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New Sensor Detects Ever Smaller Nanoparticles

“Nanoparticles are omnipresent in our environment: Viruses in ambient air, proteins in the body, as building blocks of new materials for electronics, or in surface coatings. Visualizing these smallest particles is a problem: They are so small that they can …

Green Hydrogen: Focus on the Catalyst Surface

“Hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources with the help of electric power is deemed a key to the energy transition: It can be used to chemically store wind and solar energy in a CO2-neutral way. At Karlsruhe Institute of …

Record-breaking Lithium-metal Cell

“A new type of lithium-metal battery reaches an extremely high energy density of 560 watt-hours per kilogram – based on the total weight of the active materials – with a remarkable stability. Researchers of the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) of Karlsruhe Institute …

Record-breaking lithium metal battery

“Nickel-rich cathode and ionic liquid electrolyte enable extremely high energy density with good stability - researchers report in Joule magazine A new type of lithium metal battery offers an extremely high energy density of 560 watt hours per kilogram with remarkably …

Better gripping with intelligent picking robots

“Production, warehouse, shipping - where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also takes place. This means that several individual goods are removed from storage units such as boxes or cartons and reassembled. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology …

Novel Materials: Sound Waves Traveling Backwards

“Acoustic waves in gases, liquids, and solids usually travel at an almost constant speed of sound. So-called rotons are an exception: their speed of sound changes significantly with the wavelength, and it is also possible that the waves travel backwards …

Quality Campaign for Better Batteries

“Powerful, durable, and safe: these properties, combined with a low price, could soon secure batteries “Made in Germany” a place among the best in the world. This will be realized by including advanced approaches to quality assurance and analytics in …

Printed Circuits Protect Sensors

““sensIC” joint project combines materials science and cybersecurity – PUFs serve as electronic identification features Electronic sensors can benefit many industrial applications, such as automotive engineering. However, they have to be protected from attacks and falsification. The new joint project entitled …

Perovskite Solar Modules: High Efficiency on a Large Surface Area

“Researchers at KIT combine laser-based series interconnection with vacuum processing of all solar cell layers – upscaling paves the way from lab to industry From cell to module without loss of efficiency: This is one of the main challenges of perovskite …

Electron Beam Melting Gets Brittle Metal into Shape

“KIT Researchers Are the First to Print Tungsten Components for Use at High Temperatures by Electron Beam Melting. Tungsten has the highest melting point of all metals, 3,422 degrees Celsius. This makes the material ideal for use at high …