08.05.2025 - Podcast "Carls Zukunft der Woche" with Prof. Thomas Brück
Prof. Thomas Brück was a guest on the podcast “Carls Zukunft der Woche” and talks about the future of (algae) biotechnology and its use in the fight against the climate crisis.
Link to the episode (german): Thomas Brück - Algen als Motor der Transformation
06.05.2025 - Filming at WSSB
As part of a documentary on the decarbonization of the construction industry, a report on the carbon fibre stone composite (CFS) from the GreenCarbon project was filmed in the WSSB laboratories.
21.03.2025 - European Biotechnology Spring 2025
Prof. Brück's assessment of the development of biotechnology in Germany and Europe as an opportunity for global technology leadership is quoted on p. 18 of the “DeepTech Bioeconomy” section of the current issue of European Biotechnology:
„The fact that Europe is still ahead of China and the USA in scientific terms is a huge economic opportunity for Europe,” stresses Prof Dr Thomas Brück. The Chair of Synthetic Biotechnology at the Technical University of Munich has co-authored a position paper that calls for public funding to scale up biotechnological production processes for climate-neutral biomaterials, chemicals, feed and food, cosmetics, fuels and energy.“
04.-06.03.2025 JEC Innovation Award 2025 in the category „Building & Civil Engineering”
TechnoCarbon Technologies GbR and all participating partners were awarded the JEC Innovation Award 2025 in the “Building & Civil Engineering” category for a house wall made of the innovative carbon fiber stone composite (CFS) material. This material combines carbon-negative stone with bio-based carbon fibers. In this way, approx. 59 kg of CO2 can be stored per square meter of house wall, while a comparable concrete wall emits approx. 98 kg of CO2.
The house wall developed as part of the DACCUS project is based, among other things, on an algae-based carbon fiber developed at the Werner Siemens Chair of Synthetic Biotechnology at the Technical University of Munich, which was further developed as part of the GreenCarbon project.
As Prof. Dr. Thomas Brück was unable to attend for professional reasons, the award was presented at JEC World 2025 in Paris to Mr. Felix Melcher, who was also involved in the further development of the carbon fiber as a scientist in the GreenCarbon project.
10.02.2025 - European Biotechnology Magazine
The European Alliance for the Bioeconomy wants to bring back economic growth
07.04.2023 - Going for green: Biology for planetary sustainability
Biology for planetary sustainability
collections.plos.org/collection/going-for-green-biology-for-planetary-sustainability/
06.05.2019 Project MiKa
The MiKa project will start on 01.07.2019. The project is being funded by the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment for three years.
22.01.2019 - New project: Xylophon
The Xylophon project for the development of a biotechnological platform for the targeted use of xylan-rich biomass residue streams for the production of sustainable lubricant additives was launched on February 1, 2019. The project was acquired as part of the BMBF call for proposals “Technology - Biorefineries Initiative” in Module 3: Utilization concepts for by-products and by-products.
05.12.2018 - Presentation of the E-Awards
www.tum.de/die-tum/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/detail/article/35078/
13.10.15 - Algae cultivation center opened at the Ludwig Bölkow Campus
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has built a worldwide one-of-a-kind technical facility for algae cultivation at the Ludwig Bölkow Campus in Ottobrunn to the south of Munich in cooperation with Airbus Group. Efficient processes for producing biokerosene and chemical products from algae will be developed there. The AlgaeTec facility was inaugurated today in the presence of the Bavarian Minister of Education, Cultural Affairs, Science and the Arts, Dr. Ludwig Spaenle, Airbus Group’s Chief Technical Officer, Dr. Jean Botti, and TUM president, Professor Wolfgang A. Herrmann.
01.06.15 - High-power LEDs in microalgae research
Today, a handful of algae that are used commercially are contrasted with a large number of as yet uncharacterized and undetermined algae species that have great potential for future biotechnological applications. With new LED technologies, these microalgae can now be better screened on a laboratory scale and examined and optimized for use on an industrial scale. The combination of different LEDs has the advantage that a wide range of global irradiation scenarios can be simulated in the laboratory.
8.12.14 - Put algae in your tank
Because food crops are also used for energy production, millions of people are threatened by starvation. Algae could provide an alternative: They only need sunlight to grow, thrive in salty water on barren fields. But it is a major challenge to exactly reproduce sunlight in the laboratory. In collaboration with the Berlin LED manufacturer FUTURELED scientists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have now developed a methodology for simulating all kinds of light situations.
12.7.2011 - EU research funding aquired
Together with an international consortium of academic and industrial partners, the „Industrial Biocatalysis“ research group has successfully acquired EU research funding to develop new value adding product outlets from negative value fishery waste streams. The successful proposal was ranked first in its subject area within the competitive KBBE research initiative of the EU-FP7 funding program.
