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Understanding (effective) ionic transport in solids and solid-state batteries

  • Date: Nov 11, 2021
  • Time: 10:00 AM c.t. - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Professor Wolfgang Zeier
  • University of Münster & Helmholtz-Institute Münster, Germany
  • Location: Online
  • Room: Virtual Lecture
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Dierk Raabe
The advent of solid-state batteries has spawned a recent increase in interest in lithium conducting solid electrolytes. However, many open questions remain when trying to optimize electrolytes and understand solid state battery chemistries. In this presentation, we will show how an understanding of ... [more]

Localisation of hydrogen and deuterium in metallurgical samples with NanoSIMS

  • Date: Nov 10, 2021
  • Time: 11:00 AM c.t. - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Katie L. Moore
  • University of Manchester
  • Location: Online
  • Room: Virtual Lecture
  • Host: Prof. Dierk Raabe
The NanoSIMS is emerging as a powerful tool to study complex problems in materials science. The NanoSIMS is a high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry instrument capable of chemical mapping at 100 nm spatial resolution, detection limits in the ppm range and is able to detect almost all ... [more]

Designing a More Homogenous Battery: Emergent Electrochemical Phenomena at the Mesoscale

  • Date: Nov 9, 2021
  • Time: 05:15 PM c.t. - 06:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. William Chueh
  • Stanford University
  • Location: Online
  • Room: Virtual Lecture
  • Host: Prof. Dierk Raabe

Metal fuels for zero-carbon heat and power

  • Date: Nov 8, 2021
  • Time: 11:00 AM c.t. - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Bergthorson
  • McGill University
  • Location: Online
  • Room: Virtual Lecture
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Dierk Raabe
In order to address climate change, we must transition to a low-carbon economy. Many clean primary energy sources, such as solar panels and wind turbines, are being deployed and promise an abundant supply of clean electricity in the near future. The key question becomes how to store, transport and ... [more]

Academic career and Professorship in France

  • Date: Nov 2, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr Matteo Ghidelli
  • CNRS researcher, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Laboratoire des Sciences des Procédés et des Matériaux (LSPM) - CNRS UPR3407, France
  • Location: Virtual Lecture
  • Host: Prof. Gerhard Dehm
Where: virtual on Zoom (link follows) [more]

Silicon purification through metallurgical processes for PV silicon production

  • Date: Oct 29, 2021
  • Time: 08:30 AM c.t. - 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Jafar Safarian
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
  • Location: Online
  • Room: Virtual Lecture
  • Host: Dr. Yan Ma
The photovoltaic (PV) industry is in rapid growth and a large supply of PV feedstock materials must be provided to maintain this growth. Since silicon is the dominant material for the fabrication of solar cells, low-cost solar-grade silicon (SoG-Si) feedstock is demanded. The most cost-effective and ... [more]

Towards a Predictive Theory of Grain Growth: Experiments and Simulations

  • Date: Oct 25, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Katayun Barmak
  • Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
  • Location: Virtual Lecture
  • Host: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dehm / Dr. Hanna Bishara
Where: virtual on Zoom (link follows) [more]
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