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11.09.2024

Kasra Amini awarded €2.5 million of funding from the European Research Council

The MBI researcher wants to develop a tool to better track atomic changes in molecules and condensed matter during a reaction:

Kasra Amini has been awarded the prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This highly competitive grant is given to exceptional early-career researchers with two to seven years of…

Peter Carl, Timm Schwaar, Nick Gundermann / SAFIA © WISTA Management GmbH / Tina Merkau

09.09.2024

Food safety: Tracking down mould

SAFIA's rapid tests ensure food safety:

They lurk in the shadows, hide in your flour, permeate exotic spices, and swim undetected in sweet juices. We are talking about mycotoxins, the poisonous substances produced by various fungi or mould. They thrive in…

Discriminating left- and right-handed molecules using chiral vortex light © Dr. Mayer

06.09.2024

New 'Chiral Vortex' of Light Reveals Molecular Mirror Images

The entirely new structure of light could help drug developers see their work more clearly than before:

An entirely new structure of light is helping to measure chirality in molecules more accurately and robustly than ever before, in a major potential step for the medicine. The study published in Nature Photonics was…

Aerial photo HZB/BESSY II © HZB / D. Laubner

22.07.2024

All BESSY II instruments reconnected to the network

After a cyberattack, all experimental stations are integrated into the new IT networks and a novel data control system has been established:

Thirteen months ago, HZB fell victim to a criminal cyberattack that also took BESSY II light source and the instruments in the experimental hall out of operation. BESSY II was up and running again after just three…

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11.07.2024

HU researchers develop innovative research approach in nanotechnology

This will facilitate the development of new materials and applications in technology and medicine:

Researchers at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, led by Prof. Dr. Nicola Pinna, have made a groundbreaking advancement in nanotechnology, successfully extending the well-known Stöber method to synthesize amorphous…

04.07.2024

LUM science prize Young Scientist Award 2024

M. Sc. Amin Said Amin was honored at the 11th International Conference on Dispersion Analysis and Materials Testing:

From June 10th to 11th, 2024, LUM GmbH hosted the 11th International Conference on Dispersion Analysis and Materials Testing. 70 participants from 14 countries around the world took part. Three candidates from France,…

Walter Meißner Building in Charlottenburg © PTB

01.07.2024

Precision made in Berlin

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany’s national metrology institute, is considered the cradle of quantum physics and tests the limits of what can be measured. The PTB’s Institut Berlin, or IB, is based in a thriving neighbourhood in Charlottenburg.:

Whenever something requires high precision, the PTB comes into play. As the national metrology institute, it is also the highest authority in Germany for all issues related to correct and reliable measurements.…

The micro-XRF composite image for the Ca, Yb and Zn distribution in a treated human tooth © Leona Bauer (TU Berlin/HZB)

25.06.2024

New Method for Absorption Correction to Improve Dental Fillings

By combining the laboratory infrastructures at BAM and HZB, more accurate measurements can be conducted:

A research team led by Dr. Ioanna Mantouvalou has developed a method to more accurately depict the elemental distributions in dental materials than previously possible. The used confocal micro-X-ray fluorescence…

Schematic illustration of the novel Raman spectroscopy technique © Heeg/HU Berlin

25.06.2024

Novel Raman spectroscopy technique for investigation of thin films and surfaces

Enhanced surface-to-bulk Raman signal ratio using a transferable porous gold membrane:

In a recent collaboration of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Physics of low-dimensional systems" around IRIS Adlershof member Dr. Sebastian Heeg at HU Berlin, researchers from the Leibniz-Institut für…

21.06.2024

Quantum state mixing in photobiology

New insight from ultrafast terahertz Stark spectroscopy:

The membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin is a proton pump, in which proton transport is initiated by the light-induced isomerization of the chromophore retinal. The molecular quantum states involved in this ultrafast…

Scanning X-ray images of a dismounted Li-ion battery with cycled MXene electrode © HZB

18.06.2024

MXenes for energy storage: Chemical imaging more than just surface deep

Scanning X-ray microscopy (SXM) at MAXYMUS beamline of BESSY II enables the characterization of layered materials in complex systems:

A new method in spectromicroscopy significantly improves the study of chemical reactions at the nanoscale, both on surfaces and inside layered materials. Scanning X-ray microscopy (SXM) at MAXYMUS beamline of BESSY II…

Photograph of an investigated Si crystal © IKZ

10.06.2024

IKZ and Bruker Nano demonstrate a new X-ray topography method

Non-destructive, high-throughput identification of defects in high-quality single crystals can be facilitated:

The IKZ in cooperation with Bruker Nano GmbH, Berlin, demonstrate that high-resolution energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence mapping devices based on a micro focused beam are not restricted to high-speed analyses of…

Molecular structure of the sigma complex and its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital. © Raphael Jay

06.06.2024

Alkanes, laser flashes and BESSY's X-ray vision

An international research team has succeeded in observing an intermediate step in the catalysis of alkanes:

An international research team has succeeded in observing an intermediate step in the catalysis of alkanes. By understanding these reactions, existing catalysts can be optimized in the future and new ones found, for…

Images from the laboratory spectrometer © HZB

27.05.2024

Dynamic measurements in liquids now possible in the laboratory

Newly developed laboratory spectrometer works with a plasma light source and provides a time resolution of 500 picoseconds:

A team of researchers in Berlin has developed a laboratory spectrometer for analysing chemical processes in solution - with a time resolution of 500 ps. This is of interest not only for the study of molecular…

IKZ-employees in front of of an image of a BaMgF4 crystal grown at IKZ

24.05.2024

Successful start of the BMBF project "UV-KrisP - Coherent continuous wave radiation in vacuum UV"

IKZ and Fraunhofer IPM will develop a new crystal material together:

Over the next three years, the IKZ will develop a new crystal material together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg. This material is capable of generating laser radiation…