Press Releases / Pressemitteilungen

Hamburg Science Award 2017 goes to Klaus Müllen and Xinliang Feng

PRESS RELEASE of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg / 26 June 2017

Published on Thu, 29 Jun 2017 in PRESS RELEASES

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Klaus Müllen of Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz and Xinliang Feng of Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden / Technische Universität Dresden will be awarded the Hamburg Science Award 2017, which this year is dedicated to the subject of energy efficiency. The Academy of Sciences and Humanities thus honours the two chemists’ research in the field of graphene research. This functional material, which – due to its various properties – has since its discovery in 2004 been considered as the material of the future, is especially suitable to be used in batteries and supercapacitors.

Synthesis of Molecular Hydrogen: Novel Method Sets Benchmark for Platinum-free Electrocatalysts

cfaed PRESS RELEASE / 18 May 2017

Published on Thu, 18 May 2017 in PRESS RELEASES

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A paper from cfaed’s Chair for Molecular Functional Materials co-authored by researchers at universities and institutes in Germany, France and Japan has been published in Nature Communications on 17th May 2017. The paper titled “Efficient hydrogen production on MoNi₄ electrocatalysts with fast water dissociation kinetics” describes a new approach to revolutionize the production of molecular hydrogen. This gas is considered to be one of the most promising energy carriers of the future.

Avantgarde in Dresden — damals und heute. Die Villa Ida Bienert in Fotografien von Uta Caroline Thom

Pressemitteilung vom 18.04.2017

Published on Tue, 18 Apr 2017 in PRESS RELEASES

Der Forschungscluster cfaed ist über viele Gebäude verteilt – und mindestens eins davon ist eine ganz besondere Perle mit einem großen Nachhall an bewegter und spannender Geschichte, deren Spuren heute u.a. bis ins Museum of Modern Art nach New York führen. Die Rede ist von der Villa Ida Bienert in Dresden-Plauen, dem derzeitigen cfaed-Verwaltungssitz und gleichzeitig auch Forschungsstandort mit den Laboren des cfaed-Lehrstuhls für Organische Bauelemente. Auch die HighTech Startbahn Sachsen ist hier angesiedelt.

Organic–inorganic Heterostructures with Programmable Electronic Properties

cfaed PRESS RELEASE / 28 March 2017

Published on Tue, 28 Mar 2017 in PRESS RELEASES

graphic: Calculated differential electrical potential induced by a supramolecular lattice of MBB-2 on graphene — Calculated differential electrical potential induced by a supramolecular lattice of MBB-2 on graphene

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Researchers from the University of Strasbourg & CNRS (France), in collaboration with the University of Mons (Belgium), the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Germany) and the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), have devised a novel supramolecular strategy to introduce tunable 1D periodic potentials upon self-assembly of ad hoc organic building blocks on graphene, opening the way to the realization of hybrid organic–inorganic multilayer materials with unique electronic and optical properties. These results have been published in Nature Communications.

Bio4Comp: Molecular Motor-powered Biocomputers

Launch of a five-year, 6.1 M€ EU-Horizon 2020 project that aims to build a new type of powerful computer based on biomolecules

Published on Mon, 20 Mar 2017 in PRESS RELEASES

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Crashing computers or smartphones and software security holes that allow hackers to steal millions of passwords could be prevented if it were possible to design and verify error-free software. Unfortunately, to date, this is a problem that neither engineers nor supercomputers can solve. One reason is that the computing power required to verify the correct function of a many types of software scales exponentially with the size of the program, so that processing speed, energy consumption and cooling of conventional microelectronic processors prevent current computers from verifying large programs.

The recently launched research project aims to develop a biocomputer that can overcome the two main obstacles faced by today’s supercomputers: first, they use vast amounts of electric power – so much that the development of more powerful computers is hampered primarily by limitations in the ability to cool the processors. Second, they cannot do two things at the same time. The EU now funds a project that will develop a computer based on highly efficient molecular motors that will use a fraction of the energy of existing computers, and that can tackle problems where many solutions need to be explored simultaneously.