wire - news in brief

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: The increasing electrification of the chemical industry and the transport sector is increasing the global demand for sustainable and regionally available starting materials for electrochemical energy storage systems.

Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and German Aerospace Center (DLR) have built a radiometer for measuring the temperature inside lunar craters In the night February 27, 2025, C.E.T, th

Nano-cages made of linalool and sulfur increase the service life and storage capacity of sodium-sulfur batteries   Lavender oil could help solve a problem in the energy transition.

Interdisciplinary Research Team Aims to Use Recycled Phosphate for Lithium-ion Batteries To recover phosphate from existing sources such as wastewater or farm manure and reuse it in lithium-ion batte

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: The biopolymer lignin is found in large quantities in trees.

One of the benchmarks used to measure the success of research is the volume of publications in esteemed journals.

TUM start-up LEAM offers new possibilities for additive manufacturing Tech start-up LEAM has succeeded in improving plastic 3D printing through light alone.

Aachen-based start-up Cylib wins NRW 2023 Innovation Award - In conversation with co-founder Lilian Schwich .

The BACCARA research school focuses on interdisciplinarity in the training of young scientists The International Graduate School of Battery Chemistry, Characterization, Analysis, Recycling and Applic

The electrical engineer will investigate, among other things, novel thin-film materials at the Department of Microsystems Engineering Alwin Daus has been tenure-track professor for sensors at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg since May 31, 2023. The electrical engineer previously worked at the RWTH Aachen University, Stanford University in the US and the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland.

Professor Jürgen Groll has raised around 880,000 euros for a new project. His team wants to use it to lay the foundation for improved multifunctional medical implants and materials .

A new project aims to aid the fast and efficient production of customised steel workpieces. Some workpieces can't be successfully manufactured using conventional methods such as casting.

Around 25,000 artificial heart valves are implanted  in Germany per year because the original heart valve is damaged, for example, by an infection.

Understanding how short-circuits occur in solid-state batteries could extend their lifespan   They could be the next generation of battery: so-called 'solid-state' batteries.

A new molecular hole-transporter can improve the performance of inverted perovskite solar cells and mini modules to world record values, as reported in "Science" by Prof. Yongzhen Wu (East Chin

Modern energy storage systems are an important building block for a climate-friendly future. "Modern" means not only that their performance meets the demands of a high-tech society, but also that they can be produced and recycled sustainably. In the search for new resources, scientists sometimes hit upon surprising raw materials - for example brewery waste.

PhD candidate Christian T. Plass looks at a sample with individual nanowires on a thin layer of silicon dioxide on silicon.

Topic: Production and properties of porous metals - in particular aluminum foams Speaker: Dr. Günther Lange, TU Ilmenau, Department of Mechanical Engineering, acting head of the Group of Metall

The DELIVER project is creating sustainable biocomposites based on proteins produced by programmable microorganisms in the material Freiburg, Oct 21, 2022 The Carl Zeiss Foundation is funding the "DE