News Archive
Depletion and enrichment of chlorine in perovskites observed
HZB researchers identify starting points to enhance the efficiency of solar cells:
X-ray spectroscopy at BESSY II reveals inhomogenous distribution of chlorine in a special class of perovskite materials. The discovery could help to enhance efficiencies of perovskite thin film solar cells by…
BESSY-Scientists visualize magnetic structures
New technique enables magnetic patterns to be mapped in 3D:
An international collaboration has succeeded in using synchrotron light to detect and record the complex 3D magnetisation in wound magnetic layers. This technique could be important in the development of devices that…
Flexible molecular wires
Berlin-Graz team of scientists developed molecular wires with high conductivity and flexibility:
In a long-standing collaboration with the Grill group we used our on-surface polymerization route to prepare alternating donor-acceptor polymers, which exhibit excellent single molecule conductance in combination with…
Younicos provides storage expertise for clean energy lighthouse project
enera consortium delivers blueprint for Energiewende:
We’re contributing our commercial energy storage expertise and experience to the 75-member “enera” consortium, which aims to produce the blueprint for the next phase in Germany’s Energiewende (Energy Transition).…
From Excited Atoms to Functionality
ERC Advanced Grant Awarded to Alexander Föhlisch:
Under the EU Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation, Alexander Föhlisch has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. The physicists is holding a joint appointment at the Institute for Physics and Astronomy…
Green solutions with diamond materials
Horizon 2020 invests 3.9 million Euro in research project to convert CO2 into fuels using sunlight and diamond materials:
A great new idea is now being investigated by scientists of Germany, France, England, and Sweden, among them HZB’s Prof. Emad Aziz. They propose exploring diamond materials for photocatalytic conversion of carbon…
SCIENION: Paradigm shift in Transmission Electron Microscopy
sciTEM for high-throughput and innovative SEM/TEM:
Based on SCIENION's core competencies and years of experience in ultra-low volume liquid dispensing, assay miniaturization, and microarray manufacturing, the sciTEM was specifically developed to deposit multiple…
“Just the place for bright ideas”
The Technology Park Berlin Adlershof showcases at “LASER World of PHOTONICS” (22.-25.06.2015, Messe München):
Berlin Adlershof, Germany's largest Science and Technology Park, will showcase itself as a successful and continuously expanding location for photonics, optics, and microsystems technology "LASER World of Photonics…
FBH at “Laser World of Photonics” and “CLEO Europe”
The FBH presents its advanced diode lasers and UV light-emitting diodes:
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) exhibits a selection of current improvements and new developments regarding diode lasers and UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at the international trade fair „Laser World of…
Are rogue waves predictable?
MBI researchers compare optical waves with ocean waves:
A comparative analysis of rogue waves in different physical systems comes to the surprising conclusion that these rare events are not completely unpredictable. Metereological events often prove to be rather…
Technology Park Adlershof at the BIO International Convention
June 15-18th, 2015, Philadelphia, USA:
The WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH will represent the Technology Park Adlershof in the German Pavilion at the most important biotech trade show worldwide, the BIO International Convention 2015 in Philadelphia, USA…
Adlershof Special 41
Shaken, stirred and microscoped:
Isotopic fingerprints // Deeper insights with X rays // Toolmakers for analytics //
Laboratory work place Berlin
Editorial by Peter H. Seeberger, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin:
The right workplace is important. This is true in all sectors, even when their requirements differ hugely depending on the activities they involve. For instance, the IT sector is perfectly happy with a corner table in…
Analytic City
“Analytic City Adlershof” gives a qualified insight into the equipment and resources pool of the Science City:
“The database of expertise embodied by Analytic City Adlershof is a great help to us”, said Jens Hanke, Managing Director of Graforce Hydro GmbH. His company is presently developing an innovative technology for the…
Growing innovatively
Adlershof analytics companies Accelero Bioanalytics and biotechrabbit are thriving on a takeover and innovative funding ideas:
Accelero Bioanalytics GmbH has taken to innovative fields, not only for analytics and services, but also for its own funding. “We work in the genetic engineering field, analyse dangerous pathogens like bacteria, and…
Expertise from across the street
The cooperation between research institutions and companies in Adlershof:
In a manner of speaking, Andreas Voigt is a packaging artist. He and his colleagues at the Adlershof company TheraKine BioDelivery embed tiny proteins serving as medicinal agents in a small ball that shuttles them…
Deeper insights with X rays
X ray microscope at BESSY II allows a physical resolution as low as ten nanometres:
Since 2003 the Microscopy Research Group at the Institute of Soft Matter and Functional Materials of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has been working on high resolution imagery with X rays. Today, one of the…
Methods and models
Adlershof companies identify even the tiniest contaminations in medicines, food, and the environment:
Medicines should be safe, but must be produced at low cost if they are to benefit a broad population all over the world. This conflict of objectives can be resolved with refined analytics. The reliable monitoring of…
Isotopic fingerprints
IsoAnalysis clarifies age or origin of samples by boron or strontium isotope analysis:
How can migrations be recorded that took place hundreds of years ago? And how can an artwork be identified as a forgery? Martin Rosner, Managing Director of the Adlershof company IsoAnalysis UG, clarifies questions…
Toolmakers for analytics
The essential work of scientific toolmakers in Adlershof:
They don’t get research awards, and they don’t make the headlines. Yet the success of experiments and analyses is impossible without scientific toolmakers. Some of these companies are also refining their highly…