Interlocked molecules show dual response
12.07.2021
Scientists at the Adolphe Merkle Institute and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have designed polymers infused with a stress-sensitive molecular unit that respond to external forces by fluorescing proportionally…
Read more
Sustainable, implantable electronics move one step closer
12.07.2021
Bio-inspired electricity sources could power wearable or implantable electronics in the future, even running on metabolic waste according to new research from the Adolphe Merkle Institute's BioPhysics…
Read more
Le Jardin botanique rejoint la coalition mondiale #UnitedforBiodiversity
24.06.2021
Cette campagne lancée par la Commission européenne l?an dernier est déjà soutenue par plus de 260 organismes du monde entier. Objectif : agir face à la perte de la biodiversité.
Read more
A new Assistant Professor for the Adolphe Merkle Institute
10.05.2021
Dr. Jovana Milic, a group leader in the Adolphe Merkle Institute's Soft Matter Physics group, has been promoted to Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg, where she is investigating hybrid materials…
Read more
New study unravels the mystery of the origin of flowering plants
04.02.2021
Flowering plants are much more ancient than indicated by their fossil record, according to a study lead by the University of Fribourg.
Read more
Découvrir l'Université de Fribourg en temps de Covid
21.01.2021
Le Professeur Enrico Le Donne a rejoint le Département de mathématiques de l'Université de Fribourg pendant l'été 2020, après sept ans passés à l'Université de Jyväskyälä au centre de la Finlande et une…
Read more
Photonics: a technology of the future at Unifr
21.01.2021
Professor Frank Scheffold's group in the Department of Physics have recently published two major papers on the manipulation of light by materials, in the prestigious journals Physical Review Letters and…
Read more
The Botanical Garden becomes an institute
10.12.2020
This new status gives the "green oasis" of Pérolles a better basis for its missions of teaching and research, plant conservation and mediation towards the general public.
Read more
Plants ready to defend themselves
10.09.2020
Plastic nanoparticles can be absorbed by plants in a similar manner to inert metal or metal oxide particles, suggesting that defense mechanisms that could protect them evolved in plants long before the…
Read more