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Xolography as new volumetric 3D printing method
Adlershof start-up develops novel printing process that can produce smooth surfaces at high speed:
It looks like science fiction but in fact could be the future of 3D printing: A blue slice of light wanders through a liquid, while light projections emerge through the window of a glass vessel. Resembling the…
UVC light-emitting diodes to fight coronaviruses
FBH, UVphotonics, TU Berlin and Osram Opto Semiconductors develop suitable irradiation systems:
In the joint CORSA project, SARS-CoV-2 and further respiratory viruses on surfaces and skin are to be inactivated by using UVC light. The project team is developing special UVC LEDs for this purpose and is…
MagForce AG Successfully Completes Private Placement of New Shares
Medical device company increases share capital with gross proceeds of approx. EUR 4.7 million:
MagForce AG, a leading medical device company in the field of nanomedicine focused on oncology, announced today that the Management Board, with approval of the Supervisory Board, has resolved and successfully…
New PostDoc program at HU Berlin
The Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP) and IRIS Adlershof start a joint PostDoc program:
The Institute for Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the IRIS Adlershof of the Humboldt University in Berlin have now established a joint PostDoc program and launched a first round of…
In-depth cooperation agreement between the European Center for Dispersion Technologies and LUM
Exchange of experience and mutual support are intended to further improve the applications and performance of the analysis and measurement technology:
The head of the European Center for Dispersion Technologies (EZD), Selb, Dr.-Ing. Felipe Wolff-Fabris, and the managing director of LUM GmbH, Berlin, Prof. Dr. Dr. Dietmar Lerche, signed an in-depth cooperation…
Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells on the threshold of 30% efficiency
HZB team was able to improve the charge carrier transport and the stability of the solar cells:
An HZB team has published a report in the journal Science on the development of its current world record of 29.15% efficiency for a tandem solar cell made of perovskite and silicon. The tandem cell provided stable…
European Research Council (ERC) awards Consolidator Grant to Jochen Mikosch
MBI researcher receives 2 million Euro of funding to perform basic research on time-resolved structural dynamics of chemical reactions:
Jochen Mikosch receives a prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). In a highly competitive and thorough procedure it is awarded to established researchers with 7-12 years of experience…
Dynamics of ferroelectric phase transitions – a new research focus at the IKZ
Fundamental materials science research on ferroelectric thin films will enable active cooling in integrated electronic components:
Scientists at Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) conduct fundamental materials science research on ferroelectric thin films. In the future, these materials will be used to build miniaturized refrigerators in…
Kathrin Goldammer founding member of “Women in Green Hydrogen”
Managing Director of the Reiner Lemoine Instituts is part of a new international platform for female hydrogen experts:
RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer is part of the founding team of the network “Women in Green Hydrogen”. This is an international platform for women working and researching in the field of green hydrogen. The…
Launch of the catalysis research platform CatLab in Adlershof
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and two Max Planck institutes want to achieve leaps of innovation in hydrogen research:
Hydrogen as a sustainable fuel source will play a key role in our energy system for the future. Hydrogen-based chemical energy media are needed as long-term storage repositories in the energy system and are crucial…
Rubies in the spotlight
The Optical Society (OSA) chooses publication with IKZ participation as “Spotlight” of the month:
In the publication “Optical spin polarization in ruby enhances slow light by high-contrast transient spectral hole-burning” Hans Riesen, Aleksander K. Rebane, Wayne Hutchison and Steffen Ganschow describe important…
Belyntic GmbH wins Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg 2020
“Unique technology for research, development, and production of peptide therapeutics” / Adlershof start-up involved in the development of a vaccine against COVID-19:
Belyntic GmbH is one of this year's winners of the Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg. With this award, the jury honors the start-up, located in the Science and Technology Park Berlin-Adlershof, for its "unique…
German Centre for Mathematics Teacher Education (DZLM) will be sustained
The network of nine universities becomes an integral part of the Leibniz Institute IPN under the direction of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
The German Centre for Mathematics Teacher Education (DZLM) will be a part of the newly established department “Subject-related knowledge transfer” at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)…
Sabine Kunst confirmed in office as the President of the Humboldt-Universität
For the first time in the history of the HU, the Council elects a female president for a second term of office:
Prof. Dr-Ing. Dr Sabine Kunst was re-elected by the Council of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) on 17th November 2020, with 30 votes in favour, 18 against, and 5 rejected votes. Sabine Kunst has been President…
Mapping the landscape of Caesium based inorganic halide perovskites
HZB research team studies new compositions of perovskite materials for solar energy:
Scientists at HZB have printed and explored different compositions of caesium based halide perovskites (CsPb(BrxI1−x)3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1)). In a temperature range between room temperature and 300 Celsius, they observe…
Scientists reveal Germanium telluride's hidden properties at the nanoscale
The material could allow data processing with significantly less energy input:
Germanium Telluride is an interesting candidate material for spintronic devices. In a comprehensive study at BESSY II, a Helmholtz-RSF Joint Research Group has now revealed how the spin texture switches by…
The magic of transience
New on Instagram – Exploring the charm of forgotten places:
Adlershof reinvented itself after reunification. But some things outlived this historical turning point. Exactly how visible is former East Germany in Adlershof? We went out into the Science City to look for…
Order in the disorder
HZB team discovered density fluctuations in amorphous silicon:
For the first time, a team at HZB has identified the atomic substructure of amorphous silicon with a resolution of 0.8 nanometres using X-ray and neutron scattering at BESSY II and BER II. Such a-Si:H thin films have…
Oliver Arnhold (Reiner Lemoine Institut) and team win DIN Innovation Award
New DIN guideline accelerates the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles:
Oliver Arnhold and the consortium around the DIN SPEC 91433 have won the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) Innovator Award 2020. With these awards, DIN honors special projects and commitments in the field of…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2020
Art, food and culture: Discover the unknown side of the Science City:
Discover the possibilities! An expedition through Adlershof // The magic of transience: exploring the charm of forgotten places // New headquarters of the machine building company Jonas & Redmann // An era of…