Technology & Materials

How new technologies and materials are developed, how they work, and how they are changing our everyday lives. Current topics from research in Saxony.

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Dr. Riley Barta in front of the CARBOSOLA test rig at the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf.

Electricity from Waste Heat: Dresden Researchers Turn to Carbon Dioxide

5 Min. · 10/13/2026

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Technology & Materials 5 Min. 10/13/2026

Electricity from Waste Heat: Dresden Researchers Turn to Carbon Dioxide

The ROSEE delivery robot from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg stands in a meadow next to a group of geese.

Technology & Materials 4 Min. 10/13/2026

Delivery robot ROSEE travels from Freiberg to Dresden

Four founders of the Dresden-based rocket startup RATLOG stand in front of a Y Combinator sign.

Technology & Materials 5 Min. 10/12/2026

Dresden-based rocket startup RATLOG makes the leap to Silicon Valley

Software from Fraunhofer IWU for monitoring industrial presses using sensors

Technology & Materials 4 Min. 10/10/2026

Smart sensors detect faults in industrial presses

Nanocomposite film for pressure measurement and energy harvesting from the laboratories at Chemnitz University of Technology

Technology & Materials 4 Min. 10/07/2026

Electricity from tapping: A flexible sensor film from Chemnitz

Two scientists are setting up a test rig in a helium cryostat at Chemnitz University of Technology.

Technology & Materials 3 Min. 10/02/2026

Minus 269°C for the quantum computers of the future

Collage on Research into New Solvents for Perovskite Solar Cells

Technology & Materials 4 Min. 09/25/2026

What flavoring agents have to do with solar cells

Sheet-metal gears and chain links as examples of high-speed shear cutting

Technology & Materials 3 Min. 09/24/2026

Cutting steel at high speed

Experimental setup for the diamonds using a high-power laser at the ELI Beamlines facility near Prague

Technology & Materials 4 Min. 09/22/2026

How tiny diamonds are made from plastic