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Portrait: Technical University of Munich – 150 Years culture of excellence1 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 | |
| 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
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.
- Chemical Science 11, 2895–2906 (2020). doi: 10.1039/c9sc06145b
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SARS-CoV-2 entry factors are highly expressed in nasal epithelial cells together with innate immune genes
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2020-04-23
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
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(76.75)
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Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany
(72.42)
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Max Planck Society, Germany
(60.56)
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Leibniz Association, Germany
(18.86)
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Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
(16.14)
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Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany
(9.87)
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Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany
(8.37)
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University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany
(7.81)
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University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany
(6.23)
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University of Regensburg (UR), Germany
(5.73)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (1851 total)
- Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
- Foreign institution
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Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
(16.03)
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French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
(12.57)
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National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
(11.50)
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University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)
(8.74)
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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
(7.17)
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Stanford University, United States of America (USA)
(6.22)
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Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)
(5.23)
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University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland
(4.88)
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
(4.70)
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University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)
(4.61)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Germany
- ALICE Collaboration, Switzerland
- Bavarian NMR Center (BNMRZ), Germany
- Belle Collaboration, Japan
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich (BCCN), Germany
- Borexino Collaboration, Italy
- COMPASS Collaboration, Switzerland
- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Germany
- Centre for Neural Engineering (CfNE), Australia
- Cluster of Excellence - e-conversion, Germany
- Consortium for Refractive Error and Myopia (CREAM), Netherlands
- DZHK Partner Site Munich, Germany
- DZIF Partner Site Munich, Germany
- DZNE Site Munich, Germany
- Double Chooz Collaboration, France
- EchoGen Consortium, Netherlands
- Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO), United States of America (USA)
- Excellence Cluster Origins, Germany
- Global BPGen Consortium, United States of America (USA)
- HMGU Clinical Cooperation Group Antigen-specific Immunotherapy, Germany
- HMGU Clinical Cooperation Group Immune Monitoring, Germany
- HMGU-TUM Clinical Cooperation Group Nutrigenomics and Type-2-Diabetes Mellitus, Germany
- Hall A Collaboration, United States of America (USA)
- Helmholtz Virtual Institute of Complex Molecular Systems in Environmental Health (HICE), Germany
- Human Brain Project (HBP), Switzerland
- IceCube Collaboration, United States of America (USA)
- Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI), Germany
- Institute of Virology, Germany
- International Brachypodium Initiative (IBI), United States of America (USA)
- International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Life Sciences (IMPRS-LS), Germany
- International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (IMSGC), United States of America (USA)
- Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (Leibniz-LSB@TUM), Germany
- Max Planck School Matter to Life, Germany
- Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), Germany
- Munich GeoCenter (MGC), Germany
- Munich Heart Alliance (MHA), Germany
- Munich Quantum Center (QMC), Germany
- Straubing Centre of Science (WZS), Germany
- TUM CREATE, Singapore
- The AMD Gene Consortium, Germany
- The Cardiogenics Project, Germany
- The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA), Italy
- The LAGUNA-LBNO Collaboration, Switzerland
- The QT Interval International GWAS Consortium (QT-IGC), United States of America (USA)
- Universitary Center of Health Sciences at Klinikum Augsburg (UNIKA-T), Germany
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