Scientific Events

Plasticity and fracture behavior of high-strength steels at low temperatures

Date: Feb 6, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Fuhui Shen
Assistant Professor in the Soete Laboratory at Ghent University, Belgium
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm

High-strength steels with a body-centered cubic (bcc) crystal structure are generally expected to exhibit limited ductility at low temperatures due to the ductile-to-brittle transition. In this talk, we show that some high-strength bcc steels can nevertheless display unexpectedly large macroscopic ... [more]

“10th MSIT Winter School on Materials Chemistry”

Start: Jan 25, 2026
End: Jan 30, 2026
Location: Ringberg Castle, Kreuth, Germany
Host: Dr. Andrew Watson, Dr. Frank Stein, Dr. Martin Palm, Dr. Svitlana Iljenko

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Nanoengineering of high strength steels

Date: Jan 23, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Univ.-Prof. Wenwen Song
Institute of Materials Engineering, University of Kassel
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm

The diversities in crystalline structure and the hierarchical features of the structures in steels lead to their distinguished deformation behaviour, elastic properties, magnetic properties, mechanical properties, etc. In the research of steels, the linkage of ... [more]

Sintering Fundamentals of Nano-Metallic Particle Interconnects

Date: Nov 5, 2025
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Leiming Du
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Microelectronics at the Delft University of Technology, in Netherlands
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Dr. Anwesha Kanjilal and Prof. Gerhard Dehm

Sintered copper (Cu) nanoparticles have emerged as a promising substitute for sintered silver (Ag) nanoparticles in power electronics packaging, offering comparable electrical and thermal conductivities, superior mechanical strength, and lower cost. However, the complex interactions between ... [more]

Ancient craft, new perspective: Recovery and recrystallization of deformed metal nanoparticles

Date: Oct 29, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman
Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm

Metallic nanoparticles are utilized in a growing number of applications due to their unique and tunable properties. However, one of the primary tools used to tune bulk metals properties, recrystallization, is yet to be used in the case of nanoparticles. We studied pristine, single crystal platinum ... [more]

Challenges and Perspectives for the Development of High Temperature Materials

Colloquia Series on Sustainable Metallurgy

Date: Oct 21, 2025
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Alexander Kauffmann, Materials Science and Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustaianble Materials
Room: Hybrid / Large Seminar Room No. 203
Host: Prof. Erik Bitzek
Topic: Lectures

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"Intermetallics 2025"

Start: Sep 29, 2025
End: Oct 2, 2025
Location: Educational Center Kloster Banz, Bad Staffelstein, Germany
Host: Manja Krüger, Martin Heilmaier, Florian Pyczak, Martin Schloffer, Andre Schneider, Frank Stein

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