SAM Poker Night 2018
Please follow the link for pictures of the SAM Poker Night 2018: Dear all, On Tuesday, the 16th of October, you are invited to the SAM Pub Night, which will take place at the Materials Science “secret” pub. Join…
Transmission electron microscopy at Hönggerberg or how ScopeM can help you
Dr. Alla Sologubenko Metallurgy, engineering, material science critically rely on the knowledge of the microstructure – property interrelationships in a material. Assessment of the required microstructural state of the material is the starting point of the complex process of material…
Structure-function relationship in optical nanomaterials
Dr. Alessandro Lauria Several properties of nanomaterials are related to their crystallinity, size and composition. Many of these structural parameters can be pre-determined through chemical choices operated during their synthesis. I will discuss some of the chemical parameters which enable…
Growth of thin films by pulsed laser deposition – fundamentals and applications
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert Thin films of organic, polymeric, biological, and inorganic thin films are utilized in many applications, e.g. catalysis, microelectronics, sensors, food industry, tools, optics, decorative coatings, and renewable energy applications, etc.. The preparation of these thin films…
Electric and magnetic manipulation of colloids for materials and devices
Dr. Ahmet Demirörs External fields are a useful tool to manipulate materials without having contact. I will show two examples of how we used external fields, 1) for achieving bio-inspired composites with control on the orientation and position of the…
Fundamentals and applications of magnetic nanostructures: a 2500-year-old story
Dr. Michalis Charilaou Magnetic materials support our most vital infrastructures e.g. by driving powerful motors, generating electricity in power plants, or sensing. Magnetic-field-based sensing existed long before humanity, specifically in bacteria, and it was based on nanoscopic phenomena that we…
Amyloid nematic and cholesteric phases
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Mezzenga Protein Nanofibrils generated from globular proteins by unfolding, hydrolysis and one-dimensional polymerization are colloidal aggregates exhibiting mesoscopic properties comparable to those of natural polyelectrolytes, yet with persistence lengths several orders of magnitude beyond the Debye length.…
Assessing numerical methods for molecular and particle simulation
Dr. Xiaocheng Shang I will discuss the design of state-of-the-art numerical methods for molecular dynamics, focusing on the demands of soft matter simulation, where the purposes include sampling and dynamics calculations both in and out of equilibrium. I will also…
The magic and mystery of semiconductor nanoplatelets
Prof. Dr. David J. Norris Colloidal nanoplatelets are atomically flat, quasi-two-dimensional sheets of semiconductor that can exhibit efficient, spectrally pure fluorescence. Despite intense interest in their properties, the growth mechanism behind their highly anisotropic shape and precise atomic-scale thickness remains…
Advanced micro-mechanics for combinatorial materials science
Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler Micro-mechanical testing has advanced significantly over the last two decades from nanoindentation at ambient conditions to advanced micro-compression and fracture toughness testing over a wide range of temperatures and strain rates. It’s now possible to perform nearly…