The new nanoscope enables nanospectroscopy and nanoimaging of structures smaller than a thousandth of the diameter of a human hair:
The IRIS infrared beamline at the BESSY II storage ring now offers a fourth option for characterising materials, cells and even molecules on different length scales. The team has extended the IRIS beamline with an end…
Innovative sulfur-based cathode enables the use of more environmentally friendly and sustainable materials in lithium-ion batteries:
A research team at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has achieved a major breakthrough in battery technology. Under the leadership of IRIS Adlershof member Prof. Dr Michael J. Bojdys, an innovative sulfur-based cathode…
Researchers from six German research institutions are making a significant contribution to the development of detectors for a new experiment at CERN, the research centre for particle physics:
The European Centre for Nuclear Research CERN close to Geneva has announced plans to conduct a new experiment called SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) in search for previously unknown elementary particles. When…
Research team led by Prof. Adelhelm (HZB and Humboldt University) analyses ageing effects of lithium-ion batteries with different charging protocols:
An improved charging protocol might help lithium-ion batteries to last much longer. Charging with a high-frequency pulsed current reduces ageing effects, an international team demonstrated. The study was led by…
The startup Mimotype and the Hybrid Devices Group at HU Berlin are developing protein thin films for the spectral reshuffling of sunlight to increase crop yields:
The challenges are clear: global food demand will increase 56% by 2050; extreme weather events are increasing food supply insecurity. Solutions are tangible: food production gains attributable to greenhouse…
Germany's largest science and technology park remains an important pillar of Berlin's economy :
The Berlin Adlershof Science and Technology Park continued its positive development in 2023. Revenues and budget funds grew by a solid 7.1 % to € 3.9 billion (2022: € 3.6 billion). The number of employees remained…
Berlin Adlershof is Germany’s largest and most successful science and technology park as well as Berlin’s largest media location – embedded in an overall urban development concept. Spanning an area of 4.6 km², the…
HU psychologist Jennifer Haase investigates the creativity of humans and AI systems:
Hereditary genius and sensitive nerves—or is this just a training effect? For more than 15 years, Jennifer Haase’s mind has been occupied with the question of what creativity is and how it can be fostered. She is…
Research team redesigns phenoxyl radicals with improved oxidation capacity in the lab:
Nature uses enzymes for various metabolic processes. These biological catalysts are extremely efficient. Biomimetic catalysts based on inexpensive starting materials from the laboratory that can reproduce the…
Research group at the Department of Chemistry wants to develop molecular machines that produce new materials:
Three young researchers at Humboldt-Universität (HU) have been accepted for Emmy Noether funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Dr Michael Kathan, who conducts research in the field of synthetic chemistry…
Researchers from HZB and Humboldt-Universität discover two competing mechanisms that determine the stability of cathodes:
Sodium-ion batteries still have a number of weaknesses that could be remedied by optimising the battery materials. One possibility is to dope the cathode material with foreign elements. A team from HZB and…
Scientists from three British universities and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) discover new rule for catalyst design:
A collaborative team from three British universities and from Humboldt-Universität have discovered a very simple rule to design single-atom alloy catalysts for chemical reactions. The ‘ten electron rule’ helps…
Establishing a research group between Seoul and Berlin:
Professor Wonwoo Nam is an Einstein Visiting Fellow of the Einstein Foundation Berlin and has received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, which is linked to a research stay at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin…
Fischer Nernst Award winner from HU Chemistry is involved in the Humboldt ProMINT Kolleg:
Maximilian Helmbrecht detected antioxidants in foodstuffs as part of his bachelor’s thesis and received the Fischer-Nernst Award of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) for it. At the same time, the 23-year-old is…
It’s not as easy as it sounds. Germany is creaking under the strain of a shortage of skilled workers, while demographic changes are only just gathering momentum. How are Adlershof’s research institutes and companies dealing with this?:
Sentech Instruments GmbH is growing substantially and therefore needs more high-skilled workers, especially engineers. However, there is a problem. It seems as though the market has been swept clean. “I have been…
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,…
Kick-off for the Berlin Quantum Alliance and presentation of the new “Leap” innovation hub:
Kick-off for the Berlin Quantum Alliance (BQA): This joint initiative by Berlin's business community, research institutions and universities is intended to make Berlin an international hotspot for the research and…
Eva Unger researches a class of minerals known as perovskites:
They can be made to emit light – or used for generating electricity. Perovskites are semiconductors, and as such are ideally suited for use in electronic components. They are being investigated by the materials…
The scientist was honored by Minister of Education Bettina Stark-Watzinger for Entrepreneurial Commitment:
The member of IRIS Adlershof, Professor Stefan Hecht, Founding Director of the Center for the Science of Materials Berlin (CSMB) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, was honored on September 6, along with 19 other…
Sofia Pazzagli experiments with tiny amounts of light:
The wind sends small waves rippling over the pond: “This is how,” says Sofia Pazzagli, “we typically perceive of the motion of light.” Reality, however, is more complex: “When we look at light on a very small scale,…