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…
Prof. Dr. Janos Vörös (D-ITET) Embedding metal nanowires into elastomeric materials not only enables a new class of stretchable electronic devices with up to 500% stretchability, or strain sensors with Gauge factors of over 100 but it also brings interesting…
Dr. Stephan Gerstl (ScopeM and LMPT) Come take a trip into nanostructural analysis capability by taking materials apart atom-by-atom. Atomic scale processes define the properties we witness at macroscales. Therefore we ultimately should characterize our materials near atomic scale to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…