Der Mathematiker Nikita Kruk erforscht die Regeln, nach denen Schwärme entstehen

Dr. Nikita Kruk, der als Postdoc in der Forschungsgruppe Bioinspirierte Kommunikationssysteme an der TU Darmstadt arbeitet, ist davon fasziniert, welche oft außergewöhnlichen Wege biologische und andere natürliche Systeme finden, um untereinander zu kommunizieren und wie sie sich in verschiedensten Mustern organisieren. Im Interview erklärt er seine aktuelle Forschung zur Berechnung von Schwarm-Mustern.

“Science” publication by researchers under the leadership of the TU Darmstadt

Electroceramics such as capacitors are essential components in electronic devices. Intervening in their crystalline structure can change specific properties. Thus, for instance, chemical methods can be used to replace individual atoms in the crystal lattice with others. A stable shape can be created by replacing a whole series of atoms rather than just a single one. An international team of researchers under the leadership of the TU Darmstadt has, for the first time, succeeded in inserting a dislocation into a ferroelectric ceramic by mechanically imprinting the atoms in the material – a procedure that hitherto has only ever been used in metals. The findings have been published in “Science”, the renowned journal.

Printing process for food production

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced three-year collaborations with theTechnical University of Darmstadt and Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA. The partners want to conduct fundamental research on next-generation, scalable bioreactor designs to support industrial-scale meat and seafood manufacture. Tufts University enables the production of whole muscle cultured meat with textile bioengineering, TU Darmstadt will apply industrial printing technology for the production of textured meat.

EU-funded project PASSENGER has started

Sustainable energy supply and clean a-mobility – this is impossible without high performance permanent magnets. They are key components for innovative technologies. They contain strategic materials like rare earth elements that are not naturally abundant in Europe. It is essential for Europe to find a way out of this critical dependence.

Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 211 to be funded for another four years

The Collaborative Research Centre Transregio “Strongly Interacting Matter under Extreme Conditions”, a joint initiative of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt and Bielefeld University, has been investigating the most extreme states of matter found in the universe since July 2017. Now the German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding this Transregio (SFB-TRR) 211 for another four years with 8.9 million euros. The new spokesperson is Professor Guy Moore, nuclear physicist at TU Darmstadt. He takes over this function from Professor Dirk Rischke, who researches and teaches at Goethe University Frankfurt. The Transregio also strengthens the cooperation within the Strategic Alliance of Rhine-Main Universities (RMU), which Goethe University Frankfurt, TU Darmstadt, and Johann Gutenberg University Mainz formed in 2015.

A physics research team led by the TU Darmstadt has discovered the highest ever observed europium content in stars. The results of the EUROPIUM group led by Professor Almudena Arcones, who was awarded a grant by the European Research Council, has now been published in “The Astrophysical Journal”.

The Pioneer Fund supports promising projects at TU Darmstadt

Research projects at TU Darmstadt receive a total of 600,000 euros of funding each year from the joint “Pioneer Fund” programme from TU Darmstadt and the ENTEGA NATURpur Institute. Two future-oriented projects in the fields of medicine and energy technology are due to start soon.

European research award for nuclear physicist Achim Schwenk

Achim Schwenk, Professor of Physics at the Technical University (TU) Darmstadt and Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).

Forschende der TU Darmstadt veröffentlichen ihre Entwicklung in „Scientific Reports“

In einem Projekt im Rahmen der strategischen Kooperation zwischen der TU Darmstadt und dem Unternehmen Merck entwickelte der Doktorand Adrian Elter innovative Papier-basierte Schnelltests zur Detektion von SARS-CoV-2 spezifischen Antikörpern. Die Ergebnisse wurden jetzt publiziert.

Chemistry team of the TU publishes new therapeutic approaches

The research team of Professor Felix Hausch, Department of Chemistry at TU Darmstadt, has shown in two publications how in real life molecular rings worked the magic to improve compounds that could allow a new approach to treat depression, obesity or chronic pain.