2014 Karl Heinz Beckurts Award goes to Prof. Dr. Andreas Marx.
Lanthanide nanoprobes for biomedical applications
Lanthanide(III) complexes have steadily found increasing use in both biosensing and bioimaging due to their advantageous emission properties.
“Horizontal Strip Casting of Steel” joint project wins German President's Award
Project partners Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, SMS Siemag AG, and the Technical University of Clausthal presented with award in Berlin.
Measuring skin rejuvenation with two-photon microscopy
In vivo and non-invasive: Collagen remodeling after micro-ablative fractional laser resurfacing can be monitored by two-photon microscopy.
Flexible and printable magneto-electronics
A German research team have fabricated magneto-electronics that fulfill the performance and processing requirements for consumer electronics.
Forming perovskite films with ALD from a seed layer
Researchers have formed perovskite films from a seed layer grown with atomic layer deposition, an standard technology for dielectric materials.
Etching doped silicon to produce perfect plasmonic absorbers
Cheng, et al. have created a broadband perfect absorber for terahertz waves by etching doped silicon to form micro-scale resonant cavities.
Flavonoid-modified surfaces for medical applications
Researchers have successfully fabricated titanium surfaces chemically functionalized with the flavonoids taxifolin and quercitrin.
Targeting cancer cells with functionalised nanorods
Researchers have described composite nanorods that consist of long iron segments and short gold tips and can be functionalized with biomolecules of interest.
Cancer treatment based on PLGA microparticles
Researchers have developed a cancer imaging and therapy agent composed of PLGA microparticles encapsulating a perfluorocarbon liquid core.