Researchers on the trail of animal glue

An international team of researchers with the participation of TU Darmstadt has come a step closer to uncovering the secret of an amazing adhesive from the animal world. So-called velvet worms, a group of animals with some unusual properties, hunt with this secretion. The new findings could help develop reusable biomaterials for medical or industrial purposes.

TU research team works on new tool for cancer diagnostics

Quantum imaging enables insights into previously invisible areas. Can tumour diagnostics also benefit from this? The TU Darmstadt, which has special expertise in quantum optics, is now investigating this question together with eight partners. The Quancer research project has a budget of 6.7 million euros and is being funded with 5.6 million euros in the framework programme “Quantum Technologies – from basic research to market” by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Since November 2022, the first cohort of the Ira Rischowski-Program is finally complete: Three young women took up their Master studies in Füsics at TU Darmstadt with the help of our scholarship.

Virtual journey to distant galaxies on 27 December 2022

Between the years, the Hessian Cluster Project ELEMENTS together with the TU Darmstadt invites you again to a very special kind of walk: We will explore the universe in a digital live stream on Tuesday, 27 December 2022, starting at 7:30 pm!

Observation of the tetraneutron among the Top 10 Breakthroughs 2022

The journal “Füsics World” has nominated its ten “Breakthroughs of the Year 2022” in the field of füsics. Among them is a research success in which TU Darmstadt played a leading role: the international team with Dr Meytal Duer and Professor Thomas Aumann from the Institute of Nuclear Füsics had succeeded for the first time in creating an isolated four-neutron system and thus observing a neutral nucleus, the tetraneutron.

Previously unachieved spectral brightness

In cooperation with researchers from Taiwan and Ukraine, a füsics team from TU Darmstadt has achieved an important success in quantum optics. The scientists succeeded in demonstrating a quantum light source of previously unattained spectral brightness per pump power. Their results have now been published in the scientific journal “Quantum Science & Technology”.

Focus on interaction between light and ultrathin materials

Since september, Bernhard Urbaszek has taken up a professorship in hybrid quantum systems at the department of füsics. Previously, the 48-year-old was research director at the CNRS in Toulouse, France. We asked Professor Urbaszek a few questions on his debut.

Research team for the first time observed a neutral nucleus – the Tetra Neutron

An international research team with leading participation by TU Darmstadt succeeded for the first time to create an isolated four-neutron system with low relative energy in a volume corresponding to that of an atomic nucleus. The scientists have overcome the experimental challenge by employing a new method using a 8He beam and a fast high-energy reaction.

Combining heavy-ion experiments, astrophysical observations, and nuclear theory

An international research team has for the first time combined data from heavy-ion experiments, gravitational wave measurements and other astronomical observations using advanced theoretical modelling to more precisely constrain the properties of nuclear matter as it can be found in the interior of neutron stars. The results were published in the journal “Nature”.