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BioVendor benefits from using SCIENION’s integrated product portfolio
Combined sciDROP PICO and sciDROP NANO technologies used for developing multiplex tests in microtiter plates:
SCIENION AG and BioVendor Laboratorni medicina a.s. announced that BioVendor is using SCIENION’s complementary product portfolio for the production and detection of immunoassays.Czech Republic Brno-based BioVendor…
Dr. Ben J. Lipps designated as Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of MagForce AG
The Supervisory Board of Magforce AG (Frankfurt, XETRA: MF6), a leading medical device company in the field of oncology, has appointed Dr. Ben J. Lipps, former CEO and Chairman of Fresenius Medical Care, as Chairman…

New top quality high-power laser diodes
eagleyard Photonics supplies pulsed Seeder now at 1030 nm:
eagleyard Photonics expands its high-quality pulsed laser family by its new DFB 1030 nm seed laser. This additional laser complements the already worldwide successfully established DFB 1064. This type of laser diode…
SOLON contracted for 1.2 MW solar system on landfill
18° landfill surface inclination requires specialized system design:
SOLON Energy GmbH is to construct a 1.2 MW solar system on the disused area of the Oberhaugstett landfill (administrative district of Calw, Baden-Württemberg). The project was commissioned by AWG Abfallwirtschaft…

Register now for the "Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Exhibition"
30.10. - 3.11.2013 in ANTALYA:
Join the RENSEF Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Exhibition, the new exhibition that we begin in Turkey, Antalya. RENSEF is organized with the aim of introducing Tourism and Agriculture Investors of the…
Adlershof at Intersolar June 19-21 / Booth B2.250
WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH will open the Centre for Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy (ZPV) in the science and technology park:
The attractive building follows an "architecture of dialogue" that focuses on transparency, social encounters and communication. Its central design element is the building-high, well-lit foyer with its galleries,…

Polymer-coated catalyst protects "artificial leaf"
HZB Scientists produce hydrogen by means of solar energy:
Due to the fluctuating availability of solar energy, storage solutions are urgently needed. One option is to use the electrical energy generated inside solar cells to split water by means of electrolysis, in the…

Adlershof Special 29: Photonics and Optical Technologies
New ideas in the Photonics Centre:
Things are really moving in the Photonics Centre // A perfect match // We need more space // Key to new production technologies // Multipurpose fibres // Medical provisions // Excellent research // Adlershof in…

A perfect match
Editorial by Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders, President of TOPTICA Photonics AG:
TOPTICA can boast today over a dozen Nobel laureates in Physics, not least of all last year’s winners Serge Haroche (ENS Paris) and Dave Wineland (NIST Boulder, USA). What many do not know: It is Berlin high tech…

Things are really moving at the Photonics Centre
Interview with Kezban Saritas from the operating company WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH:
There’s a lot happening at the Photonics and Optical Technologies Centre ZPO in Adlershof. A new generation is taking over. Successful established companies are setting up their own buildings at this technology…

We need more space!
Several photonics companies are currently building a new head office and remain true to the location Adlershof:
AEMtec GmbH is not the only photonics company in Adlershof that has to deal with a building project in addition to its core business. The next few weeks will see, for example, Bruker Nano GmbH move into its new head…

Key to new production technologies
For years, optics and microsystems engineering have been on the road to success in the capital region of Berlin-Brandenburg:
Over 400 in number, the companies and research institutes employ 16,600 people and are achieving a turnover of 2.3 billion. Gerrit Rössler, Cluster Manager for Optics at the TSB Innovationsagentur Berlin GmbH, is…

Multipurpose fibres
From biogas fermentation to the identification of cancer-risks, the company art photonics manufactures fibres for a wide range of applications:
Thanks to art photonics' fibre technology, cancer specialists can so to speak see into the future and identify a number of deadly diseases before they can break out. New infrared endoscopes detect inflammation in the…

Medical Provisions
The ability to change can be a key to success. One example of this is demonstrated by opTricon GmbH. :
The company was launched in 2005 as a service provider that developed components for optical data transmission. The customers were mostly neighbours in the Adlershof Technology Park. Today, opTricon is a global player…

Excellent research
Adlershof is profiting from the university’s excellence status:
It is now official: Research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) also enjoys the reputation of being excellent – also for nanooptics, a highly complex field of physics where top researchers find great promise for…

MBI puts hydrogen atoms under the magnifying glass
Direct Observation of the Nodal Structures of Electronic States of the Hydrogen Atom:
To describe the microscopic properties of matter and its interaction with the external world, quantum mechanics uses wave functions, whose structure and time dependence is governed by the Schrödinger equation. …
Physicists let magnetic dipoles interact on the nanoscale for the first time
“Of great technical interest for future hard disk drives”:
Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice - by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the…
Snap shots of one of life's central processes
Human Frontier Science Program provides funding of 900,000 US Dollars in support of international collaboration on photosynthesis:
Photosynthetic water-oxidation is one of the central processes of life on Earth but remains incompletely understood. Now, a German-American team of scientists has set out to observe the intermediate stages of this…

MagForce AG Receives Further Patent Related to NanoTherm® Therapy
European patent granted for nanoparticle-drug conjugates :
MagForce AG, a leading medical technology company in the field of nanomedicine in oncology, announced today that the Company has been granted a further European patent for its NanoTherm® therapy, for which the…

Adlershof Special 28: Renewable Energies
For the future of energy efficiency:
Model urban district // For the future of energy efficiency // Nucleus for innovative storage solutions // Tapping into heaven and earth // Climate climbers // Energy efficiency made in Adlershof // The architecture…