Scientific Events

10th APT User Meeting 2024

Start: Nov 19, 2024
End: Nov 21, 2024
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Host: Prof. Baptiste Gault, Dr. Tim Schwarz & Dr. Aparna Saksena
Contact: t.schwarz@mpie.de

We’re pleased to announce the 10th edition of our world-famous NRW-APT user meeting, hosted at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials. And on its 10th anniversary, we aim to bring APT users together from not only NRW but from all across Europe! We expect an emphasis on: - ... [more]

Insights in Battery Materials by Electron Microscopy

Date: Nov 11, 2024
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Volz
Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Physics and Materials Science Center
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustaianble Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm

Solid-state batteries (SSBs) promise to meet the increasing demand for safe, high-power, and high-capacity energy storage. SSBs with solid electrolytes (SEs) offer potential advantages over conventional lithium-ion batteries with liquid electrolytes. Their performance, however, strongly depends on ... [more]

Real-Time Insights into Sustainable Materials: Correlative Electron Microscopy and Synchrotron Techniques

Colloquia Series on Sustainable Metallurgy

Date: Oct 22, 2024
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Alba Garzón Manjón
Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Room: Big Seminar Room / Online
Host: Prof. Christina Scheu

Catalytic materials are crucial for energy conversion technologies, and their optimization requires a deep understanding of their nanoscale structure and behavior. Techniques like ex-situ and in-situ TEM, combined with synchrotron-based methods such as XAS and XRD, enable detailed analysis of ... [more]

Performance Advancements in P-Type TaFeSb-Based Thermoelectric Materials through Composition and Composite Optimizations

Date: Oct 10, 2024
Time: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Raana Hatami Naderloo
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden)
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Dr. Siyuan Zhang / Prof. Christina Scheu

Half-Heusler compounds exhibit significant potential in thermoelectric applications for power generation up to 1000 K, notwithstanding the substantial challenges posed by the cost of constituent elements and the imperative to augment the average thermoelectric figure-of-merit (zT_ave) for more ... [more]

Your PhD @ Max Planck - Exploring Doctoral Programs

Date: Aug 22, 2024
Time: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Online (Zoom)
Room: Zoom

Are you a Master's student who wants to explore the prospect of doing a PhD in Germany? Join us for a unique webinar event designed to give you an insight into the benefits of doing a PhD at the prestigious Max Planck Society as part of an International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) in North ... [more]

In situ structure-property relationship studies of inorganic catalysts for the energy transition

Date: Aug 20, 2024
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claudia Weidenthaler
Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis - Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustaianble Materials
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203 / Online
Host: Prof. Christina Scheu

The energy transition requires the introduction of sustainable energy sources. Hydrogen is one of these options, but its efficient and sustainable production from water splitting as well as its storage is still a challenge. In order to understand the structure-property at different length scales, it ... [more]

Synthesis and Characterisation of High Entropy Metal Chalcogenides

Date: Jul 11, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dr. Mark A. Buckingham
University of Manchester, Departments of Materials, UK
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Dr. Siyuan Zhang / Prof. Christina Scheu

High entropy materials are materials with 5 or more principle components within crystalline lattices. High entropy metal chalcogenides are a recent (since 2016) development in this area that have shown exceptional promise in both thermoelectric energy conversion and electrocatalysis. However, these ... [more]