Three times “Full House” Today, the Chemistry Department of the University of Fribourg has hosted the German and French speaking classes of the Colleges St. Michel and Gambach. In total, some 750 pupils, distributed over one show in German and… Continue Reading →

The fastest rising institutions in materials science: Unifr ranks 46th worldwide! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03766-z

One day after the press conference with Guy Parmelin and Matthias Egger, Katharina gave an interview to the Swiss Radio SRF1, „Tagesgespräch“ with Marc Lehmann and Gabriela Hug. https://m.srf.ch/play/radio/tagesgespraech/audio/100-millionen-fuer-sechs-forschungsschwerpunkte—ein-luxus?id=b70b6b6c-4156-41be-ba9e-62b438c2d1d8

This year the Xmass show was : Once upon a time… in Fribourg. Thanks to all for coming, we hope that you have appreciate the show.    

Surface modifications of positive-electrode materials for lithium ion batteries N. H. Kwon, J. Conder, M. Srout, K. M. Fromm, Chimia, 2019, 73, 880-893. DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2019.880

Congratulations to Michela who received her postdoctoral stipend from SNF to go to Australia!

Congratulation to the Dr. Serhii Vasylevskyi for his PhD thesis.

Katharina is in interview in the university journal: Universitas Link,  «Freiburg ist ein Rohdiamant» _ Universitas _ Université de Fribourg (pdf version)

Katharina Fromm represents the Swiss National Science Foundation at the STS Forum in Kyoto during a bilateral meeting with the Japan Science and Technology Agency.

We wish to welcome Ms. julia Barbeitos to our group, Julia joined the group as  an intern for the next months.

The Fromm Group welcomed Prof Ismael Saadoune from Marrakesh in the week of July 22nd. He is Mohammed’s PhD superviser !

Crème solaire, dentifrice, lessive: joies et dangers des produits «faits maison» Le «do-it-yourself» (DIY pour les intimes) enthousiasme de nombreux internautes, qui proposent moult recettes de produits cosmétiques et ménagers. Quid de leur efficacité… et de leurs dangers? https://www.letemps.ch/lifestyle/creme-solaire-dentifrice-lessive-joies-dangers-produits-faits-maison

Congratulations to Serhii ! he has been selected to participate in Roche Continents 2019 at the Salzburg Festival, taking place from August 22-26, 2019! https://roche-continents.com/home.html  

Serhii’s work on luminescent detector is presented in the university journal: Universitas (link) pdf version of the article: 2018-19_04_universitas

Congratulations to Bernd for his 50th PhD anniversary and renewal of his PhD diploma from the University of Munich! On that occasion, Bernd and Katharina met also Bernd’s PhD supervisor, Rolf Huisgen – yes, THE one from the Huisgen reaction… Continue Reading →

Efficient Perovskite Nanocrystal Light-Emitting Diodes Using Benzimidazole-Substituted Anthracene Derivative as the Electron Transport MaterialS. Kumar, T. Marcato, S. Vasylevskyi, J. Jagielski, K. M. Fromm and C. Shih, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, accepted manuscript. DOI: 10.1039/C9TC02352F.

Katharina was invited to the radio show CQFD, on RTS1. https://www.rts.ch/play/radio/cqfd/audio/reperer-la-molecule-qui-donne-le-gout-de-bouchon?id=10454159

We wish to welcome Mr. Franck Oswald to our group,  Franck joined the group as PhD student.

Randy Schekman received the Chaim Weizmann Lecturer Diploma yesterday. It was a very didactic, fun and historic talk !

Prof. Randy Schekman, Nobel Prize of physiology or medecine 2013 is in Fribourg for the Chaim Weizmann Lecture.

Serhii’s research is everywhere !!! http://www.jellypages.com/life-style/Never-more-discussions-with-the-waiter-h85643.html https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/wein-mit-zapfen-ein-sensor-erkennt-die-verantwortlichen-molekuele-ld.1476891 https://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/hat-er-oder-hat-er-nicht-schweizer-forscher-erfinden-zapfen-sensor-fuer-wein-id15285310.html https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/sensor-spuert-zapfen-molekuele-im-wein-auf/44914490 https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/leben/essen-und-trinken/nie-mehr-diskussionen-mit-dem-kellner/story/31601256 https://www.myscience.ch/en/news/2019/vorsicht_zapfen_sensor_fuer_korkgeschmack_im_wein_entwickelt-2019-unifr https://www.bielertagblatt.ch/dem-zapfen-auf-der-spur https://www.schweizerbauer.ch/vermischtes/allerlei/wein-sensor-erkennt-zapfen-48879.html https://theworldnews.net/ch-news/nie-mehr-diskussionen-mit-dem-kellner https://www.bauernzeitung.ch/artikel/sensor-erkennt-zapfen-im-wein https://www.msn.com/de-ch/nachrichten/other/sensor-sp%C3%BCrt-zapfen-molek%C3%BCle-im-wein-auf/ar-BBWczOh?li=BBqfZdU https://www.msn.com/de-ch/nachrichten/other/sensor-sp%C3%BCrt-zapfen-molek%C3%BCle-im-wein-auf/ar-BBWcMjY http://www.pamphlet.ch/?article_id=1217 https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/chercheurs-fribourgeois-ont-mis-point-un-detecteur-vin-bouchonne https://www.arcinfo.ch/articles/suisse/mise-au-point-d-un-detecteur-de-vin-bouchonne-835772 https://theworldnews.net/ch-news/la-science-a-trouve-le-detecteur-a-gout-de-bouchon https://www.lacote.ch/articles/suisse/mise-au-point-d-un-detecteur-de-vin-bouchonne-835772 https://www.lenouvelliste.ch/articles/suisse/mise-au-point-d-un-detecteur-de-vin-bouchonne-835772 https://www.lepoint.fr/sciences-nature/des-chercheurs-inventent-le-detecteur-de-vin-bouchonne-29-04-2019-2309905_1924.php http://www.decotidien.com/actualite/Capteur-ressent-Cones-dans-le-Vin-a-Vue-h25354.html https://www.rtbf.be/info/insolites/detail_des-chercheurs-suisses-mettent-au-point-un-detecteur-de-vin-bouchonne?id=10202991 https://parismatch.be/actualites/societe/262442/la-science-a-enfin-une-solution-contre-le-vin-bouchonne https://weekend.levif.be/lifestyle/culinaire/mise-au-point-d-un-detecteur-de-vin-bouchonne/article-news-1127177.html https://headtopics.com/be/des-chercheurs-suisses-mettent-au-point-un-detecteur-de-vin-bouchonne-5473438

Serhii’s research continue to be highlighted on different newspapers: 25.04.2019: “Des chercheurs bordelais ont mis au point un détecteur de vin bouchonné”, France Bleu, pdf 25.04.2019: “Détecter visuellement un vin bouchonné”, La Gruyère 25.04.2019: “Vin bouchonné vite détecté”, La liberté, pdf 23.04.2019: “Des chercheurs mettent… Continue Reading →

The Department of Chemistry hosted two world-class chemists for seminars: Prof. Li-Zhu Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Lutz Ackermann from the University of Göttingen, Germany! Prof. Li-Zhu Wu Prof. Lutz Ackermann

Katharina and Serhii were on Swiss News broadcasting (RTS): Link Found back Katharina’s interventions on RTS on avisdexperts.ch: Link

Serhii research highlighted on different newspapers: 20minutes.ch/ro 24heures radioFribourg and radioFreiburg

Caution: corked! Sensor for cork taint in wine developed With the recently developed sensor even slight traces of the most common wine fault can be detected: http://www.unifr.ch/news/en/21233/  Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook

Congratulation to the Dr. Anja Holzeu for her PhD thesis.

This year’s Fribourg the awardee will be Prof. Dr. Randy Schekman, Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology/medicine for the discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells. 13.05.2019, 17h15, Big Lecture Hall, Chemistry Department << How cells… Continue Reading →

We wish a warm welcome to Mickaël. He joined our group for as PostDoc for an InnoSuisse project on antimicrobial coatings.

Give silver a shine! To celebrate the #IYPT2019, each day Nature Chemistry will be posting an Element essay from the collection they have published in Nature Chemistry over the last 10 years. And for this purpose, Prof. Katharina M. Fromm’s article on Silver… Continue Reading →

A special issue of CHIMIA on the NCCR Bioinspired Materials, to which Philippe and Emilie belong, is now published, with Philippe’s first paper out! Congrats ! special issue of CHIMIA: click here

Today, we welcomed Prof. Hans Hagemann from the University of Geneva for a talk on batteries!

Congratulations to all new Chemistry PhD of 2018!!!

Congratulations to Edwin Madivoli for receiving a Travel Grants for PhD Students and Early Career Scientists for his participation at 14th International conference on materials chemistry (MC14) Congratulations to Edwin Madivoli for receiving a Travel Grants for PhD Students and… Continue Reading →

Congrats to Milene for her new job as surface scientist/junior project manager at SuSoS AG.

Atena won the best poster award at the Swiss Snow Symposium.

Congrats to Sarah who will start a postdoc in the group of Cornelia Palivan at the University of Basel! https://www.chemie.unibas.ch/~palivan/

Last week on Monday evening, Michel Piccand, Aurélien Crochet, Jihane Hankache and Katharina M. Fromm from the Chemistry Department of the University of Fribourg welcomed, together with help from Sofia Martin Caba, the Association of Lab Technicians to present them… Continue Reading →

On Friday, January 18th 2019, Katharina M. Fromm was awarded the Prix Jaubert 2018 from the University of Geneva for her contributions and works for the betterment of humankind. This is the highest recognition given to former alumni of the… Continue Reading →

We wish a warm welcome to Soledad Bonnet Gomez. She joined our group for as internship.

We wish a warm welcome to Dr. Joanna Conder. She joined our group for as Postdoc.

We wish a warm welcome to Mohammed Srout. He joined our group for as PhD student with a Swiss Excellence Stipend.

We wish to welcome Mr. Maksym Karamash  to our group,  Maksym Karamash  joined the group as PhD student.

We wish a warm welcome to Justine Schwarte. She joined our group for as PhD student.

Congratulation to the Dr. Milène Tan for her PhD thesis.

This year’s Fribourg the awardee was Prof. Erwin Neher, Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology/medicine for the discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells.

Congratulation to the Dr. Inès Chevrier for her PhD thesis.

Congratulation to the Dr. Sarah-Luise Abram for her PhD thesis.  

Congratulation to the Dr. Valentin Chabert for his thesis.

Congratulation to the Dr. Alba Finelli for her PhD thesis.

The Fromm group actively participated in the Explora 2018 of UniFr.  

This year’s Fribourg Chaim Weizmann Lecture will take place on November 21st 2018 at 17h15 in the big lecture hall of Chemistry. The awardee this year will be Prof. Erwin Neher, Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology/medicine for the discoveries concerning the… Continue Reading →

The inside cover of Valentin’s paper is available

We wish a warm welcome to Edwin Madivoli. He joined our group for as PhD student with a Swiss Excellence Stipend.

We wish a warm welcome to Florian Marquenet. He joined our group for as PhD student.

We wish a warm welcome to Emilie Jean-Pierre. She joined our group for as PhD student.

Part of the group is in Albena (near Varna, Bulgaria) for the annual International Summer School of the SCOPES project. Supramedchem@balkan.net

Katharina was at the ICC in Sendai (japan), where she gave not only a 45 min keynote lecture, but was also invited to a very special ceremony, the opening of a sake barrel.

Congratulation to the Dr. Michela di Giannantonio for her PhD thesis.    

Michael Füeg join our group over summer to work on bacteria for his postdoc.

This week the Prof. Paul Rablen is visiting our department. https://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/paul-rablen  

As vice-presidente  of the research council FNS, Katharina has been interview for the ICTjournal: https://www.ictjournal.ch/interviews/2018-07-06/katharina-fromm-fns-lopen-research-data-va-faire-avancer-la-science-plus-vite

Valentin’s paper has been accepted in Chemm. Comm.

We are pleased to inform you that your article “Trithiocarbonate-Functionalized PNiPAAm-Based Nanocomposites for Antimicrobial Properties” has been published in Polymers and is available online

Michela’s paper has been accepted in Angewandte Chemie: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201803524

We wish a warm welcome to Philippe Yepp. He joined our group for as PhD student.

Katharina is doing a presentation on “Ferrocene as new mechanophore in polymers” the same day that Crown Princess Victoria came along.  

We wish a warm welcome to Dr. Lucille Simond. She joined our group for as Postdoc.

Sarah’s article has been chosen for the cover of the Chimia.

Omar Yaghi, Wolff Prize Winner 2018, visits Fribourg on April 20th.

Michela was at the Science Slam of Unifr on April 19

We wish to welcome Ms. Kata Dorbic   to our group,  Kata joined the group as  an intern for the next 3 months.

We wish to welcome Mr. Maksym Karamash  to our group,  Maksym Karamash  joined the group as  an intern for the next 3 months.

Congratulation to the Dr. Hervé Yao for his PhD thesis.

Congratulation to the Dr. Sivarajakumar Maharajan for his PhD thesis.

We wish a warm welcome to Dr. Jihane Hankache. She joined our group for as Postdoc.

Katharina is going to hold a plenary lecture at the bi-annual Colloquium of the French Association of Crystallography in Lyon this coming July see: http://afc2018.univ-lyon1.fr/en/pages/afc2018-programme

Priscilla has published an article in the online version of the DeviceMed: Revêtements antibactériens pour les implants : le pouvoir de l’argent. The target readers of the DeviceMed are medical companies.

Katharina has been elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in December 2017. www.eurasc.org. You can find the official announcement here.

On November 27th 2017, Katharina signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Swiss National Science Foundation and the CNPq (the Brazilian equivalent), represented by Prof. Mario Neto Borges, in presence of the Chief of the Office for International Affairs of… Continue Reading →

Siva’s photo won the second prize of the photo contest of the GDCh (the German Society for Chemistry). https://www.gdch.de/index.php?id=3578   Congrats !

Katharina was invited to go to KAUST in Saudi-Arabia, where she gave a talk on battery materials on November 12, 2017.

The Geneva newspaper “Le Temps” published today an article relating the work done in collaboration with Dr. Laurent Mène-Saffrané (Department of Plant Biology). This work was published in New Phytologist (click here). The press article is available @ https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/2017/11/20/huiles-plus-productives-plus-pauvres-vitamines.

Congratulations to Serhii who won a doc.mobility stipend of SNSF to go to Bordeaux for 6 months as of April 1st 2018 in order to collaborate on luminescence properties !

  See some of our research in a movie: Click here

Interview of Katharina in the radio broadcast “CQDF” on «Les sens de la vie ». Rerun of the interview on the 17.02.2016. Link

Katharina and Marc Pauchard (AMI) were invited on RadioFr for the broadcast “Les Experts”. Cafés Scientifiques: Les Nanoparticules, RadioFr. http://podcasts.radiofr.ch/8d89a7f11fe1eb43cdf9c36f106537fe.mp3 Cafés scientifiques de l’Université de Fribourg 2017/2018 Link

Prof. Katharina Fromm got « hooked up and catenated » with two Noble Prize Winners last Wednesday!   Sir Fraser Stoddart (left) and Ben Feringa (right)

Congratulations to Paula Corcosa for “the best presentation” prize at the 1st year PhD student symposium in Bern.

Congratulations to Alba Finelli and Michela di Giananntonio for their poster! Congratulations to Michela di Giananntonio for the best poster Prize at the summer school “Supramolecular Chemistry: Ideas, Design and Methods for Investigations” organized by SCOPES in Bulgaria the 16th-18th of June…. Continue Reading →