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Invited Speakers

Invited Speakers 2024

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-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • 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 ... [more]

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

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 ... [more]

Hydrogen effects on the deformation and fracture of alloys

MPI SusMat Colloquium
  • Date: Jun 18, 2024
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Christian Motz
  • Head of Chair of Experimental Methods in Material Science, Department of Material Science and Technology, Saarland University
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Nachhaltige Materialien GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203 / Online
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
The increasing demand on lightweight structures requires high-strength materials. However, with increasing strength many materials show an increasing susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement. Hence ... [more]

Materials grown by electrochemical techniques: The route towards sustainable materials for energy

  • Date: Jun 7, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Cristina Vicente Manzano
  • Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Dr. James Best and Prof. Gerhard Dehm
In recent decades, extensive efforts have been done to develop new and more efficient alternative energy sources, which can substitute conventional sources like gas, petrol, and carbon, have been ... [more]

H in thin films: size and stress effects on the system thermodynamics and kinetics

MPIE Colloquium
  • Date: Apr 23, 2024
  • Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Astrid Pundt
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Big Seminar Room / Online
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
Due to its high diffusivity hydrogen atoms alloy with metals even at room temperature. At this temperature, the materials microstructure remains rather stable. When the system size is reduced to the ... [more]

Sustainability and raw materials: do we have them enough?

  • Date: Apr 18, 2024
  • Time: 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Janez Zavašnik
  • Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; MPIE-SN External Group Leader
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Dr. Jazmin Duarte and Prof. Gerhard Dehm
Materials play a crucial role in driving the twin transition, a key strategy of the European Union to address current and future environmental challenges. Currently, improving the efficiency of solar ... [more]

Constant strain rate nanoindentation up to 10,000 s-1 for reliable extraction of mechanical properties and activation parameters

  • Date: Mar 25, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Gaurav Mohanty
  • Assistant Professor, Engineering Materials Science, Tampere University, 33101 Tampere, Finland
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Dr. Jazmin Duarte and Prof. Gerhard Dehm
The use of nanoindentation-based techniques to study high strain rate deformation behavior of materials is of immense scientific interest because it enables investigating the strain rate dependence ... [more]

Refractory alloys and composites - pathways to improved performance

  • Date: Mar 20, 2024
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr.-Ing. Silja-Katharina Rittinghaus
  • Materials Science and Additive Manufacturing, University of Wuppertal, Germany
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: online
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
Refractory metals and their alloys are considered a versatile group of high temperature resistant materials. Promising design approaches to extend their application range include the modification of ... [more]

Strengthening and Toughening Mechanisms in Metal-Graphene Nanolayered Composites

  • Date: Mar 15, 2024
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof Seung Min Jane Han
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and TU Munich
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
Nanoscale metal-graphene nanolayered composites are known to have ultra-high strength due to the ability of graphene to effectively block dislocations from penetrating through the metal-graphene ... [more]

Deuterium retention studies in displacement damaged tungsten in order to gain understanding of the phenomena involved to predict fuel retention in future devices

  • Date: Feb 27, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Sabina Markelj
  • Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Dr. Jazmin Duarte and Prof. Gerhard Dehm
In the search for new energy sources, nuclear fusion of deuterium and tritium is one of the most promising options for human kind. However, thermonuclear fusion has set an enormous challenge to ... [more]
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Invited Speakers 2023

Atomistic Dynamics of Deformation, Fracture and GB Migration in Oxides

  • Date: Dec 12, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Yuichi Ikuhara
  • Professor, Director of Nano Technology Center Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering The University of Tokyo
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
In order to clarify the deformation and fracture mechanism in oxides such as Al2O3 and STO, TEM in situ nanoindentation experiments were conducted for their single crystals and bicrystals. We ... [more]

Local Phase Transformations: A New Creep Strengthening Mechanism in Ni-Base Superalloys

  • Date: Nov 13, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Professor Michael J. Mills
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
Polycrystalline Ni-based superalloys are vital materials for disks in the hot section of aerospace and land-based turbine engines due to their exceptional microstructural stability and strength at ... [more]

High-resolution micro-plasticity in advanced high-strength steels

  • Date: Nov 6, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Professor Marc Geers
  • Mechanics of Materials, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
The persistent demand for green, strong and ductile advanced high strength steels, with a reduced climate footprint, calls for novel and improved multi-phase microstructures. The development of these ... [more]
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