25 November 202520 November 2025 Bayreuth Researchers Discover New Pathways to Green Hydrogen Hydrogen directly from seawater – without the use of additional reagents? With a photocatalyst capable of clean hydrogen production directly from seawater it should be possible
6 January 202518 June 2025 BASF and research partners collaborate to optimize mechanical recycling of plastics The composition of plastic waste shall be reliably and precisely identified during the recycling process and thus improve the quality of recycled plastics
18 July 202415 July 2024 Recyclables from wood waste for energy storage and environmental technology Research team takes lignin waste from the timber industry to develop materials that can be used to build and recycle sustainable batteries
14 February 202412 February 2024 Bayreuth scientists find a close-loop recycling process for one of the most widely used plastics A pioneering development enables the targeted replication of the chemical structure of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), a plastic that has been difficult to imitate until now, and shows great potential for sustainable alternatives in the plastics industry
6 December 202330 November 2023 New approach to the sensible utilisation of carbon dioxide from car exhaust gases Utilizing impure CO2 from car exhaust, the team of Prof. Dr. Shoubik Das, Chair of Organic Chemistry I at the University of Bayreuth, presents in a paper, which was published in Nature Communications, a cost-effective synthetic route for γ-lactams