At FAU, an interdisciplinary team of researchers is working on developing solar-powered airships. An interview with Christoph Pflaum, professor of Computer Science.
FAU scientists Dr. Alexander B. Tesler and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Goldmann have taken advantage of a trick insects use to stay dry while diving into the water and transferred it to the principle of materials: They are stabilizing surfaces with the help of a thin film of air.
Archaeologists from FAU and the University of Cologne have worked together with animal tracking experts from the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Tsumkwe, Namibia, to investigate the engraved animal tracks on six rock. Their findings have now been published in the journal PLOS ONE.
As part of the “Next2OEM” project (with a total funding amount of over 24 million euros), researchers at FAU want to examine, digitalize and automate the entire value chain. This will eliminate both the “clutter” of steps in the process and in the responsibilities involved.
DECAM exploits the highly complementary scientific expertise and infrastructure and simultaneously facilitates the scientific collaboration and networking in the field of the development and characterization of advanced materials
Researchers of FAU have developed special iron oxide nanoparticles they call “smart rust” that actually makes water cleaner. Smart rust can attract many substances, including oil, nano- and microplastics, as well as the herbicide glyphosate, depending on the particles’ coating. And because the nanoparticles are magnetic, they can easily be removed from water with a magnet along with the pollutants.
The aim is to gain a considerably better understanding of the underlying disease mechanisms in neurological RASopathies, and subsequently use this to create guidelines for improved diagnosis and effective, preferably non-invasive, treatments.
Since June 2023, Prof. Dr. Roland Nagy has been head of the flagship Institute of Applied Quantum Technologies at the Faculty of Engineering at FAU. In our interview, he gives a brief insight into his research.
The communication of the future is to become more secure with the help of light particles. This is the goal of the QuNET initiative by the BMBF. The initiative's partners have now taken an important step toward quantum-safe networks: With a key experiment.
