The 7th edition of the Materials Colloquium 2024 will take place next Tuesday November 5th, at 4.30 PM in HCI G3. Robert Style (Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces) How freezing breaks soft materials It is a common belief that damage caused by freezing is due to water’s…
Join us for a drink or two at our joint Halloween Party with the other Staff Associations of the HCI. Friday, the 1st of November starting at 6 pm at Lochness in HXE.
We are organising a running dinner on the 4th of October, together with our friends from AMB, PSA and VAC. For the ones that don’t know what a running dinner is, don’t worry, there is no running involved. You pair…
In-person in HCI J4: Elastic Microphase Separation Produces Bi-continuous Materials Carla Fernández-Rico (Laboratory for Complex Materials — D-MATL) Phase separation is a fascinating physical process that is not only responsible for the internal organization of living cells but also a…
In-person in HCI G4: Machine Learning for the Inverse Design of (Meta-)Materials Dennis M. Kochmann (Mechanics and Materials Lab – D-MAVT) Multiscale material modeling has two primary goals: (i) understanding and predicant a material’s properties based on its small-scale architecture, and…
In-person in HCI J4: Better than meat with material science Patrick Rühs (Planted Foods AG) Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production and is associated with detrimental health effects and ethical issues. Despite these pressing challenges,…
In-person in HCI G3: 3D printing of adaptive, load-bearing hydrogels Esther Amstad (EPFL) Nature produces soft functional materials displaying exceptional mechanical properties. We are far from synthesizing soft synthetic analogues possessing a similar set of functionality and mechanical properties. This…
In-person in HCI G3: Foams and emulsions: Deforming bubbles and coalescing droplets with microscale flows Cari Dutcher (University of Minnesota) Soft interface-rich multiphase systems such as foams, emulsions, and aerosols are all around us. To characterize the multiphase system dynamics and…
In-person in HCI G3: Soft magnetic carpets for transport of solids, liquids and droplets Ahmet F. Demirörs (Complex Materials — D-MATL) One of the major interests of modern robotics is micromanipulation by active and adaptive materials. An example to such…
In-person in HCI J 4 or on Zoom: Birth of solids studied by liquid-phase electron microscopy Rolf Erni (Electron Microscopy Center — EMPA) There are thermodynamic reasons why solids are solid and why they can be crystalline. How this…