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Battery research with the HZB X-ray microscope

BESSY II: New procedure for better thermoplastics

HZB patent for semiconductor characterisation goes into serial production

Alternating currents for alternative computing with magnets

Green hydrogen: MXenes shows talent as catalyst for oxygen evolution

SpinMagIC: 'EPR on a chip' ensures quality of olive oil and beer

A new way to control the magnetic properties of rare earth elements

BESSY II shows how solid-state batteries degrade

HZB magazine lichtblick - the new issue is out!

New Method for Absorption Correction to Improve Dental Fillings

MXenes for energy storage: Chemical imaging more than just surface deep

Chilean President visits Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Dynamic measurements in liquids now possible in the laboratory

Key role of nickel ions in the Simons process discovered

Freeze casting - a guide to creating hierarchically structured materials

IRIS beamline at BESSY II extended with nanomicroscopy

BESSY II: How pulsed charging enhances the service time of batteries

Fuel Cells: Oxidation processes of phosphoric acid revealed by tender X-rays

The future of BESSY

Unconventional piezoelectricity in ferroelectric hafnia

14 parameters in one go: New instrument for optoelectronics

Sodium-ion batteries: How doping works

BESSY II: Molecular orbitals determine stability

BESSY II: Local variations in the structure of High-Entropy Alloys

Higher measurement accuracy opens new window to the quantum world

Prof. Dr. Yan Lu: Developing new types of batteries sustainably

Focused ion beam technology: a single tool for a wide range of applications

Green hydrogen: Perovskite oxide catalysts analysed in an X-ray beam

Green hydrogen: Improving iridium catalysts with titanium oxides

Collaborative Research Centre “Nanoscale Metals” raises 11 million euros

Boosting PET recycling with higher standards for laboratory experiments

Microplastics in soil: Tomography shows where the particles are build in

BESSY II: Neutralising electronic inhomogeneity in cleaved bulk MoS₂

Green hydrogen could reach economic viability by co-production of valuable...

Technology Transfer Prize: Tandem solar cells step closer to industrial pilot...

Diamond materials as solar-powered electrodes – spectroscopy shows what’s...

Structure formation during freeze casting filmed

BESSY II: Surface analysis of catalyst particles in aqueous solutions

Quantitative analysis of cell organelles with artificial intelligence

HZB and University of Jena establish Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy...

BESSY II: Experimental verification of an exotic quantum phase in Au2Pb

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Grant for Dr. Jie Wei

Humboldt Fellow joins HZB for battery research

“We are currently in a decisive phase for photovoltaics”

How much cadmium is contained in cocoa beans?

Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Neutrons unveil sluggish charge transport

Catherine Dubourdieu receives ERC Advanced Grant

Superstore MXene: New proton hydration structure determined

Scientists Develop New Technique to Image Fluctuations in Materials

High-energy X-rays leave a trace of destruction in bone collagen

Neutron experiments reveal what maintains bones in good function

Nanodiamonds can be activated as photocatalysts with sunlight

New monochromator optics for tender X-rays

Tomography shows high potential of copper sulphide solid-state batteries

Quantum algorithms save time in the calculation of electron dynamics

BESSY II: Influence of protons on water molecules

Photocatalysis: Processes in charge separation recorded experimentally

Batteries without critical raw materials

High entropy alloys: structural disorder and magnetic properties

40 years of research with synchrotron light in Berlin

Third-highest oxidation state secures rhodium a place on the podium

Potential energy surfaces of water mapped for the first time

Atomic displacements in High-Entropy Alloys examined

Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore visits HZB

Calculating the "fingerprints" of molecules with artificial intelligence

Royal visit from Sweden at HZB

Jan Lüning heads HZB Institute for Electronic Structure Dynamics

How electron spin coupling affects catalytic oxygen activation

Researchers discover why tendons are strong as wire ropes

Solar hydrogen: Better photoelectrodes through flash heating

Unravelling tautomeric mixtures: RIXS at BESSY II allows to see clearly

Innovative catalysts: An expert review

A sundial of a different kind

An electronic rainbow – perovskite spectrometer by inkjet printing

Liquid crystals for fast switching devices

"Green" chemistry: BESSY II sheds light on mechanochemical synthesis

Solar energy for a sport watch: HZB Technology Transfer Prize 2021 awarded

A sharp look into tiny ferroelectric crystals

New world record in materials research - X-ray microscopy with 1000 tomograms...

Royal Society of Chemistry praises HZB team’s paper on hybrid perovskite...

Surface analysis at BESSY II: sharper insights into thin-film systems

On the trail of lithium dendrites: How destructive formations develop in...

Review: X-ray scattering methods with synchrotron radiation

When vibrations increase on cooling: Anti-freezing observed

Water as a metal - detected at BESSY II

Tailwind for top research in Germany

CatLab - Starting signal for a new generation of catalysts

How quantum dots can "talk" to each other

BESSY II: New insights into switchable MOF structures at the MX beamlines

MYSTIIC at BESSY II: New X-ray microscope put into operation

Direct observation of the ad- and desorption of guest atoms into a mesoporous...

Tomography brings insights into the early evolution of bones

New insights into the structure of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites

Instrument at BESSY II shows how light activates MoS2 layers to become catalysts

New skills of Graphene: Tunable lattice vibrations

HZB and Humboldt University agree to set up a catalysis laboratory

Solar cells: Mapping the landscape of Caesium based inorganic halide perovskites

Order in the disorder: density fluctuations in amorphous silicon discovered

Nanopatterns of proteins detected by cryo-electron microscopy

Perovskite materials: Neutrons show twinning in halide perovskites

University of Kassel and HZB establish Joint Lab for the use of artificial...

HZB & IKZ bundle their competencies In crystalline energy and quantum materials

New Materials for Energy Storage: ERC Starting Grant for Tristan Petit

Molecular architecture: New class of materials for tomorrow's energy storage

Best electrolyser/photovoltaics combinations demonstrated in test fields

Hope for better batteries – researchers follow the charging and discharging of...

Robust high-performance data storage through magnetic anisotropy

Optimize opto-electronic devices with new compact measuring system

Printed perovskite LEDs – an innovative technique towards a new standard...

BESSY II: Experiment shows for the first time in detail how electrolytes become...

Catalysts: Efficient hydrogen production via structure

Future information technologies: 3D Quantum Spin Liquid revealed

User research at BESSY II: How new materials increase the efficiency of direct...

Neutron research: Magnetic monopoles detected in Kagome spin ice systems

Fast and furious: New class of 2D materials stores electrical energy

Poster award for Götz Schuck

HZB Researcher on the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society

Memorandum of Understanding signed between University of Jena and HZB

HZB doctoral student won Young Scientist Award

Save time using maths: analytical tool designs corkscrew-shaped nano-antennae

World record in tomography: Watching how metal foam forms

FOCUS TOPIC: Catching more light in solar cells

Accelerator physics: alternative material investigated for superconducting...

Oldest completely preserved lily discovered

Charge transfer within transition-metal dyes analysed

Organic electronics: a new semiconductor in the carbon-nitride family

Development of a miniaturised EPR spectrometer

Laser-driven Spin Dynamics in Ferrimagnets: How does the Angular Momentum flow?

3D tomographic imagery reveals how lithium batteries age

High-efficiency thermoelectric materials: new insights into tin selenide

X-ray analysis of carbon nanostructures helps material design

Water is more homogeneous than expected

Spintronics by “straintronics”: Superferromagnetism with electric-field induced...

Batteries with silicon anodes: Neutron experiments show how formation of...

Neutronenforschung hilft bei der Entwicklung von zerstörungsfreien Prüfverfahren

Blue phosphorus - mapped and measured for the first time

Collaboration between HZB and the University of Freiburg

Printing solar cells and organic LEDs

World record: Fastest 3D tomographic images at BESSY II

Neutron tomography: Insights into the interior of teeth, root balls, batteries,...

Joint graduate school for data science sponsors its first projects

New at Campus Wannsee: CoreLab Quantum Materials

The Young Investigators Workshop 2017 on Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional...

Proton transfer: Researcher find mecanism to protect biomolecules against light...

Green light for upgrading BESSY II into a variable-pulse-length storage ring...

Young Investigators Workshop of the Helmholtz Virtual Institute "Dynamic...

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is establishing a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group...

VI-Conference "Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional Landscapes 2016"

International conference QENS 2016 and Workshop WINS 2016 in Potsdam

Novel state of matter: Observation of a quantum spin liquid

Spintronics: Resetting the future of Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Ferrous chemistry in aqueous solution unravelled

Energy Materials: Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu sets up the institute “Functional...

Measuring chemistry: local fingerprint of hydrogen bonding captured in...

rbb-Inforadio: Andreas Jankowiak im Gespräch über bERLinPro

Milch, Wirkstoff-Taxis und andere kolloide Materialsysteme analysieren: SAS...

Gerd Schneider receives a professorship for "X-ray microscopy" at...

Eine lange Nacht geballtes Wissen tanken

Antique Osiris figurines from the Egyptian Museum of Florence examined with...

Baubeginn für Beschleunigerhalle bERLinPro am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Stretch and relax! – Losing one electron switches magnetism on in dichromium

Distinguished Lectures at HZB: Prof. Jürgen Janek will give talk about the...

The BER II neutron source is back in operation and available for experiments...

BESSY II – From Pico to Femto – time resolved studies at BESSY II

Hochfeldmagnet sucht Neutronenleiter

Deutsch-Türkische Universität am HZB zu Gast

26 tesla! High field magnet exceeds everyone’s expectations

HZB Freigeist Fellow Dr. Annika Bande

Tage der Forschung in Adlershof

German Society for Materials Science awards publication with HZB scientist as co-author

“Multi-spectra glasses” for scanning electron microscopy

NEAT: The chamber from Spain - HZB future log's latest addition

Deutsche Tagung für Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung, Neutronen und...

Leading scientists on topological insulators met in Berlin

Proteins: New class of materials discovered

Self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into small clusters

Neutron Tomography technique reveals phase fractions of crystalline materials...

“Muscled skin”: Simple formulas describe complex behaviors

Sharper imaging using X-rays

Electrostatics do the trick

Der weltweit stärkste Magnet für Neutronenexperimente wird in Berlin errichtet

Stromsignal hinterlässt in Manganitkristall magnetische Spur

Bose-Einstein-Kondensat: Magnetfelder erzeugen ungewöhnlichen Materiezustand

50 Jahre Feldionenmikroskopie

Nanoröhrchen sollen Bildschirme zum Leuchten bringen

EU-Projekt zu exotischen Eigenschaften von Helium-3-Atomen

Neutronen verraten Wasserstoff in Eiweißen

Mit neuartigem magnetischen Käfig Lebensdauer von Neutronen genau messen

Margarita Russina erhält Promotionspreis mit Arbeit über atomare Diffusionsprozesse bei der Glasbildung