Prof. Dr. Erich Runge
Head of the Institute of Physics
Dagmar Böhme
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Visiting address: Weimarer Strasse 25, 98693 Ilmenau
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This two-part documentary provides an overview of existing solutions for the global energy transition and the associated challenges. It shows that the transition to sustainable energy sources must not only be driven forward in laboratories and power plants, but also by those responsible and decision-makers.
Artificial photosynthesis: researchers want to generate energy from leaves! Photosynthesis - the energy of the future? How artificial leaves could even make airplanes climate-friendly. Every leaf is a small factory that tirelessly creates the plant's fuel from water, carbon dioxide and sunlight: glucose.
How can we meet the challenges of the energy transition? What contribution can Thuringia and Technische Universität Ilmenau make to climate protection and sustainable power generation based on renewable energies? And what is the current status of research into direct solar hydrogen production, artificial photosynthesis? Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Vice President of the German Bundestag and Member of Parliament for Thuringia, discussed this yesterday with Vice President for Research and Young Scientists Prof. Stefan Sinzinger, Prof. Thomas Hannappel, Head of Fundamentals of Energy Materials and other scientists from TU Ilmenau.
Physicists are researching ways of replicating the sun on earth to meet the ever-increasing demand for energy. Light also has great symbolic power in the world's religions and is an important part of our language.
Gert Scobel sheds light on these and many other aspects of light with his guests, Prof. Thomas Hannappel, Prof. Jutta Papenbrock and Prof. Manuela Stadlober-Temmer.
In an international research project involving the TU Ilmenau, scientists have succeeded in developing a sunlight-powered component that converts carbon dioxide directly into usable fuels with an efficiency of over five percent.
Professor Hannappel from Ilmenau University of Technology and his research team have won the Thuringian Research Prize 2022 in the "Basic Research" category. With their research work, the team of scientists made significant progress in the development of semiconductor structures for the efficient use of solar energy to produce green hydrogen - possibly the renewable energy source of the future.
