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…
Zoom: Magnetoelectric teleportation Manfred Fiebig (Multifunctional Ferroic Materials – D-MATL) Teleportation, the transfer of matter or energy between points in space without traversing the physical distance between them, is a common subject in science fiction. Aside from the fascination…
Zoom: Tuning polymer dispersity by photoinduced ATRP: monomodal distributions with ppm copper concentration Richard Whitfield (Polymeric Materials – D-MATL) Unlike natural biopolymers, such as DNA and proteins, synthetic polymers have a distribution of different molecular weight species. This distribution…
Zoom: From binary lipid-water phase diagrams to lipid nanoparticle-based mRNA COVID-19 vaccines Peter Walde (Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials – D-MATL) The aim of the talk is to emphasize that basic research on the aggregation behavior of amphiphilic lipids in…