Fully solution-processed direct perovskite solar cells with a planar junction are realized by incorporating a cross-linked [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric styryl dendron ester layer as an electron extracting layer. Power conversion efficiencies close to 19% and an open-circuit voltage exceeding 1.1 V with negligible hysteresis are delivered. A perovskite film with superb optoelectronic qualities is grown, which reduces carrier recombination losses and hence increases V .

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Replication-defective (RD) recombinant simian virus 40 (SV40)-based gene delivery vectors hold a great potential for clinical applications because of their presumed non-immunogenicity and capacity to induce immune tolerance to the transgene products in humans. However, the clinical use of SV40 vectors has been hampered by the lack of a packaging cell line that produces replication-competent (RC) free SV40 particles in the vector production process. To solve this problem, we have adapted the current SV40 vector genome used for the production of vector particles and generated a novel Vero-based packaging cell line named SuperVero that exclusively expresses the SV40 large T antigen. SuperVero cells produce similar numbers of SV40 vector particles compared to the currently used packaging cell lines, albeit in the absence of contaminating RC SV40 particles. Our unique SV40 vector platform named SVac paves the way to clinically test a whole new generation of SV40-based therapeutics for a broad range of important diseases.

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In this paper we discuss improvements in mechanical, electrical and software design, which we did to become RoboCup 2014 world champion. Regarding hardware and control our progress includes first steps towards improved passing accuracy via velocity feedback control on the shooting lever. In terms of intelligent gameplay we have worked on creating possibilities for in-game optimization of strategic decisions. Via qr-code detection we can pass coaching instructions to our robots and with a basic machine learning algorithm success and failure after free-kicks is taken into account. In the final part of this paper we briefly discuss progress we have made in designing a four-wheeled soccer robot with a suspension system.