Scientific Events

IPAM Workshop: Bridging the Gap - Transitioning from Deterministic to Stochastic Interaction Modeling in Electrochemistry

IPAM Workshop on Electochemistry

Start: Sep 3, 2025
End: Dec 12, 2025
Location: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Organised by: Jörg Neugebauer (Max-Planck-Institut for Sustainable Materials), Juergen Fuhrmann (Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS)), Richard Hennig (University of Florida), Mauro Maggioni (John Hopkins University)Keith Promislow (Michigan State University), Katsuyo ... [more]

Closing metal loops sustainably - opportunities & challenges for a successful circular economy

Colloquia Series on Sustainable Metallurgy

Date: Jul 29, 2025
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Christian Hagelüken
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Room: Hybrid / Large Seminar Room No. 203
Host: Prof. Dierk Raabe
Topic: Lectures
Contact: susmet@mpie.de

Metals are essential for climate and digital technologies, making resource-efficient use and high-quality recycling across their entire lifecycle crucial. This lecture explores the role of recycling in a true circular economy, highlighting the need for clear system definitions, realistic ... [more]

Precision Epitaxy in Nanocrystalline Thin Films: Defect‑Tailored Platforms for Electrocatalysis

Date: Jul 23, 2025
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Myoung Hwan Oh
Department of Energy Engineering, Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustaianble Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Prof. Christina Scheu and Prof. Gerhard Dehm

Topological defects—dislocations, grain boundaries, and related features—play an essential role in determining the properties of crystalline materials. When crystallite or functional domain sizes shrink to the nanometer scale, these defects become dominant. To date, however, neither bottom‑up nor ... [more]

Big data microscopy: Machine learning-driven statistical characterization of shape evolution in nanoparticle growth

Date: Jul 23, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Min Gee Cho
National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustaianble Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Prof. Christina Scheu and Prof. Gerhard Dehm

Understanding the geometry of nanomaterials at the atomic scale provides critical insights into local structural heterogeneities and their impact on functional properties. Since shapes vary from particle to particle, detailed analysis at the single-particle level is essential. In this talk, I will ... [more]

Mechanics and physics of fracture - Minisymposium @ ESMC2025

Mechanics and physics of fracture

Start: Jul 7, 2025
End: Jul 11, 2025
Location: Lyon, France

Organisers : Véronique Lazarus (ENSTA Paris), Erik Bitzek (MPI-SusMat) and Matteo Ciccoti (ESPCI, Paris) [more]

Manipulating Structural Integrity of Pre-Cracked Thin Metallic Sheets through Electric Current Pulsing

Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Praveen Kumar
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustaianble Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Dr. Anwesha Kanjilal and Prof. Gerhard Dehm

Recent studies have shown that the passage of an electric current pulse may both propagate [1,2] and close a crack and heal a metallic material [3]. Specifically, experiments on thin Al foils containing edge cracks have proved that the self-induced electromagnetic forces, spontaneously generated ... [more]

Interface and Grain Boundary Effects on Thermal, Electrical and Magnetic Properties

Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Jeff Snyder
Northwestern University, USA
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustaianble Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Eleonora Isotta and Prof. Christina Scheu
Topic: Lectures

Defects and Grain boundaries have a remarkable effect on the thermal and electrical transport properties of polycrystalline materials but are often ignored by prevailing physical theories. The concentration of point defects can be altered with phase boundary mapping considering the defect ... [more]