Feuerzangenbowle 2022
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SAM Pub Quiz Night – Topic: Diversity, Equality, Inclusion 2022
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Watching ultrafast motion of bound and free electrons in materials
Materials Colloquium 2020 – May, 13th, 16:30 Zoom Shovon Pal (Multifunctional Ferroic Materials) The goal of observing electrons in motion in real time took a leap forward with the use of short laser pulses. First we use a laser pulse…
Domain evolution in a magnetic metamaterial
Materials Colloquium 2020 – April, 22nd, 16:30 Zoom Sandra Skjærvø (Mesoscopic Systems) Artificial spin systems are arrays of nanomagnets that are fabricated through state-of-the-art lithography techniques. The nanomagnets interact through dipolar coupling and, depending on the arrangement of the nanomagnets, the system can…
High efficiency thin-film solar cells
Materials Colloquium 2020 – April, 1st, 16:30 Zoom Yaroslav Romanyuk (EMPA Dübendorf) Thin-film solar cells belong to the so-called second generation of solar cells, whereby a thin semiconductor absorber layer of 1…5 microns is used to fully absorb incoming sunlight.…
Engineering biodegradable polymers for 3D printing of personalized medical devices
Yinyin Bao (D-CHAB) Additive manufacturing (commonly called 3D printing) has attracted great attention due to its powerful ability to create complex 3D geometries with precise microarchitectures. In combination with medical imaging techniques, it might provide enormous opportunities to design customized…
Time and relative dimension in self-assembly: towards a systems chemistry of materials
Guido Panzarasa (Soft and Living Materials) Living systems can grow bottom-up a huge variety of materials with the highest degree of sophistication and an overall efficiency that remains largely unparalleled by artificial fabrication techniques. Moreover, living materials are adaptive i.e.…
Feuerzangenbowle 2020 + RFL Tour
Dear colleagues, Together with Materials Alumni (, the association representing the alumni of D-MATL), we have the chance to visit the robotic fabrication lab (RFL) of the NCCR (National Competence Center of Research in digital fabrication) on the campus Hönggerberg.…
Hidden order in disordered Prussian Blue analogues crystals
Arkadiy Simonov (D-MATL, Multifunctional Ferroic Materials) Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) are a broad and important family of microporous inorganic solids, famous for their gas storage, metal-ion immobilisation, proton conduction, and stimuli-dependent magnetic, electronic and optical properties, The family also includes…
Observing while it happens: In situ electron microscopy of dynamic processes
Marc Willinger (ScopeM) Modern analytical transmission electron microscopes are capable of delivering picometer resolved information about the geometric arrangement of atoms. It is possible to simultaneously obtain quantitative information about the elemental composition of a material and even to measure…