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The world’s first Carbon-concrete building CUBE opened at the end of 2022. This is an
impressive demonstration of how this building material can be used directly in practice.

This is where the future project "LAB – Living Art of Building" initiated by TU Dresden
comes in. In the future, this research center will provide answers to the pressing questions
in the construction industry in order to facilitate the use of carbon-concrete technology
and thus make an important contribution to climate neutrality. Employees from science and
technology will work closely with industry in the laboratory facilities – the only ones of their
kind in the world – to develop ideas and solutions for the development of new materials,
technologies, processes, and further digitalization on a large scale.

Energy and material properties are also central topics of sustainability research at
TU Dresden. The joint project GreenCap between TUD and other European universities
and stakeholders is developing high-performance and sustainable cylindrical supercapacitors
based on layered two-dimensional materials (2DMs) and ionic liquids. The project identifies
new high-end applications with comprehensive impact assessments of social, environmental,
and economic sustainability.

The OSens (Organic Sensors and Solar Cells) project at the Chair of Optoelectronics is
researching organic solar cells that are efficient, cost-effective, lightweight, flexible, semi-
transparent, and sustainable to produce. They therefore offer a key solution for a large-scale,
low-cost, and sustainable energy supply, as the energy payback time for organic solar cells is
significantly shorter than that of silicon-based cells.

The EffiziEntEE project (Efficient integration of high shares of renewable energies in
technically and economically integrated energy systems) is dedicated to the challenges of
fluctuating characteristics in the decentralized supply of renewable energies. The project is
a joint venture between TU Dresden and TU Hamburg. The intention, by linking the energy
sectors, is to develop options for absorbing, storing, and supplying surplus electrical energy
from renewable energy sources.

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