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Scientific pictures often show fantastic motifs – for scientists sometimes not so easy to recognize. For laymen, who do not know the background or genesis, and therefore look at them with a very different look, they reveal a very special beauty that can compete with classical art. Armin Kriele, a… [read more]

Together with the VW-VM research company, a collaboration between VW and VARTA Microbattery, scientists from the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ, working group Dr. Ralph Gilles) and the chair of Technical Electrochemistry (Prof. Hubert Gasteiger) of the Technical University of Munich have now… [read more]

Am Donnerstag, 16. März 2017, fiel um 21:12 Uhr ein Gateway-Rechner aus. Infolgedessen hat sich der FRM II drei Minuten später automatisch abgeschaltet. Die betriebliche Leittechnik erhält über diesen Gateway-Rechner zur Visualisierung, Weiterverarbeitung und Archivierung Daten aus dem… [read more]

Mental strength is a success factor for top athletes, and Lea Kleesattel, a trainee at FRM II, recently proved this. From the 6th - 12th March, she took part in the European Championship for pneumatic weapons in Maribor (Slovenia) and surprised with a silver medal in the team competition. This time… [read more]

It is with great sadness that we have to report that Emeritus professor Dr. Tasso Springer has recently passed away at the age of 86. He was one of the first students of Prof. Dr. Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, in whose honour the FRM II and MLZ are named. Together with his mentor, he discovered and… [read more]

Rechargeable lithium batteries with cathodes comprising nickel, manganese, and cobalt, are viewed as the most potent today. But they, too, have a limited lifespan. Already in the first cycle they lose up to ten percent of their capacity. Why this happens and what can be done to alleviate the ensuing… [read more]

The Research Neutron Source FRM II of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is a magnet for researchers from a wide array of disciplines. Working groups of the Forschungszentrum Jülich have settled in Garching. And every year around 1000 guest scientists from around the world visit Garching to… [read more]

The Danish company Haldor Topsøe got thanks to the EU project SINE 2020 at ANTARES interesting radiographies of its electrolysis cells. [read more]

The German DFG has granted support for the development of a pulsed positron source that will enable investigations of exotic states of matter and mixes of matter and antimatter. [read more]

For 24 years Manfred Danner is employed as a reactor operator at the atomic egg and the FRM II, since Friday he has an additional job. [read more]