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Adlershof Speaks Many Languages
Viadrina sprachen GmbH have opened a branch in Adlershof:
It doesn’t get any more realistic: “Language training with paramedics means keeping it together in stressful situations,” says David Furmanek, the head of viadrina sprachen GmbH. In a case of a real emergency, every…
Surgical Security
New gloves developed by “Smarterials Technology” will prevent needlestick injuries:
Probably the dearest wish of patients and relatives before the door to the surgery closes is that everything may go well. But not only patients, but doctors are also dangerously exposed. “An estimated half a million…
Call for applications: Postdoc fellowships in Analytical Sciences
Extended deadline: June 15, 2017:
The School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof (SALSA) at Humboldt-Universität Berlin is announcing a call for postdoc fellowships in selected areas of Analytical Sciences. Research areas of interest include…
New switching process for green IT
Physicists at BESSY observe efficient magnetic switching process in non-volatile spintronics devices:
Physicists achieved a robust and reliable magnetization switching process by domain wall displacement without any applied fields. The effect is observed in tiny asymmetric permalloy rings and may pave the way to…
skytron energy focuses on internationalisation
Local subsidiaries in USA and Japan / Establishment of a global service network:
skytron® energy will focus increasingly on expanding its international activities in 2017. The company has already established a new subsidiary in the USA, skytron energy Corporation. Another subsidiary is planned in…
PicoQuant expands its hybrid photomultiplier detector line-up
Two new models from the PMA Hybrid Series cover broad spectral ranges with excellent detection efficiency:
PicoQuant has released two new single photon sensitive hybrid photo detector models with excellent temporal resolution for its PMA Hybrid Series: The PMA Hybrid 42 covers the entire visible range from 300 to 850 nm…
New road weather sensor for traffic management applications
Lufft introduces stationary, non-invasive weather sensor:
After about one year of development work, a new generation of Lufft stationary road and street weather sensors is now ready for market launch. The StaRWIS, which is installed at a measuring distance of 5.5 meters…
Proton transfer protects biomolecules
Researchers find mecanism to protect biomolecules against light induced damage:
A team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) together with researchers in Sweden and the USA has analysed a mecanism which protects biomolecules such as the DNA against damage by light. They observed how the energy of…
TED 2017: The Future You
World-renowned thinkers, artists and storytellers share their “ideas worth spreading”:
What does the future hold for you, for me, for us? In 2017, TED will balance a hard look at the seismic shifts that are altering the way the world works with insights into how we can foster personal learning, growth…
Wanted: Impulses for UV LED based application fields
Idea challenge launched:
UV LEDs have the power to make the daily household life significantly more comfortable. But where and how are UV LEDs usable? This is the question Advanced UV for Life needs to be answered. The aim of the idea contest…
350 million euros for future technologies
Research factory for micro- and nanoelectronics:
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research provides 350 million Euros for building a cross-institutional research factory for micro- and nanoelectronics. The joint initiative of Fraunhofer and Leibniz institutes…
Finding and understanding low cost catalysts
It all comes down to the iron:
A team has investigated more than one hundred iron-nickel catalysts containing various admixtures of chromium. At BESSY II, they also analysed the configurations of the electrons in the individual elements. The team…
Sicoya wins ‘Start Up Energy Transition Award’
Innovative business ideas for the energy tradition rewarded:
The winners of the ‘Start Up Energy Transition Award’, presented by the Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena) – the German Energy Agency – have now been confirmed. Six start-ups from France, Germany, India, Bangladesh and…
Graciosa Microgrid System Proves Environmental Benefits
Forschungszentrum Jülich confirms significant advantages of the renewable energy system on the Azorian Island:
A study by the renowned German research institute Forschungszentrum Jülich has quantified significant environmental benefits derived from the world’s first megawatt-scale grid-forming battery system. Analyzing the…
Center for Laser Materials launched
World-leading research environment for laser research established in Adlershof:
The Zentrum für Lasermaterialien-Kristalle (Center for Laser Materials-Crystals, ZLM-K) is currently installed at the IKZ in the framework of the BMBF-project EQuila on the research and qualification of innovative…
Nanostructures give directions to efficient laser-proton accelerators
MBI Scientists investigate benefits of nanostructured surfaces:
Nanostructured surfaces have manifold applications. Among others they are used to selectively increase aborption of light. You can find them everywhere, where light harvesting is the key point, e.g. in photovoltaics.…
Berlin Adlershof: Facts and Figures
The Berlin Adlershof Science City is one of the most successful high-technology sites in Germany and Berlin’s largest media site. It is home to 1,041 companies and scientific institutions (Dec 2016) on an area of 4.2…
How to increase efficiencies of ultrathin CIGSe solar cells
Nanoparticles at the back help harvesting the light:
Ultrathin CIGSe solar cells need much less rare earth elements and energy for production. Unfortunately, they are much less efficient too. Now a team at HZB together with a group in the Netherlands has shown how to…
Highly sensitive method for detecting ion pairs in aqueous solution developed
For the first time, scientists detect the specific non-local electron transfer process in water:
Scientists of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Heidelberg, and the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague have empirically detected a very specialised type of electron…
HZB and Freie Universität Berlin are establishing the joint research group “Macromolecular Crystallography”
This practical education for budding biochemists is unique in Germany:
For eight years, HZB’s “Macromolecular Crystallography” workgroup has been successfully cooperating with the “Structural Biochemistry” research group headed by Prof. Markus Wahl at the Freie Universität Berlin. They…