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- 9.1:Research Support
- 9.2:Logistics
- 9.3:Technology Transfer
  - 9.3.1:Technology Offers & AWI Innovations
    - 9.3.1.1:Scientific Instrumentation
    - 9.3.1.2:Marine Technology
    - 9.3.1.3:Biotechnology
    - 9.3.1.4:Bionic Lightweight Structures
    - 9.3.1.5:Mariculture in Offshore Windparks
    - 9.3.1.6:IT solutions
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  - 9.3.4:Patent listings
- 9.4:Shipping of Biota
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- 9.6:Purchasing department
10:Courses and Visiting Scientists
11:Work at the AWI
12:Friends of the AWI

Technology Offers & AWI Innovations

The following pages provide key informations about patents and innovations available from the Alfred Wegener Institute. Technologies are subdivided into the following items:

Scientific Instrumentation

Marine Technology

Botryllus LED beamer
Bottom water sampler - BoWaSnapper
Water sampler for ROVs and AUVs
Specific know-how for polar constructions
Sediment corer
Adjustable stairway
Hand tool for underwater connections
Dropping tool for ROVs
Viscoelastic antifouling
Biocide free antifouling (please request)
Biomimetic antifouling (please request)
Electrochemical antifouling
Static high pressure cylinder (in German only)
Safety switch for ground dropping tools
Propulsion for an underwater machine (please request)

Biotechnology

Bionic Lightweight Structures

A constantly growing set of innovations come from investigating the 3D structures of plankton organisms like diatoms. Follow the above link to learn more.