Research at the Department of Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry developes new tools for the needs of drug development and diagnostics as well as new solutions for sensors, energy storage and energy transfer.
Chemistry is a very practical field of science, which helps finding solutions to many globally essential problems. The research carried out at the Department of Chemistry currently seeks answers to for example the following questions:
- How to store and utilize Solar energy more efficiently?
- Can drugs be targeted in the body by attaching chemical address tags in them?
- Can the defense compounds of plants be used to slow down the climate change and also as anti-parasite drugs?
- How to make the penetration of antiviral drugs into the desired parts of cells more efficient?
- Is it possible to manufacture functional and biocompatible films for sensor, drug delivery, reaction and bio applications?
- Why do all plants produce a different variety of defense compounds?
- How to use bioinspire molecules and solvents in biodegradable electronics and environmentally friendly electrochemical applications? What is the physical basis of these processes?
- How to convert carbon dioxide to fuel?
- How to produce efficient energy storage materials?
Research groups
Newest Publications
Recovery of rare earth elements from mining wastewater with aminomethylphosphonic acid functionalized 3D-printed filters (2025)
Separation and Purification Technology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Endemic island plant-herbivore interactions: Kamehameha butterfly (Nymphalidae) and Hawaiian Urticaceae (2024)
Biotropica
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Gut microbiota-mediated polyphenol metabolism is restrained by parasitic whipworm infection and associated with altered immune function in mice (2024)
Gut Microbes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Cobalt(III) complex with a redox non-innocent bis (o-aminophenol) (2024)
Inorganic Chemistry Communications
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Radiolabeling of spherical oligonucleotides for targeted and pretargeted PET imaging : Biological evaluation of structural effects by using a tetrazine [¹⁸F]fluoroglycoconjugate (2024)
(G5 Article dissertation )Metal Complexes of Redox Non-Innocent Ligand N,N′-Bis(3,5-di-tertbutyl-2-hydroxy-phenyl)-1,2-phenylenediamine (2024)
Molecules
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
Electroreduction of CO2 by Hybrid Cu-TiO2/rGO Catalyst: Qualitative Detection of Products using Rotating Ring Disc Electrode (2024)
ChemElectroChem
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Crystalline nanoxylan from hot water extracted wood xylan at multi-length scale : Molecular assembly from nanocluster hydrocolloids to submicron spheroids (2024)
Carbohydrate Polymers
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))
Wide electrochemical stability window of NaClO4 water-in-salt electrolyte elevates the supercapacitive performance of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (2024)
Energy storage materials
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Climate change competencies from perspective of Finnish youth (2024)
Journal of Youth Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))