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Battery plant Schwerin. Credit: WEMAG AG
08.02.2016

Europe’s first commercial battery plant remains a driver for innovation

Younicos expands stationary battery storage system to restore grid after blackout:

For the first time in Germany, a stationary battery storage system will be capable of restoring a regional electricity distribution grid in case of a major disruption of the electrical supply network. As part of the…

Sketch of the structure of both metal oxide layers. Interesting new properties can arise at the interface. Credit: M. Bibes
05.02.2016

Metal Oxide Sandwiches

BESSY II: New option to manipulate properties of interfaces :

A Franco-German cooperation has investigated a sandwich system of transition metal oxides at BESSY II. The scientists discovered a new option to control properties of the interface between the two layers, for…

International Evening in Adlershof
02.02.2016

Integrating refugees in Berlin

II. International Evening of the Technology Park Adlershof / 120 participants:

About 120 participants got together for the II. International Evening of the Technology Park Adlershof on 20th January 2016 - more than twice as many as for the first meeting in December 2015. Among them were 50…

Joaquím Jover, Fuensanta Bernal (both Comercial Químicaa Jover, Spain), Prof. Dr. Dietmar Lerche (LUM, Germany), Hiroyuki Miyaoka (Nihon Rufuto, Japan) (from left to right)
01.02.2016

Setting the basis for further sustainable growth

LUM awards Japanese and Spanish distributors:

The headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof hosted the LUM distributors from 21 countries as well as the international LUM sales force, traditionally in the end of January. During this annual technical and…

Nano-fireworks in an argon nanoparticle. Credit: Bernd Schütte, MBI
26.01.2016

Invisible light flash ignites nano-fireworks

Findings of MBI scientists open unprecedented opportunities for both fundamental laser-matter research and applications:

A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin and the University of Rostock demonstrated a new way to turn initially transparent nanoparticles suddenly into strong absorbers for intense laser light…

Logo: Global Cleantech 100
26.01.2016

Younicos is among 2015’s Top Global Cleantech companies

Energy storage pioneer again recognized as innovation leader:

Younicos is among the 100 most innovative companies for green technologies around the globe. The energy storage pioneer was chosen by the prestigious Cleantech Group from almost 7,000 nominated companies as “best…

Adlershof Journal Januar/Februar 2016 - Cover
20.01.2016

Adlershof Journal January/February 2016

Virtuosic Interplay: Our Talents for new Technologies:

Search, find, foster: Seeking talent at the Technology Park Adlershof // In Good Form: PensatechPharma develops new forms of pharmaceuticals // Top-level athletics and university: Students from Adlershof en route to…

Bild: Dorothee Mahnkopf
20.01.2016

Scientists – the secret stars

Why researchers are not as hyped as musicians or athletes:

Essay by Paulina Czienskowski, freelance journalist who writes for Welt am Sonntag, stern, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, and Berliner Morgenpost Let’s start with a quiz: who is Takaaki Kajita? Aziz…

Kathrin Aziz-Lange
20.01.2016

Physicist with her own research group on solar fuels

In conversation with Kathrin Aziz-Lange:

She originally wanted to become a documentary film maker. It was Kathrin Maria Aziz-Lange’s childhood dream. However, she then studied physics and got a PhD. Because it opens up infinite possibilities, she says. Now…

Magdalena Böck in ihrem Büro bei der GFaI
20.01.2016

Global traveller

Magdalena Böck sells high-end technology on four continents:

At first she didn’t want to stay longer than six months. Meanwhile she’s been “in this great city” for six years. From Austria to Berlin: “I’m your classic economic refugee,” says Magdalena Böck. Did she flee from…

Volker Hofmann, Humboldt-Innovation GmbH
20.01.2016

Search, find, foster

Seeking talent at the Technology Park Adlershof:

Finding, fostering, and maintaining talent is a pivotal challenge of our knowledge-based society. Science and business must cooperate to not let good ideas go to waste in laboratories. Adlershof offers ways to study…

Marla Lakhssassi und Svea Wobring, Jugend forscht-Regionalwettbewerb Berlin Süd
20.01.2016

Excited by Yawning

“Jugend forscht“ – the science and technology competition shows the curiosity and passion of young people for science:

They research the emotional connectedness of yawning and feelings triggered by robots – students and other young people research their own questions with curiosity, imagination, and enthusiasm. The Science City…

Hubert Hofmann, enspira Connect GmbH, and Marta Führich, goodpoint fellows
20.01.2016

A clear view of the future work place

How to maintain highly skilled professionals:

enspira Connect GmbH supports companies in tapping into the unused potential of employees and executives and in improving their strategic positioning. “From Adlershof, for Adlershof” is the motto of its founder Hubert…

Christian Schmidt ist Geigenbauer, Musiker und Maler
20.01.2016

Passions and Proportions

Christian Schmidt is a violin maker, musician, and painter:

A virgin’s urine for the varnish, wood from trees cut on new moon – there are many myths surrounding the Lombardic violin maker families Amati, Stradivari or Guaneri. All over the world these musical names make the…

Sabine Kunst nach der Wahl - Foto: Mark Wagner | HU Berlin
19.01.2016

Sabine Kunst Elected President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Current Minister of Science, Research and Culture of the state of Brandenburg will take up her post at HU at the start of the 2016 summer semester:

The Board of Trustees of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) has appointed Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst on Jan 19, 2016 as the new president. She is likely to take up her post at the start of the summer …

A4 series of dry pumps from Pfeiffer Vacuum
19.01.2016

Pfeiffer Vacuum presents innovative vacuum solutions

Supplier of vacuum technology at the trade fairs Semicon Korea and Semicon China:

Pfeiffer Vacuum, a leading global supplier of vacuum technology, will be exhibiting at the Semicon Korea Trade Fair in Seoul from January 27 to 29 and Semicon China in Shanghai from March 15 to 17. Visitors to the…

Hardy Rudolf Schmitz at his retirement farewell ceremony in Adlershof
19.01.2016

Every Farewell is A New Beginning

The future plans of Hardy Rudolf Schmitz, past managing director of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH:

Hardy Rudolf Schmitz was project manager at Boston Consulting, a consulting company, he was managing partner of CompuNet Computer AG, and, for 14 years, managing director of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH. Now the 65-year-old…

19.01.2016

In Good Form

The start-up PensatechPharma develops new forms of pharmaceuticals:

PensatechPharma GmbH is a company specialized on innovative forms of pharmaceuticals. It is now looking for new solutions for difficult types of drug administration at its new location in Adlershof. Professor Roland…

Diver Maria Kurjo and artistic gymnast Philipp Herder
19.01.2016

Top-level athletics and university – does it go together?

Students from Adlershof en route to the Olympics:

They work hard for the Olympic qualifying and visit lectures at university at the same time – about 15 top-level athletes study on the campus of Humboldt-University (HU) in Berlin Adlershof. For Maria Kurjo and…

Sketch of the tandem cell. Light is coming from below. Credit: Felix Lang/HZB
08.01.2016

Hybrid solar cell could attain record efficiency of 30%

Helmholtz Scientists realize optimum band gap for silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell:

Tandem solar cells based on silicon and perovskites have raised high hopes for future high efficiency solar modules.  A team led by perovskite solar cell pioneer Henry Snaith at the University of Oxford has now shown,…