Materials Colloquium 2021, April 21st

Zoom: Open Access – funding opportunities and requirements within and outside ETH Zurich Rainer Rees Mertins (ETH library – Open Access specialist) The transformation in scholarly publishing is reflected in the increasing importance of open access, which is  becoming…

Materials Colloquium 2021, April 7th

Materials design for fast charge storage enabled by the mechanistic insights Maria Lukatskaya (Electrochemical Energy Systems Laboratory – D-MAVT) As electronic technology advances, the need in safe and long-lasting energy storage devices that occupy minimum volume arises. Short charging times of…

Materials Colloquium 2021, March 10th

Straining films: a versatile design tool for ferroic materials Kathrin Dörr (Martin Luther University Halle, Germany) There is nearly no strain-free thin film on a substrate, and such films are a foundation of modern technologies. Therefore, it has been learned…

Materials Colloquium 2021, February 3rd

The assembly of non-equilibrium biologically-inspired materials Michael Murrell (Laboratory of Living Matter, Yale University) Incorporating growth, adaptation and responsiveness to external cues remain as grand challenges in materials engineering and design. In living cells, the cell cytoskeleton is a dynamic…

Controlling artificial microswimmers

Materials Colloquium 2020 – December, 2nd, 16:30 Zoom Laura Alvarez (Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, D-MATL, ETHZ) Programming the dynamics of artificial microswimmers provides a benchmark towards the realization of smart microscale devices. Motile microorganisms, such as bacteria, have…

Couplings at oxide interfaces

Materials Colloquium 2020 – December, 2nd, 16:30 Zoom Marta Gibert (Physik-Institut, University of Zurich) The large variety of functionalities exhibited by transition metal oxides places them as highly attractive materials both from a fundamental and applied point of view. Furthermore,…

Addressing the quantum spin of single atoms and molecules

Materials Colloquium 2020 – November, 4th, 16:30 Zoom Sebastian Stepanow (Magnetism and Interface Physics, D-MATL, ETHZ) Magnetic resonance techniques are widely employed for probing the electronic and magnetic properties of solids, liquids, and molecules as well as for their elemental and…

Compound semiconductor structures for solar energy harvesting

Materials Colloquium 2020 – November, 4th, 16:30 Zoom Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, EPFL) Solar energy harvesting constitutes of the technological paths to replace production of electrical power by burning fossil fuels. Some compound semiconductors such as…