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…

Materials scientists aim to better understand dendritic growth using 3D X-ray tomography and plan to increase the speed of acquiring X-ray tomograms by a factor of twenty.

When observing metal as it solidifies, it looks as if countless small trees are growing. These structures are called dendrites, d…

With its establishment of four new professorships, the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) is bringing together the most diverse disciplines and taking further steps to advance digitalization research in Berlin. The new appointments are conducting research in areas such as computer-assisted medici…

The strategic partnership between Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin continues to take shape: The winning design of the urban planning ideas and implementation competition for the joint Bio-Medical Technology Campus has now been decided. The jury awarded the…

The Einstein Foundation Berlin has now approved the new Einstein Center of Catalysis (EC2), which serves as a complementary addition to the recently approved Excellence Cluster Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) in supporting early-career researchers. This provides approximately 8.4 million e…

With a ceremonial event, initiators, sponsors, and staff of the Analytical X-ray Physics Foundation celebrated on January 17, 2019, the ten-year anniversary of the foundation as well as the appointment of Prof. Dr. Birgit Kanngießer in 2009 to the Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics (IOAP) at the…

In the technical production of food and beverages as well as fine chemicals, unwanted foam formation often occurs. Typical examples of such processes include the extraction of alcohol from mash during spirits production, milk pasteurization, or biodiesel production. Foam can alter the processes occu…

The German Research Foundation has approved, for the third time, funding for the Collaborative Research Center 910 on control of nonlinear systems, with TU Berlin being the host university. Coordinator of the Collaborative Research Center is Professor Dr. Sabine Klapp. Professor Klapp is head of the…

Researchers from the TU Berlin Chair of Ceramic Materials collaborated with the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing to produce complex components from simulated Martian soil for the first time, demonstrating the theoretical possibility of creating stable vessels like vases solely us…