Lecture Hall HCI J7, 16:30 Ainoa Guinart Planellas Complex Materials, D-MATL, ETH Zürich Light-driven molecular machines drive biological membranes out of equilibrium Mechanical forces generated by the cytoskeleton and proteinaceous assemblies play a central role in shaping biological membranes during…
Lecture Hall HCI J6, 16:30 Tatiana Akhmetshina Laboratory for Metal Physics and Technology, ETH Zürich Smart Metals in Medicine: Designing Implants that Support and Disappear Millions of patients undergo secondary surgeries to remove permanent metal implants after fracture healing. Biodegradable…
Lecture Hall HCI J7, 16:30 Prof. Arkadiy Simonov Laboratory for Disordered Materials, ETH Zürich Gas Storage in Disordered Materials Gas storage materials are typically studied through average structure measurements, but this approach misses important structural changes during material activation and…
Lecture Hall HCI J6, 16:30 Dr. Jürgen Schawe Laboratory of Metal Physics, ETH Zürich Calorimetry on Atomic and Molecular Systems in the Millisecond Scale Conventional differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is a standard technique for analyzing compounds and materials. It is…
Lecture Hall HCI J6 Dr. Sebastian Kahlert Office of ETH Sustainability, ETH Zürich ETH Sustainability and the ETH Net Zero Programme At ETH Zurich, we are working to significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. ETH Net Zero is…
Lecture Hall HCI J4 Dr. Hyun Suk Wang Laboratory for Polymeric Materials , ETH Depolymerization of Commercial Polymethacrylates Triggered by Visible Light The reversion of vinyl polymers with C–C backbones to their monomers represents an ideal path to alleviate the…
The 7th edition of the Materials Colloquium 2024 will take place next Tuesday November 5th, at 4.30 PM in HCI G3. Robert Style (Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces) How freezing breaks soft materials It is a common belief that damage caused by freezing is due to water’s…
Join us for a drink or two at our joint Halloween Party with the other Staff Associations of the HCI. Friday, the 1st of November starting at 6 pm at Lochness in HXE.
We are organising a running dinner on the 4th of October, together with our friends from AMB, PSA and VAC. For the ones that don’t know what a running dinner is, don’t worry, there is no running involved. You pair…
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…