Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST

STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The Science Campus being held from September 24^th to 26^th at four Fraunhofer Institutes in Braunschweig and Hanover hopes to attract female students and graduates in the STEM subjects to work in applied research. 

In combination with the right materials, sunbeams can clean building facades and decompose pollutants from the air or in the water. In practice, though, the effectiveness of the ”miracle cure” fluctuates greatly, depending on the material used and the environmental factors. A new measuring device is now intended to determine the photocatalytic effectiveness of surfaces more accurately and quickly, thereby increasing efficiency.

On June 1^st, 2018 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed that sealed the partnership between Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST and Feng Chia University, that had already existed since 2014.