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Houses with power
128 flats with the highest energy standards:
The new construction project on Newtonstraße is the first of its kind for rental housing in Berlin. Laborgh, project developer based in Berlin, is building 128 flats for the “Powerhouse“ energy-plus project. The flats…

Road map for the future
New commercial spaces in the so-called Gleislinse area:
A vision, persistence and cooperation turn a project into reality that Berlin needs urgently: new commercial spaces in the so-called Gleislinse area. In the future, the area between the urban railway stations of…

New spaces for clever companies
Along Segelfliegerdamm, there is a lot to do:
Not all the plots in the Johannisthal-Adlershof development area are ready for marketing right from the start. Particularly along Segelfliegerdamm, there was, and still is, a lot to do. In the west, on the former site…

Added value – planning and building with a singular method
The four-phase method developed by building strategist Vollack:
The number zero [German: Null] isn’t just significant in the world of mathematics: for clients of the building strategist Vollack, PHASE NULL® means the first steps in the planning and construction of a valuable…

Advancing methodology at BESSY II
Automated evaluation speeds up the search for new active substance:
The macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines at the BESSY II X-ray source are specially designed to highly automated structural analyses of protein crystals. With up to now more than 2000 solved structures of…
New Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group on "Mid-Infrared Quantum Imaging and Spectroscopy“ for Dr. Sven Ramelow
Dr. Sven Ramelow will start this fall to establish an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group on the topic of "Mid-Infrared Quantum Imaging and Spectroscopy" at Humboldt-Universität's Physics Department. He will closely…

Pfeiffer Vacuum introduces new magnetically coupled rotary vane pump Duo 11 ATEX
Internal and external explosion protection :
The Duo 11 ATEX rotary vane pump, which meets ATEX directive 2014/34/EU, was brought to the market by Pfeiffer Vacuum for processes taking place in potentially explosive atmospheres or conveying explosive gases and…

Benjamin Fingerhut wins Robin Hochstrasser Young Investigator Award
Group Leader of the Junior Research Group “Biomolecular Dynamics” was honoured:
Dr. Benjamin Fingerhut, junior group leader at the Max Born Institute (MBI) receives the 2016 Robin Hochstrasser Young Investigator Award. The award is granted by an international scientific committee, consisting of…

Cornerstone to be laid for Allianz Campus Berlin
Sustainable building with DGNB Platinum certification / Completion in spring 2019:
On 22nd of September 2016, the cornerstone will be laid today for the Allianz Campus Berlin in Adlershof. The principal of the office complex with 60,000 square metres of lettable space is…

eagleyard helps counting stars
Laser diodes made in Adlershof play part in the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date:
Two laser diodes from eagleyard Photonics – based in Berlin Adlershof – are working on board at ESA’s billion-star surveyor Gaia. Our single frequency laser diodes DFB-852 in a 14-pin butterfly housing are responsible…

Digitalization: 50 new professorships for Berlin
Einstein Center Digital Future launched / Prof. Freytag (HU) one of the spokespersons:
38.5 million euros are flowing into the approved Einstein Center Digital Future. The call for the first 18 professorships will be announced on 12 September 2016 at http://be-digital.berlin. Berlin will be getting 50…

Adlershof Special 46
INAM – An alliance for new materials:
Adlershof incubator // The best of both worlds // How printed images learned to swim //

Discovering paths from research to potential applications
Editorial by Prof. Dr. Jürgen P. Rabe, Chairman Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences IRIS Adlershof:
Intelligence, efficiency, and growing integratability: The rapid progress in micro- and optoelectronics, optics, photonics, and the closely related material sciences defines the rate of future innovations and hence…

Adlershof incubator
Helge Neumann (WISTA-MG) talks about the new network INAM and the role Adlershof :
In June 2016, the Innovation Network for Advanced Materials (INAM) was set up in Berlin with the collaboration of several Adlershof partners. Helge Neumann, Divisional Head of Business Development at WISTA-MANAGEMENT…

A beacon for advanced materials
A recent setup, the INAM network intends to introduce brilliant ideas to the field:
No basic research, no advanced materials. Yet all too often, pioneering knowledge fails to leave the laboratory because scientists shun the step to the product. It is important that all players join forces in the…

The best of both worlds
IRIS Scientists develop hybrid systems for optics and electronics:
What are the advanced materials supposed to have that the electronics of the future so desperately needs? “More speed, more brightness, more performance – and above all more multifunctionality,” replied Jürgen Rabe,…

Of movers, makers, and mentors
“Advanced Material Competition” – an international competition for startups specialising in high tech products:
LEDs, or light emitting diodes, that are so thin that they can be applied to paper and packaging supply the light for prints and slogans. These and other new products are based on research into new materials. With a…

Building jointly
Developing the materials of the future needs interdisciplinary research:
The industrial production of photovoltaic cells or LEDs requires temperatures as high as 1600 degrees Celsius. If these temperatures were lower, manufacture might be conceived for flexible applications over wide…

How printed images learned to swim
The startup Inuru brings paper to life:
The startup Inuru brings paper to life by printing it with light and animations on simple displays – a self sufficient, environmentally friendly, and low cost solution. This story of success began in a sushi bar.…

Networking from research to marketing
Innovation Network INAM has important partners:
Patent agents, a fabulous laboratory, and Pilotfish: The Innovation Network for Advanced Materials (INAM) is constantly focused on the knowledge leading to and from knowledge. And this is provided by a lot of…