Institute of Materials Science
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TU Ideas Competition 2025
2025/04/25
HIGHEST, the university’s Innovation and Start-up Center, is hosting the TU Ideenwettbewerb #DeineIdee25.
HIGHEST, the university’s Innovation and Start-up Center, is hosting the TU Ideenwettbewerb #DeineIdee25.
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Picture: Senckenberg/A. Vogel XRF-maps: M. ColomboPicture: Senckenberg/A. Vogel XRF-maps: M. Colombo
Messel fossils under X-rays: a new tool to illuminate the anatomy of fossils in museum and research collections
2025/04/15
An international team of scientists, involving TU Darmstadt Marco Colombo and Prof. Wolfgang Ensinger, has applied for the first-time mobile macroscopic scanning X-ray fluorescence analysis (mobile-MA-XRF) with sophisticated data analysis to examine paleontological objects. These are fossils from the Messel Pit, Germany's first UNESCO World Heritage Site near Frankfurt, Germany. The pioneering study opens up a new avenue for studying in detail the elemental chemistry of fossils conserved in both solid and liquid media in research and museum collections worldwide.
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Picture: M.SchmittPicture: M.Schmitt
Girls'Day goes MaWi – One Day at the Institute of Materials Science
2025/04/07
What's the matter? Or what do scientists actually do?
Magnetic fields, the lotus effect and superconductors: at Girls' Day 2025, 15 girls in grades 7-10 were able to immerse themselves in the world of materials science and get a taste of university life.