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Innovation seed: Hybrid materials
Editorial by Prof. Stefan Hecht & Prof. Norbert Koch, Departments of Chemistry and Physics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
New products in the communication and energy sector – just think about smartphones and solar cells – continuously change our daily life. This rapid development is based on modern technologies that typically originate…
A gentle look through
Terahertz rays are good for more than just body scans at airports. FBH is one of the world leading institutes:
The terahertz technology will soon be arousing interest for many applications in medicine, radar, communications, security, nondestructive materials testing, and quality assurance. The path that must be taken is…
Clean, cleaner, Adlershof
A number of the most modern clean rooms in the region at the Centre for Materials and Microsystems:
If electronic circuitry and systems are to operate reliably, greatest care must be taken in the production process. They are manufactured in special clean rooms that can be accessed only through an airlock. The air in…
The microreactor in a drop of liquid
BAM offers fast analysis at low cost:
The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) department has been part of the Adlershof Science Park since the very beginning. In line with the growing number of its assignments it has modified its…
Hardware for think tanks
Process engineering systems on the laboratory and pilot plant scale by ILS-Integrated Lab Solutions:
When chemical companies want to transform their Holy Grail into hardware, they turn to ILS-Integrated Lab Solutions GmbH in the Adlershof Technology Park. This company manufactures process engineering systems on the…
New centre for IRIS Adlershof
Research into “hybrid systems” of national significance:
Distinction has been an IRIS hallmark for quite some time now. After all, this “Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences” proved the decisive factor for the excellence status awarded to the Humboldt University…
Medical progress on the tiniest of scales
Adlershof companies combat cancer and other scourges of humanity:
Companies like MagForce, Surflay Nanotec, and NanoBioAnalytics coat microcapsules, destroy cancerous growths with the aid of injected nanoparticles, and feed measuring probes to living cells at the Centre for…
Grand in miniature
Companies based in Adlershof are leaders in the field of small satellites:
At Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH (Astrofein), the walls of the conference room proudly display an array of awards that cannot fail to impress. They all have something to do with small satellites. For…
A model district on the upswing
Nearly 1,000 flats and 380 student accomodation units are being created within the “Wohnen am Campus“ housing district:
A city without flats isn’t a real city. That’s why from the outset, planners in Adlershof have been aiming at a mixed-use development including urban residential living. For a long time, Berlin’s slack housing market…
Second Home
ADAPT APARTMENTS – temporary living in Adlershof:
Home away from Home – hotels have long been using the “second home“ concept as a marketing slogan. However, in a hotel, one can’t cook meals or welcome friends or guests. Can this be a real home then? Less and less so…
At full steam – Adlershof is surpassing itself
In a few years‘ time, a railway property of 40 hectares in size will be added to the development area, enhancing the range of services on site:
At one time, almost a third of the goods traffic coming from and going to Berlin was handled here. Then the war broke out, Germany was divided, and the steam began to clear. Since 1998, the Schöneweide railway yard…
MicroAqua microarray for efficient testing for waterborne pathogens
Scienion technology used for multiparameter testing to enable biohazard detection in water:
SCIENION AG announced milestone advancements in the EU MicroAqua research project, which is dedicated to developing a universal microarray for the evaluation of fresh-water quality. The prototype of the unique chip…
Professor Dr. Panne is the new president of BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
The chemist succeeds Professor Dr. Manfred Hennecke:
Upon his appointment to BAM President Professor Panne emphasised that he looks forward to expanding the integration of Engineering and Natural Sciences at BAM. It is the only way to adequately address challenging…
High efficiency 18 Watt laser diode at 980 nm
eagleyard Photonics, a leading supplier of high-power laser diodes offers a cost-efficient single-emitter laser diode:
Gentle techniques at surgical and diagnostic treatments are nowadays unthinkable without the use of laser technology. eagleyard Photonics produces the core of such a medical laser – the laser diode.The introduction of…
5-in-1: Innovative analytical tools for electron microscopes
Bruker presents a new variety of choice in instrumentation by expanding its portfolio for materials characterization:
With the introduction of the new XSense WD spectrometer and the new XTrace X-ray source for Micro-XRF on SEM, Bruker is the first company to offer all 5 analytical techniques, EDS, WDS, EBSD, Micro-XRF and Micro-CT,…
Young Scientist Award 2014
LUM will award the Young Scientist Award during the International Workshop Dispersion Analysis and Material Testing 2014 in Berlin:
LUM GmbH is market leader in analytical instruments for direct and accelerated characterization of dispersions and particles. With the addition of another new instrument line, users can now characterize entire product…
BAM shows how toxic Gadolinium can enter the food chain
Demonstrating contrast uptake by plants:
The contrast agent gadolinium, which is used in medicine for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), may enter the food chain through surface water. This is the result of an investigation by the BAM Federal Institute for…
The best of two worlds: Solar hydrogen production breakthrough
Simple solar cell stored nearly five percent of solar energy:
Using a simple solar cell and a photo anode made of a metal oxide, HZB and TU Delft scientists have successfully stored nearly five percent of solar energy chemically in the form of hydrogen. This is a major feat as…
Attosecond electron dynamics in molecules
One of the visions guiding current research on the application of attosecond (1 as = 10-18s) laser pulses to molecules is the possibility of controlling molecular processes by manipulating valence electrons on…
Fundamental Insights in Catalyst Research at Adlershof’s BESSY II
HZB is watching catalysts at work – at the atomic scale:
Developing materials with novel catalytic properties is one of the most important tasks in energy research. It is especially important to understand the dynamic processes involved in catalysis at the atomic scale,…