Research

FAU researchers aim to boost electromobility by creating an innovative mobilisation platform

Its goal is to provide explanations and expert information about electromobility and to encourage more people to use it. Furthermore, with the support of researchers at FAU, the project will develop and implement innovative services related to various aspects of e-mobility.

Giant marine invertebrates

FAU researchers investigate which environmental factors influence the evolution of animals with giant proportions

Mobile and fit in old age

It is commonly believed that physical degeneration processes are inevitable and irreversible. FAU's Institute for Biomedicine of Ageing (IBA), aims to show that this is not the case.

FAU researchers investigate new substances to treat depression

Pharmacists at FAU are looking for new ways to treat depression. The model for these investigations is provided by a well-known medicinal plant, St John's wort, which contains the antidepressive agent hyperforin that the researchers aim to develop further.

Discovering how tectonic plates are recycled off the coast of New Zealand

Underwater volcanoes provide insights into tectonic plate shift in the Pacific

Motorways and footpaths for molecules

Researchers at FAU have recently managed to produce a new zeolite with a layered structure which could be used to make chemical processes faster, less expensive and more environmentally friendly.

Progress in the fight against chronic inflammatory bowel disease

Recurring episodes of diarrhoea, stomach pains and weight loss – these are the symptoms of chronic inflammatory bowel disease which more than 300,000 people in Germany suffer from.

Electrons shoot down molecular wires

FAU chemists have made an important step towards the vision of nanoscale electronic components. They have shown that electrons can be transported much faster over rigid molecular wires than over flexible ones. Together with partners in Japan, the researchers are working on more effective solar cells.

Neither healthy nor ill?

Thanks to modern medicine, it is now possible to calculate the likelihood of a person suffering from a certain disease during their lifetime. But does a certain likelihood mean that a person is already considered ill, even if the disease has not developed yet?

Squeezed quantum communication

It could be difficult for the NSA to hack encrypted messages in the future – at least if a technology being investigated by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg will be successful: quantum cryptography.