V456_2026 - HiPOLE - Laboratory Equipment including Planning (Lab2Fab)

As one of 18 centers of the Helmholtz Association, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB) employs around 1,400 staff at its Berlin-Wannsee and Berlin-Adlershof sites – and has a total budget of approximately 110 million euros. The HZB works closely with universities and universities of applied sciences in Berlin-Brandenburg. The HZB researches solutions for a climate-neutral society. Researchers develop and optimize efficient and affordable materials for solar cells, batteries, and catalysts. These energy materials are essential building blocks on the path to a CO2-neutral and secure energy supply. The most important tool is the BESSY II X-ray source, which provides intense light in the soft X-ray range. This is used to investigate the structure of energy and quantum materials and their functionality. The HZB also researches new concepts for accelerator-based X-ray sources and develops new instruments with ever-higher measurement accuracy. In 2023, the HZB and Friedrich Schiller University Jena founded the Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications (HIPOLE) in Jena as a permanent institution of the HZB. Leading expertise in the fields of energy storage and photovoltaics, polymer materials, artificial intelligence, and sustainable chemistry could thus be bundled to advance the accelerated knowledge-based research of sustainable polymer materials for scalable energy technologies. HIPOLE Jena is based on three research pillars: • Material design and synthesis • Scalability, prototypes, and transfer, and • Characterization, theory, modeling, and data sciences. The focus is not only on basic research but also on the transfer of research results. Currently, around 50 employees are working at HIPOLE Jena. The research work of the scientists at HIPOLE Jena, supported by seven associated members of the FSU Jena and the HZB, can be assigned to five research areas: 1. Polymer Redox Flow Batteries, 2. Polymer-based Thin-Film Batteries, 3. Photovoltaics, 4. Functional Self-Healing Materials, and 5. Sustainable Chemistry. The Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications Jena (HIPOLE Jena) intends to procure laboratory equipment including planning (Lab2Fab). Three laboratory rooms are to be equipped with laboratory furniture in ready-to-occupy laboratory areas in Lab2Fab in Jena.