The group of M. Morgenstern at RWTH Aachen University and the group of S. Lounis at Forschungszentrum Jülich, united in the Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, discovered that single foreign atoms halt the motion of magnetic vortex cores that consists of about 10.000 atoms. They studied the resulting interaction in detail with the help of a dedicated scanning tunneling microscope developed in Aachen. The microscope enables imaging and manipulating of the magnetic nanostructures. The surprising novel result of a single atom stopper leads to novel design criteria for modern computer memories and is published in the well reputed journal Nature Communications.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) will establish 14 new priority programs, coordinated by RWTH Aachen University. This includes the program titled “Machine Learning in Process Engineering which is coordinated by Professor Alexander Mitsos.
Prof. Regina Palkovits (JARA-ENERGY) and Prof. Will van der Aalst (JARA-CSD) received great honour. The two experts were accepted into the class for engineering and economics at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. A total of 15 scientists and artists were accepted as members of the Academy on May 6.
The regulatory sandbox "TransUrban.NRW" was launched on the first of May. The project is part of the regulatory sandboxes for energy transition, which were put out to tender by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy last year. Under the direction of E.ON Energy Solution GmbH, three JARA-ENERGY members are involved: Prof. Dirk Müller, Prof. Antonello Monti and Junior Professor Aaron Praktiknjo. The aim of the laboratory is to put energy system transformation innovations into practice.
A big question of science is why and where antimatter disappeared after the big bang. Numerous projects around the world are working to answer this question. The T2K experiment is also dedicated to the study of antimatter. Now, analysis of the data obtained during the experiment has revealed signs of differences between matter and antimatter. These differences could be a step towards unravelling the matter-antimatter asymmetry.
