Newsletter of the Fraunhofer IST

Plastic waste, harmful to the environment, has been increasing continually in Germany in recent years. Packaging generates particularly high volumes of waste. In the BioPlas4Paper project, researchers from the Fraunhofer IST and project partners have used a coating process to create water-repellent and plant-based barrier coatings on paper, thereby im-proving the paper’s resistance to the effects of the weather.

Already for the second time, the Photonica Summer School inspired twenty young international scientists. They spent a week gaining an insight into five Fraunhofer Institutes and their research in the field of photonics, traveling from Braunschweig to Berlin via Jena and Dresden. Fraunhofer Photonica was organized by the Fraunhofer Group for Light & Surfaces under the direction of Fraunhofer IPM.

More charging power, higher range, lower environmental impact: In the COOLBat joint research project, researchers from the Fraunhofer IWU have teamed up with partners to develop next-generation battery enclosures for electric vehicles. The objective is to make the enclosures, a central component in any electric vehicle, lighter and cut the carbon dioxide emitted to manufacture them by 15 percent. 

On behalf of the Canadian Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), the President of the European-Canadian Centre for Innovation and Research, Dr Britta Baron, visited TU Braunschweig at the beginning of August. The aim of her visit was to discuss the possibility of cooperation between the two universities in the field of wind and hydrogen economy.

Within the framework of his summer tour, Lower Saxony’s Minister for Science and Culture, Falko Mohrs, visited the Fraunhofer institutes for Wood Research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI and for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST in Braunschweig on the 8th of July 2024.

What is the Fraunhofer IST working on in collaboration with the PVZ at the TU Braunschweig?