Research
From Materials Discovery to Sustainable Solutions
Securing a climate-friendly energy future is one of society’s greatest challenges. Through research and innovation, we at HZB contribute to developing solutions and empower the research community in realizing this goal. We investigate and develop complex materials that help to overcome challenges such as the energy transition and resource scarcity and secure our prosperity in the long term.
To achieve this, we are driving material discovery and technology development - together with innovative partners from academia and industry in Germany and worldwide. To realise our mission, we operate state-of-the-art infrastructures and instruments, especially the light source BESSY II, that delivers synchrotron radiation over a wide energy range. At BESSY II, we record an average of 2700 visits by researchers from 28 countries per year.
BESSY II
Our Key Research Areas
At HZB, we are investigating how the macroscopic characteristics of materials are created and identifying microscopic structures and processes that drive them. This expertise is a fundamental prerequisite for developing materials and technologies with customized properties and functionalities. We focus on materials for a reliable and sustainable energy supply, for example new types of solar cells, innovative battery solutions and catalytically active materials to produce green hydrogen as an energy storage medium. We are also researching highly efficient quantum materials for future information technologies.
