On April 7, 2020, Prof. Dr. Franz Effenberger, the former head of the of the ITCF Denkendorf, Denkendorf/Germany, which is part of the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF), Denkendorf/Germany, celebrated his 90th birthday.
His fields of work include the chemistry of aromatics, heterocycles and amino acids, the chemical principles of molecular electronics, applications of enzymes in synthesis and the development of ultra-thin organic layers. Prof. Effenberger has submitted 350 publications and 55 patents in cooperation with renowned companies. He imitated the research on carbon fiber technologies at the ITCF in cooperation with the carbon fiber manufacturer SGL Carbon SE, Wiesbaden/Germany.