Scientific Events

Innovations in material development and manufacturing processes for extreme conditions are necessary and urgent for many emerging applications. Towards this vision, this presentation will focus on the exploration of mechanical behavior and manufacturing processes of materials, with an emphasis on ... [more]

Renewable electricity from solar photovoltaics (PV), combined with low-cost large-scale storage, is likely to play a dominating role in decarbonizing the expanding global power sector in the long run. For example, the global deployment of PV is targeted at ~75 TW installed capacity by 2050, from the ... [more]

Recent advances in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have pushed spatial resolution into the 0.5 Å regime, shifting imaging from an instrument-limited to an object-limited discipline and enabling the direct visualization of individual atoms and molecules. However, the structures and dynamics of ... [more]

Lithium metal solid-state batteries have high potential for safety, energy density, and charging rate beyond that of Li-ion batteries. A major challenge for lithium metal solid-state batteries is the formation of lithium dendrites across the solid electrolyte during cycling, which leads to ... [more]

Devices from thermoelectric materials can directly convert heat flows into electrical energy powering autonomous sensors or providing reliable electrical power supply in remote areas, as successfully demonstrated e.g. by the Voyager space probes or the Mars rovers Curiosity and Perseverance. On the ... [more]

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]

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