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Climate change and the increasing shortage of raw materials require urgent adjustments to society‘s way of working and living. Micro- and nanotechnology and technologies based on this, such as microfluidics, photonics or sensor technology, offer enormous potential in the development of solutions to these global problems.

Was ist Ihr Vorsatz für das neue Jahr? Vielleicht auch mehr Aktivität in Sachen "Nachhaltigkeit"? Das Thema ist immerhin in aller Munde. Überall wird darüber geredet, dass wir „nachhaltiger“ Leben und Arbeiten müssen, um unsere Umwelt zu erhalten, den Klimawandel zu bremsen und unsere endlichen Ressourcen zu schonen. Aber: Was ist eigentlich genau unter „Nachhaltigkeit“ zu verstehen?

Cancer diagnostics, analysis, sensors and, of course, cartridges-all these are terms that gather around research at Fraunhofer IMM. As one of the pioneers in the use of microfluidics and the associated system technology for handling liquid volumes in the micro- to picoliter range, the so-called lab-on-a-chip technology, the Mainz-based institute has been developing microfluidic systems as well as new analysis methods for analytics and life science applications for more than 20 years.