Research

Research focus, Projects, Highlights

Crossing Borders in Catalysis and Biocatalysis

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Chemical Approaches to Quantum Science and Technology

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Materials for Chemical Energy Storage and Conversion

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Chemistry of Biomolecules and Biosystems

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Stimuli Responses and Confinement Effects in Functional Materials

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Research at the Faculty of Chemistry focusses on five main topics

The faculty consists of eight institutes (the research foci of the institutes you can find on their individual homepages). The three big institutes of Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry represent the classical areas of research and teaching within chemistry. The areas of research and the academic offerings are supplemented by activities of the five smaller institutes of the faculty (Institute of Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, Institute of Material Science, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Institute of Technical Chemistry as well as the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry). The research of the faculty of chemistry is focused on the following topics:

Crossing Borders in Catalysis and Biocatalysis

Chemical Approaches to Quantum Science and Technology

Quantum technologies will change the way in which we communicate and process secure information, how we do sensing of analytes and fields and will lead to measurements with unprecedented sensitivity. However, existing quantum technology platforms are limited in terms of scalability, positioning of individual qubits, and the influence and correction of errors. To overcome these challenges, we investigate molecular and solid-state quantum systems,which inherently exhibit properties that can be exploited as novel platform for qubits. Such chemistry-based qubits can be tailored with atomic precision and lead to highly reproducible and tuneable quantum materials. A particular feature of the molecular approach is accurate positioning of qubits. In addition, we investigate approaches for the defined assembly of these molecular qubits in 2 and 3 dimensions, as well as the tailoring of their qubit properties and their individual addressing. In the solid-state approach, the underlying electronic structure can protect quasi particles in 2 or 3 dimensions, which in turn could form the grid for quantum technologies. These chemical approaches will allow us to develop the quantum devices of the future.

Chemical Approaches to Quantum Science and Technology

Materials for Chemical Energy Storage and Conversion

Chemistry of Biomolecules and Biosystems

Stimuli Responses and Confinement Effects in Functional Materials

Interdisciplinarity

An essential characteristic of the research at the institutes of the faculty of chemistry is the versatile and close cooperation with other subjects within the natural sciences and engineering at the Universität Stuttgart, e.g.

in the Research Training Group in materials science, RTG 2948 Mixed Ionic-Electronic Transport: From Fundamentals to Application, Spokesperson is Prof. Dr Jana Zaumseil (Heidelberg); co-spokesperson is Prof. Dr Sabine Ludwigs (Stuttgart)
in the Collborative Research Center Molecular heterogeneous catalysis in confined geometries SFB 1333 (speaker Prof. Michael Buchmeiser)
in the Stuttgart Research Centrer Systems Biology (SRC SB),
in the Collaborative Research Center SFB 716 "Dynamic Simulation of Systems with Large Number of Particles"
in the Cluster of Excellence SimTech Simulation Technology.

Further Projects are the Projecthouse NanobioMater.

ERC Grants

Prof. Blazej Grabowski, Materials 4.0 (2020) (Consolidator Grant)
Prof. Peer Fischer, Holographic acoustic assembly and manipulation (Holoman) (2018) (Advanced Grant)
Prof. Johannes Kästner, Atom-Tunneling in Chemistry (Tunnelchem) (2015) (Consolidator Grant)
Prof. Blazej Grabowski, Time-scale bridging potentials for realistic molecular dynamics simulations (TIME-BRIDGE) (2015) (Starting Grant)
Prof. Hans-Joachim Werner, Advancing computational chemistry with new accurate, robust and scalable electronic structure methods (2013) (Advanced Grant)
Prof. Peer Fischer, Chiral Nanostructured Surfaces and Colloidal Microbots (CHIRALMICROBOTS) (2012) (Starting Grant)

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Research

Research at the Faculty of Chemistry focusses on five main topics

Crossing Borders in Catalysis and Biocatalysis

Chemical Approaches to Quantum Science and Technology