Tag: Advanced Materials

The Faculty of Engineering at FAU has received a distinguished professorship from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts: As part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, Prof. Dr. Bastian Etzold, Chair of Power-to-X Technologies, has been awarded five million euros in funding. “Bastian Etzo...

Unwanted solar heat gain in buildings Air conditioning systems in residential and office buildings already consume around 10% of the energy consumed worldwide (approx. 2000 TwH). Most of the unwanted heat enters the buildings as sunlight through windows and glass facades. Energy-efficient renova...

The back cover to our publication ”Deformation Behavior of 2D Composite Cellular Lattices of Ceramic Building Blocks and Epoxy Resin” in Advanced Engineering Materials (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adem.202100536) in collaboration with our colleagues at NiTech Institute of Techno...

A research group at FAU and the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) have come up with a design aimed at significantly increasing the operational stability and life span of perovskite solar cells. Their design centers around a bilayer of polymers that protects the pero...

Quite early in my Master studies, I became aware that I want to go abroad for preparing my Master thesis since I had already finished my Bachelor’s at FAU. Therefore, I started at the beginning of the second year of MAP to organize such a research stay for my thesis. After having to reject an invita...