Celestino Padeste (PSI) Photon sources such as synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) offer great opportunities for the material sciences. I will present some examples from the field of polymer technology including our work on lithographic polymer grafting, which…
Henning Galinski (Laboratory for Nanometallurgy, D-MATL) Today, optical metamaterials and metasurfaces are produced using lithography techniques and typically cannot be scaled above the gram level. In addition, the optical response of metamaterials is often designed for a specific polarization, which…
Francesco Stellacci (EPFL) The vast majority of biological molecules (proteins, lipids, etc.) are amphiphilic, indeed often their water interface presents hydrophobic and hydrophilic patches coexisting at a molecular scale. In light of this observation, in my talk, I will show…
First Joint SAM – Materials Alumni Event: Tour of the Underground of ETH Hönggerberg and Feuerzangenbowle Dear colleague, Together with Materials Alumni, the association representing the alumni of D-MATL, we get to experience the underground tunnels that connect the different buildings…
Dr. Thomas Weber (D-MATL X-Ray Service Platform) The D-MATL X-ray platform supports D-MATL members (and also external users) with problems that can be solved with X-ray diffraction methods or, more generally, with any problems that are related to crystallography. For…
Prof. Dr. Sotiris Pratsinis (D-MAVT) Flame synthesis of ceramic oxide films as highly selective gas sensors for breath analysis of acetone (e.g. tracer for lipolysis) and NH3 (e.g. tracer for the treatment of end stage renal disease) will be presented.…
Prof. Dr. Ingo Burgert (D-BAUG) Wood possesses a porous hierarchical structure with excellent mechanical properties, which makes it an eligible scaffold to develop sophisticated high performance composites and hybrid materials. Modification and functionalization treatments can be conducted to improve wood…
Dr. Edmondo Benetti (Surface Science and Technology) The application of distinctive polymer topologies, beyond the simple linear chain, to yield cyclic and loops-forming surface-grafted assemblies, enables a broad modulation of highly relevant, interfacial physicochemical properties. This is especially valid on…
Prof. Dr. Andreas Stemmer (D-MAVT) Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has seen a remarkable development – starting from a kind of small sample scanning profilometer in 1986 it gradually evolved into a non-contact imaging tool capable of visualizing chemical bonds in…
Dr. Diane Lançon (Mesoscopic Systems, PSI) Geometrically frustrated lattices such as the 2D Shastry-Sutherland lattice are known to induce emergent quantum phenomena such as spin liquids, topologically protected states, and complex magnetic order. The spin liquid SrCu2(BO3)2 is a famous…