News Archive
Researching Big Cities
An Adlershof-based geographer takes a close look at the consequences of gentrification:
Her research topic regularly makes the headlines. Ilse Helbrecht’s focus is on gentrification, a global process that also leads to heated debates and vocal protesting in Berlin. “We are talking about a process in…
More Security in Consumer Protection
A story of growth of the ifp – the Institute for Product Quality:
What is in the things that I use every day? In my food. In the water. Consumers are becoming increasingly sensitive to quality as EU food laws are becoming stricter. The ifp Institute for Product Quality in Adlershof,…
Kickstarting Women’s Careers in Research
Mentoring programmes bring together like-minded women and foster academic careers:
One works as a mentor sparking the enthusiasm of girls for STEM subjects, while the other joined a tandem partnership with a renowned Swedish researcher, who shares her valuable experiences. They both represent a…
A thick, rocky river
The artist Lisa Premke turns space into sound:
“There are sounds,” says Lisa Premke, “that are like frequencies stored deep in our subconscious.” The “thick, rocky river” is the sound of her own blood. She first heard it during a medical exam and made it the…
A² Accelerator enters its 3rd round
The topic is “Smart City:
The A² Adlershof Accelerator is entering its third round. This time the topic is “Smart City”. We are looking for start-ups, who are working specifically on smart city issues, on the interface of such issues, or on…
Best of two worlds: combining optical tweezers with time-resolved confocal microscopy
PicoQuant and Ionovation now offer an integrated platform that combines microscopy and force spectroscopy:
As a joint development, PicoQuant and Ionovation combined time-resolved microscopy and optical tweezers in a single system. Both instruments retain their individual functionalities but can also be used together, thus…
Hidden talents: Converting heat into electricity with pencil and paper
Helmholtz researchers use simple constituents for thermoelectric components:
Thermoelectric materials can use thermal differences to generate electricity. Now there is an inexpensive and environmentally friendly way of producing them with the simplest of components: a normal pencil, photocopy…
Research team suceeded in identifying the chirality of molecules with a new method
Twisting electrons can tell right-handed and left-handed molecules apart:
Identifying right-handed and left-handed molecules is a crucial step for many applications in chemistry and pharmaceutics. An international research team (CELIA-CNRS/INRS/Berlin Max Born Institute/SOLEIL) has now…
Ecoligo.investments opens solar-battery project in Philippines for investment
Core of the system is a 124.2 kWh battery, supplied by Adlershof-based energy storage specialist Autarsys:
A project to power an off-grid eco resort in the Philippines has opened for investment on the crowdinvesting platform www.ecoligo.investments. Private investors will refinance the solar-plus-storage system, which has…
40-year controversy in solid-state physics resolved
Samarium hexaboride is a trivial surface conductor:
An international team at BESSY II headed by Prof. Oliver Rader has shown that the puzzling properties of samarium hexaboride do not stem from the material being a topological insulator, as it had been proposed to be.…
The interaction of ribonucleic acid and water
MBI scientists use vibrational spectroscopy to analyze biomolecular systems:
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) plays a key role in biochemical processes which occur at the cellular level in a water environment. Mechanisms and dynamics of the interaction between RNA and water were now revealed by…
Video Recorder Board replaces Frame Grabber, Display Controller and Text Generator
DIRIS-Boards minimize effort for development and production of devices comprising video visualization and recording:
At the Embedded World Exhibition (Feb 27th to Mar 1st, 2018 in Nuremberg) X‑SPEX from Berlin/Germany presents the DIRIS video recorder boards with extended functions and new interfaces. Location in hall 1,…
Perovskite solar cells: perfection not required!
Experiments at BESSY II reveal why even inhomogeneous perovskite films are highly functional:
Metal-organic perovskite layers for solar cells are frequently fabricated using the spin coating technique. If you follow the simplest synthesis pathway and use industry-relevant compact substrates, the perovskite…
Autarsys sets out to bring renewable energy to a refugee camp
Adlershof-based renewable energy company to develop state-of-the-art energy storage system for Mam Rashan in Northern Iraq:
In partnership with German non-profit Atmosfair, with funding from the state of Baden-Württemberg, Autarsys sets out to bring renewable energy to a refugee camp of 8,500 Autarsys GmbH is set to manufacture an energy…
Adlershof Journal January/February 2018
Some clouds, but mostly sunny: Forecasts on digitisation:
Secure networks: About the risks and side-effects of going digital // High-Performance Chips for Data Centres: Sicoya develops novel high-efficiency chips for transmitting data in data centres // The Freshwater Man:…
Lost in the Web: Sorting the World with Mathematical Precision
Essay by Peter Strunk, a PhD historian, and head of the communications department at WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH since 1999:
When we go online, it is good to know what we’re looking for. Otherwise, a journey through the internet becomes a magical mystery tour, where torrential information fills up the space around us. Whenever we “surf the…
At home in the world of data
In conversation with Susann Niemeyer, head of the Technology Centres for IT and Media in Adlershof:
She originally wanted to become a chemist like her father and her grandfather. She touched down in information technology because she couldn’t get a place at the University of Greifswald during the GDR days. Since…
Oxford PV collaborates with HZB
To move perovskite solar cells closer to commercialisation:
Perovskite solar technology leader Oxford PV collaborates with leading German research centre to support the accelerated transfer of its technology into silicon cell manufacturing lines.Oxford PVTM – The Perovskite…
Milestone reached: electron source for bERLinPro produces its first beam
Components for linear accelerator tested successfully:
On the HZB Adlershof campus, researchers are building a prototype of an energy-recovery linear accelerator (bERLinPro). Intensive research has been going on for years to develop the worldwide unique key components…
The Freshwater Man
Thomas Pfeiffer develops affordable desalinisation and irrigation systems:
It started with a chance discovery in his inbox. Thomas Pfeiffer said to his business partner: “That sounds like a good idea. Let’s do it and see what happens.” The tender from Adlershof popped up on Pfeiffer’s screen…