In-person in HCI J4: Elastic Microphase Separation Produces Bi-continuous Materials Carla Fernández-Rico (Laboratory for Complex Materials — D-MATL) Phase separation is a fascinating physical process that is not only responsible for the internal organization of living cells but also a…
In-person in HCI G4: Machine Learning for the Inverse Design of (Meta-)Materials Dennis M. Kochmann (Mechanics and Materials Lab – D-MAVT) Multiscale material modeling has two primary goals: (i) understanding and predicant a material’s properties based on its small-scale architecture, and…
In-person in HCI J4: Better than meat with material science Patrick Rühs (Planted Foods AG) Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production and is associated with detrimental health effects and ethical issues. Despite these pressing challenges,…
In-person in HCI G3: 3D printing of adaptive, load-bearing hydrogels Esther Amstad (EPFL) Nature produces soft functional materials displaying exceptional mechanical properties. We are far from synthesizing soft synthetic analogues possessing a similar set of functionality and mechanical properties. This…
In-person in HCI G3: Foams and emulsions: Deforming bubbles and coalescing droplets with microscale flows Cari Dutcher (University of Minnesota) Soft interface-rich multiphase systems such as foams, emulsions, and aerosols are all around us. To characterize the multiphase system dynamics and…
In-person in HCI G3: Soft magnetic carpets for transport of solids, liquids and droplets Ahmet F. Demirörs (Complex Materials — D-MATL) One of the major interests of modern robotics is micromanipulation by active and adaptive materials. An example to such…
In-person in HCI J 4 or on Zoom: Birth of solids studied by liquid-phase electron microscopy Rolf Erni (Electron Microscopy Center — EMPA) There are thermodynamic reasons why solids are solid and why they can be crystalline. How this…
In-person in HCI J 4 or on Zoom: Accelerating the search for functional materials using machine learning methods Aria Mansouri (Materials Theory — D-MATL) I will show several examples of the application of machine learning in materials design. First,…
In-person in HCI J 4 or on Zoom: Sodium ion batteries: Opportunities and challenges Eldho Edison (Multifunctional Materials — D-MATL) Among the existing energy storage technologies, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have unmatched energy density and versatility. From the time of…
Zoom: Low-Dimensional Optoelectronics Lukas Novotny (Photonics Laboratory – D-ITET) To co-integrate photonics with electronics the length-scale of optical devices has to be reduced below the wavelength of light. To achieve this goal we interface optical antennas made of noble…