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Water nanodroplets cool biomolecules ultrafast:
Researchers of the Max-Born-Institute at Berlin, Germany, have observed how biomolecules transfer energy into extremely small water droplets in their environment. A water shell consisting of only 3 water…

Tracking down smallest biomarkers
PTB and Dectris have developed a vacuum-compatible X-ray detector that allows the size of low-contrast nano-objects to be determined:
Microvesicles are smallest cell elements which are present in all body fluids and are different, depending on whether a person is healthy or sick. This could contribute to detecting numerous diseases, such as, e.g.,…

Innovation Prize Berlin Brandenburg 2012 was awarded to LUM
Perfect or poor? The award-winning Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac will find out:
The Innovation Prize Berlin Brandenburg 2012 was awarded to LUM GmbH for the new Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac®. Adhesive and tensile strength of composite materials, multi-layer films and bonded parts are determined…

Call for Applications: 15 doctoral fellowships for SALSA ̶ School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof
Online from 15 November to 14 December 2012:
SALSA, the Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof, recently established at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative, is announcing 15 doctoral fellowships to…
SOLON solar modules 100% resistant against PID
SOLON solar modules scored outstanding marks during the latest PID resistance test performed by Photovoltaik Institute Berlin. The SOLON Black 230 is 100% resistant against potential induced degradation (PID). PID is…
SOLON Elco Renewables Ltd.: Joint Venture for Solar Power Plants in Israel
Power plants with a total capacity of 8.5 MW currently being implemented:
SOLON Energy GmbH and the Israeli energy and technology company Elco have founded the joint venture SOLON Elco Renewables Ltd. The new company, located in Netanya near Tel Aviv, plans and builds solar power plants in…
Joint technologies: SCIENION and GENOMICA expand collaboration to provide a new innovative printing technology for multiple applications.
Companies jointly present at Medica, November 14-17, 2012, in Düsseldorf:
SCIENION AG and GENOMICA S.A. Unipersonal, today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership. Both companies will offer to the life science market a jointly developed new printing plate technology platform.…

Adlershof Special: IT and Media
“Natural interface”: Interview with Prof Jähnichen, Head of Fraunhofer FIRST and President of the German association of computer scientists // Faster to the end: Smartphones as multifunctional mobile communication…
Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac is a hot favourite for a prize
LUM is nominated for the Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg 2012:
LUM GmbH is nominated for the Innovation Award with the new Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac. From more than 100 applications LUM was nominated into the final five candidates.With the LUMiFrac® LUM, currently known as…

Valles Marineris – the largest canyon in the Solar System
High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) has been taking spectacular image strips:
Mars is clearly much smaller than Earth, but it can still come up with impressive superlatives. Several landscape features have unquestionably enormous dimensions – at over 21 kilometres in height, Olympus Mons is the…
SOLON is Building a 2 MW Solar Power Plant on a Landfill in Thuringia
SOLON Energy GmbH has been awarded the contract to build a photovoltaic power plant with a total capacity of 2 MW on an abandoned landfill in Jena-Ilmnitz (Thuringia). At the behest of the city of Jena, SOLON is…
Two become one – Multi-wavelength-LUMiSizer® 65x
Higher benefit in nanotechnology and for beverage development :
LUM GmbH is market leader in innovative analysers for direct and accelerated stability analysis and particle characterization of dispersions.With the integration of two different light sources in one instrument LUM…
„FOKUS InnoCity“ in Santiago de Chile
Fraunhofer FOKUS opens Office for ICT Innovation:
The German Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, and the Chilean Minister of Economy, Pablo Longueira, opened on the 1st of October the new 'Office for ICT Innovation' at a ceremony in Santiago…
High-power diode lasers: Technology transfer the Berlin Way
Silke Pflueger, newly appointed member of ILS' Editorial Advisory Board, reports on her latest trip to Berlin:
At ICALEO 2012 in Anaheim, one of the hot topics was how different countries facilitate technology transfer from academia to industry. Germany's Fraunhofer institutes have received a lot of well-deserved attention for…

Is there electrical current in an insulator?
MBI researchers visualize the transfer of electrons in an insulator:
The MBI femtosecond x-ray team (project 3.3) observed an extremely fast transfer of electrons between neighboring atoms by applying a strong optical field to an insulator crystal and mapping its real-space electron…
SOLON: Order for a 2.6 MW solar power plant
Real-time monitoring via Internet with SOLON Vega system:
After a nationwide call for tenders, SOLON Energy GmbH won the bid to build a second photovoltaic power plant in Lübesse (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). The 2.6 MW plant is slated to go online at the end of October. Back in…
BBC Report on Adlershof's Stand on the ECB
You can watch the video clip online BBC-Report "Euro crisis: Can the ECB calm German doubts?"

Adlershof Special 25: Real Estate
Via Quick Response to Berlin Adlershof:
Room For More Urbanity // Impressive Entrées // Topping-out Ceremony of “Air Campus Adlershof“ // An Architectural Highlight of Adlershof // An On-The-Ball Media Location // Olympic Ground // New Dimensions // Company…

Berlin Adlershof at the 27th EU PVSEC Frankfurt
24. - 28 Sept. 2012 // Ground 3 / E 27 :
The WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH, who develops and operates Germany`s leading Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof, participates in the 27th EU PVSEC. Currently, times are tough for the German solar industry.…
Genalyte teams with Scienion to provide sciFLEXARRAYER dispensers
New Genalyte Custom Spotting Service Enables Maverick Customers to Obtain Ready-to-Use Arrays Designed to Their Specifications:
Genalyte, Inc., a life sciences company developing and commercializing innovative next generation multiplexing technology, and Scienion AG, a life science company developing microarray and ultra-low volume liquid…