5/10/12
Topics from Ultrafast Data Transfer to Climate Engineering to Novel Materials / All Programmes Interdisciplinary What is the role of phosphorus resources for trees and forests – and what do they mean for the nutrition and balance of a forest ecosystem? How can ultrafast wireless transmission ...
4/20/12
The latest advance in solid-state nanopore sensors – devices that are made with standard tools of the semiconductor industry yet can offer single-molecule sensitivity for label-free protein screening – expands their bag of tricks through bionanotechnology. Researchers at the Technische ...
4/20/12
Germany Trade & Invest showcases the latest business opportunities at Hannover Messe 2012, the world’s leading industrial technology trade fair Berlin/Hanover – Solar electricity generation in Germany increased by 40 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the previous year, according ...
4/19/12
From smartphones to e-bikes, the number of mobile electronic devices is steadily growing around the world. As a result, there is an increased need for batteries that are small and light, yet powerful. As the potential for the further improvement of lithium-ion batteries is nearly exhausted, ...
3/27/12
Under the brand “Research in Germany - Land of Ideas”, the BMBF, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is hosting issue- and country-specific campaigns abroad to promote innovation and research in Germany. Now also in Russia, under the slogan “Russia and Germany - Partnerships ...
3/26/12
Max Planck researchers develop new method for the production of microlenses Inspired from Mother Nature: The body of the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii is studded with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate. Microlenses like these are of great interest technologically, yet they have ...
2/22/12
Faster, smaller and more energy-efficient – that is what computers of the future should be like. A new phenomenon stands to make a major contribution in this direction: It needs 100,000 times less current than existing technologies, and the number of atoms needed for a data bit could diminish ...
2/21/12
A Novel Type of Biopolymer Film for Low-cost Ecological Encoding of Information A novel type of salmon DNA- and nanosilver-based biopolymer film allows low-cost environmentally friendly storage of information. The organic system has been developed through interdisciplinary international ...
1/26/12
Physicists from Hannover and Geneva investigate single electron transport through semiconductor nanostructure The basic building block in conventional electronics is the transistor; a computer, for example, contains more than a billion transistors and worldwide nearly 10 billion transistors are ...
1/25/12
At Compamed 2011, ROFIN showcased the latest developments in laser material processing. The focus was on manual laser welding and high-precision cutting with ultra short pulse femto / fiber laser sources for medical device manufacturing. Within a few months, ROFIN's newly designed manual welding ...
1/16/12
Gold nanoparticles detect tiny acoustic vibrations How noisy is a walking flea? What sorts of sound waves are caused by motile bacteria? Physicists at the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) have managed for the first time to detect sound waves at such minuscule length scales. Their nanoear is ...
1/5/12
The "Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2011" was won by a team comprising existing and former Fraunhofer researchers. Professor Karl Leo, Dr. Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth and Dr. Martin Pfeiffer were honored for their pioneering achievements in the field of organic electronics. When the concept was first ...
12/19/11
In 2012 microtechnology will be part of the special area "Industrial Automation" at the HANNOVER MESSE. The main reasons for IVAM and Deutsche Messe to decide this relocation were the close proximity of the application markets and the demands of the exhibitors. "Together with Deutsche Messe we ...
12/16/11
IMPRS – a 10-year success story December 12, 2011 For ten years International Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS) have been successfully tempting young talented students from all over the world to come to Germany. The IMPRS cooperate with their German partner universities to provide a structured ...
11/25/11
DFG Establishes 16 New Research Training Groups / Strong Competition between Groups from All Scientific Disciplines / Four International Research Training Groups Represent Increasing Cross-Border Cooperation To further enhance the promotion of early-career researchers in Germany, the Deutsche ...
11/18/11
The German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) is proud to announce the launch of its new webpage, Technology Parks & Centers, on http://germaninnovation.org/research-and-innovation/technology-parks-and-centers The GCRI’s web presence is an information platform for North Americans who are ...
11/15/11
Nanomagnets are used in many places nowadays, from medicine to data storage. Sometimes they have to be strong and and sometimes they have to be weak. Researchers from the Center for Nanointegration (CeNIDE) at University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have found out just how to produce these tiny ...
11/14/11
Individual atoms as contrast media for scanning tunnelling microscopes Jülich, 5 October 2011 - Scanning tunnelling microscopes are among the most important and most widely used tools for visualizing structures at the atomic level. In the past, however, it was virtually impossible to use them to ...
10/5/11
Modern endoscopic techniques enable doctors to perform surgery without major incisions. Certain interventions require instruments with special 3-D optics. Researchers have developed an image sensor that transmits perfect 3-D images from inside the human body thanks to the use of microlenses. The ...
