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Boosting PET recycling with higher standards for laboratory experiments
Researchers evaluated enzymes that break down plastic so that they can be put into industrial use more quickly:
Many enzymes promise to break down plastic. But what works well in the lab often fails on a large scale. Now a new study by Gert Weber, HZB, Uwe Bornscheuer, University of Greifswald, and Alain Marty, Chief Scientific…
Carl-Ramsauer Award for PhD student from MBI
Dr Lisa-Marie Kern receives the prize of the Berlin Physical Society for her outstanding dissertation:
Each year, the Berlin Physical Society bestows the Carl-Ramsauer Award to a maximum of four PhD students from Berlin and Brandenburg universities. Dr Lisa-Marie Kern from TU Berlin is one of the 2023 prizewinners who…
Securing skilled personnel in the high-tech sector – internationally recognized
Jens Hofmann (proANH e.V.) honoured with the “IEEE Technical Skills Educator Award” of the IEEE Photonics Society:
Jens Hofmann, Chairman of the Board of proANH e.V., has been awarded the IEEE Technical Skills Educator Award. The IEEE Photonics Society presented the prize yesterday evening at its annual conference in Orlando,…
HZB aims to become greenhouse gas neutral by 2035
The research institute presents verified greenhouse gas balance as a basis for savings measures:
HZB is aware of its social responsibility. Now, HZB’s Greenhouse Gas Report is here, after being externally verified, and identifies the main sources of emissions. The report provides the basis for significantly…
Tibidabo Scientific Industries Announces the Acquisition of LLA Instruments
The Adlershof-based LLA Instruments specialises in products that support various applications in the detection and identification of materials:
Tibidabo Scientific Industries Ltd (“Tibidabo”), a global leader in highly differentiated technology for scientific research, aerospace, and industrial markets, announced the successful acquisition of LLA Instruments…
Marketplace + drop-off station + package service point
The NachbarschaftsBox, or neighbourhood box, set up by Berliner Stadtreinigung (BSR), Berlin’s municipal waste company, and Charlottenburger Baugenossenschaft, a housing cooperative, has countless functions:
For people who live in Berlin, it’s a familiar sight. “Zu verschenken” (to give away) is scribbled on cardboard boxes in front of buildings or on hallways. They often contain books, shoes, children’s clothes, and…
New beamline for VUV radiometry
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt increases availability for different measurement tasks at the Metrology Light Source:
A new beamline for radiometry in the vacuum ultraviolet spectral range (VUVR) was successfully commissioned at the Metrology Light Source (MLS). By quickly redirecting the radiation to three different measuring…
Berlin is on the Baltic
“SOKO Wismar” is investigating in Adlershof:
The police station of the fictional special investigations unit “SOKO Wismar” of the eponymous crime series is a long way away from the seaside town of Wismar. It’s located in Studio 20c in Berlin Adlershof, 260…
That’s not what it’s about
Essay by Dilek Güngör, journalist and writer from Berlin:
Vera says she won’t have time on Wednesday. Vera says she had been there every Wednesday so far, and was often the first, which was because she had the shortest way from the office to Beppo’s, she knew that. The rest…
In conversation with Dr Kathrin Buchholz
The environmental engineer is head of public relations at the Berlin-Brandenburg State Laboratory:
“Communication with a focus on science” is the metier of environmental engineer Kathrin Buchholz. She has worked for the scientific office of the Adlershof-based research network IGAFA, headed the business office of…
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Materially enabling the circular economy
At TechConnect Adlershof, scientific institutions, innovators, and companies discussed how new materials enable a circular economy:
When someone like Patrick Teuffel matter-of-factly uses the words “ongoing progress” to describe the workings of his industry - instead of the ubiquitous “ongoing process” – it says very clearly something about how…
Let’s talk about AI
Mathematician Mario Koddenbrock uses artificial intelligence to develop practical everyday solutions:
Mario Koddenbrock, a mathematician and an expert in pattern recognition at the Society for the Advancement of Applied Computer Science, investigates artificial intelligence (AI) and develops real-world applications…
MO-SPACE: communicating securely with quanta
With his start-up, aerospace engineer Michael Ullrich wants to provide the highest standard for secure communication:
Not everything that rushes through the airwaves is intended for other people’s eyes and ears. Administration, businesses, and the military have always relied on information being confidential. Because of this,…
The trail of the roses
Jakob Engel investigates supply chains at the Department of Geography at Humboldt-Universität:
On his research journeys, he would hear people say, “We don’t do email in Africa!” Time and time again, Engel had to become quite inventive to obtain the information he needed for his studies. In his doctoral thesis,…
Happy Birthday BESSY II
A conversation about 25 years of the high-brilliance radiation source in Adlershof:
BESSY II is a synchrotron, a storage ring, a high-brilliance radiation source. Or as Bernd Rech puts it: a high-tech X-ray microscope. For 25 years, it has been helping researchers from all over the world to uncover…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2023
Everything but blah blah blah: how the campus communicates:
The traffic manager: Katharina Marienhagen looks after Berlin's traffic lights // MO-SPACE: Communicating securely with quanta // Happy Birthday BESSY II: 25 years of high-brilliance radiation source …
The traffic manager
Katharina Marienhagen and her team look after more than 2,100 traffic lights in Berlin:
Two hours of Berlin traffic, day after day. From the far northwest to the far southeast in the morning, and back again in the evening. Once Katharina Marienhagen has reached her desk in Adlershof via Falkensee, the…
Are we consuming too much media? Where’s the time going?
How do Adlershof students and staff feel about their own communication behaviour and media consumption? A survey:
We asked the students and staff at Adlershof’s research institutions and companies about how their communication behaviour, the way they deal with social media and their time perception has changed. One thing left us…
Neutralising electronic inhomogeneity in cleaved bulk MoS₂
HZB team investigated properties of molybdenum disulphide that can function as a photocatalyst in green hydrogen production:
Molybdenum disulphide (MoS₂) is a highly versatile material that can function, for example, as a gas sensor or as a photocatalyst in green hydrogen production. Although the understanding of a material usually starts…
Grid-friendly charging: How e-cars help with the energy transition
With the open source software SpiceEV, the Reiner Lemoine Institute has found a way for electric cars to support the power grid as rolling storage units:
Electric vehicles not only draw electricity from the grid, they can also help make more electricity from renewable energies usable. They serve as rolling storage units and offer high potential for load-side…