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Adlershof Journal January/February 2022
How knowledge is created:
Shifting faster: A push for new materials // 3D-printed lunar dust: TIWARI’s missions // A driving force: 30 years of IGAFA
In conversation with Franziska Hagos
She is a true Polyanna and head of the Humboldt Explorer project:
When asked about role models guiding her career path, Franziska Hagos has to think long and hard. One thing she couldn’t resort to was the experience of growing up in a household of academics. Finally, she remembers…
From the lab to the store
HZB researchers are supplying smartwatches with solar energy:
Ideally, the winners of the HZB Technology Transfer Prize go down the road of transforming a research question into a product and integrating it into our lives. The team surrounding Tobias Henschel and Bernd…
Excellently managed – excellently outdated – excellently designed!
Essay by Jakob Nolte, biology student and the winner of the “Jugend forscht” national young science competition:
Science is “Wissenschaft” in German, which literally means “creating knowledge”. The German word “Ausbildung” for education or training implies a space to develop interests and skills. When taking a closer look at…
The melanoma hunter
Sebastian Ahlberg works on improving diagnostics in Adlershof:
Something to do with biology. This was a given for Sebastian Ahlberg, even when he was still at school in Güstrow, his hometown. Today, he is the head of a “start-up doing research” in Adlershof. This is what his…
Exploiting scientific potential
An interview with Christoph Schneider, HU vice president for research:
Christoph Schneider is a professor for climate geography, founding member of “Scientists for Future”, and, beginning in last summer, Humboldt-Universität’s vice president for research. In this interview with Adlershof…
3D-printed lunar dust
TIWARI’s earthly and extra-terrestrial missions:
The Adlershof-based 3D-printing start-up TIWARI Scientific Instruments (TSI) works for many terrestrial customers, including car, plane, and machine builders. However, founder Siddharth Tiwari’s thinking goes beyond…
Excellent bridge builders between basic research and research focused on application
Joint labs of FBH and HU are turning Adlershof into a hub for quantum research:
Small particles, large effects. This is the name of the game for researchers at Ferdinand-Braun-Institut. Together with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), four joint labs are now building bridges between basic…
Steering 50.000 photovoltaics systems
A new arrival in Adlershof: The innovation for digital power plants created by meteocontrol are in high demand worldwide:
Weather changes, and so do energy yields made from sun, wind or water. Ensuring a reliable supply requires flexible systems that are capable of pooling, storing, and releasing electricity from multiple sources. As a…
A driving force
30 years of IGAFA, the Joint Initiative of Non-University Affiliated Research Institutes in Adlershof e.V.:
A name that says it all: The Joint Initiative of Non-University Affiliated Research Institutes in Adlershof e.V. (IGAFA) was a driving force behind establishing Adlershof as a location for high technology. It…
A push for new materials
The Leibniz-Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) is expanding its capacities to bring new materials to application faster—for example, in charging stations for electric vehicles:
Assembly lines in the automotive industry stand still for weeks, components for household appliances are not available, and the delivery of new smartphones is delayed. The global chip crisis shows in many areas. Due…
Intense monocycle terahertz pulses from shifting electrons in quantum structures
Scientists from MBI and PDI demonstrated a novel concept for generating ultrashort THz waveforms by tailoring electronic currents in a compact optically driven quantum device:
A time-dependent electric current emits an electromagnetic wave, a basic physical effect exploited in telecom antennas. Transferring this mechanism to the ultrashort length and time scales of the quantum world allows…
The Adlershof–Lusatia Future Corridor
The future of work is being developed along transport axes that reach far into Brandenburg:
High cost of living, congested streets, and the home-working trend: These are but three of the factors that have helped along an idea in Adlershof that could soon catch on elsewhere. Its name: Innovation corridors.…
A future made of light
“iCampus Cottbus”, a project supporting structural economic change in Lusatia, will create many advantages for Adlershof:
The region was once the pacemaker of East Germany: There was a time when 200 million tons of coal were produced in Lusatia. A livelihood for about 100,000 people. Coal mining will be coming to an end in Lusatia by…
Strategies against stress in work and traffic
Interview with Ralf Blank, project manager at the Adlershof Health Network:
Countless workers commute day by day. We asked Ralf Blank, project manager at the Adlershof Health Network, what that means for the Technology Park—a place where 22,000 people work and rising—and how the insights…
A Wiki for Perovskite Solar Cell Research
An international team of experts has designed an open source database to systematically record findings on perovskite semiconductors:
An international team of experts has collected data on metal halide perovskite solar cells from more than 15,000 publications and developed a database with visualisation options and analysis tools. The database is…
Printing an electronic rainbow
Combination of colour printing and chemical tunability enables printed spectrometer:
Researchers from Innovation Lab HySPRINT at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and IRIS Adlershof of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) have used an advanced inkjet printing technique to produce a large range of…
Improved analytics in the food and beverage industry
LUM GmbH enters into a sales partnership with the French company LABORATOIRES HUMEAU:
In November 2021, LUM GmbH started a sales partnership with the French company LABORATOIRES HUMEAU in order to be able to offer customers in the food and beverage industry and the corresponding research institutions…
Learn from nature, use resources more effectively and avoid harmful effects
5 trendsetters nominated for the LUM Science Award YSA 2022:
From January 24th to 25th, 2022, LUM GmbH will host the 10th International Conference for Dispersion Analysis and Materials Testing. Prof. Dr. Dr. Lerche, chairman of the scientific committee and LUM managing…
HPS expands its product range by introducing storage systems for businesses and multi-family houses
Year-round multi-picea electricity storage system can store up to 15,000 kilowatt hours of solar electricity:
HPS Home Power Solutions GmbH (HPS), provider of picea, the green hydrogen-based, year-round electricity storage system for buildings, today announced that it has expanded its product portfolio. The newly developed…