Technical University of Munich (TUM)
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Portrait: Technical University of Munich – 150 Years culture of excellence

1 July 2019 - 30 June 2020

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Technical University of Munich (TUM) published between 1 July 2019 - 30 June 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count Share
599 167.35

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject Count Share
Physical Sciences 261 59.23
ACS Nano 2 0.26
Advanced Functional Materials 10 2.08
Advanced Materials 3 1.92
Applied Physics Letters 13 3.99
European Physical Journal C 27 8.17
Journal of High Energy Physics 55 19.11
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 1 0.04
Nano Letters 5 0.95
Nature 6 0.27
Nature Communications 24 5.02
Nature Photonics 2 0.05
Nature Physics 5 0.52
Physical Review A 2 0.05
Physical Review B 17 3.62
Physical Review D 7 0.15
Physical Review Letters 57 9.41
Physical Review X 7 1.62
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 4 1.04
Science 5 0.60
Science Advances 4 0.19
The Astrophysical Journal Letters 5 0.15
Life Sciences 226 42.35
Chemistry 147 68.73
Earth & Environmental Sciences 28 7.80

Highlight of the month

Light option for machine learning

© Berkah/Getty

© Berkah/Getty

Highly efficient solar cells optimized for harvesting ambient light in indoor environments could power a smart Internet of Things (IoT) network.

A team that included Technical University of Munich scientists has developed cells that capture energy from fluorescence lights with efficiencies of up to 34%. They achieved this by developing a dye-sensitized photovoltaic cell tailor made for harvesting the wavelengths of light available indoors and by suppressing energy losses from electron-back transfer in the cell.

The cells could capture enough energy to power autonomous IoT devices with artificial-intelligence capabilities. A wireless network of these IoT devices could use intermittently available ambient light to power an artificial neural network that demonstrated machine learning, a type of computation usually carried out on large servers.

Photovoltaic cells attuned to capturing ambient light could power a new generation of smart IoT devices, the researchers conclude.

Supported content

  1. Chemical Science 11, 2895–2906 (2020). doi: 10.1039/c9sc06145b

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1 July 2019 - 30 June 2020

International vs. domestic collaboration by Share

  • 39.69% Domestic
  • 60.31% International

Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.

Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (187 total)

  • Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
  • Domestic institution
  1. Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany (76.75)
    40.39
    36.36
  2. Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany (72.42)
    39.41
    33.01
  3. Max Planck Society, Germany (60.56)
    27.44
    33.12
  4. Leibniz Association, Germany (18.86)
    14.44
    4.43
  5. Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Germany (16.14)
    11.58
    4.56
  6. Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany (9.87)
    5.46
    4.41
  7. Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany (8.37)
    5.54
    2.83
  8. University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany (7.81)
    5.18
    2.62
  9. University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany (6.23)
    2.52
    3.71
  10. University of Regensburg (UR), Germany (5.73)
    3.33
    2.39

Top 10 international collaborators by Share (1851 total)

  • Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
  • Foreign institution
  1. Harvard University, United States of America (USA) (16.03)
    5.37
    10.65
  2. French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (12.57)
    8.15
    4.42
  3. National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy (11.50)
    6.34
    5.16
  4. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) (8.74)
    4.02
    4.73
  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China (7.17)
    4.10
    3.06
  6. Stanford University, United States of America (USA) (6.22)
    1.78
    4.43
  7. Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) (5.23)
    2.95
    2.27
  8. University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland (4.88)
    2.59
    2.29
  9. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland (4.70)
    2.62
    2.08
  10. University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK) (4.61)
    2.61
    2.01

Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.

Technical University of Munich (TUM)
TUM Walter Schottky Institut (WSI)
TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability
TUM Department of Architecture
TUM Biomimetic Catalysis Group
TUM Catalysis Research Center (CRC)
TUM Chair for Theoretical Chemistry
TUM Chair in Biotechnology
TUM Chair of Analytical Chemistry / Institute of Hydrochemistry and Chemical Balneology (IWC)
TUM Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry
TUM Chair of Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy
TUM Chair of Inorganic Chemistry
TUM Chair of Inorganic Chemistry with Focus on Novel Materials
TUM Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry (AMC)
TUM Wacker-Institute for Silicon Chemistry
TUM Chair of Organic Chemistry I
TUM Chair of Pharmaceutical Radiochemistry
TUM Chair of Physical Chemistry
TUM Chair of Synthesis and Characterization of Innovative Materials
TUM Chair of Technical Chemistry I
TUM Chair of Technical Electrochemistry (TEC)
TUM Crystal Chemistry of Functional Materials Group
TUM Chair of Biochemistry
TUM Industrial Biocatalysis Group (IBC)
TUM Werner Siemens Chair of Synthetic Biotechnology (WSSB)
TUM Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodäsie (FESG)
TUM Centre for Building Materials (CBM)
TUM Chair of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy (IAPG)
TUM Chair of Engineering Geology
TUM Chair of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering
TUM Chair of Hydrogeology
TUM Analytical Research Group
TUM German Geodetic Research Institute (DGFI)
TUM Landslide Research Group
TUM Chair for Biological Imaging (CBI)
TUM Institute for Nanoelectronics
TUM Molecular Electronics
TUM Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures and Augmented Reality (CAMPAR)
TUM Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
TUM Chair of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems
TUM Institute for Computational Mechanics (LNW)
TUM Institute of Astronautics (LRT)
TUM Institute of Biochemical Engineering
TUM Institute of Medical and Polymer Engineering
TUM Zentrum für Nanotechnologie und Nanomaterialien (ZNN)
TUM Chair of Biomedical Physics (E17)
TUM Chair of Molecular Nanosciences and Chemical Physics of Interfaces
TUM Chair of Physics of Functional Multilayers
TUM Chair of Physics of Synthetic Biological Systems (E14)
TUM Chair of Theoretical Biophysics (T38)
TUM Chair of Theoretical Physics-Theory of Complex Biosystems
TUM Computational Center for Particle and Astrophysics (C2PAP)
TUM Institute for Functional Materials
TUM Chair of Cellular Biophysics (E27)
TUM Dietz Laboratory for Biomolecular Design
TUM Physics of Energy Conversion and Storage Group (ECS)
TUM Lehrstuhl für Experimentalphysik zur Topologie korrelierter Systeme
TUM Soft Matter Physics (E13)
TUM Theoretical Physics of the Early Universe Group (T70)
TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences
TUM Center for Doctoral Studies in Informatics and its Applications (CeDoSIA)
TUM International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE)
TUM Cluster of Excellence - Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)
TUM Chair for Microbial Ecology
TUM Munich School of Bioengineering (MSB)
TUM Herzig Group
TUM Radiochemistry Munich (RCM)
TUM Department of Chemical Technology Analysis
TUM Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)
TUM Peter Löscher Chair of Business Ethics
TUM Lehrstuhl für Botanik
TUM Lehrstuhl für Ernährungsphysiologie
TUM Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (BayBioMS)
TUM Center for Diet and Disease (CDD)
TUM Chair Animal Physiology and Immunology
TUM Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management
TUM Chair of Analytical Food Chemistry (ALC)
TUM Chair of Animal Breeding
TUM Chair of Biogenic Polymers
TUM Chair of Biotechnology of Horticultural Crops
TUM Chair of Biotechnology of Natural Products
TUM Chair of Chemistry of Biogenic Resources
TUM Chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science
TUM Chair of Genomoriented Bioinformatics
TUM Chair of Molecular Nutritional Medicine
TUM Chair of Nutrition and Immunology
TUM Chair of Phytopathology
TUM Chair of Plant Systems Biology
TUM Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics
TUM Chair of Reproductive Biotechnology
TUM Institute of Experimental Genetics (IEG)
TUM Institute of Forest Management
TUM Institute of Silviculture
TUM Chair of Biological Chemistry
TUM Chair of Biopolymer Chemistry
TUM Chair of Developmental Genetics
TUM Chair of Experimental Genetics
TUM Chair for Terrestrial Ecology
TUM Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology
TUM Chair of Soil Science
TUM Plant Biodiversity Research Group
TUM Research Department Nutrition and Food Sciences
TUM Professorship of Plant Developmental Biology
TUM Chair of Livestock Biotechnology
TUM Chair of Zoology
TUM Institute of Forest Growth and Yield Science
TUM School of Management
TUM Institut für Medizinische Statistik und Epidemiologie (IMSE)
TUM Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie am Biederstein
TUM Chair of Metabolic Diseases
TUM Chair of Neurogenetics
TUM Department of Cardiovascular Diseases
TUM Institute for Translational Cardiac Surgery (INSURE)
TUM Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects
TUM Institute of Laboratory Medicine
TUM Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene
TUM Institute of Neuroscience / Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology (IFN)
TUM Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology (IPT)
TUM Institut für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie
TUM Institut für Klinische Chemie und Pathobiochemie
TUM Institut für Toxikologie und Umwelthygiene
TUM Klinik für Anaesthesiologie
TUM Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology
TUM Klinik und Poliklinik für Orthopädie und Sportorthopädie
TUM Center for Translational Cancer Research (TranslaTUM)
TUM Department for Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
TUM Department for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine (PRS)
TUM Department of Dermatology and Allergy
TUM Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
TUM Department of Internal Medicine II (Gastroenterology)
TUM Department of Internal Medicine III (Hematooncology/Oncology)
TUM Department of Neurology
TUM Department of Neuroradiology
TUM Department of Nuclear Medicine
TUM Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
TUM Department of Surgery
TUM Diabetes Study Group
TUM Institute of Experimental Oncology and Therapy Research (IEO)
TUM Institute of Molecular Immunology and Experimental Oncology (IMI)
TUM Biobank
TUM Institute of Virology
TUM Neuroimaging Center (TUM-NIC)
TUM Roman-Herzog-Krebszentrum - Comprehensive Cancer Center (RHCCC)

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