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Invited Speakers 2025

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 ... [more]

Temperature dependence of hydrogen embrittlement

  • Date: Jan 22, 2025
  • Time: 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Professor Reiner Kirchheim
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
The defactant concept allows to predict why at higher temperature the formation energy of vacancies, dislocations and surfaces is no longer decreased by hydrogen, because it is not trapped to these ... [more]

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]
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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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