Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

The present invention provides a alcohol oxidoreductase polypeptide converting 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furoic acid (HMFA) to 5-formyl-2-furoic acid (FFA) with a Km value of less than 15 mM selected from the group consisting of a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein (a) in said polypeptide amino acids at positions F412, F459 and W561 are V, W or R and A, respectively; or (d) in said polypeptide amino acids at positions F412, L560 and W561 are V, R or W and A, respectively; or (g) in said polypeptide amino acids at positions F412, L455 and W561 are V, W or R and A, respectively; preferably in the polypeptide (a) or (d) amino acids at positions F412, F459, L560 and W561 are V, W or R, R or W and A, respectively and this polypeptide converts FFA to 2,5 furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA).

The invention relates to a device (100) for being used with a hydrogen storage container (50) and/or for controlling a gaseous phase of hydrogen (6b) being stored in the storage container (50), comprising: - adsorption means (10) comprising adsorbent material (13), the adsorbent material (13) being configured to adsorb hydrogen; and - temperature controlling means (20) configured to control a temperature of the adsorption means (10) and/or the adsorbent material (13). Further, the invention relates to a storage system (200) for hydrogen, and a method for controlling a gaseous phase of hydrogen (6b) being stored in a storage volume for hydrogen.

The present invention relates to a method for filling a target liquid hydrogen storage vessel (200), the method comprising:- providing a mixture (30) of liquid hydrogen (10) and adsorbent material (20) in a preparatory liquid hydrogen storage vessel (100), the adsorbent material (20) being configured to adsorb hydrogen; and- conveying, at least in part, the mixture (30) of liquid hydrogen (10) and adsorbent material (20) from the preparatory liquid hydrogen storage vessel (100) to the target liquid hydrogen storage vessel (200).Further, the present invention relates to a hydrogen storage system (500).

The present invention concerns a method for cocultivation of microorganisms in particular for producing bacterial cellulose and biomass including the steps of: (a) Providing a liquid culture of at least a first microorganism which is an oxygen producing microorganism; (b) Providing a liquid culture of at least a second microorganism which is capable of producing bacterial cellulose; (c) Providing a dispersant; (d) Preparing a mixture of the liquid cultures of step (a), step (b) and of the dispersant provided in step (c); (e) coculturing the mixture obtained in step (d) to generate an engineered living material, as well as a bioreactor comprising the engineered living material. In another aspect, the present invention concerns an engineered living material comprising a first microorganism which is an oxygen producing microorganism, and a second microorganism which is capable of producing bacterial cellulose, and a dispersant. Further, the present invention concerns an engineered living material comprising a first microorganism which is an oxygen producing microorganism, a second microorganism which is capable of producing bacterial cellulose, and a dispersant.

The present invention relates to a method of analyzing multiple samples, said method using a system comprising a plurality of chromatographic columns connected to one mass spectrometer, said method comprising loading different samples onto different chromatographic columns at different times, followed by elution, wherein the shortest time that elapses between successive starts of elution from said columns within said system min(delta t) is shorter than the shortest time required for elution min(t(elution)).

The present invention relates to a method for identifying the linkages between nucleosomes by DNA linkers in a cluster of nucleosomes and to a method for identifying the path of DNA along nucleosomes. The invention further relates to a method for determining the nucleosome distance pattern of a patch of chromatin and to a method for identifying the genomic position of a patch of chromatin. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for determining the nucleotide sequence of DNA. Furthermore, the invention relates to a computer program, a data processing system, and a computer-readable medium for carrying out the steps of the methods according to the invention.

Systems (100) and methods are provided for motion generation. In some examples, a method includes extracting a plurality of motion segments (102), each motion segment including a series of frames, training a diffusion model based on each motion segment of the plurality of motion segments to generate a base motor model (104), incorporating a control adaptor (106) into one or more transformer blocks of the base motor model (104), and training the control adaptor (106) by using the control input to obtain a taskspecific adapted model.

The present invention is directed towards catalysts comprising iron-containing particles, as well as methods of completing hydrodeoxygenation reactions utilising such catalysts. In particular, a method employing such catalysts to complete the hydrodeoxygenation of esters is claimed. The catalysts and methods of the present invention improve upon the disadvantages associated with literature hydrodeoxygenation reactions and in particular, allow hydrodeoxygenation reactions under mild conditions with good substrate scope, high yields and high selectivity.

A method for training a 3D occupancy prediction network , said method comprising a. Obtaining (S1) a plurality of input images (Ik) of a scene, b. Extracting (S3), a relative depth information for 3D points of a target image (Itarget), c. Obtaining (S4), an absolute depth information (Dtarget) of said target image (Itarget), d. Obtaining (S5) a reconstructed target image using said absolute depth information (Dtarget), e. Obtaining (S6), semantic information of pixels of said target image (Itarget) and semantic information of pixels of said reconstructed target image (Îtarget), f. Selecting (S7) pixels (u') of said target image whose semantic information is the same in said target image (Itarget) and in said reconstructed target image (Îtarget), g. optimizing (S8) a semantic loss ( L sem − refine <img class="EMIRef" id="6f4b85ad-6654-4121-9a00-e379a7f9b3e4-ia01" /> ) function as a binary cross entropy applied on patches ( S i ′ u i ′ <img class="EMIRef" id="6f4b85ad-6654-4121-9a00-e379a7f9b3e4-ia02" /> ) and reconstructed patches ( S ^ i ′ u i ′ <img class="EMIRef" id="6f4b85ad-6654-4121-9a00-e379a7f9b3e4-ia03" /> ) of said selected pixels, h. optimizing (S9) a depth supervision loss ( L depth <img class="EMIRef" id="6f4b85ad-6654-4121-9a00-e379a7f9b3e4-ia04" /> ) function

Disclosed is an electrostatic gliding transducer (100) for converting energy between an electrostatic energy form and a mechanical energy form, which comprises a stator (102) and a glider (112). The stator (102) comprising a first electrode (104) on a first solid dielectric element (106). The glider (112) comprises a second electrode (114) on a second solid dielectric element (116). The first and second dielectric element (106, 116) are arranged between the two electrodes (104, 114) and spaced apart from each other with a clearance (126) filled with a dielectric liquid (110) providing for a hydrodynamic lubrication. The electrostatic gliding transducer (100) is adapted for a moving of the glider (112) relative to the stator (102) along a direction of movement with the second dielectric element (116) gliding hydrodynamically on the dielectric liquid (110) along the first dielectric element (106) in an activated state of the transducer (100).