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Latest news about renewable energies and photovoltaics research

Randy Cunningham
09.10.2025

Sasol and HZB deepen collaboration with strategic focus on digitalisation

“A significant step towards achieving more sustainable and efficient chemical processes on an industrial scale”:

Sasol Research & Technology and Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) are expanding their partnership into the realm of digitalisation, building on their joint efforts in the CARE-O-SENE project and an Industrial Fellowship…

Anton Nagy and Julia Bauer at the laboratory
25.09.2025

Energy from CO₂

A spark is ignited for the future of fuels:

Carbon dioxide is often only ever viewed as a greenhouse gas. However, it can also be an important raw material. The startup Spark e-Fuels hopes to use it to produce synthetic fuels, known as e-fuels. But there is a…

19.09.2025

The Solar Consultant

Niklas Albinius shares his knowledge about building with photovoltaics:

Who knows what his career path would have looked like if he hadn’t asked the question? Niklas Albinius’ curiosity was piqued after a lecture on ‘Solar Construction’ at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin,…

Oliver Arnhold
19.09.2025

In conversation with Oliver Arnhold

At Localiser, he plans charging infrastructure for electromobility:

A spin off of the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), electromobility and hydrogen expert Localiser describes itself today as the market leader in Germany when it comes to the planning of charging infrastructure. “We’ve…

WISTA’s “Climate Resilience” Project Team in a meeting
08.09.2025

A Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Technology Districts

A master plan for climate resilience is intended to prepare Adlershof, as well as other locations, for the future:

Climate change is very much here and so it’s high time to prepare the technology park for the future. How exactly this will be done is currently being worked out with the support of WISTA, with a master plan being…

Bernd Rech and Saskia Vormfelde
02.09.2025

Saskia Vormfelde appointed new Administrative Director at HZB

She is moving from Freiburg ISE to Berlin:

Saskia Vormfelde begins her term of office as Administrative Director at HZB on 1 September. The successful science manager succeeds Thomas Frederking, who retired after 32 years of service at HZB, including 13 years…

13.08.2025

Up to 26,000 electric trucks in Berlin by 2045

Study by Reiner Lemoine Institute and Öko-Institut shows how the electrification of road freight transport can be achieved:

By 2045, up to 26,000 electric trucks with a total electricity demand of up to 430 GWh per year could be registered in Berlin – this corresponds to the annual consumption of around 100,000 households and requires a…

Layout of the solar cell structure
06.08.2025

Self assembling monolayer can improve lead-free perovskite solar cells too

At HZB, the performance of non-toxic tin perovskite photovoltaics was increased through targeted molecular design:

Tin perovskite solar cells are not only non-toxic, but also potentially more stable than lead-containing perovskite solar cells. However, they are also significantly less efficient. Now, an international team has…

Mascha Richter and Philipp Blechinger
28.07.2025

CommunitE Innovation project aims to strengthen nationwide citizen energy community

Researchers from the Reiner Lemoine Institute provide advisory support:

Mascha Richter, head of the RLI research unit Transformation of Energy Systems, and Philipp Blechinger, head of the research unit Off-Grid Systems and the Reiner Lemoine Graduate School, are joining the advisory board…

Philipp Adelhelm
25.07.2025

Berlin Science Award goes to Philipp Adelhelm

The materials scientist and electrochemist researches and develops sodium-ion batteries at HU and HZB:

Battery researcher Prof. Dr. Philipp Adelhelm has been awarded the 2024 Berlin Science Award. He is a professor at the Institute of Chemistry at Humboldt University in Berlin (HU) and heads a joint research group at…

Portrait Silvia Mariotti
02.07.2025

New Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at HZB on perovskite solar cells

Silvia Mariotti aims to advance the development of multi-junction solar cells made from different perovskite layers:

Silvia Mariotti starts building up the new Helmholtz Young Investigator Group ‘Perovskite-based multi-junction solar cells’. The perovskite expert, who was previously based at Okinawa University in Japan, aims to…

27.06.2025

Diffusion of hydrogen in MXene investigated at HZB

Modelling offers a solid foundation for further research with MXene as hydrogen storage systems:

Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as MXene are of great interest for hydrogen storage. An expert from HZB has investigated the diffusion of hydrogen in MXene using density functional theory. This modelling provides…

Screenshot of the video conference
19.06.2025

HZB and National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy start cooperation

Memorandum of Understanding signed for collaborative research, academic exchange, and capacity-building in energy and climate:

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH (HZB) and the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU serves as the starting point for…

People shake hands, holding the contract in their hands.
17.06.2025

MAX IV and BESSY II initiate new collaboration to advance materials science

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin signed a 5-year cooperation agreement with the Swedish national synchrotron laboratory MAX IV:

Swedish national synchrotron laboratory MAX IV and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) with BESSY II light source jointly announce the signing of a 5-year Cooperation Agreement. The new agreement establishes a framework to…

03.06.2025

TH Wildau and Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin signed comprehensive cooperation

The aim is to strengthen research and teaching in key technologies:

On 21 May 2025, the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau (TH Wildau) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement. The aim is to further…

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The development of the Science and Technology Park Berlin Adlershof was and is co-financed by the European Union namely by EFRE. This concerns infrastructure development like construction of technology centres. Furthermore EFRE is used for international projects.

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