Several characteristics of graphene make the material interesting for the design and development of spin qubits for future quantum computers. It is therefore not surprising that research on graphene-based quantum dots has been going on for more than a decade. A team of researchers led by JARA-FIT Director Prof. Christoph Stampfer has now made major progresses in the technology for confining and manipulating electrons in bilayer graphene quantum dots bringing the demonstration of graphene-based qubits within reach. The group has already published several papers on this topic in renowned journals.
The Committee of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) unanimously elected JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Olivier Guillon, Director of the Institute for Energy and Climate Research, Materials Synthesis and Manufacturing Processes (IEK-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, as this year's Fellow. Guillon was elected at the ECERS meeting on February 17, 2021.
RWTH Aachen University awarded the "IntSpire" prize for the first time this year. The Institute of General Mechanics, led by JARA-ENERGY member Professor Bernd Markert, prevailed against 30 other nominees. The prize honors employees, students, chairs, institutes, or institutions of the university that have especially fostered an international culture at RWTH.
For more than a year, the Corona virus and its effects have been daily companions of the world population. Various vaccine serums against the virus are now being successfully used, but until now there has been no medication to stop the disease. In the EU project EXSCALATE4CORONAVIRUS, researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich now presented a prediction of which molecules could inhibit the main protease of SARS CoV 2.
The world's largest plant for storing green hydrogen in liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) on an industrial scale is being built at CHEMPARK Dormagen. North Rhine-Westphalia is supporting the project with a total of 9 million euros. LOHC Industrial Solutions NRW GmbH, a subsidiary of the Erlangen-based company Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies, is responsible for project management and plant operation. Another industrial partner is Covestro Deutschland AG.
