Whether as a water-repellent coating on pans and pots, as a water-shedding protection on clothing, or as a foam former in fire extinguishing foams – so-called per- and polyfluorinated chemicals, short PFC, are used in a variety of applications because of their water, dirt, and grease-repellent prope…

Due to his exceptional contributions to research and teaching, TU Berlin has awarded the physicist Dr. Mario Birkholz from IHP – Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics an extraordinary professorship for Bioelectronics. With this extraordinary professorship for Dr. Mario Birkholz, TU Berli…

In operating theaters with the highest purity requirements, a so-called TAV ceiling panel of ten square meters is prescribed for ventilation. Additionally, the air must be exchanged one hundred times per hour. In office rooms, this is only done three to six times. These ceilings are intended to ensu…

Physicists from the AG Optoelectronics and Quantum Building Blocks led by Prof. Dr. Stephan Reitzenstein are developing a novel quantum light source for generating photon twins / publication in Nature Communications.

Quantum physics is particularly difficult to understand because the corresponding re…

A German-American team around TU physicist Tais Gorkhover and Christoph Bostedt from the Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University in Chicago has succeeded in filming explosions of individual free nanoparticles with a super X-ray microscope. For the first time, a resolution of less tha…

The Einstein Foundation will support two new Einstein Centers in the future. The TU Berlin is strongly represented among them. It holds the spokesperson position at the Einstein Center for Catalysis, and at the Einstein Center for Neuroscience, whose spokesperson is based at Charité University Medic…

The smaller and lighter a satellite is, the more affordable it is to launch. You need to raise 10 to 100 million euros to send an ordinary satellite weighing a few hundred kilograms and several meters long into orbit with a rocket. The launch costs are estimated at 20,000 euros per kilogram. At TU B…

At the Technical University of Berlin, on July 9, 2014, the Excellence Cluster Unifying Concepts in Catalysis (UniCat) and BASF SE officially opened the joint laboratory BasCat. This adds another scientific building to the Charlottenburg campus. Covering around 1,000 square meters of laboratory and…

In 2010, the final energy demand in Germany was around 9,000 petajoules (= 2,500 terawatt-hours). Of this, an estimated 120 terawatt-hours per year were used for air conditioning cleanrooms. The goal of the new research project "EnEff: Reine Räume" at the Department of Building Energy Systems / Herm…