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Fraunhofer USA Awarded Patent for Detecting Air Leakage in Buildings Using Communicating Thermostats

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Fraunhofer USA with a patent for algorithms that detect and quantify air leakage from single-family homes using data from commercially available communicating, thermostats.

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A Circular Economy for More Sustainable Product Development – Project “ZirkuPro”

Manufacturing mechatronic products is associated with high energy demand, critical raw materials, and complex manufacturing conditions. One way to solve this problem is through a circular economy, which makes it possible to conserve resources and ensure sustainable development. Researchers from Paderborn University and the Fraunhofer Institutes IEM (Paderborn) and IZM (Berlin) are currently working to extend this principle to an integrated circular product development process for intelligent technical systems.

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Magnetic and Optical Properties of a Two-dimensional Crystal Now under Control

Scientists are working to control materials precisely and down to the atomic level and to combine them with each other. The objective is to produce new hybrid structures that are multifunctional and suitable for use in both optoelectronics and magnetism, for example. An international team of researchers from Sheffield, Clermont-Ferrand, Tokyo and Dortmund has now succeeded in creating such a system, which opens up completely new possibilities, above all for optically controlled magnetism. Their findings were published recently in the renowned journal Nature Photonics.

Connecting researchers at German universities of applied sciences with researchers from Canada and the US

Matchmaking Event: German and North American researchers

Read on to find out more about an exciting matchmaking event on October 18, 2022. The DFG invites researchers of German universities of applied sciences (UAS) and researchers from Canada and the US to meet up virtually for a matchmaking event.

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Optimizing Energy Efficiency with Climate bOWL

A growing awareness of sustainability among the general population, along with rising energy costs, means that companies are increasingly focused on the goal of climate neutrality. This is the starting point for a joint project in which researchers from Paderborn University, doing interdisciplinary research at the Software Innovation Campus (SICP), work hand in hand with the chair of Automotive Lightweight Design (also Paderborn University), Bielefeld University, and the companies NTT Data Business Solutions AG, GEA Westfalia Separator Group GmbH, Miele & Cie. KG and Phoenix Contact Smart Business GmbH.

5 German Ideas for Alternative Energy

According to the first law of thermodynamics, energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. In the case of electrical power, however, this transformation comes at a cost.