Dr. Ahmet Demirörs External fields are a useful tool to manipulate materials without having contact. I will show two examples of how we used external fields, 1) for achieving bio-inspired composites with control on the orientation and position of the…
Dr. Michalis Charilaou Magnetic materials support our most vital infrastructures e.g. by driving powerful motors, generating electricity in power plants, or sensing. Magnetic-field-based sensing existed long before humanity, specifically in bacteria, and it was based on nanoscopic phenomena that we…
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Mezzenga Protein Nanofibrils generated from globular proteins by unfolding, hydrolysis and one-dimensional polymerization are colloidal aggregates exhibiting mesoscopic properties comparable to those of natural polyelectrolytes, yet with persistence lengths several orders of magnitude beyond the Debye length.…
Dr. Xiaocheng Shang I will discuss the design of state-of-the-art numerical methods for molecular dynamics, focusing on the demands of soft matter simulation, where the purposes include sampling and dynamics calculations both in and out of equilibrium. I will also…
Prof. Dr. David J. Norris Colloidal nanoplatelets are atomically flat, quasi-two-dimensional sheets of semiconductor that can exhibit efficient, spectrally pure fluorescence. Despite intense interest in their properties, the growth mechanism behind their highly anisotropic shape and precise atomic-scale thickness remains…
Dr. Jeffrey Wheeler Micro-mechanical testing has advanced significantly over the last two decades from nanoindentation at ambient conditions to advanced micro-compression and fracture toughness testing over a wide range of temperatures and strain rates. It’s now possible to perform nearly…
Prof. Dr. Dennis Kochmann (D-MAVT) One of the key challenges in material modeling is the link between small-scale processes and the resulting, effective large-scale material performance. For the selected examples of ferroelectric ceramics and hcp metals, we demonstrate the applicability…
Dear members of SAM, We are happy to invite you to the yearly SAM General Assembly to vote the new board, discuss association matters, and bring in ideas for the coming year. Be proactive! Join us for feedback and the opportunity to…
Dear PhD students and Postdocs of D-MATL, We would like to invite you to the second D-MATL “PhD and Postdoc Retreat” organized by SAM! This event aims at improving the team spirit in our department and will take place on three days in…
Light-driven microswimmers: pushing, pulling and shaping materials from within Artificial microswimmers or self-propelled colloidal particle systems are currently a subject of great interest in soft condensed matter for a variety of reasons. First, they present us with model systems to…