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Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, Utrecht University, and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) have chosen a novel approach to flow studies. With a unique setup at DESY’s PETRA III light source, the researchers monitored changes of the viscoelastic properties of liquid crystals under stress while, at the same time, followed the inner structure of the sample.

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Physicist Rafal Dunin-Borkowski, Professor at Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The Director at the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons will use the funding, worth € 2.5 million over a period of five years, for the development of electron microscopy methods which allow the mapping of magnetic fields in the interior of materials at almost atomic resolution. Fundamental research in the field of nanomagnetism stands to benefit from the success of this project as well as application-oriented research.

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How many matter particles exist in nature? Particle physicists have been dealing with this question for a long time. The 12 matter particles contained in the standard model of particle physics? Or are there further particles with too high a mass to be produced by the experiments performed so far? These questions are now answered by researchers of KIT, CERN, and Humboldt University in the current issue of the Physical Review Letters.

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Gianluca Geloni, Vitali Kocharyan, and Evgeni Saldin will be awarded the Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation by the Association of Friends of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Together with Paul Emma from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the physicists from DESY and European XFEL will receive the prize for their invention of a self-seeding option that significantly improves X-ray free-electron lasers.

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Prof. Joachim Treusch has been awarded the 2012 Minerva Prize by Jülich’s Museum Association. Treusch, who served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich for many years, received the award at an evening ceremony in the Schlosskapelle of the Jülich Citadel on 11 December. Prof. Achim Bachem, chairman of the association, paid tribute to his predecessor in the welcoming address, saying, “We are awarding the Minerva Prize to Joachim Treusch in this anniversary year for his outstanding work in bringing together culture and science in the town of Jülich.”

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In the current 2012/2013 winter semester, the number of students at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is higher than ever before. Of the currently 23,905 students enrolled, 4,708 are freshmen. 1,307 of them are female, 1,127 come from abroad. KIT has used the funds provided by the state of Baden-Württemberg under the program “Hochschule 2012” to prepare well for the higher number of secondary school graduates.

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The vision is enticing – board in Europe, sit back, and disembark 90 minutes later on the other side of the world, in Australia. But before the SpaceLiner, which is being developed by the Institute of Space Systems at DLR, can fly a route like this for the first time, new technologies still have to be tested and basic requirements defined.

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Effective and economically efficient storage technologies are crucial to electric mobility and the energy turnaround. The demand for affordable high-performance battery systems suitable for daily use is growing. With funds granted by BMWi, a “research factory” will now be established for the manufacture of small series of lithium-ion cells. Here, new production technologies will be developed to meet very high requirements in terms of power density, usability, and economic efficiency.

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The chemist Professor Michael Glickman of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, has been named to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) for his outstanding research achievements. With the award, which is endowed with 45,000 euros, Professor Glickman will intensify his long-standing collaboration with the cell biologist Professor Thomas Sommer at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, and he will also conduct research at the MDC. The award will be presented to him in the spring of next year.

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The chemist Professor Michael Glickman of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, has been named to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) for his outstanding research achievements. With the award, which is endowed with 45,000 euros, Professor Glickman will intensify his long-standing collaboration with the cell biologist Professor Thomas Sommer at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, and he will also conduct research at the MDC. The award will be presented to him in the spring of next year.

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