Green Chemistry Breakthrough: Transforming Ammonia Into a Sustainable Nitrogen Source
Researchers at KIT have unveiled a novel system for the activation and catalytic transfer of ammonia – catalysis is based on main group elements. Ammonia…
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Fewer Side Effects – A New Treatment Method for Pancreatic Cancer
Researchers from the universities of Göttingen and Karlsruhe have created an innovative treatment approach for pancreatic cancer. This new method aims to target the disease…
Lithium Goldmine: Sustainable Geothermal Extraction for Many Decades
Researchers see long-term perspective for lithium extraction at geothermal plants. Geothermal wells existing in the Upper Rhine Valley would allow for the reliable extraction of…
2023 Global Heat Wave: First Three Weeks of July Were Hottest Ever Recorded
The first three weeks of July 2023 have been the hottest global three-week period so far. In the summer months of 2023, twice as many…
Improving Performance and Lifetime – Scientists Solve Battery Mystery
Researchers at KIT have characterized the chemical processes occurring at the electrodes of lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries have become a crucial part of our daily…
Scientists Determine the Origins of One the World’s Oldest Crops
An international study has uncovered the origins of the grapevine using the Wild Vine Database at KIT. Grapevine has a long history as one of…
Solar Modules With a Marble Look for House Facades
KIT Researchers demonstrate colored Perovskite Solar Modules for facades of houses. As of 2022, all new buildings in the state of Baden-Württemberg must be equipped…
KATRIN Experiment Constrains the Mass of Mysterious Neutrino Particles With Unprecedented Precision
New world record: Neutrinos are lighter than 0.8 electron volts. Neutrinos are arguably the most fascinating elementary particles in our universe. In cosmology they play…
Energy System 2050: Open-Source Solutions for Energy Transition
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…
Optimizing Noble Metal Catalysts With Clusters of Atoms to Enhance Performance and Save Resources
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…
Black Butterfly Enhances Photovoltaic Light Absorption Up to 200 Percent
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…
Kit Researchers Create Mechanical Invisibility Cloak
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 Build Invisibility Cloaks for Visible Light in Diffusive Media
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…
Scientists Stabilize the Magnetic Moment of Single Holmium Atoms
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…
Researchers Transmit Wireless Data at 100 Gbit/s
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…
Thermal Cloak Molds the Flow of Heat Around an Object
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…
Scientists Develop Silicon-Based Light-Emitting Diodes (SiLEDs)
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…
Electronic Read-Out of the Quantum State of an Atom
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…