Materials Colloquium 2020 – April, 1st, 16:30 Zoom Yaroslav Romanyuk (EMPA Dübendorf) Thin-film solar cells belong to the so-called second generation of solar cells, whereby a thin semiconductor absorber layer of 1…5 microns is used to fully absorb incoming sunlight.…
Yinyin Bao (D-CHAB) Additive manufacturing (commonly called 3D printing) has attracted great attention due to its powerful ability to create complex 3D geometries with precise microarchitectures. In combination with medical imaging techniques, it might provide enormous opportunities to design customized…
Guido Panzarasa (Soft and Living Materials) Living systems can grow bottom-up a huge variety of materials with the highest degree of sophistication and an overall efficiency that remains largely unparalleled by artificial fabrication techniques. Moreover, living materials are adaptive i.e.…
Dear colleagues, Together with Materials Alumni (, the association representing the alumni of D-MATL), we have the chance to visit the robotic fabrication lab (RFL) of the NCCR (National Competence Center of Research in digital fabrication) on the campus Hönggerberg.…
Arkadiy Simonov (D-MATL, Multifunctional Ferroic Materials) Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) are a broad and important family of microporous inorganic solids, famous for their gas storage, metal-ion immobilisation, proton conduction, and stimuli-dependent magnetic, electronic and optical properties, The family also includes…
Marc Willinger (ScopeM) Modern analytical transmission electron microscopes are capable of delivering picometer resolved information about the geometric arrangement of atoms. It is possible to simultaneously obtain quantitative information about the elemental composition of a material and even to measure…
Guillaume Habert (Sustainable Construction, D-BAUG) Construction industry consumes 40% of all material extracted, but one can also turn this challenge into opportunities. New buildings can be an opportunity to mitigate environmental pressures and generate economic growth. Future construction can store…
Nick Jaensson (Soft Materials, D-MATL) Emulsions and foams play an important role in many technological and biological applications. Some everyday examples include foods, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, but they also found uses in, for example, additive manufacturing, lightweight materials and biomedical scaffolding. A crucial…
The SAM Pub Night, generously sponsored by the Materials Alumni, will take place on the 12th of November 2019 at the Materials Science Pub. Join us at 18:30 for beer, snacks and some relaxing time together. Join our poker tournament…
Sebastian Huber (D-PHYS) The elastic properties of materials are determined by a few material constants such as the Young’s modulus. Using super-structures one can effectively change these “constants”. In this way we obtain functionalities such as wave-guiding, acoustic lensing or…