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The "FutureHotel - Extended Realities" report discusses the appearance, functionality, advantages, disadvantages, and potential of the Metaverse in various sectors, particularly the hospitality industry. The purpose of the report is to decipher the beneficial Metaverse characteristics and present the foreseeable and expected future developments as a result of Metaverse technology. Being introduced to the intricate topic of the Metaverse, the reader is made aware of particular use cases, applicable in distinctive industries and sectors. The report covers the following topics: - Introduction to the Metaverse - Metaverse market overview, potential and future scenarios - Metaverse technologies - Creativity, visualization and experiences in the Metaverse - Metaverse use cases - Business development with the Metaverse ecosystem - Metaverse applications in different business segments - Metaverse use cases and applications in a FutureHotel The reader will gain insights in the field of future business models and business development and should be able to draw specific conclusions for both individual and business purposes. The study aims to attract people from the hospitality industry, Metaverse developers, business intelligence specialists, recruitment, and human resource professionals, as well as sales and marketing managers.The presented research is a result of the seventh project phase (2022-2025) of the FutureHotel Innovation Network under the leadership of Fraunhofer IAO.

This report discusses the functionality and potential of Non-Fungible Tokens for various sectors in the context of token economy, crypto, blockchain and the Metaverse. It is intended to clarify for which purposes the characteristics of Non-Fungible Tokens can be profited from and which developments can be expected in the future due to the NFT technology. The presented research insights are a result of the FutureHotel Innovation Network under the leadership of Fraunhofer IAO. The report covers the following topics: - Envisioning NFTs in a token economy- Introduction into Non-Fungible Tokens - Explaining NFT in the context of blockchain, web3, highlighting controversies, sustainability and trends - NFT use cases - NFT applications in different business segments - NFT applications in a FutureHotel - Overview of relevant studies and books Readers should be able to draw concrete conclusions for themselves and their companies with immediate relevance for action. They should also be slowly introduced to this complex topic which will undoubtedly become increasingly important in the upcoming years.

The performance limit of monocrystalline silicon solar cells is almost reached. Onlymarginal effects are limiting the excess carrier lifetime of nowadays used materials.Nonetheless it is interesting to investigate and characterize the limiting effects toimprove the performance even further and to deepen the understanding, enabling newapproaches and novel cell structures.This thesis tries to characterize limiting defect in high standard Gallium doped siliconvia lifetime spectroscopy. To assess the validity of the results, the limits of thiscommonly used method (lifetime spectroscopy) are analyzed by evaluation of simulatedlifetime data. Further, a guideline for future lifetime evaluations is given which canimprove the outcome of the complex evaluation and helps differentiate between bulkand surface effects.

Quantum TechnologiesThe next generation of quantum technologies holds immense potential for innovation in our economy, society as well as many industries and is highly important for Germany and Europe. Entirely new and unexplored solutions could unfold for improving efficiency, sustainability, security, telecommunication, computation and medicine, for example. Fraunhofer is an essential partner of the European industry and, at the same time, acts as an integrator and multiplier of disruptive technology leaps. As such, we are committed to the efficient and sustainable transfer of scientific knowledge into applications for the benefit of society - which is why new quantum technologies represent an important research field in our portfolio. In this book, Fraunhofer presents its knowledge and experience on quantum technology innovations in the areas of sensing, imaging, communication and computing, as well as their scientific foundations and applications.The EditorProf. Dr.-Ing. Reimund Neugebauer is the 10th president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. He took of-fice on October 1, 2012. Under his leadership, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has grown by approximately 10,000 employees and has increased its budget by around 1 billion euros.

Low-Temperature District Heating Implementation Guidebook. This guidebook was written between 2018 and 2021 by seventeen authors within the IEA DHC/CHP TS2 annex. The input came from 250+ literature references and 165 inspiration initiatives to obtain lower temperatures in buildings and heat distribution networks. The author group wrote 40 internal documents about early implementations of low-temperature district heating. Fifteen of these early implementations are presented in this guidebook. The guidebook contains aggregated information about the main economic drivers for low-temperature district heating, how to obtain lower temperatures in heating systems inside existing and new buildings, and how to obtain lower temperatures in existing and new heat distribution networks. An applied study of a campus system in Darmstadt shows the possibility of reducing temperatures in an existing heat distribution network with rather high temperatures. The competitiveness of low-temperature district heating is explored by analysing business models and heat distribution costs. Early adopters of low-temperature district heating are presented by examples and by identified transition strategies. Five groups of network configurations with fourteen variants are presented to be used for low-temperature district heating. Finally, all 165 identified inspiration initiatives and all 137 locations mentioned are listed.

Die Biologische Transformation der Wertschöpfung wird den Produktionsstandort Deutschland massiv verändern, ein Sachverhalt, der im Zuge der BIOTRAIN-Voruntersuchung erstmal umfangreich analysiert wurde. Im Ergebnis zeichnet die Voruntersuchung ein ganzheitliches Bild des Status-Quo Deutschlands, der zu erwartenden Umwälzungen, der Basistechnologien sowie der Handlungsfelder dieser Transformation.