Chemistry Experience – SEC Online Lectures

2025

• 14.01.2025 Stefan Gürtzgen: Renewable energies – technological foundations and significance for sustainable living on our planet
• 18.02.2025 Klemens Minn: Our path to the new herbicide indaziflam – industrial development of a plant protection product
• 18.03.2025 Bernhard Blümich: Compact NMR on site: non-destructive materials testing, cultural heritage and chemical analysis
• 15.04.2025 Frauke Zbikowski:Communicating with non-specialists in the natural sciences
• 13.05.2025 Werner Hofmann: Where does medical progress come from?
• 17.06.2025 Kurt Wagemann: Hydrogen – what role will it play in achieving Germany’s climate targets?
• 15.07.2025 Dieter H. E. Kunz: Opportunities and limitations of plastics recycling
• 16.09.2025 Ursula Hoeppener-Kramar: From the Big Bang to radiation protection
• 07.10.2025 Franz Bracher: From nature to bedside. The significance of natural products in the development of cytostatics
• 11.11.2025 Klaus Roth: How can you finally win the Nobel Prize?
• 02.12.2025 Ekkehard Schwab: Energy – the elixir of life

2024

• 16.01.2024, Klaus-Dieter Jany: From stem cell to structured piece of meat
• 20.02.2024 Helmut Ritter: Functional polymers in research and practice: what would we be without them?
• 19.03.2024 Andreas Wolf: Chemistry of silicone sealants – more complex than you think
• 09.04.2024 Günther Kempe: Food scandals – residue analysis
  28.05.2024 Wladimir Reschetilowski: Multifunctionality in heterogeneous catalysis
• 18.06.2024 Hendrik Emons: Analytical chemistry for the design and monitoring of European legislation
• 23.07.2024 Eberhard Ehlers: Drugs and addiction – a problem for all societies
• 17.09.2024 Ekkehard Schwab: Magnetic tape – what became of it?
  08.10.2024 Gerhard Kreysa: Strategies for decarbonising the atmosphere
• 12.11.2024 Renate Kießling: The Chemical Society of the GDR and its actors
• 03.12.2024 Bernhard Fritz: Contact with food – legislation, physics, chemistry

2023

• 10.01.2023 Klaus-Dieter Franz: Let there be light – LEDs, LCDs and OLEDs
• 14.02.2023 Gerhard Heywang: Chemistry between 6.30 and 7.30 a.m.
• 21.03.2023 Ekkehard Schwab: Raw-material transformation in the chemical industry
• 18.04.2023 Klaus Roth: Dieter Oesterhelt (1940–2022) and his bacteriorhodopsin
• 16.05.2023 Michael Röper: Homogeneous catalysis in the chemical industry
• 20.06.2023 Petra Schultheiß-Reimann: Lithium: the white gold of the Andes
• 18.07.2023 Dieter Kunz: Pyrolysis of scrap tyres to recover carbon black
• 19.09.2023 Ludwig Kuhlmann: Variability of analytical methods – the crux of individual values
• 10.10.2023 Gisela Boeck: Ferdinand Runge (1794–1867) – and the formative drive of substances
• 07.11.2023 Wladimir Reschetilowski: Microstructured reactors for process optimisation
• 28.11.2023 Roland Bitsch: Water – source of life

2022

• 18.01.2022 Ludwig Kuhlmann: Radionuclides – helpers of humankind
• 15.02.2022 Ekkehard Schwab: Industrial heterogeneous catalysis
• 08.03.2022 Otto Machhammer: Germany’s energy transition – how should it proceed?
• 05.04.2022 Gerhard Heywang: Egg, egg, egg – interesting facts about eggs
• 24.05.2022 Roland Bitsch: Critical vitamins and vulnerable population groups in Germany
• 21.06.2022 Eberhard Ehlers: Diabetes, the widespread disease, and its treatment
• 12.07.2022 Klaus-Dieter Franz: Chemistry for energy storage technologies
• 13.09.2022 Michael Röper: Chemical utilisation of carbon dioxide – what is possible and what makes sense?
• 11.10.2022 Gerhard Heywang: The tongue – a jack of all trades
• 08.11.2022 Gisela Boeck: Latvian, Russian or German? Organic chemist, physical chemist or historian? The life and work of Paul Walden (1863–1957)
• 29.11.2022 Eberhard Ehlers: Nature as a source of new pharmaceutical active substances

2021

• 19.01.2021 Eberhard Ehlers: Women in the natural sciences
• 02.03.2021 Klaus-Dieter Jany: Genetic engineering in everyday life – not only in vaccination
• 30.03.2021 Thomas Brock: Modern, environmentally compatible types of paint – manufacture, properties and fields of application
• 27.04.2021 Dieter Kunz: Plastic waste – knowledge and speculation
• 18.05.2021 Ekkehard Schwab: Energy, the elixir of life – where it comes from and where it goes
• 22.06.2021 Gerhard Kreysa; Strategies, visions and illusions for saving the climate
• 06.07.2021 Gisela Boeck: "You will have received my little atomic hoax" – Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895) – his life and work
• 02.09.2021 Klaus-Dieter Jany: “CRISPR/Cas and Co” – the new methods for modifying genetic information – quo vadis? – is the EU losing touch in science and business?
• 28.09.2021 Klaus-Dieter Franz: Music for the eye – colour, lustre and function of modern colour pigments
• 19.10.2021 Hartwig Müller: Small molecules, major effects – trace gases in the atmosphere
• 23.11.2021 Helmut Ritter: Sweet cyclodextrins – sophisticated host–guest chemistry and practical applications