Materials Colloquium 2020 – October, 7th, 16:30 Zoom Ahmad Rafsanjani (SDU Biorobotics, University of Southern Denmark) Soft robotics surged a bioinspired evolution in robot design through their highly deformable structure by enabling robots to interact adaptively with complex environments and…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – October, 7th, 16:30 Zoom Brendan Bulfin (Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers, D-MAVT, ETH Zürich) Metal oxide redox cycles offer a pathway for converting heat into chemical energy via the thermal reduction of a metal oxide. The…
Dear members of SAM, We are happy to invite you to the SAM General Assembly this year via ZOOM (see link below) to vote a new board, discuss association matters and bring in ideas for the coming year. The SAM…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – September, 9th, 16:30 Zoom Roland Logé (Laboratory of Thermomechanical Metallurgy, Institute of Materials, EPFL) Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF, also known as SLM, Selective Laser Melting) is a well known Additive Manufacturing technology, among the most…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – September, 9th, 16:30 Zoom Chiara Gattinoni (Materials Theory, D-MATL, ETH Zürich) A precise understanding of the surface and interface behavior of ferroelectric materials is necessary towards their use in promising applications such as memory storage or…
Special Edition of the Materials Colloquium 2020 July, 23rd, 15:00 Zoom Elsa Olivetti (MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering) Materials have long played a role in transitioning between eras. Now the materials community’s most pressing task is to decarbonize…
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Materials Colloquium 2020 – May, 13th, 16:30 Zoom Shovon Pal (Multifunctional Ferroic Materials) The goal of observing electrons in motion in real time took a leap forward with the use of short laser pulses. First we use a laser pulse…
Materials Colloquium 2020 – April, 22nd, 16:30 Zoom Sandra Skjærvø (Mesoscopic Systems) Artificial spin systems are arrays of nanomagnets that are fabricated through state-of-the-art lithography techniques. The nanomagnets interact through dipolar coupling and, depending on the arrangement of the nanomagnets, the system can…