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Power and Electrical Engineering

High Conductive Foils Enhance Large Area OLED Lighting

Large area OLED lighting is an attractive technology for various applications in residential, architectural and automotive lighting segments. Sefar developed…

Earth Sciences

Turning the Climate Tide: Urgent Measures for 2020

This call for strong short-term measures complements the longer-term 'carbon law' approach introduced earlier this year by some of the current co-authors,…

Seminars Workshops

Climate Fluctuations & Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: An Interdisciplinary Dialog

Fluctuations have long been a focus of statistical mechanics, while climate and weather fluctuations are an essential part of the climate system. This seminar…

Health & Medicine

Cystic Fibrosis: How It Changes Airway Mucus Structure

Mucus is important for maintaining healthy lungs. Inhaled particles, including bacteria and viruses, get trapped in mucus and then cilia — tiny hair like…

Automotive Engineering

Discover Fully Adaptive Headlamp Light Distribution Innovation

In the context of the research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) regarding the fully adaptive light distribution for…

Physics & Astronomy

X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Insights Under Ambient Pressure

Conventional photoelectron spectroscopy can only measure samples under high vacuum, while many catalytic reactions occur under atmospheric pressure. The…

Physics & Astronomy

New Photoacoustic Technique Detects Gases at Parts-Per-Quadrillion

“In many ways, the photoacoustic effect is already the most practical method available for detecting pollutants in the atmosphere,” said Gerald Diebold, a…

Health & Medicine

Mice Reveal Genetic Insights Into Autism Spectrum Disorders

Taking advantage of advances in genetic technologies, researchers led by Alex Nord, assistant professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior with the…

Information Technology

Discovering Forest Insights with Advanced LiDAR Technology

Shortly after lasers were first developed in the 1960s, LiDAR — whose name originated as a combination of “light” and “radar” — capitalized on the newly…

Life & Chemistry

Funding Extended for Nanomaterials in Cancer Immunotherapy

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has agreed to fund the Mainz-based Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1066 “Nanodimensional Polymer Therapeutics for…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Entanglement Enhances Sensitivity in Optical Interferometry

Entangled states of light allow for enhanced sensitivity in optical interferometry, a measurement technique in physics. Therefore, so-called path-entangled…

Life & Chemistry

Zeolite Catalysts Enable Decentralized Chemical Production

Ever more electricity is produced decentrally using wind, hydro and solar power plants. “It thus makes sense to decentralize chemical production, as well,”…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fraunhofer Develops High-Pressure Sensors for Extreme Conditions

The SOI sensor will mostly be used in extrusion facilities in plastic processing. The process depends on filling moulds completely with the plastic raw…

Awards Funding

Funding Boost for Chromatin Research in Cancer Therapy

Chromatin Dynamics (SFB 1064)

Physics & Astronomy

Measuring Motion of Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

If confirmed, this is the first duo of black holes ever shown to be moving in relation to each other. It is also, potentially, the smallest ever recorded…

Earth Sciences

Predicting Volcano Eruptions with Satellites and Math

Volcanologists are beginning to use satellite measurements and mathematical methods to forecast eruptions and to better understand how volcanoes work, shows a new article in …

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