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Child’s play? Early practice helps to master patience
Day care worker Anne Schenke tells us about her day-to-day in child care:
Anne Schenke, who is a day care worker at the Kita Am Studio, says her job is the best in the world. She is a patient person and practices that every day. A sense of calm needs cultivation. The 103 children of the…
Highly specialised optical fibres
art photonics GmbH develops spectroscopy systems for instant analysis in operating rooms:
The art photonics GmbH is one of the bedrock companies of Adlershof. Founder and manager Viacheslav Artyushenko and his team of 30 employees have been developing and manufacturing custom-made optical fibres for…
The Master of Plucking Strings
How soundtrack composer Moritz Denis gets ideas for his music:
Why weren’t any shots fired at the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig in 1989? A new comedy of errors featuring Erich Honecker and a doppelganger, which will be in cinemas in March 2017, tries to give an answer to this…
Measuring Emotions
HU computer scientist develops sensors that help people with anxiety disorders:
Sweating, heart racing, shaking: can emotions be identified from physical responses? Yes, says the PhD student Monika Domanska. She is using sensors to decipher physical responses at the Institute for Computer Science…
Fishing Peptides
A start-up from Adlershof develops innovative cleaning procedures for natural substances with a therapeutic effect:
Meet three young and ambitious chemists. Although two of them are currently working on completing their PhDs, these researchers have been busy developing innovative ideas with regard to the environmentally and…
Consultants for Energy and Hygiene
Acting as a role model:
The team of the private EHA Institute offers consulting and other services on the issues of energy consumption and hygiene. Moreover they are cultivating cooperation with Chinese companies. Claus Treppte gets really…
Color Duality in Photons
Work of the physicist Sven Ramelow selected as one of the “Highlights of the Year 2016”:
The paper “Ramsey Interference with Single Photons”[1] and accompanying Viewpoint “Photon Qubit is Made of Two Colors”[2] have been selected as one of the Highlights of the Year 2016 by APS Physics. It was co-authored…
Helmholtz Young Investigator Group for electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide
Strengthening energy materials research at HZB:
Dr. Matthew T. Mayer from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, will be putting together a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group in the field of energy materials research at HZB. He will be…
Fuel cells with PFIA-membranes
Experiments at BESSY II allow in situ analysis of water management which is helpful for further improvements of fuel cells:
HZB scientists have teamed up with partners of 3M Company in order to explore the water management in an alternative proton exchange membrane type, called PFIA. The experiments have been conducted using the infrared…
Younicos to build 49 MW battery system in UK
Centrica selects Younicos to design and deliver one of the world’s largest battery storage systems:
Energy storage pioneer Younicos has been selected by Centrica to design and deliver one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated battery-based energy storage systems. To be completed by winter 2018, the 49…
New Helmholtz Young Investigator Group to boost energy materials research at HZB
The new group is working to prolong the life span of perovskite solar cells to 25 years and longer:
Dr. Antonio Abate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is putting together a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. He came out on top in a highly competitive selection process of the…
Light controls repair of materials
Team of researchers led by chemists of the HU develops self-repairing plastic coating:
A team of German researchers led by chemists of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has developed a new type of plastic coating, which can heal damages selectively by illumination with light. A heat-induced repair of…
SENperc PV wins “Innovation Award 2016”
Measuring device is used for quality control for PERC cell manufacturing in the photovoltaic sector:
SENTECH is winner of the Innovation Award 2016 Berlin Brandenburg. The SENperc PV was honored as one of the five most innovative products of 2016. The SENperc PV is used for quality control for PERC cell back side…
Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG: Local court opens insolvency proceedings
The local court Berlin-Charlottenburg resolved to open the insolvency proceedings over the assets of Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG (ISIN: DE000A1MMHE3) and its German subsidiaries Heliocentris Academia GmbH,…
skytron energy chosen to equip largest power plant in the Caribbean
Adlershof company provides monitoring and supervision technology for a 57.6 MWp solar power plant in Puerto Rico:
The plant named “Oriana” is owned by solar power producer and investor Sonnedix and is the largest plant of its kind in the Caribbean. Oriana has started producing clean energy from September. It will cover the…
Dr. Lorenzo Bianchi awarded with Carl-Ramsauer-Prize 2016
Dr. Lorenzo Bianchi, former member of the Emmy-Noether Junior Research group of Dr. Valentina Forini in the working group of Prof. Jan Plefka, who is a member of IRIS Adlershof, has been awarded the…
Ice cold record at BESSY II
Ten million ions cooled for the first time to 7.4 K / Magnetic ground states spectroscopically ascertained:
An international team from Sweden, Japan, and Germany has set a new temperature record for what are known as quadrupole ion traps that capture electrically charged molecular ions. They succeeded in cooling about ten…
Dr. Maria Richter of the Max Born Institute receives the Promotion Prize 2016 of the Leibniz Association
At its annual meeting the Leibniz Association in Berlin awarded physicist Maria Richter for her outstanding doctoral thesis:
Dr. Maria Richter developed in her PhD thesis "Imaging and controlling electronic and nuclear dynamics in strong laser fields" new theoretical and practical methods to visualize the ultrafast response of atoms and…
More energy from the sun
Researchers road-test powerful method for studying singlet fission:
Singlet fission could have a central role in the future development of solar cells Physicists from HZB, Freie Universität Berlin and University of Cambrigde have successfully employed a powerful technique for…
SENperc PV nominated for the “Innovation Award 2016”
SENTECH is very proud to announce that the new SENperc PV has been nominated for the Innovation Award 2016 Berlin Brandenburg. The innovative tool features quality control for PERC cell back side manufacturing in the…