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Start-up commercializes nonwoven electrodes: "With our technology, we have the chance to catch up with Asian manufacturers and be better"
20-May-2025
Batteries are becoming ever more powerful. A discovery by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg could now give them a significant energy boost. A team led by Max Planck Director Joachim Spatz has discovered that metal fleece as a contact material in battery ...
First closing of KHAN Technology Transfer Fund II GmbH & Co KG “KHAN-II”
12-Feb-2025
Khanu Fondsverwaltung GmbH (Khanu), a drug discovery focused fund management team, announces the first closing in fundraising for KHAN Technology Transfer Fund II GmbH & Co KG (KHAN-II), the follower fund of KHAN-I (vintage year 2019). As limited partners of KHAN-II, the European Investment Fund ...
New metal phosphide catalyst developed
12-Jul-2024
The research group led by Lise Meitner group leader Dr. Constanze Neumann has developed a new type of catalyst that could be of interest to the chemical industry. The scientists have published their findings in the journal "Angewandte Chemie International". Transition metal phosphides have been ...
Two start-ups are already working to bring these findings closer to public fruition
18-Jun-2024
Dr. Oren Moscovitz has been awarded €25,000 by the Max Planck Society for his promising research toward treatments and non-invasive diagnostics for cancer, which could potentially reduce overall cancer-related deaths. Moscovitz and his team exploit unique sugar patterns found on cancer cells and ...
The Stifterverband recognizes the start-up for its technology that enhances the power and cost-effectiveness of batteries
26-Feb-2024
Batteries can store up to 80 percent more energy if they use Batene's technology. The start-up, which was founded out of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, replaces the thin contact foils of conventional batteries with fleeces of fine metal wires called BatenefleeceTM. This innovation ...
2022 brought record investment sums for research-based start-ups managed by Max Planck Innovation
21-Mar-2023
A successful business year for Max Planck Innovation includes increasing investment sums for the start-ups managed. Especially life sciences start-ups with a high degree of maturity provided a record sum of 225 million euros. Companies in the Max Planck Innovation investment portfolio raised over ...
Batene starts with ten million euros in seed financing
16-Nov-2022
An invention by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research could make batteries much more energy dense, efficient and safer. The research team has found a way to produce very fine metal fleeces, the batene fleece, that can serve as current collectors in batteries and make them ...
Max Planck spin-off aims to further develop research into microtechnology-based plant protection products
18-Mar-2021
Every year, fungal diseases of grapevines cause a loss of one billion euros. Conventional plant protection agents are largely powerless in combating them. A planned spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) is now to further develop research into sustainable, ...
13-Sep-2019
Khanu Management GmbH (Khanu), a drug discovery focused fund management team, announces the successful launch of KHAN Technology Transfer Fund I GmbH & Co KG (KHAN-I), based in Dortmund, Germany. The European Investment Fund (EIF, Luxemburg), the Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH (Vienna, Austria) ...
