Physicists let magnetic dipoles interact on the nanoscale for the first time

“Of great technical interest for future hard disk drives”

Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice - by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the north and south poles of the magnetic islands did not arrange themselves in a zigzag pattern, but in chains. “The understanding of the driving interactions is of great technological interest for future hard disk drives, which are... [more]

Snap shots of one of life's central processes

Human Frontier Science Program provides funding of 900,000 US Dollars in support of international collaboration on photosynthesis

Photosynthetic water-oxidation is one of the central processes of life on Earth but remains incompletely understood. Now, a German-American team of scientists has set out to observe the intermediate stages of this complex catalytic reaction using ultrashort snap shots taken at light sources including BESSY II in Berlin and the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford. To support their efforts, the Human Frontier Science Program has now... [more]

MagForce AG Receives Further Patent Related to NanoTherm® Therapy

European patent granted for nanoparticle-drug conjugates

MagForce AG, a leading medical technology company in the field of nanomedicine in oncology, announced today that the Company has been granted a further European patent for its NanoTherm® therapy, for which the opposition period has now expired. Patent EP 1871423 B1 relates to a new generation of NanoTherm® particles in the form of nanoparticle-drug conjugates, which are suitable for drug delivery systems. Nanoparticle-drug conjugates inside a... [more]

HIGH TECH – LOW EX: For the future of energy eficiency

An interview with Beate Mekiffer, head of this pilot project in Adlershof, one of the largest inner city development areas in Europe

Why does Adlershof need a new energy concept? Recent years have seen a huge boost to growth in Adlershof, and its energy needs will grow in line with the resulting expansions. Investors of today and tomorrow want to work on an energy efficient basis and save costs, and for this we must create the necessary environment. The legal provisions for energysavings must be fulfilled. Not least of all, we cannot justify our image as a high tech location... [more]

Nucleus for innovative storage solutions

Approaches for a self-sufficient energy supply

From 2014, the 5,000 inhabitants of the Azorean island of Graciosa can expect far greater independence from the mainland. The Adlershof company Younicos will be converting the island’s electricity grid to provide the greater part of its power from renewable sources. The Younicos production halls are already operating a model that simulates the processes on a scale of 1:3. The new system on the island will consist of photovoltaic modules and... [more]

Tapping into heaven and earth

How renewable energies are utilised in the Technology Park Adlershof

In Adlershof, solar energy is on the brink of breaking a new local record. At the latest inJune, tenants will be able to move into the offices and laboratories of the new photovoltaicscentre covering 8,000 square metres. This building will then contribute its rooftop solarmodules for a total of 32 photovoltaic installations in Adlershof, delivering a rated power ofover 2 MW in total. The “Adlershof solar power station” is the most prominent... [more]

Climate Climbers

Building climatization by a façade greening system in Adlershof

As a means to save high tech air conditioning energy, the physics building of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) in Adlershof has put on a coat of vegetation that regulates temperature – an extraordinary model. Sparse winter light still penetrates the large windows on Newtonstrasse, but the first rays of the spring sun will set everything in motion. The first delicate leaves and buds of wisteria, clematis and grape ivy will sprout and, with... [more]

Energy efficiency Made in Adlershof

The modern district heating network of the utility company BTB

“Local cogeneration is our method of choice,” are the words of Frank Mattat, Managing Director of the Berlin utility company BTB, whose customers also include the science location Adlershof. BTB Blockheizkraftwerks‑, Träger- und Betreibergesellschaft mbH Berlin operates one of the most modern district heating networks in Berlin. At the Adlershof power station on Albert-Einstein-Strasse, the district heating network is supplied with 2,700 hp... [more]

The architecture of dialogue

The new Photovoltaics and Renewable Energies Centre ZPV in Adlershof

A place where the identity of the linking research subject can be experienced: that was the goal of architect Gunther Henn. The outcome is an architecture of dialogue. Bernd Ludwig, Director of the Photovoltaics and Renewable Energies Centre ZPV in Adlershof, is understandably proud. As high as the building itself, a very bright foyer with galleries and a sculpted, free standing set of stairs presents visual links between all floors. „Here you... [more]

Great opennes to new energy concepts

Adlershof as an energy efficient location

Regenerative energies here, self-sufficient buildings there. But what is it all costing, and how much is it really saving? And will the energy supply remain stable? What can I do – in the office, the laboratory or production to use resources responsibly? These are questions that a new energy concept for the Adlershof Technology Park is to find answers to. What is important from the very outset: the integration of all actors through information... [more]

Neighbors move electrons jointly

An ultrafast molecular movie on metal complexes in a crystal

Photochemistry and molecular photovoltaics make frequent use of so-called transition metal complexes which consist of a central metal ion bonded to a group of surrounding ligands. Such materials display a strong absorption of ultraviolet or visible light, making them attractive as primary light absorbers in molecular solar cells and other devices of molecular optoelectronics. Absorption of light is followed by an extremely fast shift... [more]

Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof announces 15 doctoral fellowships

SALSA, the Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is announcing 15 doctoral fellowships to begin on October 1st, 2013. The program offers a structured, three-year period of multidisciplinary research combined with an integrated curriculum in Analytical Sciences. Applications will be accepted upon submission via our online application tool only: http://www.analytical-sciences.de. Please apply until May... [more]

Innovation thanks to analytics

Adlershof turns into “Analytic City”

Analytics has a long tradition in Adlershof. The Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften (ISAS) and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) are working towards refining this profile and help turning Adlershof into “Analytic City”. It was analytics that found carbamazepine in the Teltow Canal. Carbamazepine, an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy, is not broken down in sewage clarification – just like the... [more]

Diagnosis: fatigue

Adlershof‘s JPT Peptide Technologies and Charité develop biomarker test

About 300,000 people in Germany suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome – presumably, because it is difficult to diagnose. This might change, however, because now a biomarker test is being developed specifically for this purpose. It often starts with debilitating fatigue, followed by fever and then Pains in the muscles and joints. Like a never ending flu is how patients describe their mysterious disorder that is designated chronic fatigue syndrome... [more]

Stability and Growth

In the lobby, ASCA Managing Director Christine Wedler got talking to her neighbour. The Institut für Produktqualität had just moved into a new laboratory in Adlershof. There she learned that reference substances were needed for food analysis. “We could supply them,” explained Wedler. Just like Adlershof: synergies are the hallmarks of this location. The company ASCA GmbH Angewandte Synthesechemie Adlershof was founded in 2000 by Professor Hans... [more]