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“I live in the future”: A glimpse into Future Living
Thanks to smart home technology, everything in Stefan Schwunk’s loft can be controlled using voice control and an app. Water damages, too, are now a thing of the past.:
Imagine yourself living alone. In spite of this, you wake up every morning to the smell of fresh coffee, the shutters open automatically, the oven is preheated ready for the croissants, and the speakers softly play…
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HZB uses electricity-producing facade wall as real laboratory
Solar façade of the new research building in Adlershof was officially commissioned:
In the presence of the State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Energy and Operations of the State of Berlin, Christian Rickerts, the HZB officially commissioned the solar façade of a new research building on 6 September…
Smart diagnostics
Quantune Technologies are revolutionising the use of infrared lasers:
The first few years of a start-up could hardly be more adventurous: Founded with an EXIST grant straight from Berlin’s Humboldt University (HU) in October 2019, Quantune Technologies GmbH moved into its labs at…
Atoms enlarged 100 million times
Crystals from Adlershof made possible a world record for electron microscopy imaging:
This picture looks like a great work of art. Red and yellow dots shine from the darkness—arranged in strict fashion along horizontal and vertical lines—some only once, some of them twice. The picture was not, however,…
Adlershof Journal September/October 2021
Mobility, climate, health: It’s in our hands:
Smart diagnostics: Revolutionising infrared lasers // River water and deep storage: Making energy supply greener // Robots in care: HU research project
United for more energy efficiency
EU project funds networks promoting energy saving in Adlershof:
There’s no alternative to saving more energy—for economic as well as ecological reasons. The harmful effects of climate change are becoming increasingly evident in the form of heat waves, melting arctic ice, or…
Artificial intelligence for a successful energy transition
Data-driven risk assessment offered by variante.energy aims at paving the way to a hundred-percent self-sufficiency with green electricity:
The Adlershof-based founding couple behind variate.energy provide decision-making support for companies, communities, and other organisations that seek to decrease their carbon emissions through wind and solar…
Thomas Schröder is the new Executive Board Spokesman of FVB
The Director of the IKZ wants to promote digitalization, internationalization, equality and climate neutrality at Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.:
Professor Thomas Schröder, Director of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), is the new Executive Board Spokesman of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) as of September 1, 2021. The term of office is…
Practical learning at LUM GmbH
Adlershof-based analytics company continues education offensive in collaboration with the German Society for International Cooperation in 2021:
Many educational institutions have been struggling with the pandemic conditions since March 2020. At LUM GmbH, education is valued as one of the highest assets and attention is paid to the greatest possible practical…
Adlershof at work: Dr. Anton Nagy, founder and CEO of ILS-Integrated Lab Solutions GmbH
#RoleModelsAdlershof in English this August:
They are the drivers, hearts, and minds of our Technology Park – our #RoleModelsAdlershof. In our August edition, we speak to Dr. Anton Nagy, the CEO of ILS - Integrated Lab Solutions GmbH, which performs simulation,…
Leibniz institutes join expertise to strengthen national and European technology sovereignty
IKZ assumes the coordinating and spokesperson functions:
Beginning of July, the new Leibniz Strategy Forum “Technological Sovereignty” officially started its work. Leibniz institutions have launched this initiative to develop interdisciplinary contributions of the Leibniz…
Researchers achieve breakthrough for technicolor X-ray images
Hyperspectral X-ray imaging technique is readily compatible with time-resolved experiments:
X-ray microscopes provide the ability to penetrate through matter and to resolve tiny features that remain hidden with visible light. Typically, X-ray images are recorded in a monochrome fashion – that is, the images…
HZB coordinates European collaboration to develop active agents against Corona
The MX team at BESSY II specialises in analysing protein structures:
X-ray structure analysis at BESSY II enables the systematic testing of many thousands of molecules that could inhibit the reproduction and virulence of SARS-CoV2 viruses. Now, a team at HZB with partners from Austria…
Green hydrogen: Why do certain catalysts improve in operation?
HZB Team analysed catalysing mineral materials:
Crystalline cobalt arsenide is a catalyst that generates oxygen during electrolytic water splitting in the production of hydrogen. The material is considered to be a model system for an important group of catalysts…
Ferdinand Braun Institute recognized for its efforts to promote young talents
Closer cooperation planned with the Employment Agency:
Mario Lehwald, Chairman of the Management Board of the Employment Agency Berlin South, has awarded the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut for its "outstanding commitment to vocational training". He presented the official…
US patent for gallium oxide growth process of the IKZ
IKZ technology is protected in the world's most important markets:
Power electronics based on beta-gallium oxide (ß-Ga₂O₃) is being intensively researched worldwide. The growth process developed at the IKZ yields large crystals with high quality and can be applied industrially. The…
Support the fight against pandemics with nano metrology
Novel measuring system determines the concentration of nanoparticles – successful technology transfer from PTB to industry:
In Braunschweig and Berlin, time comes from atomic clocks, lengths are measured far into the nano-world, scientists do research on fundamental questions concerning the physical units, and the employees in the…
The contribution of decentralized electrolyzers to the energy transition
RLI conducts a study on small electrolyzers for the production of green hydrogen on behalf of Greenpeace Energy:
On behalf of Greenpeace Energy, RLI is preparing a study that examines the role of electrolysers for hydrogen production for the energy transition. It focuses in particular on small electrolyzers that could convert…
BAM develops methods for quantitative measurements of luminescent materials
Joint project launched in cooperation with Schott AG to determine the quantum yield of scattering luminescent particles and materials:
Tiny luminescent particles are used in more and more products today: from smartphones to OLED televisions to car headlights. For industry, exact knowledge of the luminescence efficiency is crucial. The Bundesanstalt…
Water as a metal – detected at BESSY II
A team of researchers has produced an aqueous solution with metallic properties for the first time:
Under normal conditions, pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Water only develops metallic properties under extreme pressure, such as exists deep inside of large planets. Now, an international collaboration has…