Research initiative of the Helmholtz Association presents strategies, technologies, and open-source tools. To contribute to global climate protection, Germany has to rapidly and comprehensively minimize…
Lower-cost Production Thanks to Optimized Distribution of Atoms Billions of noble metal catalysts are used worldwide for the production of chemicals, energy generation, or cleaning…
New research focuses on the wings of the black butterfly (Pachliopta aristolochiae), which are covered by micro- and nanostructured scales that harvest sunlight over a…
Using metamaterials, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology developed a mechanical invisibility cloak that hides objects from touch. In the past years, invisibility cloaks…
Physicists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a simple method for building and testing an invisibility cloak for diffusive light-scattering media. Real invisibility…
Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have made a big step towards a single-atom bit, showing that the magnetic moments of single holmium atoms on…
In a newly published study, researchers present a method for wireless data transmission at a world-record rate of 100 gigabits per second. Extension of cable-based…
Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have constructed a micro-structured thermal cloak that molds the flow of heat around an object. By means of…
Researchers have developed silicon-based light-emitting diodes (SiLEDs) that have the ability to change color from the deep red down to the yellow-orange spectral region by…
In a newly published study, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and their colleagues have shown the first direct real-space images of spin-split molecular…
A team of scientists have created new material class through the manufacturing of a stable crystalline metafluid. The pentamode metamaterial is extremely light and displays…