Prizes for ideas

With their submarine instrument platform "ROMP", Dr Warner Brückmann and his team from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel made second place in the 2012 “Ideenwettbewerb” ideas competition and received prize money totalling 3,000 Euro. The special award "Nanotechnology" went to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mady Elbahri from the University of Kiel - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht. Elbahri and his team have developed innovative ultra thin layers made of metallic nano particles, which may be used as anti-reflectors, electric conductors or transparent layers. The awards distinguish future-oriented, seminal ideas, which can be successfully translated into applications.

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