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]

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]

CECAM Flagship Workshop "Fulfilling the Multiscale Promise in Materials: Getting Information out of the Atomistic Scale"

CECAM Workshop

Start: Mar 31, 2025
End: Apr 3, 2025
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Host: CECAM

Organisers:Erik Bitzek (Max-Planck-Institut for Sustainable Materials), James Kermode (University of Warwick), Gianpietro Moras (Fraunhofer IWM), Lars Pastewka (University of Freiburg), Céline Varvenne (CNRS) [more]

Electron Transfer and Dynamics at Interfaces

Start: Mar 2, 2025
End: Mar 5, 2025
Location: Ringberg Castle, Kreuth, Germany
Host: Dr. Mira Todorova

The workshop will bring together leading scientist in from both theory and experiment investigating electron-transfer dynamics at interfaces to discuss possibilities, requirements and challenges for the predictive modelling of electron-transfer dynamics, with a focus on electrochemical solid/liquid ... [more]