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2009-03-02 Press Release GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht
Research in the Nano-Realm
Transparent foils which are conductive and thus use sunlight for generation of energy. Hulls of ships, which no longer rust due to a nano-coating (nano-technology offers numerous surprising solutions for a variety of applications). The new Helmholtz-Group of Academic Talents ‘Nanochemistry and Nanoengineering’ deals intensively with the design and the development of new materials for industrial applications and, as part of the Geesthacht Institute for Polymer Research, the new group thus expands the research programme of the GKSS.
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2009-02-06 News
New EU project FLYHY: Fluorine set to optimise hydrogen storage
Fluorine not only strengthens teeth and bones but could also help to improve the storage of hydrogen in metal hydride tanks in the future. The EU-supported project, FLYHY (Fluorine Substituted High Capacity Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage at Low Working Temperatures), has been initiated to investigate the use of fluorine as a method of reducing the operating temperatures of hydrogen stores and to test if these can be adapted to meet industrial requirements. The project is being coordinated by Dr. Klaus Taube from the Institute of Materials Research of the GKSS Research Centre The project ‘kick-off’ meeting took place on February 4 & 5 at the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany.
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2009-01-14 Press Release GKSS-Research Centre Geesthacht
Coastal research: GKSS to invest twelve million euros in a new observation system for the North Sea
With the major COSYNA project (Coastal Observation System for Northern and Arctic Seas), a comprehensive observation system is being created in the area of the German North Sea for the collection, prediction and scientific analysis of the current condition and development of the coastal sea. This project is being coordinated by the GKSS Geesthacht Research Centre.
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2009-01-08 Press Release GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht
GKSS scientists refute argument of climate sceptics
Scientists at the GKSS Research Centre of Geesthacht and the University of Bern have investigated the frequency of warmer than average years between 1880 and 2006 for the first time. The result: the observed increase of warm years after 1990 is not a statistical accident. The results will now be published in the journal „Geophysical Research Letters“.
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2008-12-11 Press Release GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht
China and Germany: working together for the good of the coasts
During his trip to Europe, Prof. Dr. LU Yongxiang, Deputy President of the National People’s Congress of China and President of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), visited the GKSS research centre in Geesthacht on 11th December with a delegation. The activities of the Geesthacht coastal researchers drew particular attention during his visit. In future there should be suitable scientific cooperation invested in this
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2008-12-11 Press Release GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht
On the Trail of Polar Lows
Scientists from the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht have developed a mathematical method that enables a reconstruction of the occurrence of polar cyclones — so-called polar lows — in the North Atlantic.
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2008-11-12 Press Release GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht
Stirred, not struck — new riveting process from GKSS
Friction riveting, or FricRiveting, is the name of the new joining process developed by materials researcher Dr. Sergio Amancio of the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht. The new process is particularly suitable for joining plastics or plastic-metal composites. On the strength of his research work, the young materials scientist received the prize donated by the Nordmetall-Stiftung for the best doctoral thesis in 2007 at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg.
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2008-10-24 News
Honorary Academic Title for Climate Researcher Hans von Storch
The Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg will, on 24 October, award Professor Hans von Storch an honorary doctorate for his services in the area of climate research.
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2008-10-08 News
Coastal systems under pressure
Summer School of the GKSS Institute for coastal research concluded. Doctoral students, postdocs and graduands met in Lauenburg and Büsum to an exciting and informative exchange of lectures and excursions. A special emphasis in this year’s school was on the changes in Arctic coasts.
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2008-09-11 Annual Report 2008
The Annual Report 2008 online available
The current edition of the Annual Report 2008 is online available now.
Find out more about the GKSS research in the GKSS-Forschungszentrum at Geesthacht and Teltow near Berlin.
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