of the amino acid lysine
In fact, they were looking for a specific enzyme. What they found is something so fundamental that their new findings might well find their way into textbooks. Referred to here is the amino acid ly...
- New approach to determining the structure of molecules in biological cells
This is about nothing less than the complex mechanisms of life: In their project entitled "Spectroscopy in cells" - or SPICE for short - the physical chemist Professor Malte Drescher and his workin... - New mechanisms of protein transport in plant cells discovered
Unlike many other organisms, plants can't simply run away from environmental conditions that change for the worse. Nonetheless, plants have the ability to react to environmental effects. These reac... - Non-classical growth of crystals
How do crystals grow? The answer given in current textbooks is: Layer by layer atoms or molecules settle on an existing crystal surface. The research team Physical Chemistry at the University of Ko... - Single molecule switch
The progressing miniaturisation of electronic components will reach a fundamental barrier at the dimension of single atoms. For this reason researchers in the field of molecular electronics aim at ...
- Production of synthetic polymers from algae oil
Algae are rich in valuable substances and can be grown easily, which makes them promising candidates for the sustainable production of raw materials. The work done by Prof. Dr. Stefan Mecking at th... - Computational chemistry as atomistic magnifying glass for biological systems
Studying biological macromolecules such as proteins in their entirety on the atomistic level is a huge experimental challenge. Prof. Dr. Christine Peter from the University of Konstanz is therefore... - Detecting cancer cells using the olfactory senses of fruit flies
A research unit in an international cooperation project, led by the Konstanz-based neurobiologist and zoologist Professor Dr. Giovanni Galizia, has been the first to demonstrate that fruit flies ar...