August 2023 Our review article on BODIPY compounds with additional C=N bonds was accepted for publication in Topics in Current Chemistry! Well done, Huriye!
August 2023 Beytullah Tatar successfully defended his MSc. thesis and graduated from the Biotechnology program. Congratulations and enjoy your postgraduate life!
August 2023 Our research grant from TUBITAK in the 1002 program on activatable near-IR photosensitizers for PDT was accepted! We will start in September…
July 2023 We participated in ACC 2023, the Asian Chemical Congress, and listened to wonderful speakers from all over the world, including Grätzel, Fujita, Sarıçiftçi, Juyoung Yoon, and my PhD advisor, Engin Umut Akkaya.
June 2023 Huriye İlhan successfully defended her MSc. thesis and graduated from the Biotechnology program. Congratulations and best wishes for a successful Ph.D. education in Manchester!
April 2023 Our paper on activatable photodynamic therapy agents is published by ChemMedChem!
February 2023 Dr. Çakmak was promoted to the rank of Associate Professorship in Necmettin Erbakan University.
December 2022 Cakmak research group moved to Necmettin Erbakan University!
September 2022 İlayda was started her MSc studies in our group.
August 2022 Büşra Say defended her master thesis on “novel benzofused Bodipy photosensitizer and pH activatable photosensitizer” and graduated for now. Congrats!
March 2022 Our paper on near infrared absorbing organic (bulk-heterojunction) solar cells using substituted boron dipyrromethene dyes has been accepted for publication in “Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry …
March 2022 Our paper on bithiophene fused Bodipy compound has been accepted for publication in Turkish Journal of Chemistry!
March 2022 Our group members have participated to the Drug Chemistry Conference (International, 10th) in Antalya and presented two posters on photodynamic therapy activated on site. And our poster received a honorable mention prize in the first place, congrats Huriye, and other members!
February 2022 Our project proposal on photosensitivity in photodynamic therapy have been accepted by TÜBİTAK. Huge effort by Huriye. Great news!
August 2021 Happy to announce that our work on Benzofused Bodipy as a photosensitizer has been published in Chemistry Select. Check out publications tab for more information!
June 2021 Happy to announce that our Undergraduate project student Nurbanu Erölmez has been accepted to the Würzburg University in Germany for the graduate studies! Congratulations!
September 2020 Beytullah Tatar have joined us as a MSc student. Welcome!
July 2020 Our new project proposal has been accepted by TÜBİTAK for studies on Photodynamic Therapy!
September 2019: Büşra Can joined the team as a MS student from Necmettin Erbakan University. Welcome!
September 2019: Yusuf presented the work molecular machines for PDT in National Chemistry Conference in Yildiz Technical University.
January 2018: We moved to the brand-new synthesis laboratory, let the reactions begin 🙂
July 2018: Our TÜBİTAK project on Organic Solar Cells have been accepted 🙂 , soon we launch.
Yusuf Cakmak Organic Functional Materials Research Group 