Materials Colloquium 2020 – September, 9th, 16:30 Zoom Chiara Gattinoni (Materials Theory, D-MATL, ETH Zürich) A precise understanding of the surface and interface behavior of ferroelectric materials is necessary towards their use in promising applications such as memory storage or…

Special Edition of the Materials Colloquium 2020 July, 23rd, 15:00 Zoom Elsa Olivetti (MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering) Materials have long played a role in transitioning between eras. Now the materials community’s most pressing task is to decarbonize…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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.…