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The sensors were developed within the FiberCheck project and allow the monitoring of rotor blades.

Another exhibit is an ICE train coupling for shun- ting rail cars. Conventional couplings are out of steal. The Chemnitz scientists in cooperation with the German company East4D GmbH, located in Dresden, presented a solution made out of carbon fibre reinforced plastic that is considerably lighter.

The Cetex Institute exhibited in cooperation with its German research partners KARL MAYER textile ma- chines, Obertshausen, and KARL MAYER Malimo textile machines, Chemnitz. They presented impact resistant and high strength hybrid materials.

The An Institute at Chemnitz University presented various materials that are combined under the Ce- Preg brand. They consist of unidirectionally aligned glass and carbon fibres in a thermoplastic matrix out of polypropylene or polyamide.

Department of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Technology, Chemnitz University of Technology: Marco Mueller, Phone + 49 (0) 371 531-38832: http://www.leichtbau.tu-chemnitz.de

Cetex Institute: Katrin Luther, Telephone + 49 (0) 371 5277-280: http://www.cetex.de

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Researchers from Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chine- se Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Graduate University, CAS, prepared organic nanowire wave- guides uniformly doped with a triplet sensitizer.

Self-modulated white light outcoupling was ob- tained at wire tips via bi-directional energy trans- fers in the propagation of exciton polaritons (EPs) (Advanced Matererials, 2011, 23, 1380-1384). This work indicates the existence of EPs in organic nano- wire waveguides, and provides enlightenment for other organic EP devices.

Energy transfers in the propagation of EPs, © ZHANG Chuang