Insights in Research Field Key Technologies
The Helmholtz Association aims to use ground-breaking research to tackle the great questions of our time. Here, we present projects currently being carried out by scientists at the Helmholtz Centres. The examples range from fundamental questions concerning the origin of matter to health research and the development of high performance functional materials.
Computers and the energy factor
Information and communications technologies account for more than 10 percent of the total energy consumed by Germany – and this figure is increasing.Raw material for acoustic cloaking
A new class of materials has been produced by a research team led by ProfessorMartin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).Nanomagnet switches that assemble themselves
Computer hard drives store information in the form of magnetic structures.New nanomaterial changes from hard to soft
As a rule, high-strength materials are brittle and therefore prone to failure.In keeping with nature - self-healing materials
Many of the wounds suffered by plants, animals and people heal by themselves.weiterlesen "In keeping with nature - self-healing materials"
Archive
2011
Supercomputers as scientific tools
More Energy with iron and carbon
Refining the Karlsruhe invisibility cloak
Assessing the consequences of nanotechnology
Investigating how biological pores open and close
2010
Light, Lighter, Materials Resrearch
Novel Hydrogen Storage Solutions
On the Path towards the Green Computer
New Detector for Dangerous Fluids
2009
Structural secrets of storage media
Nanostructures improve lithium-ion batteries
2008
A net captures the data flood from particel physics
Biomaterials and membranes designed at the computer
A supercomputer infrastructure for the whole of europe
2007
New optics with artificial atoms
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