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”.

Restoring complex ecosystems in the rainforest

A research group headed by Professor Nico Blüthgen at TU Darmstadt is investigating how nature returns to recovering rainforest. The comeback of key species and interactions indicates successful regeneration.

Developing high-performance computers using qubits

Theoretical physicist Vladimir M. Stojanović took a circuitous route to his research on quantum computers. He is now presenting findings that could provide decisive impetus to this field of research.

High-performance computer provides new insights into the structure and function of ion channels

An international team that includes researchers at TU Darmstadt has gained new insights into the protein structure and function of the ion channels that control the heartbeat. The results have now been published in the journal “Molecular Cell”, and could contribute to the development of cardiac drugs with fewer side effects.

ATHLYZER makes video analysis fit for popular sport

No matter whether it’s a shot put, racing dive, flic-flac, cross or shot on goal: video analyses can significantly improve performance, even at the Olympic Games or in the German Bundesliga. ATHLYZER GmbH is now also making it possible to improve performance in popular sport with its cross-platform, cloud-based and user-friendly app. The team that was founded as a spin-off from TU Darmstadt and coached by the HIGHEST Startup and Innovation Center has set itself ambitious goals.

Team led by Professor Steffen Hardt researches a more sustainable use of energy

Our world produces heat around the clock – through the operation of smartphones, heating systems, servers and factories. In the field of nanotechnology, a team of researchers at TU Darmstadt is finding a way to better utilize this heat for the generation of electricity and thus making a contribution to sustainability.

New acoustic laboratories at TU Darmstadt

How can acoustic challenges be mastered so that unwanted sound is minimised while a desired sound environment in each particular situation is also generated at the same time? Researchers at TU Darmstadt are working on new methods and processes to help shape the acoustic properties of machines during their development.

Neue Akustiklabore der TU Darmstadt

Wie kann man akustische Herausforderungen so meistern, dass Menschen und Umwelt einerseits von Lärm entlastet werden und gleichzeitig je nach Situation eine gewünschte Geräusch-Kulisse entsteht? Forschende der TU Darmstadt arbeiten an neuen Methoden und Verfahren, mit denen sie bei der Entwicklung von Maschinen akustische Eigenschaften von Anfang an mitgestalten können. Drei neue Akustiklabore bieten ihnen hierfür eine Top-Infrastruktur.

Students design extraterrestrial greenhouse in Unite! summer project

INSPIRED, the International Project Week for Interdisciplinary Research-Oriented Digital Learning, is launching its second virtual team project on June 14, 2021 following its successful 2020 edition. The three-week summer school is the culmination of an exclusively digital program offer, redesigned last year from its original blended format in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Across universities, countries, and continents, the participating students will carry out research and learn together in interdisciplinary teams. Their task: to design a sustainable and efficient greenhouse facility on Mars.

Collaboration between TU Darmstadt, British and US universities

Research teams from TU Darmstadt, British and US universities are focusing on one possible main process that leads to the death of brain cells – chemical reactions between different proteins in the brain and essential metals such as copper and iron – in their investigation of the causes and mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease. Their results are published in “Science Advances”.

"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.

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.

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.

Scientists at TU Darmstadt develop adaptive font that speeds up reading

A team of researchers at the Centre for Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt has developed a computer font that adapts its appearance based on the user’s interaction with the text. “AdaptiFont” measures a user’s reading speed and interactively changes the font’s shape seamlessly and continuously to allow the user to read text more easily.