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- New Fuel Technologies for Fusion Power Plants
By producing virtually unlimited amounts of energy, nuclear fusion could solve many energy supply problems. But its technical implementation is complex, and key components of future power plants ar...
- Novel materials with almost perfect water repellency
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) have developed a surface material that repels water droplets almost completely. Using ...
- Sustainable batteries based on Calcium and Sulfur
Our society is becoming increasingly electrified - and electrochemical energy storage in the form of batteries is playing a central role in providing the energy we need. At the same time, however, ... - Basic research for high-performance batteries
Physicist Prof. Dr. Kerstin Volz and physical chemist Prof. Dr. Jürgen Janek will receive the 2022 Greve Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for their fundamental insights... - Artificial Intelligence as a "booster" for molecular research
In the new "SIMPLAIX" collaboration, researchers from HITS, Heidelberg University, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are addressing challenges in the simulation of biomolecules and molecu... - Live view into catalyst materials shows changes in pore structure
A new X-ray study offers unprecedented possibilities for analysing catalysts and other materials with a porous structure. The work marks an important step towards tailor-made porous materials and c...
- Three-dimensional View of Catalysts in Action
For understanding the structure and function of catalysts in action, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in cooperation with colleagues from the Swiss Light Source SLS of Paul S... - Anode Material for Safe Batteries with a Long Cycle Life
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries - lithium lanthan... - Cyanobacterium as new candidate for raw material synthesis
Cyanobacteria hardly need any nutrients and use the energy of sunlight. Bathers are familiar with these microorganisms - often incorrectly called "blue-green algae" - as they often occur in waters.... - Exchange of arms between chromosomes using molecular scissors
The CRISPR/Cas molecular scissors work like a fine surgical instrument and can be used to modify genetic information in plants. The research teams of Professor Holger Puchta of Karlsruhe Institute ... - Brilliant white without pigments
Nanostructured polymer foil appears white without environmentally hazardous Titanium Dioxide using beetle's chitin scales as a model. Polymer foils that are extremely thin and characterized by a hi...
- Calcium batteries: new electrolytes, enhanced properties
Calcium-based batteries promise to reach a high energy density at low manufacturing costs. This lab-scale technology has the potential for replacing lithium-ion technology in future energy storage ... - Producing Graphene from Carbon Dioxide
The general public knows the chemical compound of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and because of its global-warming effect. However, carbon dioxide can also be a useful raw mat... - Fuels From Air-conditioning Systems
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto have proposed a method enabling air conditioning and ventilation systems to produce synthetic fuels from car... - Chemical Storage of Renewable Energies
In 2050, 80% of the electric power in Germany has to be based on renewable resources. To reach this goal, it is required to store electric power in the form of chemical energy carriers. Within the ...
- Green Production of Chemicals for Industry
Industry consumes large quantities of crude oil to produce basic substances for drugs, cosmetics, plastics, or food. However, these processes consume a lot of energy and produce waste. Biological p... - Growing Polymer Pelts
Polymer pelts made of the finest of fibers are suitable for many different applications, from coatings that adhere well and are easy to remove to highly sensitive biological detectors. Researchers ... - 3D Inks that Can Be Erased Selectively
3D printing by direct laser writing enables production of micro-meter-sized structures for many applications, from biomedicine to microelectronics to optical metamaterials. Researchers of Karlsruhe... - Neutrinos weighed by the world's most precise scale
What is the mass of neutrinos? To answer one of the most fundamental and important open questions in modern particle physics and cosmology, the KATRIN Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Ex-periment was de... - Solve the nitrate problem in agriculture with new filter methods
Nitrate concentrations of German groundwater are among the highest in the European Union. The main reason is overfertilization of fields with feces from livestock farming. Every year, a "liquid man... - Simple Organic Molecules form complex materials through self-organization
Floor parquetings are typically found in living rooms. But microstructured parquetings, or rather tessellations, may occur in materials as well. Materials with tessellations can, for example, be ch...
- Gips-Schüle Research Award for Ultracompact Photodetector
Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) demonstrated a novel plasmonic photodetector that is a hundred times smaller and much quicker than conventional detectors. For this, scientist... - Self-healing Gold Particles
Self-healing materials are able to repair autonomously defects, such as scratches, cracks or dents, and resume their original shape. For this purpose, they must be composed of several components wh... - Natural molecule to boost the performance of electrodes for rechargeable batteries
Chlorophyll, blood, and vitamin B12 are all based on the porphyrin molecule. But porphyrin can also be used as an electrode material where it speeds up the charging process of rechargeable batterie... - Water droplets as miniaturized test tubes
Modern laboratory technology cannot only help develop new medicine, but also make quicker diagnoses of higher precision. Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now developed lab...