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Honored for groundbreaking contributions to adsorption, porous materials characterization, and international standardization in chemical separations technology. We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Matthias Thommes, Full Professor and Head of the Institute for Separation Science and Techno...

The Institute of Separation Science and Technology, in collaboration with CarboTech, organized an educational excursion on November 13 and 14, 2025. Students of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering had the opportunity to visit CarboTech in Essen and Chemiepark Lülsdorf in Niederkass...

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Matthias Thommes has been awarded the prestigious Clarence (Larry) G. Gerhold Award by the Separation Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) at the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting! This highly esteemed award recognizes outstanding progress ...

The Institute of Separation Science and Technology presented its research at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, which took place on October 25, 2025 in Erlangen. Dr. Detlef Freitag, Marzieh Khoobyari, Dr. Nicole Kragt, Lukas Sandner, Dr. Carola Vorndran and Pia Weiner explained to the public how ad...

Dr. Carola Vorndran presented current research results on Advanced Textural and Wettability Characterization by Combining Adsorption and Liquid Intrusion with NMR Relaxometry (authors: Carola Vorndran, Carlos C. Collados, Jakob Söllner, Lukas Sandner, Jincheng Xu, Matthias Thommes) at the Internatio...

From September 2 to September 5 the Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2025 (EESA 2025) took place in Erlangen organized by the Institute of Separation Science and Technology (TVT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)). This event is organized on an annual basis alternating a...

Prof. Thommes gave an invited lecture on recent advances in the physical adsorption characterization of nanoporous materials with a focus on assessing their hydrophilicty/hydrophobicity at the 1st International Symposium on Smart Materials for Energy effiecient Built Environmental Control.