News
July, 2025
Congratulations to Lars, Flo, Kurt, and our partners in Nantes on our first paper on Cu(I)-based DSSCs, which was published in JACS Au! Thanks to catechol anchor groups, even aqueous electrolytes are possible. Hurray! Plase, have a look
here.
July, 2025
Miriam has successfully completed her bachelor's thesis on Cu(I)-based DSSCs. Congratulations! At the same time, Hannes has started his bachelor's thesis on bichromophoric systems. Welcome to the team. :-)
May, 2025
This month we are happy to welcome two renowned guests from the photochemistry community: 1)
Prof. Garry Hanan (Universite de Montréal) and 2) Prof. Ludovic Troian-Gautier (Université catholique
de Louvain). I am looking forward to your presentations.
May, 2025
Do you want to learn something about "Push and Pull: The Impact of Amino and Nitro Substituents on
Heteroleptic Cu(I) Photosensitizers". Then check our recent publication in Chemistry - A European
Journal. See
here. This was a quite long story. Congratulation to
all co-authors.
May, 2025
Miriam has started her bachelor thesis. She is working on the synthesis of catechol anchor groups for
Cu(I)-based photosensitizers. We wish you much success and fun in the lab.
Welcome to the homepage of the karnahl research group. We are part of the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. The homepage provides an overview about our current research interests, recent publications and open positions. For further details please check the different pages and enjoy reading.
”... I believe that water will be one day employed as fuel,
... water will be the coal of the future.“
Jules Verne ("The Mysterious Island", 1874)
Keywords
solar fuels, artificial photosynthesis, photocatalytic hydrogen production, CO
2 reduction, photoredox catalysis, singlet oxygen generation, reductive dehalogenation, design and synthesis of novel organic ligands and their transition metal complexes (especially Cu, Al, Ru and Ir), copper photosensitizers, enzyme models, ligand design, organic synthesis, structure-property relationships, catalytic intermediates, photochemistry and photophysics of coordination compounds
Last change: 28 May, 2025
