Interdisciplinary Research
News and developments from the field of interdisciplinary research.
Among other topics, you can find stimulating reports and articles related to microsystems, emotions research, futures research and stratospheric research.
Shape matters: How microplastic travels that far
New study: Microplastic fibers are settling substantially slower than spherical particles in the atmosphere and might even reach stratosphere. How far microplastics travel in the atmosphere depends crucially on particle…
Mummies under the magnifying glass
Interdisciplinary team at the University of Jena, Germany conducts further provenance research on items from its own collections. This has led to new findings on the mummy fragments and in…
Hydrogen through Sunlight
Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena Develop Sustainable Catalyst System for Hydrogen Production Using Light Energy. For hydrogen to be sustainably produced using sunlight, it’s not just an efficient catalyst…
Innovating Optoelectronic Components with Phosphorus
Phosphorus chemist Prof. Jan J. Weigand from the Dresden University of Technology, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team, has developed a groundbreaking method to introduce phosphorus and nitrogen atoms into…
New tool to enable exploration of human-environment interactions
Universal device will allow transdisciplinary collaboration globally. Spurred by the current climate crisis, there has been a heightened attention within the scientific community in recent years to how past climate…
Studying small-molecule activation
Humboldt fellow Shailja Jain is investigating catalysts for green chemistry. She uses quantum technologies for observing molecules: Computational chemist Shailja Jain is visiting the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry at the…