Laserfusions-Experte Markus Roth über jüngsten Durchbruch und Perspektiven

Am Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Kalifornien ist in diesen Tagen ein Durchbruch in der Fusionsforschung geglückt. Erstmals konnte fast genau so viel Energie erzeugt werden, wie Laserenergie aufgewendet wurde – mehr als 1.300 Kilojoule. Professor Markus Roth, Physiker und Experte für Laserfusions-Forschung an der TU Darmstadt, hat am Bau des bei dem Experiment verwendeten Lasers mitgearbeitet und erläutert Hintergründe und Bedeutung des Forschungserfolgs für die Forschung und die weltweite Energiewirtschaft.

Published in “Frontiers in Immunology”

Tremendous hope is being placed on the use of therapeutic antibodies in cancer treatment. Researchers at the TU Darmstadt and Merck have found a way to activate antibodies only on the tumour itself. This prevents unwanted side effects in healthy tissue. The results of this research have been published in the journal “Frontiers in Immunology”.

Research results in “Advanced Functional Materials”

Additive Manufacturing (AM) of high performance permanent magnets becomes increasingly attractive as it enables many new applications where complex components with tailored magnetic flux density distribution are employed. The latest research results from a team at TU Darmstadt have just been published in the journal “Advanced Functional Materials”.

Drei Forschungsprojekte der TU für neue Förderlinie „LOEWE-Exploration“ ausgewählt

Neue Arznei-Wirkstoffe, Digitale Textanalyse, Künstliche Intelligenz zur Klimabeobachtung: Gleich drei Projekte der TU Darmstadt werden über die neue Förderlinie „LOEWE-Exploration“ des hessischen Wissenschaftsministeriums zwei Jahre lang finanziell unterstützt. Insgesamt wurden zwölf innovative Forschungsansätze an Hochschulen ausgewählt, für sie stehen rund drei Millionen Euro bereit.

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”.