“Some day holograms will leap through our homes”

FBH Developed Compact Brilliant Laser Light Source

Scientists from the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) have developed small, compact brilliant laser light sources, which enable significantly smaller systems for laser projectors and other display technologies. “This rollercoaster ride made me feel really sick,” said Dr. Katrin Paschke, head of a junior research group at the FBH – although she has not even been sitting in the wagon, but watching the ride in a film. The particularly realistic... [more]

Sulfurcell Provides Modules to Berlin’s Largest Rooftop Thin-film PV System

The 1.1 MW (820 MWh/year) System is Installed on the “Am Oktogon” at Adlershof

Sulfurcell Solartechnik GmbH today announced its high-performance thin-film modules have been used to construct Berlin’s largest rooftop PV system. The newly installed system at the "Am Oktogon” building at the Adlershof business park in Berlin has a rated output of 1,010 kilowatts peak (kWp) and an annual energy yield of approximately 820 megawatt hours (MWh), enough energy to power 300 private homes. "Sulfurcell is extremely honored... [more]

New microscope reveals ultrastructure of cells

HZB researchers can take images of small cellular components in their natural environment – while the cell remains intact

Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have developed a new X-ray nanotomography microscope. Using their new system, they can reveal the structures on the smallest components of mammalian cells in three dimensions. For the first time, there is no need to chemically fix, stain or cut cells in order to study them. Instead, whole living cells are fast-frozen and studied in their natural environment. The new method delivers an... [more]

The exotic behaviour from beryllium oxide

HZB researchers may have observed the fastest melting of all time

Scientists from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) observed exotic be-haviour from beryllium oxide (BeO) when they bombarded it with high-speed heavy ions: After being shot in this way, the electrons in the BeO appeared “confused”, and seemed to completely forget the material properties of their environment. The researchers’ measurements show changes in the electronic structure that can be explained by extremely rapid melting around the firing line... [more]

New: Clean Energy Trainer

Heliocentris and h-tec cooperate in the field of renewable energies training products

Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG, a leading specialist in clean energy storage solutions, announces the signing of a cooperation agreement in the field of technical and vocational training equipment with h-tec Wasserstoff-Energie-Systeme GmbH, a supplier of solar hydrogen training systems. This cooperation combines the expertise of both companies in developing high-quality technical and vocational training products in the field of renewable... [more]

Live: LUMiCheck, LUMiSizer, LUMiReader

LUM presents new products and innovations during SEPAWA 2010

L.U.M. GmbH, Berlin, welcomes all SEPAWA (European Detergents Conference and SEPAWA 2010, Fulda, GER, 13-15 Oct) congress attendants and visitors to present innovations in the fields of dispersion analysis and particle characterization during the exhibition in booth 550 as well as in the Forum for Innovations on 13th October. The new Demixing Tester LUMiCheck® is your first step in dispersion analysis. This instrument is especially designed for... [more]

Trend-setter in emulsion characterization 2010

LUM’s scientific contributions to World Congress on Emulsions

LUM GmbH Berlin, is actively contributing to the success of the 5th World Congress on Emulsions in Lyon, France, from 12-14 October 2010, by presenting latest results within the frame of one lecture and six posters. LUM GmbH is market leader in innovative instruments for direct and fast stability analysis and particle characterization of dispersions. Besides the provision of innovative measurement instrumentation LUM supports the development of... [more]

Making the IAC2010 a global endeavour

Active Space Technologies joined the 61st International Astronautical Congress held in Prague, Czech Republic...

...from the 27th September to the October 1st with its representatives from Portugal and Germany. As every year, the International Astronautical Federation together with the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), holds the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), this year the location was “The city of hundreds spires”, Prague, in the center of Europe stretched out to the East, an area in... [more]

Searching for traces: Bioanalytics identifies materials

Explosives in the travelling bag? Lead in the rubber duck? Hormones in the river water? Questions like these can be put to the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), for instance Professor Ulrich Panne. There he is head of the Analytica lChemistry Department. Panne is convinced: “Sociopolitical controversies like those concerning food safety or public places lend themselves to sensible solutions only when there are reliable... [more]

Global Business: Technology companies act international

The answer testified to his self assurance: “We integrate our technology basis specifically in partnerships,” replied Ulrich Reineke, head of 3B Pharmaceuticals (3BP), when asked to describe his company’s role in peptide based material research. The company Rina GmbH also works with a similar business model for its activities, which include cell free protein synthesis. Founded in 2008 and operating since 2009 following a buyup from Jerini AG,... [more]

The art of synthesis: The work of the analytical laboratory Witega

Sometimes, explained Dr Andreas Rolfs, we are challenged by events on the other side of the world. When, for instance, baby food laced with melamine turned up in China, an affordable analytical standard for melamine detection was developed by Witega, a company based in Adlershof and run by Rolfs as the managing director. A similar challenge proved to be the detection of the synthetic dye Sudan Red, a highly carcinogenic substance which was an... [more]

Tiny useful little things: The fight for brightening up the image of microscopic life forms

Strings of slime snake through the lemonade. When opened it gives off a cheesy smell. The culprit is Leuconostoc, a lactic acid bacterium that metabolises highly concentrated sugar and forms slime. A whole cargo of the new soft drink is ruined. Goods spoiled by microorganisms cause German companies huge economic losses. Nevertheless, Birgit Fiedler is no fan of sweeping condemnation of microorganisms like yeasts, fungi or bacteria. Twelve years... [more]

Growing into a new building: AZBA GmbH, the analytics centre in Berlin-Adlershof

Fourteen years ago AZBA GmbH, the analytics centre in Berlin-Adlershof, started operations with ten employees as a WISTA tenant. Today AZBA has a new building and twice as many specialists that support the Adlershof companies and institutes with their analyses. What use is the most modern technology for producing solar cells when the solvents they need are not pure enough? What help is top level research when the institute’s waste water fails... [more]

Affordable medicine: New developments in the pharmaceutical research

Every improvement adds to the price – a rule that until today has applied unvaryingly to new developments in the health care system. But now the laboratories of life scientists have set off a revolution that not only promises considerable ease in the treatment of patients or the search for new medicines, but will also enhance their cost effectiveness. Three companies at the Adlershof Environmental Technology Centre ZBU1 were at the head of the... [more]

Active interest: Interview with Dr. Gregor Brendel, member of the EUROPA-CENTER AG executive board

ADLERSHOF SPECIAL: What induced the EUROPA-CENTER real estate group to invest in this location three years ago? DR. BRENDEL: There were many decisive factors, above all the location’s potential and its development. Adlershof’s encouraging growth figures fulfilled all of our expectations. How does EUROPA-CENTER fit in here exactly as a lessor of office and industrial space? With a huge range of research, technology and media production... [more]