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Batene receives the Max Planck-Startup Award

The Stifterverband recognizes the start-up for its technology that enhances the power and cost-effectiveness of batteries more

Research highlights 2023

Many publications by Max Planck scientists in 2023 were of great social relevance or met with a great media response. We have selected 12 articles to present you with an overview of some noteworthy research of the year more

View over the sea with the wind turbines of an offshore wind farm staggered at a great distance to the horizon.

A new catalytic concept is laying the foundations for the methanation of carbon dioxide on an industrial scale more

brain illustration, next step to artificial intelligence

New physics-based self-learning machines could replace the current artificial neural networks and save energy more

Electricity driving life

Using a metabolic pathway, energy-rich resources can be produced via the power of electricity more

Solid-state batteries could offer many advantages in the future, including for the use in electrically powered cars.

Understanding how short-circuits occur in solid-state batteries could extend their lifespan
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More power from waste heat

An addition of titanium makes a thermoelectric material more efficient more

Green steel produced with ammonia

Ammonia synthesized in sun-rich countries could facilitate sustainable iron- and steelmaking more

Lean steel - strong and safe

A novel microstructure design strategy enables lean medium-manganese steels with optimized strength and ductility more

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Batene receives the Max Planck-Startup Award

The Stifterverband recognizes the start-up for its technology that enhances the power and cost-effectiveness of batteries more

View over the sea with the wind turbines of an offshore wind farm staggered at a great distance to the horizon.

A new catalytic concept is laying the foundations for the methanation of carbon dioxide on an industrial scale more

brain illustration, next step to artificial intelligence

New physics-based self-learning machines could replace the current artificial neural networks and save energy more

Electricity driving life

Using a metabolic pathway, energy-rich resources can be produced via the power of electricity more

Solid-state batteries could offer many advantages in the future, including for the use in electrically powered cars.

Understanding how short-circuits occur in solid-state batteries could extend their lifespan
  more

More power from waste heat

An addition of titanium makes a thermoelectric material more efficient more

Green steel produced with ammonia

Ammonia synthesized in sun-rich countries could facilitate sustainable iron- and steelmaking more

Lean steel - strong and safe

A novel microstructure design strategy enables lean medium-manganese steels with optimized strength and ductility more

Iron for energy storage

In the futuere the metal could store energy from renewable sources, for example for transportation more

Beatriz Roldán, director at the Fritz Haber Institute, with King Felipe VI of Spain in the institute's laboratory. 

Centre: King Felipe VI of Spain. From left to right: Ane Etxebarria (researcher in the chemical laboratory of the Department of Interfacial Science at FHI), José Manuel Albares Bueno (Spanish Foreign Minister) and Beatriz Roldán (Institute Director).

King Felipe the VI of Spain visited the Fritz Haber Institute more

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Research highlights 2023

Many publications by Max Planck scientists in 2023 were of great social relevance or met with a great media response. We have selected 12 articles to present you with an overview of some noteworthy research of the year more

Hugh hydrogen tanks against a blue sky

The crisis in Ukraine has driven up energy prices, obscuring a dilemma that we’re likely to face in the near future - the use of fossil fuels will become more attractive again for countries that cannot afford or do not want to make the transition to renewable energies. Against this backdrop, Kai A. Konrad from the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance advocates speeding up the search for alternative uses, starting now. more

“We need a world trade in renewable energy”

Max Planck Director Robert Schlögl in an interview about green hydrogen and sustainable CO2 recycling more

On 21 March 1991, the Asdex Upgrade experimental facility at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching generated the first plasma. Since then, the facility has been continuously expanded and improved.

Through the integration of the IPP into the Max Planck Society, the Institute is opening a new chapter in its history, which goes back to Werner Heisenberg more

Blueprint for a fusion power plant

On 21 March 1991, the Asdex Upgrade experimental facility at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching generated the first plasma more

This historic image of an oil field in Pennsylvania (USA) symbolizes the change from a coal-based industry to a largely petroleum-fueled industry at the turn of the 20th century. This transformation also led to profound social changes.

Jürgen Renn, Robert Schlögl, Christoph Rosol and Benjamin Steininger present a research initiative of the Max Planck Society on socio-technical aspects of energy transformation. more

“Global warming doesn’t stop when the emissions stop”

Thorsten Mauritsen from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has worked out how much time we have left to reach the Paris climate goal more

Wood and the influence of water

A model describing the water absorption of wood could contribute to the development of new wood preservatives more

"We've come pretty far in plasma research"

Thomas Klinger, Director at the IPP, talks about the special features of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator and its structure, and the prospects for the construction of a fusion power plant. more

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Synthetic Chloroplast Production using a Microfluidic platform

Cell-sized droplets equipped with natural and synthetic parts are able to perform photosynthesis. In the future, they could serve as bioreactors for the sustainable, light driven fixation of CO2 into value-added compounds. more

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