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Physicists study how to achieve perfect absorption of light with the help of rough ultrathin films.

Five female Engineering Science graduates have received awards from the Bavarian Science Ministry. One of them is the Würzburg IT specialist Kathrin Borchert. In her master’s thesis she examined how recommendation systems impact on crowdsourcing platforms.

Travelling with the research vessel “Polarstern” into the ice of the Arctic – this is something that many scientists dream of doing. Two doctoral students from the University of Würzburg have been on board. On an ice floe it became clear that they are on the right track with their research work.

Abandoning expensive and toxic materials in chemical synthesis: This is the goal pursued by scientists at the University of Würzburg. In the magazine "Angewandte Chemie", they describe a new way to achieve this goal, a surprise included.

Once again, the prestigious Shanghai Ranking has placed the University of Würzburg among the world’s top 200 universities. It is one of only three Bavarian and thirteen German universities in this league.

Physicists from the University of Würzburg have managed to use an electric current to emit light from a nanoantenna only 250 nanometres in size. They present their breakthrough in the magazine "Nature Photonics".

Boroles could be a highly interesting class of materials for practical use in photovoltaic or LED applications – if it weren't for the molecules' extreme instability. Chemists from Würzburg have now discovered a powerful stabiliser.

Platelets play a key role in strokes: They can even drive nerve cells in the brain into a kind of suicide mode, as scientists from the University of Würzburg now report in the journal "Blood".