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Eine menschliche Hand und eine Roboterhand strecken ihre Finger aus und sind verbunden mit einem rautenförmigen Symbol. Text im Symbol: AI

KopfSalat: Human-machine interaction: Living and working in the age of AI

  • Date: Apr 22, 2026
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Mengchen Dong
  • Wissenschaftlerin am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin / Research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Nachhaltige Materialien GmbH
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: kopfsalat@mpi-susmat.de
How do we feel when AI makes important decisions, when it acts as a manager, a public servant, or even a medical doctor? And do people from different social backgrounds and cultures feel the same way? [more]

Advancing In-Situ and ex-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy with Low Dose Focal Series Reconstruction and 4D‑STEM

  • Date: Apr 9, 2026
  • Time: 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Idan Biran
  • Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
  • Room: BDS Seminar room
  • Host: on invitation of Dr. Siyuan Zhang / Prof. Christina Scheu
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]

Mechanical and Microstructural Control of Dendrite Initiation and Li Plating on Oxide and Sulfide Solid Electrolytes

  • Date: Mar 20, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Wendy Gu
  • Standard university, USA
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Yuwei Zhang / Prof. Gerhard Dehm
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]

Problem found; problem mitigated: overcoming chemical instability in Mg-based thermoelectric materials

  • Date: Mar 3, 2026
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Johannes de Boor
  • Jun. Professor for ‘Functional Materials and Joining Technologies for Thermoelectric Generators’ at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Group Leader at the German Aerospace Center of Köln (DLR), Institute of Materials Research.
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Eleonora Isotta and Prof. Christina Scheu
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]

Plasticity and fracture behavior of high-strength steels at low temperatures

  • Date: Feb 6, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Fuhui Shen
  • Assistant Professor in the Soete Laboratory at Ghent University, Belgium
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
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]

“10th MSIT Winter School on Materials Chemistry”

  • Start: Jan 25, 2026
  • End: Jan 30, 2026
  • Location: Ringberg Castle, Kreuth, Germany
  • Host: Dr. Andrew Watson, Dr. Frank Stein, Dr. Martin Palm, Dr. Svitlana Iljenko

Nanoengineering of high strength steels

  • Date: Jan 23, 2026
  • Time: 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Univ.-Prof. Wenwen Song
  • Institute of Materials Engineering, University of Kassel
  • Location: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
  • Room: Large Conference Room No. 203
  • Host: on invitation of Prof. Gerhard Dehm
The diversities in crystalline structure and the hierarchical features of the structures in steels lead to their distinguished deformation behaviour, elastic properties, magnetic properties, mechanical properties, etc. In the research of steels, the linkage of ... [more]
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