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18.4.2019 (Evgeny Bulatov) The wealth of coordination chemistry of platinum(II) is systematized and enriched

Studies of coordination compounds of platinum(II) have provided many important discoveries in coordination chemistry in the past, and allow the development of new drugs and functional materials in the present.

Rasmus Mannerström. Kuva: Harry Lunabba

12.04.2019 VTM Rasmus Mannerstöm (Faculty of Education and Psychology, Psychology)

VTM Rasmus Mannerström defends his doctoral dissertation in subject "Uncertain future plans – Personal identity among Finnish youth and its links with well-being, digital engagement and socio-economic circumstances".

15.3.2019 Endophytic bacterial communities in arcto-alpine plant shape the plant and help it cope with stress

15.3.2019 New information about the regulation of an enzyme involved in cancers (Antenucci)

8.3.2019 Measurements yielded precise atomic masses for nuclear reactions in the stars

Our body and the matter around us is composed of chemical elements mainly created in stars via nuclear reactions and complex nuclear reaction networks.

1.3.2019 Time-dependent density-functional theory for strongly correlated electrons

One of the most used methods in condensed matter theory and quantum chemistry for the description of matter properties is Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), an alternative formalism to wave function methods which uses the time-dependent...

22.2.2019 Carbon nanotubes can be produced in a new way by twisting ribbon-like graphene (Kit)

Graphene is a material made of a single layer of carbon atoms.

11.1.2019 Pyrolysis integrated with pulping offers an interesting possibility to make novel bio-products (Ghalibaf)

M.Sc. Maryam Ghalibaf defends her doctoral dissertation in Applied Chemistry "Analytical Pyrolysis of Wood and Non-Wood Materials from Integrated Biorefinery Concepts".

11.1.2019 New revenue streams in sport facilities (Kotthaus)

MSc David Kotthaus defends his doctoral dissertation in Social Sciences of Sport "Economic, social and stakeholder-related analysis in sport facility management".

12.12.2018: Non-wood materials as starting materials of the biorefinery (Ullah)

The primary aim of modern biorefinery studies is to develop more selective and environmentally friendly processes for the efficient conversion of lignocellosic materials into value-added products for industrial chemicals.

30.11.2018: Jet shape modification in heavy-ion collisions measured in the ALICE experiment

The recent doctoral thesis in physics focuses on the study of the hottest matter ever created in laboratory, the quark-gluon plasma and a detector upgrade that would enhance the future research.

23.11.2018: The primary constraint in peat decomposition and C cycling could be reversed under global climate change (Mpamah)

Changing climatic conditions can alter microbial biomass and community composition, increase microbial activities and trigger decomposition of the organic matter in the deeper peat layers by changing microbial processes and indirectly by affecting...