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Illustration Communication © WISTA Management GmbH
04.05.2021

How to communicate in a crisis?

A field report from the WISTA communications team following a year of the coronavirus pandemic:

How do humans react to danger? With fight, flight, or playing dead. When Germany was suddenly shut down on 14 March 2020 and the operating company of Adlershof Technology Park with it, which choice did the…

Markus Krutzik © Marco Sensche
04.05.2021

The atom catcher

Markus Krutzik studies the basics and applications of high-precision measurement technology:

When he moved to Berlin for his PhD in 2009, Markus Krutzik heard his supervisor say: “We will move to Adlershof soon.” The Frankfurt native had never heard of that place. It is now a decade ago that his academic and…

Nicola Rother © WISTA Management GmbH
04.05.2021

Seeing is believing

Another cancellation of the “Long Night of the Sciences” – How can science communication also succeed digitally?:

Planning was at full steam, when it was suddenly cancelled in late April: The “Long Night of the Sciences” will, again, not take place this year as usual. We asked the organisers how digital science communication can…

Prof. Jörg Niewöhner, HU Berlin © WISTA Management GmbH
03.05.2021

Promoting community involvement by walking on water

The experimental laboratory “AnthropoScenes” will kick off on 1 July:

Knowledge transfer, an exchange on a level playing field, civic participation: Modern science aims not just at communicating its findings but also discuss with a non-scientific audience. It should be open to input…

Anja Wirsing, FVB © WISTA Management GmbH
03.05.2021

The new reality

Replacing analogue with digital and hybrid – unusual avenues in public relations:

“Book a Scientist” is the name of a event series by the Leibniz Association. It involves interested parties discussing their favourite subject with a researcher for 25 minutes. “This is a nice format, especially…

Catherine Chaput, Irmgard Schäffl © WISTA Management GmbH
03.05.2021

Meatballs from the bioreactor

Mushlabs GmbH uses fungal cells for producing a vegan meat alternative:

Fungi are highly efficient recyclers of plant waste, which they convert into proteins and other important nutrients. The young Hamburg-based company Mushlabs GmbH is developing a bioreactor process in which fungal…

Team Angry Hamster © WISTA Management GmbH
03.05.2021

Two movie buffs and a hamster do advertising

Explainer videos are more than moving-image manuals:

Size doesn’t matter according to Willi Haninger, CEO and creative producer at Angry Hamster UG. Haninger and his business partner Marina Izquierdo work with a team of ten freelancers. “Our strength is that we tend to…

Wen-Min Ji, Gemma Benítez Terreu © WISTA Management GmbH
03.05.2021

Graphic design solutions for humanities content

The Visualink editor from the Adlershof start-up Whim_GbR is a tool for creating digital charts to improve teaching:

Wen-Min Ji not only studied philosophy, biology, and architecture, but is also very good at drawing. Working as a student assistant at Humboldt-University’s philosophy institute, the 28-year-old used her talents to…

Workshop Kopfsachen e. V. © Nils Lucas
29.04.2021

Researchers starting companies

Berlin pools its start-up activities in the Science & Startups network to promote science spin-offs:

The economic potential of science spin-offs is indisputable. Despite government incentives, however, their number remains comparatively low. Berlin is now pooling together all its start-up promotion activities in a…

Raman measuring system © FBH/K. Sowoidnich
29.04.2021

Diode lasers meet soil crumbs

Why portable Raman systems are now used in agriculture – the RaMBo measuring system from the Laser Sensors Lab at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut in Adlershof:

Last November, it was finally done. The RaMBo measuring system was deployed for the first time on a field in Potsdam-Marquardt. Its goal: to determine the nutrient content of the soil. Phosphorus and nitrogen, in…

ICULTA 2021 © Advanced UV for Life
29.04.2021

ICULTA is becoming a flagship of the UV LED community

Review of the 2021 edition of the International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications:

For the second time, ICULTA – the ‘International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications’ – presented a forum for the UV LED community to exchange ideas and results on cutting-edge topics. The program of last…

Engineer © ASTI Mobile Robotics GmbH
28.04.2021

ASTI Mobile Robotics aims to create more than 120 new jobs in 2021

The digital transformation has accelerated enormously due to the pandemic and ensures exponential growth for the robotics company:

In the first quarter of 2021, the ASTI Mobile Robotics Group added more than 40 people to #teamASTI, aiming to strengthen its workforce and, in this way, meet the current mobile robotics market demands while also…

first image taken by MYSTIIC © HZB
26.04.2021

New X-ray microscope put into operation at BESSY II

MYSTIIC offers higher precision and more options for scanning surfaces and investigating bulk samples in transmission:

A new X-ray microscope has started operation at the Energy Materials in situ Lab (EMIL). It is a scanning transmission X-ray microscope designed to examine both sample surfaces and bulk sample. With the soft X-ray…

Figure © M. Künsting/HZB
22.04.2021

Direct observation of the ad- and desorption of guest atoms into a mesoporous host

Research at the PTB X-ray beamline of the HZB BESSY II synchrotron lays the foundations for new insights into energy materials:

Battery electrodes, storage devices for gases, and some catalyst materials have tiny functional pores that can accommodate atoms, ions, and molecules. How these guest atoms are absorbed into or released from the pores…

Polymer particles © BAM
19.04.2021

BAM researches the risks of tiny polymer particles

The toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics is being investigated in two large EU projects:

Particularly fibrous particles of micro- and nanoplastics are suspected of being harmful. They enter the human body via the air we breathe or the food we eat. Initial data indicate that they could lead to irritation…

Credit: O. Benson, IRIS Adlershof
16.04.2021

Real-time optical distance sensing of up-conversion nanoparticles with a precision of 2.8 nanometers

Team of researchers demonstrated ultra-precise localization and tracking of fluorescent nanoparticles:

Sub-diffraction limited localization of fluorescent emitters is a major goal of microscopy imaging. It is of key importance for so-called super-resolution, a technique that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in…

Fig. 1 © IKZ
15.04.2021

New DFG project on neuromorphic applications of ferroelectric layers

IKZ researchers investigate the relationship between structural and electrical changes during switching of ferroelectric layers:

Ferroelectric films are used for a variety of technological applications, such as non-volatile memory devices or ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs). These applications exploit their property of exhibiting…

Dr. Manuela Urban © FVB / Katja Bilo
14.04.2021

Change in the Management of the Forschungsverbund Berlin

Dr. Manuela Urban left the FVB / Dr. Falk Fabich steps in as Acting Managing Director:

Dr. Falk Fabich will step in as Acting Managing Director of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) – from April 13, 2021 until a successor has been found for the position, by December 31, 2021 at the latest. This has…

L. Pfeifer, N. Bensmann © LTB Lasertechnik Berlin
12.04.2021

LTB strengthens its Research and Development department

With Dr. Lutz Pfeifer as the new Head of Research Spectroscopy, and Norman Bensmann as the new Head of Laser Development, the company is realigning itself:

Managing Director Christian Scholz: “We want to spread the growing scope and requirements of the departments over several shoulders. In recent years, we have grown steadily in both areas. In order to do justice to the…

Source: BAM
01.04.2021

BAM certifies the world's first reference materials for the determination of the fluorescence quantum yield

Twelve certified reference materials allow reliable and comparable characterization:

Fluorescent materials are used in many areas today: on the security codes of banknotes, in plasma screens or in medical diagnostics. The crucial factor here is that the materials luminesce intensively over a long…