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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…

New generation of lasers from the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut

Diode lasers bars with 2 kW output power for ultra-high power laser applications:

The FBH presented the latest results from their project CryoLaser at CLEO 2015, demonstrating for the first time that a single 1-cm laser bar can deliver at least 2 kilowatt (kW) of optical output power, when cooled…

Financial stimulus for Helmholtz Research

Joint Lab BeJEL receives 1.4 million EUR grant:

The Berlin Joint EPR Laboratory (BeJEL) operated by HZB and Freie Universität Berlin has pulled in six of 27 subprojects within a DFG priority program to address “New Frontiers in Sensitivity for EPR Spectroscopy –…

Younicos achieves ISO 9001:2008 certification

One of the first companies in the energy storage industry to reach this level of standardized excellence:

Younicos, a global leader in intelligent grid-scale energy storage solutions, is pleased to announce that it has received ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Systems certification from the international certification…

Cluster for the transition to clean energy - Adlershof at Intersolar Europe

June 10 to 12, 2015, Neue Messe, Munich, Hall A3, Booth 260:

WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH will showcase the Science and Technology Park Adlershof’s expertise in the field of photovoltaics and renewable energies at the Intersolar Europe in Munich. Nearly 60 companies and scientific…

CRC 951 “Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Systems for Opto-Electronics (HIOS)” successful to launch second funding period

CRC 951 scientists perform cutting-edge research on hybrid systems that unite inorganic semiconductors, metal nanostructures, and conjugated organic materials, with the aim to realize and tailor novel opto-electronic…

Total flexibility for multi-single emitter diode laser modules

Lumics‘ LuOcean™ Mini Series now with Largely Increased Number of Features:

Lumics GmbH - Berlin is re-setting the benchmark for its LuOcean™ Mini series offering the currently widest and most innovative product range for diode laser based devices for medical and industrial applications.…

Cash capital increase of Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG fully placed

Fresh capital of around EUR 18.7 million:

Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG (ISIN DE000A1MMHE3) has successfully placed all 3,250,289 new shares from the cash capital increase announced on 27 April 2015 with an indirect subscription right of shareholders at…

New options for spintronic devices

Switching between 1 and 0 with low voltage succeeds at HZB:

Scientists from Paris and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch ferromagnetic domains on and off with low voltage in a structure made of two different ferroic materials. The switching works slightly…

Charité Entrepreneurship Summit, Berlin, May 28-29, 2015

Over 400 entrepreneurs, clinicians, top-notch researchers, investors, policy makers, and senior executives in the healthcare industry will once again meet in Berlin to discuss the latest innovations during the 8th…

New opportunities for CIGS solar cells

Experts predict higher efficiencies and lean production technologies:

More than 90 participants from industry and academia from Europe, Asia and USA exchanged latest results in the field of CIGS solar cells, during the “IW-CIGSTech 6” organised by PVcomB at HZB in Berlin-Adlershof…

EU funding strengthens solar cell research at HZB

The aim is to push the performance of solar cells towards 25 % conversion efficiency:

Marcus Bär and his team are participating in two international projects being funded under the EU Horizon 2020 research programme. Both research projects are concerned with development and optimisation of…

Adlershof at the 21. International Energy and Environment Fair and Conference ICCI in Istanbul

6.-8. May 2015:

The Science and Technology Park Adlershof has become an important partner for Turkish companies and research institutions in the field of renewable energies. It has been exhibiting at the International Energy and…