Prof. Dr. Ingo Burgert (D-BAUG) Wood possesses a porous hierarchical structure with excellent mechanical properties, which makes it an eligible scaffold to develop sophisticated high performance composites and hybrid materials. Modification and functionalization treatments can be conducted to improve wood…
Dr. Edmondo Benetti (Surface Science and Technology) The application of distinctive polymer topologies, beyond the simple linear chain, to yield cyclic and loops-forming surface-grafted assemblies, enables a broad modulation of highly relevant, interfacial physicochemical properties. This is especially valid on…
Prof. Dr. Andreas Stemmer (D-MAVT) Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has seen a remarkable development – starting from a kind of small sample scanning profilometer in 1986 it gradually evolved into a non-contact imaging tool capable of visualizing chemical bonds in…
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…