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]

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]

Design of sustainable luminescent materials - from basics to real applications

Colloquia Series on Sustainable Metallurgy

Date: Apr 29, 2025
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jun-Prof. Markus Suta, Professor for Inorganic Photoactive Materials, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Room: Hybrid / Large Seminar Room No. 203
Host: Prof. Dierk Raabe
Topic: Lectures
Contact: susmet@mpie.de

This lecture explores the design of luminescent materials by examining the balance between radiative and non-radiative decay processes, focusing on rare-earth and transition-metal-based LED phosphors as well as lanthanoid-based luminescent thermometers. It highlights both sustainability challenges ... [more]

Towards more sustainable uses of rare earth elements - from an inorganic and biological perspective

Colloquia Series on Sustainable Metallurgy

Date: Apr 1, 2025
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Lena Daumann; Dr. Carl-Eric Wegner
Bioinorganic Chemistry at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)
Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Room: Hybrid / Large Seminar Room No. 203
Host: Prof. Christina Scheu
Topic: Lectures
Contact: c.scheu@mpie.de

Lanthanides (Ln) - the f-elements from Ce to Lu, along with La - are indispensable for modern life. These elements are at the heart of advancements in green energy technologies, energy-efficient lighting, and various industrial and medical applications. [more]

Fracture at the Two-Dimensional Limit

Date: Mar 31, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Jun Lou
Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
Host: on invitation of Dr. Rajaprakash Ramachandramoorthy and Prof. Gerhard Dehm

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as Graphene, hBN, and MoS₂, are promising candidates in a number of advanced functional and structural applications owing to their exceptional electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties. Understanding the mechanical properties of 2D materials is critically ... [more]