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: 01:30 PM - 02:30 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]