€450,000 in capital, ten deep-tech teams, six months until investment readiness

HIGHEST and FUTURY are launching the second phase of their joint Company Builder for technology- and science-based start-ups. The programme focuses on three key drivers of successful spin-offs: €450,000 in private early-stage funding, targeted support for ten deep-tech teams and structured access to relevant venture capital partners.

A Major Step Forward in Research on Highly Charged Ions – Publication in “Physical Review X”

Researchers at Technical University of Darmstadt and the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research have succeeded for the first time in decelerating highly charged ions from the GSI accelerator to low energies and subsequently storing them in a Penning trap. They were also successful in performing the first-ever electron cooling of highly charged ions in such a trap. The results have now been published in the journal “Physical Review X (PRX)”.

Darmstadt Researchers Improve Models for How Heavy Elements are Created

Where do gold, platinum, and uranium come from? This question has fascinated astrophysicists and nuclear physicists for decades. A research team from Technische Universität Darmstadt has now taken an important step toward understanding the origin of heavy elements. Their findings, published in Physical Review Letters, demonstrate for the first time how modern ab initio calculations of atomic nuclei can significantly improve predictions of r-process nucleosynthesis, the mechanism responsible for creating many of the Universe’s heaviest elements.