Welcome to the website of the research laboratory led by Dr. Florian Glöcklhofer, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry at TU Wien and Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London.

In our lab, we aim to translate research on fundamental effects in organic molecules into the development of ground-breaking materials for applications. Explore this website to find out more about our current work on the design and synthesis of redox-active conjugated macrocycles and polymers for battery electrodes and other applications.

In our key project, funded by an ERC Starting Grant, we aim to develop conjugated polymers with interchain aromaticity.

Contact

Ass. Prof. Dr. Florian Glöcklhofer

TU Wien

Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry

1060 Wien (Vienna), Austria

florian.gloecklhofer@tuwien.ac.at

ISMSC 2025 in Kyoto, Japan

Florian attended the 19th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) in Kyoto (Japan), where he gave a talk on conjugated polymers that are soluble without side chains, thanks to the use of macrocyclic comonomers.

Jun 3, 2025

Preprint: Soluble Conjugated Polymers without Side Chains: Macrocycles as Comonomers

In our latest preprint, we present a novel approach for achieving solubility of conjugated polymers: incorporating conjugated macrocycles.

Feb 12, 2025

Advanced Science: Significant Efficiency Enhancements in Non-Y Series Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

In a study led by Qiao He and Martin Heeney, we have studied a non-Y series acceptor material with outer side chains.

Jan 29, 2025

Chemical Science: Proton transfer induced excited-state aromaticity gain

In a study led by Felix Plasser, we have studied excited-state aromaticity gain for chromophores with maximal Stokes shifts.

Dec 4, 2024

ERC Starting Grant 2024

Our lab has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project 'Conjugated polymers with interchain aromaticity (INTERCHAIN)'.

Sep 5, 2024

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