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Stephen L. Prince took over as Chief Executive Officer in January
05.01.2017

Younicos concludes 2016 with record results

Battery storage company closes deals totaling 75 MW:

Energy storage pioneer Younicos was awarded contracts for a total of 75 megawatts (MW) in 2016, its first year under the stewardship of CEO Stephen L. Prince. Compared to 2015, this represents a record 400% growth…

Adlershof Journal January/February 2017
05.01.2017

Adlershof Journal January/February 2017

Knowledge isn’t built in a day: Ideas and innovation need time to grow:

Fishing Peptides: Innovative cleaning procedures for natural substances with a therapeutic effect // Child’s play? Early practice helps to master patience // Measuring Emotions How sensors help people with anxiety…

Illustration Dorothee Mahnkopf
05.01.2017

Don’t hurry: Things to learn from children’s book heroes

Essay by freelance journalist Paulina Czienskowski:

There is much to learn from watching the heroes of children’s books. One thing stands out: patience. They often go out in search of things. On their journeys through their reality, they show young people the many…

Katharina Kitsos
05.01.2017

In conversation with Katharina  Kitsos

The restaurant­ owner is bringing Greek cuisine to Adlershof:

Local admirers of the Mediterranean cuisine are enthusing about her homemade Greek specialties. Together with her husband Nikolaos, she opened her restaurant “Olympia” on Rudower Chaussee 5 in November 2016. The two…

Mario Brützam
05.01.2017

The Crystal Grower

Mario Brützam matures crystals at IKZ:

It all comes down to the exact temperature. If the mass is too hot, the nucleus dissolves like a sugar cube in coffee. If it’s too cool, the crystals form “spontaneously” and are useless to their grower. When asked…

Andreas Häger and Wiebke Kropp-Büttner, Vestaxx
05.01.2017

The world belongs to those that wait

On the perseverance of entrepreneurs and scientists from Adlershof:

Hardly any job ad nowadays is complete without mentioning “perseverance” in the requirements. But what does that mean in practice? Is it the key to success? We have asked entrepreneurs and scientists from Adlershof…

Adlershof. Science at work.
04.01.2017

Tenacity required

Technology parks need more than one election period for success:

Technology park developers must be far-sighted planners as well as smart and eager networkers. Apart from the courage to go down new paths, they have to be but one thing: tenacious. The iniators of such high-tech…

04.01.2017

Child’s play? Early practice helps to master patience

Day care worker Anne Schenke tells us about her day-to-day in child care:

Anne Schenke, who is a day care worker at the Kita Am Studio, says her job is the best in the world. She is a patient person and practices that every day. A sense of calm needs cultivation. The 103 children of the…

Viacheslav Artyushenko with Olga Bibikova, PhD student at the Ulm University (l); Urszula Joanna Zabarylo, PhD student at the Charitè (m.), and Annabelle Sophie Bahr, student
04.01.2017

Highly specialised optical fibres

art photonics GmbH develops spectroscopy systems for instant analysis in operating rooms:

The art photonics GmbH is one of the bedrock companies of Adlershof. Founder and manager Viacheslav Artyushenko and his team of 30 employees have been developing and manufacturing custom-made optical fibres for…

Soundtrack composer Moritz Denis
04.01.2017

The Master of Plucking Strings

How soundtrack composer Moritz Denis gets ideas for his music:

Why weren’t any shots fired at the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig in 1989? A new comedy of errors featuring Erich Honecker and a doppelganger, which will be in cinemas in March 2017, tries to give an answer to this…

HU computer scientist Monika Domanska
04.01.2017

Measuring Emotions

HU computer scientist develops sensors that help people with anxiety disorders:

Sweating, heart racing, shaking: can emotions be identified from physical responses? Yes, says the PhD student Monika Domanska. She is using sensors to decipher physical responses at the Institute for Computer Science…

The EnviroPep team uses laboratory and office space provided by the BAM
04.01.2017

Fishing Peptides

A start-up from Adlershof develops innovative cleaning procedures for natural substances with a therapeutic effect:

Meet three young and ambitious chemists. Although two of them are currently working on completing their PhDs, these researchers have been busy developing innovative ideas with regard to the environmentally and…

Annette Treppte
04.01.2017

Consultants for Energy and Hygiene

Acting as a role model:

The team of the private EHA Institute offers consulting and other services on the issues of energy consumption and hygiene. Moreover they are cultivating cooperation with Chinese companies. Claus Treppte gets really…

Color Duality in Photons
30.12.2016

Color Duality in Photons

Work of the physicist Sven Ramelow selected as one of the “Highlights of the Year 2016”:

The paper “Ramsey Interference with Single Photons”[1] and accompanying Viewpoint “Photon Qubit is Made of Two Colors”[2] have been selected as one of the Highlights of the Year 2016 by APS Physics. It was co-authored…

29.12.2016

Helmholtz Young Investigator Group for electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide

Strengthening energy materials research at HZB:

Dr. Matthew T. Mayer from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, will be putting together a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group in the field of energy materials research at HZB. He will be…

PFIA-molecules: Illustration: Heike Cords/HZB
20.12.2016

Fuel cells with PFIA-membranes

Experiments at BESSY II allow in situ analysis of water management which is helpful for further improvements of fuel cells:

HZB scientists have teamed up with partners of 3M Company in order to explore the water management in an alternative proton exchange membrane type, called PFIA. The experiments have been conducted using the infrared…

15.12.2016

Younicos to build 49 MW battery system in UK

Centrica selects Younicos to design and deliver one of the world’s largest battery storage systems:

Energy storage pioneer Younicos has been selected by Centrica to design and deliver one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated battery-based energy storage systems. To be completed by winter 2018, the 49…

15.12.2016

New Helmholtz Young Investigator Group to boost energy materials research at HZB

The new group is working to prolong the life span of perovskite solar cells to 25 years and longer:

Dr. Antonio Abate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is putting together a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. He came out on top in a highly competitive selection process of the…

Figure: Stefan Hecht
14.12.2016

Light controls repair of materials

Team of researchers led by chemists of the HU develops self-repairing plastic coating:

A team of German researchers led by chemists of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has developed a new type of plastic coating, which can heal damages selectively by illumination with light. A heat-induced repair of…

SENTECH CEO Dr Krüger and employees receiving the Innovation Award 2016
05.12.2016

SENperc PV wins “Innovation Award 2016”

Measuring device is used for quality control for PERC cell manufacturing in the photovoltaic sector:

SENTECH is winner of the Innovation Award 2016 Berlin Brandenburg. The SENperc PV was honored as one of the five most innovative products of 2016. The SENperc PV is used for quality control for PERC cell back side…