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From waste to value: The right electrolytes can enhance glycerol oxidation
HZB team investigates how waste materials can be used more efficiently and in a more environmentally friendly way:
When biomass is converted into biodiesel, huge amounts of glycerol are produced as a by-product. So far, however, this by-product has been little utilised, even though it could be processed into more valuable…
LUM science prize Young Scientist Award 2024
M. Sc. Amin Said Amin was honored at the 11th International Conference on Dispersion Analysis and Materials Testing:
From June 10th to 11th, 2024, LUM GmbH hosted the 11th International Conference on Dispersion Analysis and Materials Testing. 70 participants from 14 countries around the world took part. Three candidates from France,…
Small powerhouses for very special light
HZB team researches efficient and powerful SSMB radiation source:
An international team presents the functional principle of a new source of synchrotron radiation in Nature Communications Physics. Steady-state microbunching (SSMB) allows to build efficient and powerful radiation…
Good clean fun times two
DLR is working at two new institutes in Cottbus to help make industry and flying more sustainable :
Lowering CO₂ emissions is a pressing problem of our time. In Cottbus, people are working on solutions for it. Supported by funding for structural economic change, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) founded two…
In step with the times
The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing also helps with making innovation ready for the market:
The brick building at the address Unter den Eichen 87 radiates history. Set in massive stone in Berlin-Lichterfelde, it demonstrates its status as a renowned government institution. “Federal Institute for Materials…
Precision made in Berlin
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany’s national metrology institute, is considered the cradle of quantum physics and tests the limits of what can be measured. The PTB’s Institut Berlin, or IB, is based in a thriving neighbourhood in Charlottenburg.:
Whenever something requires high precision, the PTB comes into play. As the national metrology institute, it is also the highest authority in Germany for all issues related to correct and reliable measurements.…
In conversation with Oliver Igel
He took the helm in the Treptow-Köpenick district in 2011:
In early 2022, Oliver Igel moved even closer towards the Technology Park. This is due to construction work at Köpenick City Hall, which forced the district mayor of Treptow-Köpenick and his department to make a…
Adlershof Journal July/August 2024
Science, community and smart living: News from the neighbourhood:
In conversation with Oliver Igel, district mayor of Treptow-Köpenick // »There is quite a bit of hugging«: Inclusion for 45 years at Berlin-Chemie // Building bridges: Crossing Adergestell on foot or by bike …
The runner
Jessica Gosse is an engineer as well as an experienced relay runner:
It was the 2013 Girl’s Day, a career event for young girls in STEM subjects, when Jessica Gosse decided on her future career path. The then 14-year-old got a sneak peek into what it meant working for the…
»There is quite a bit of hugging«
Practising inclusion for 45 years: people with disabilities put the finishing touches on the pharmaceutical packaging at Berlin-Chemie:
Packaging medicines, folding instructions, sticking on labels: At Berlin-Chemie’s Social Enterprise Department in Adlershof, these tasks are performed by people with mental or physical disabilities. They are an…
Technology, teamwork, tinkering
The Repair Café brings nostalgic items back to life:
The Technology Park Adlershof is well-known for finding solutions to challenges like climate change and builds on local networks to do so. Since November last year, there is a new service in Alt-Adlershof that ties in…
Building bridges
Crossing Adergestell on foot or by bike:
27 January 2024. Adlershof is fast asleep when, a few minutes before 4 am, a giant crane lifts a delicate structure up from Adlergestell, the main street cutting through Adlershof. The structure hanging from the hook…
New life for old clothes
The German Clothing Foundation is creating a CharityLab at Am Studio 16:
Those seeking refugee from war, displacement, and disaster often come with nothing more than the clothes on their back. For around 70 years now, the German Clothing Foundation has been helping people in these and…
Adlershof was a huge playground to me
How his neighbourhood turned actor Moritz Russ into an artist:
First, Adlershof, then the whole world? Both a visionary and an artist, Moritz Russ could make it happen. His youth in Adlershof opened doors to the world of art. Russ is a jack-of-all-trades, writes poetry, turns…
Erasmus+ project educates Young people about Biodiversity through WebToons
BioYouToon by Impact Grid (IG) e.V.:
On the 26th of June 2024 Impact Grid organized a workshop in its premises in Adlershof to develop storylines for the Webtoon comics. Webtoons serve as the primary medium for communication and education within the…
New Method for Absorption Correction to Improve Dental Fillings
By combining the laboratory infrastructures at BAM and HZB, more accurate measurements can be conducted:
A research team led by Dr. Ioanna Mantouvalou has developed a method to more accurately depict the elemental distributions in dental materials than previously possible. The used confocal micro-X-ray fluorescence…
AEMtec announces a major advancement in their wafer back-end manufacturing capabilities
The Adlershof-based company has implemented Electroless Under Bump Metallization (UBM) equipment in its own facility:
AEMtec GmbH from Adlershof specialises in the development, industrialisation and production of complex microelectronic and optoelectronic modules through to complete systems. The UBM process is an integral part of the…
Novel Raman spectroscopy technique for investigation of thin films and surfaces
Enhanced surface-to-bulk Raman signal ratio using a transferable porous gold membrane:
In a recent collaboration of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Physics of low-dimensional systems" around IRIS Adlershof member Dr. Sebastian Heeg at HU Berlin, researchers from the Leibniz-Institut für…
Breakthrough in Gravitational Wave Physics
Black Hole Scattering at Unprecedented Precision:
In a groundbreaking achievement, an international team led by IRIS Adlershof member Jan Plefka has computed the dynamics of two black holes scattering off each other at the highest level of precision ever attained.…
Black holes from the perspective of particle physics
Gustav Mogull receives the Karl Scheel Prize of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin, endowed with 5,000 euros:
Gustav Mogull, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam and at Humboldt University in Berlin, investigates mathematical methods and…