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Adlershofer Cutting- Edge Drug Delivery Company TheraKine in Joint Venture with RBCC
As part of a bold expansion into the $60 billion global drug delivery market, Rainbow BioSciences, the biotech division of Rainbow Coral Corp. (RBCC), today announced it has formed a new partnership to solve the…

Spanish Crisis does not effect LUM products
LUM awarded Spanish partner Best Distributor 2012:
From March 4-6 the 14th International Sales Meeting took place at the new headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof. LUM, market leader in analytical instruments for direct and accelerated characterization of …
New centrifuge technology will enable multi-sample adhesive and composite strength testing
85% time saving:
A new analytical centrifuge is being used to test adhesive bonds, coatings and composites. BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing’s scientists had the idea that samples should no longer be clamped,…

Adlershof Special 26: IT and Media
Advantage cooperation // Healthy data exchange // Self sufficient components for the homes of the future // Training and flying // Getting off the ground // IT from Adlershof enhances TV images // Cash, crime and…

Advantage cooperation
Adlershof as a functioning IT network:
Berlin is one of Europe's prime IT-locations. In Adlershof alone there are about eighty companies working in IT and media. They profit from their contacts with science and trade partners and from a wide range of…

Healthy data exchange
Adlershof's solutions in medical engineering:
Information and telecommunications technology is also adopting an ever greater role in health care – and not least of all because new diagnostics and therapies generate huge amounts of data. Adlershof companies…

Self sufficient components for the homes of the future
GFaI research introduces greater flexibility to facilities:
“The utilisation of ambient energy represents a new quality,” replied Professor Alfred Iwainsky when asked about the role of IT technology in the homes of the future. The physics graduate is Chair of GFaI, an…

Training and flying
Social business and e-learning modules:
Like learning, working nowadays need no longer be bound to the one fixed location. This independence of geographical locations promotes freedom in the choice of time and place, but also gives rise to organizational…

Getting off the ground
Humboldt Innovation has a strong focus on Adlershof:
Functional fixedness can be expressed as follows: “We’ve always done it that way, why should we do it any differently now?” Ranking beside the lack of funds or skills to launch, market, or push through an invention in…

IT from Adlershof enhances TV-Images
...and secures industrial production:
Whether TV images, sound, or lignite – the efficiency of their production is enhanced by components from the company FOC fibre optical components. And where the security of industrial production is concerned, this…

Cash, crime, and cryptography
They manage dollar reserves, itemise valuable museum collections, and encrypt NATO data. The software companies of Adlershof provide developments that enhance security at many authorities and business…

By car, train, and cargo bike
IT for the mobile generation:
IT for the mobile generation – this is a discipline that a number of companies are tackling in Adlershof. Ideas for the mobility of the future include precision navigation to the nearest metre on forest tracks and in…
Narrow line width made affordable
eagleyard Photonics unveils the very cost effective, frequency stabilized Ridge Waveguide Laser product series (RWS):
High quality and cost effectiveness can perfectly match if combined properly within a single component. This does at least apply to eagleyard’s new stabilized ridge waveguide laser diode series where the narrow line…

Touchdown at 633 nm
eagleyard Photonics introduces a new family of single frequency red laser diodes:
With its new DBR1) 633 nm laser diode family, eagleyard Photonics expands its widely introduced Near-IR portfolio into the red. Integrated within the high reliable TO package style, eagleyard’s new GaAs2)-based DBR…

TOPTICA Buys Laser Diode Maker eagleyard
„Closer future collaboration is strengthening Berlin as a center hub for optical technologies“:
Reflecting the continuous growth and to strengthen the core competency „diode lasers“, TOPTICA Photonics AG of Graefelfing/Munich has acquired the majority ownership of the Berlin-based laser diode manufacturer…
Electrons behave like light
Graphene on Nickel:
Dr. Andrei Varykhalov and his colleagues in the group of Prof. Dr. Oliver Rader investigated at BESSY II the electronic properties of nickel coated with graphene and achieved an astonishing result. They could show…
About dispersible nanoparticles, stable pigment pastes, hot cooked cheese and adhesives
International Workshop Dispersion Analysis and Material Testing in Berlin, March 7-8:
At first sight, blood and food, household products and industrial nanoparticles have nothing in common. A closer look reveals, all are subject to the same physical principles with respect to the characterization of…

Small and efficient
Water nanodroplets cool biomolecules ultrafast:
Researchers of the Max-Born-Institute at Berlin, Germany, have observed how biomolecules transfer energy into extremely small water droplets in their environment. A water shell consisting of only 3 water…

Tracking down smallest biomarkers
PTB and Dectris have developed a vacuum-compatible X-ray detector that allows the size of low-contrast nano-objects to be determined:
Microvesicles are smallest cell elements which are present in all body fluids and are different, depending on whether a person is healthy or sick. This could contribute to detecting numerous diseases, such as, e.g.,…

Innovation Prize Berlin Brandenburg 2012 was awarded to LUM
Perfect or poor? The award-winning Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac will find out:
The Innovation Prize Berlin Brandenburg 2012 was awarded to LUM GmbH for the new Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac®. Adhesive and tensile strength of composite materials, multi-layer films and bonded parts are determined…