04.02.2010 – With winning the elite cluster-competition, the EfficiencyCluster LogistikRuhr impressively emphasizes the excellence of the Logistics-Science Center Dortmund. Due to intensive networking with the neighboring research institutions, like the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST), the profile area production and logistics of TU Dortmund already holds a leading position internationally.
25.01.2010 – Concrete is a modern building material, which is used on nearly every construction site worldwide and which has obtained high acceptance among planners and users, thanks to its varied field of application. Due to its high density, standard concrete only has insufficient heat insulation, which implicates that residential buildings made of concrete need additional heat insulation. The light cellular or foam concretes with a good heat insulation produced to date, are hardened by means of costly and energy-intensive processes under high pressure and high temperature in autoclaves. Or their technical applicability is strongly limited due to their low strength. The team Prof. Dr. Bernhard Middendorf, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Neisecke and Dr. Armin Just from the Chair of Building Materials at Technische Universität Dortmund had the plan to develop a building material made of concrete, which combines the strength and flexible applicability of standard concrete and the low density and the good heat insulation of cellular and foam concrete.
17.12.2009 – Catmint can trigger ecstatic emotional states in cats. But the same material also is a renewable resource for the synthesis of englerin A, a potential drug against kidney cancer. Now chemists at TU Dortmund have succeeded in the first chemical synthesis of englerin A.