ERC Starting Grant for TU project MECERDIS by materials scientist Dr Xufei Fang

The MECERDIS research project at the Technical University of Darmstadt is awarded an ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council. Dr Xufei Fang's work is being funded with around 1.5 million euros. The TU materials scientist is researching improved ceramic materials that will enable new applications.

Merck – TU Darmstadt Lernlabor Biologie bezieht neue Räumlichkeiten

Das Merck – TU Darmstadt Lernlabor Biologie ist deutlich erweitert worden. Die Mitarbeitenden bezogen großzügige neue Räumlichkeiten in einem Neubau auf dem Campus Botanischer Garten, zudem wurde der bereits bestehende Laborbereich im Nachbargebäude modernisiert und vergrößert. Das neue Gebäude im Forschungsschwerpunkt „Synthetische Biologie“ wurde heute offiziell eingeweiht.

Joint project PUMA supports the energy transition

Powerful magnets can be used for effective cooling, heat and power generation. They make a decisive contribution to the energy transition. A consortium led by the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is therefore researching new magnetic materials that are efficient and environmentally compatible. Partners in the PUMA project are the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding PUMA with two million euros for four years starting in October.

International research team publishes universal framework in the journal Science

Novel materials are the key for our transition to a more sustainable economy. However, the search for and design of new materials matching specific technology requirements are time and cost-intensive. An international research team developed now a closed-loop active machine-learning framework that enhances the experimental efficiency in identifying new alloys with desired properties by orders of magnitude, saving time and costs.

Publication in ChemBioChem / researchers present fundamental new technology

Customising DNA nanoparticles to make drugs: Researchers at TU Darmstadt have demonstrated how they have been able to design a new class of synthetic materials to target the vulnerabilities of a pathogen and effectively destroy it. They have now published the results of their research in the journal ChemBioChem.

Materialwissenschaftler Professor Jürgen Rödel im Porträt

Neue Herausforderungen haben Jürgen Rödel schon immer gereizt. Alle sechs bis acht Jahre entwickelt der Materialwissenschaftler deshalb ein neues Forschungsthema, dem er auf den Grund geht. „Sonst wird es ja langweilig“, sagt Rödel trocken. Wissenschaft versteht der Professor für Nichtmetallisch-Anorganische Werkstoffe der TU Darmstadt als lebendiges Gebilde, das sich immer weiterentwickeln muss – Innovationen und Technologietransfer eingeschlossen.

Published in the journal Nature: Researchers use multicomponent alloys to make strong and ductile soft magnetic materials

Researchers from the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE), the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Central South University, China, have developed a new design strategy that increases the lifetime of SMMs and paves the way for advanced applications like high-speed motors.

Fonds der TU Darmstadt unterstützt Investitionspläne

Die TU Darmstadt baut ihre wissenschaftliche Infrastruktur aus und plant die Beschaffung neuer Forschungsgeräte für spezielle Experimente im Wert von rund 3,4 Millionen Euro. Die Geräte stärken die wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten in den TU-Forschungsfeldern Energy and Environment sowie Matter and Materials.

Research team for the first time observed a neutral nucleus – the Tetra Neutron

An international research team with leading participation by TU Darmstadt succeeded for the first time to create an isolated four-neutron system with low relative energy in a volume corresponding to that of an atomic nucleus. The scientists have overcome the experimental challenge by employing a new method using a 8He beam and a fast high-energy reaction.

Combining heavy-ion experiments, astrophysical observations, and nuclear theory

An international research team has for the first time combined data from heavy-ion experiments, gravitational wave measurements and other astronomical observations using advanced theoretical modelling to more precisely constrain the properties of nuclear matter as it can be found in the interior of neutron stars. The results were published in the journal “Nature”.