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LTB has finally arrived in North America
Support for customers with branch office in Fremont California expanded:
LTB Lasertechnik Berlin is pleased to announce the foundation LTB Laser Technologies, Inc. established in Fremont, California, LTB Laser Technologies vastly improves our proximity to customers in North American…
New charging points for electric cars installed in Adlershof
Helmholtz Centre offers green electricity for employees' cars:
On 14 May 2020, two charging points for electric cars were installed near the BESSY II main building. But not only the hybrid company car fleet is to be charged here. Soon, employees will also have the opportunity to…
On the road to non-toxic and stable perovskite solar cells
International cooperation led by HZB has developed new materials with tin instead of lead:
The promising halide perovskite materials for solar energy conversion show high efficiencies, but this comes at a cost: The best perovskite materials incorporate toxic lead which poses a hazard to the environment. To…
How new materials increase the efficiency of direct ethanol fuel cells
Research group investigated novel composite membrane at BESSY II:
A group from Brazil and an HZB team have investigated a novel composite membrane for ethanol fuel cells. It consists of the polymer Nafion, in which nanoparticles of a titanium compound are embedded by the rarely…
Corona research: Consortium of Berlin research and industry seeks active ingredients
The HZB is making all existing infrastructures available to the joint project:
The Berlin biotech company Molox GmbH and a team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have initiated a consortium of regional research groups and BASF. Together, they want to identify a starting point for the…
‘Basic trust’ is the key
Mobile and remote work is more than a modern corporate must-have:
Mobile and remote work is more than modern corporate must-have. In today’s world of work, it is also an issue of employer branding. However, it also requires some preliminary work, trust, and special management skills…
New interaction between light and matter discovered at BESSY II
Discovery interesting for future information technologies:
A German-Chinese team led by Gisela Schütz from the MPI for Intelligent Systems has discovered a new interaction between light and matter at BESSY II. They succeeded in creating nanometer-fine magnetic vortices in a…
Corona research at BESSY II
Two days of measuring operation to find the right key:
The Berlin Synchrotron Source BESSY II of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) will resume operation for two days. Scientists intend to use the intense X-ray radiation from BESSY II to search for active substances…
BESSY II: Ultra-fast switching of helicity of circularly polarized light pulses
Fast switching can make processes in magnetic materials visible and allows completely new experiments at the electron storage ring:
At the BESSY II storage ring, a joint team of accelerator physicists, undulator experts and experimenters has shown how the helicity of circularly polarized synchrotron radiation can be switched faster – up to a…
Coronavirus: BESSY II data accelerate drug development
Scientists have decoded the three-dimensional architecture of the main protease of SARS-CoV-2:
A coronavirus is keeping the world in suspense. SARS-CoV-2 is highly infectious and can cause severe pneumonia with respiratory distress (COVID-19). Scientists are doing research in order to prevent the viruses from…
Europlanet launches 10 million euro research infrastructure supporting planetary science
DLR Adlershof participates in the programme with two laboratories for planetary research with globally unique capabilities:
Europlanet 2024 RI will provide open access to the world's largest group of facilities for planetary simulation and analysis, as well as a global network of small telescopes, data services and support for the…
3D nano-metrology with X-ray fluorescence and scattering techniques
PTB researchers develop new algorithm for the fast reconstruction of atom distributions in 3D nanostructured surfaces:
Over the last years, PTB has developed a new method for atom-specific reconstruction of periodically nanostructured surfaces. Recent studies have shown experimentally that it is possible to reconstruct and identify…
New class of materials for energy storage researched at HZB
2D titanium carbides store large amounts of electrical energy and can be charged and discharged in a matter of seconds:
Two dimensional titanium carbides, so-called MXenes, are being discussed as candidates for the rapid storage of electrical energy. Like a battery, MXenes can store large amounts of electrical energy through…
In conversation with Carola Hilbert, who is working to create a DLR visitor centre in Adlershof
The head of the sites in the DLR Eastern region wants to make research more accessible to the public:
Flying across the Red Planet, driving a robotaxi, or travelling in high-tech trains. Carola Hilbert is fascinated by all these things. They are also simply parts of her everyday life. She became the head of the sites…
Local answers to global challenges
Bernd Rech (HZB) and Ulrich Panne (BAM) about new ways towards a resource-saving energy supply and new materials:
We are entering a new decade – faced by climate change, a growing global population, and a maltreated environment, many look into the future with some trepidation. However, with researchers working on solutions,…
Milled, not stirred
At the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) new successes for green chemistry are achieved with smart processes:
It’s hard not to think of medieval times when someone speaks of clattering mills. However, what Franziska Emmerling and her team practice is high-level chemistry. The head of the Structure Analysis division at the…
Crime scenes and quantum technology
Why the time is right for establishing a network of quantum technologies in the Berlin-Brandenburg region:
A visit of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institute (FBH) in Berlin-Adlershof conjures up images of a crime scene: people in white hazmat suits walk along the corridors, visitors must put blue covers over their shoes. Leave no…
New detector accelerates protein crystallography
MX Beamline at BESSY II works about 2 to 3 times faster than before:
In February a new detector was installed at one of the three MX beamlines at HZB. Compared to the old detector the new one is better, faster and more sensitive. It allows to acquire complete data sets of complex…
Off-Grid Renewable Energy opens up pathways for Electricity Access and Climate Action
Researchers from the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) present study on the importance of off-grid systems:
Achieving universal electrification by 2030 (SDG7) implies the provision of electricity access to more than 1.2 billion people cumulatively, of which the majority characterizes as highly climate vulnerable. Together…
Light Moves Spins Around
Researchers have disentangled how laser pulses can manipulate magnetization via ultrafast transfer of electrons between different atoms:
Few nanometer-thin films of magnetic materials are ideal test objects to study fundamental problems in magnetism. Furthermore, such thin magnetic films have important technological applications. For example, they are…