Straining films: a versatile design tool for ferroic materials Kathrin Dörr (Martin Luther University Halle, Germany) There is nearly no strain-free thin film on a substrate, and such films are a foundation of modern technologies. Therefore, it has been learned…
The assembly of non-equilibrium biologically-inspired materials Michael Murrell (Laboratory of Living Matter, Yale University) Incorporating growth, adaptation and responsiveness to external cues remain as grand challenges in materials engineering and design. In living cells, the cell cytoskeleton is a dynamic…
Make Science More Diverse, Equitable, and Open to All – Women in STEM PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a movie laying out the situation of women in STEM. Join us for a narration of a journey full of struggle and harassment…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – December, 2nd, 16:30 Zoom Laura Alvarez (Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, D-MATL, ETHZ) Programming the dynamics of artificial microswimmers provides a benchmark towards the realization of smart microscale devices. Motile microorganisms, such as bacteria, have…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – December, 2nd, 16:30 Zoom Marta Gibert (Physik-Institut, University of Zurich) The large variety of functionalities exhibited by transition metal oxides places them as highly attractive materials both from a fundamental and applied point of view. Furthermore,…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – November, 4th, 16:30 Zoom Sebastian Stepanow (Magnetism and Interface Physics, D-MATL, ETHZ) Magnetic resonance techniques are widely employed for probing the electronic and magnetic properties of solids, liquids, and molecules as well as for their elemental and…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – November, 4th, 16:30 Zoom Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, EPFL) Solar energy harvesting constitutes of the technological paths to replace production of electrical power by burning fossil fuels. Some compound semiconductors such as…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – October, 7th, 16:30 Zoom Ahmad Rafsanjani (SDU Biorobotics, University of Southern Denmark) Soft robotics surged a bioinspired evolution in robot design through their highly deformable structure by enabling robots to interact adaptively with complex environments and…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – October, 7th, 16:30 Zoom Brendan Bulfin (Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers, D-MAVT, ETH Zürich) Metal oxide redox cycles offer a pathway for converting heat into chemical energy via the thermal reduction of a metal oxide. The…
Dear members of SAM, We are happy to invite you to the SAM General Assembly this year via ZOOM (see link below) to vote a new board, discuss association matters and bring in ideas for the coming year. The SAM…