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New President Euresearch, Edwin Constable
On the 23rd April, the general assembly of Euresearch elected Professor Edwin Constable to the rôle of President.
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The SALSAC Approach: Comparing the reactivity of solvent-dispersed nanoparticles with nanoparticulate surfaces
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There Is a Future for N-Heterocyclic Carbene Iron(II) Dyes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Improving Performance through Changes in the Electrolyte
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Fabian Brunner wins SCS Photochemistry Poster Prize
Fabian Brunner has won the award for "Best Poster" at the SCS Photochemistry Symposium that took place on 14h June 2019 in Fribourg.
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2019 is the sesquicentenniel of the periodic table
150 years ago, on the 18th March 1869, Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (also variously transliterated as Dmítriy Ivánovich, Mendelejew, Mendelejeff, Mendeléeff or Mendeléyev from the Cyrillic Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев) presented the first...
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Metal leads to the desired configuration
Scientists at the University of Basel have found a way to change the spatial arrangement of bipyridine molecules on a surface. These potential components of dye-sensitized solar cells form complexes with metals and thereby alter their.../ People
Ed remembers his doctoral supervisor
Prof. Ken Seddon OBE Memorial Symposium, Belfast September 14, 2018/ People
Ed Constable wird neues Titularmitglied der IUPAC (in German)
Der Chemiker Prof. Ed Constable, Vizerektor Forschung der Universität Basel, ist neues Titularmitglied der Abteilung VIII der International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
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Copper(I) and silver(I) complexes of 9,9-dimethyl-4,5-bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)xanthene: photophysical properties and structural rigidity under pressure