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We are very happy for the Award ON ZIENTZIA entitled “Argiztapen artifizial… naturala?” of Alain Sorazu, Alfredo Rodríguez, Kimberlyn Fonseca Pérez and Morgane Goyens, students of the máster de ilustración científica at the UPV/EHU (Spain). This young group was inspired by our European Project ARTIBLED – https://bfm.cs.tum.de/research/artibled/?lang=en. The jury has highlighted “it is a magnificent work of animation that perfectly integrates different techniques and has been able to clearly communicate a current research using an attractive aesthetic, and successfully combining music and effects”. This is a great example of the relevance of ARTIBLED to set in the sustainable technological future that we are looking forward.

Marco won the ‘Wissenschaftspreis Straubing 2022’. This price is awarded to students and scientists working at the Competence Center for Renewable Resources and have drawn attention to themselves through special achievements and outstanding dissertation or master’s thesis. Marco was awarded for his master’s thesis focused on the implementation of new fluorescent proteins and biopolymers in hybrid LEDs under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa at the Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials (TUM Campus Straubing).

Rubén had the opportunity to give a small insight into our research to a wide audience. He was featured in the show “alles wissen” on hr-fernsehen.

Here you can find the link to view his part in the show:

Rubén has been accepted as European Climate Pact Ambassador with a strong commitment in education to all public on climate action. In this context, we have already prepared a TUM Campus Straubing pledge. The range of pledges is extremely varied, seeking to address climate change, environmental degradation and, more broadly, sustainability.

You can check more details in:

https://europa.eu/climate-pact/ambassadors_en

https://europa.eu/climate-pact/pledges/organisation-and-group-pledging/non-profit-pledges/technical-university-munich-campus-straubing_en

Rubén has shown our recent results in bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes and solar cells in the BioINSP conference https://dgm.de/bioinsp/2022/.

Fruitful scientific bio-inspired discussions and new collaborations.

Special thanks to Prof. Zollfrank and Petra Peklo as well as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM) for organizing this excellent conference!!

Congratulations to Sara for her last contribution ´´Designing Artificial Fluorescent Proteins: Squaraine-LmrR Biophosphors for High Performance Deep-Red Biohybrid Light Emitting Diodes´´, about a new protein-dye system for long-living and highly efficient deep-red Bio-HLEDs. Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202111381

Rubén has discussed our recent results in bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes and solar cells in the GIF conference https://www.moflabunito.com/gif2021.

Fruitful scientific discussions and new collaborations.

Special thanks to Nadia, Andrea, Matteo, Lucia, Polyssena, Marco, Ivana for organizing this excellent conference!!

Our recent work entitled ‘Biogenic fluorescent protein-silk fibroin phosphors for high performing light-emitting diodes’ (Mater. Horiz., 2020, 7, 1790-1800) has been specially selected by the Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards to be featured in a Horizons Community Board collection focusing on optical and photonic materials and devices.

This is a great honor that highlights the high level of interest and quality of our work!

You will find more details here:

Sara was awarded the Best Presentation Award for her talk “Towards highly stable eco-friendly squaraine-protein phosphors for Bio-HLEDs”, held on the 3rd of June 2021 at EMRS Spring 2021 Meeting.

The topics at the short lecture evening on Thursday, November 11 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. are as diverse as the focal points of the work at KoNaRo – Competence Center for Renewable Resources. Under the title “KoNaRo: Straubing researches for sustainability. For 20 years”, six speakers will present their forward-looking topics.

Bio-based LEDs are the topic of Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa from the TUM Campus Straubing. LEDs are considered the future of artificial lighting and are particularly popular because of their low power consumption. But are they really a sustainable technology that our grandchildren will still be using? After all, they also come with some disadvantages, such as problematic ingredients. A more sustainable alternative could be protein-based LEDs, which Prof. Costa will present in the lecture.