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.
Prof. Matthias Thommes was awarded an honorary professorship at the University of Edinburgh (until end of 2028). This will further strengthen the ongoing collaboration of Prof. Thommes' group and the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. This is also reflected in the joint organisati...
From May 18-23, 2025 the 15th Fundamentals of Adsorption (FOA 15) conference took place in Porto, Portugal. The Adsorption and Nanoporous Materials Characterization group had a major presence and significant contributions at this meeting.
The Institute of Separation Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Wacker Chemie AG, organized an educational excursion to the chemical site in Burghausen on April 25, 2025.
From February 26th through 28th, 2025, the 36th German Zeolite Conference (DZT) and the Annual Meeting of the DECHEMA group Adsorption took place at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Organized by DECHEMA e.V., the conference was hosted by the Institute of Separation Science and ...
Prof. Matthias Thommes (Institute of Separation Science and Technology (TVT), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Prof. Stefano Brandani (University of Edinburgh) are pleased to invite you to the Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2025, which will take place from September 2 – 5, 2025 in Erlangen (Germany) - Registration is now open!
The 36th German Zeolite Conference (DZT) and the Annual Meeting of the DECHEMA group Adsorption will take place February 26th through 28th, 2025 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Organized by DECHEMA e.V., the conference is hosted by the Institute of Separation Science and Te...
Congratulations to Simon Eder for his successful doctoral thesis defense on 09.01.2025! He presented his work “The Influence of Confinement on the Adsorption Behavior of Supercritical Fluids in Nanoporous Materials for Gas Storage Applications”.
During his PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Matthias ...
Prof. Matthias Thommes was an invited lecturer at this prestigious event, which was organized by Prof. Annette Andrieu-Brunsen (TU Darmstadt, Germany), Prof. Omar Azzaroni (INIFTA, La Plata, Argentina) and Prof. Galo Soler-Illia (UNSAM, San Martin, Argentina) with support by the VolkswagenStiftung.
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Prof. Matthias Thommes, Head of Institute of Separation Science and Technology (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) has been distinguished for his outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of adsorption and the characterization of porous materials by the Separation Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The Plaque of Honor was awarded to him during a dedicated Honorary Session at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2024 on October 28th in San Diego, California, USA.
