High-performance plastics such as various polysulfones or polyvinylbenzene are characterized primarily by properties such as thermoplastic stability, resistance to extreme pH values, or excellent optical properties, and are widely used in medicine as well as industry. A significant drawback of these…

Hydrogen fuel cells are considered a hopeful prospect in the discussion about the vehicle propulsion of the future. Their greatest advantage: water and heat are the only "waste products" they emit. One of the currently biggest disadvantages: the costs, which are not least dependent on the very expen…

In its grand kickoff event, the Excellence Cluster of TU Berlin, UniSysCat (Unifying Systems in Catalysis), presented its research priorities to the public on September 27, 2019. The main goal of the scientists from the eight participating institutions: to couple multiple catalytic processes in time…

As a chemical engineer or chemist, one acquires comprehensive knowledge about which factors influence chemical reactions or how production processes are controlled in the chemical industry. But what insights can be gained from the laboratory or process data using data analytics and machine learning…

Excellent Berlin Science: The Berlin University Alliance is funded as an Excellence Network in the Excellence Strategy competition of the federal and state governments. This was announced by the Science Council on July 19, 2019, in Bonn. The four Berlin partners – Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt…

According to some findings, one searches forever and when they are finally found, everything seems quite simple. Similar to this, the research team led by Dr. Martin Oestreich, Professor of Organic Chemistry – Synthesis and Catalysis at TU Berlin, and his colleagues Dr. Hendrik Klare and Dr. Qian Wu…

From an evolutionary biological perspective, they are ancient, but their potential is only now gradually being discovered: So-called electromicrobes are currently under special observation by many scientists worldwide in the sustainability debate. They can produce and transfer electrons – essentiall…

On July 5, 2019, all eyes in the space flight control center at TU Berlin were focused on five small objects in space: At 3:40 PM local time, scientists attempted to establish contact with the pico-satellites they had developed and built. The satellites BEESAT-9 and -10 to -13 are now five of a tota…

Multiresistant hospital germs worry the medical world: they seem to be spreading almost everywhere. Especially in hospitals, the control of disinfection is becoming increasingly important. To do this, swabs are regularly taken from disinfected objects. Potentially attached germs are then detached an…

472.5 kilograms, two seats, and a range of 1100 kilometers: The Institute of Aerospace Engineering at TU Berlin has its own aircraft for research and teaching, the "LASER" (Light Aircraft for Science, Education and Research), for the first time in 30 years. After extensive ground and in-flight accep…