Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio Investigations of Temperature Dependent Effects in MSM Alloys. Antragskolloquium SPP1239, Dresden, Germany (2008)
Grabowski, B.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio up to the melting point: Influence of vacancies and explicit anharmonicity. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Plane-wave implementation of the k.p-formalism including strain and piezoelectricity to study the optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Phase transformations of Ni2MnGa shape memory alloy from first principles. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles Determination of Phase Transitions in Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys. Group Seminar in Materials Department, University of California (UCSB), Santa Barbara, CA, USA (2008)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, a PW-approach to real-space properties. MRL seminar at UCSB, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA (2008)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: From ab initio to materials properties: Accuracy and error bars of DFT thermodynamics. Phonon Workshop, Krakau, Poland (2007)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: Determination of symmetry reduced structures by a soft-phonon analysis in magnetic shape memory alloys. 2nd Workshop on ab initio phonon calculations, Cracow, Poland (2007)
Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Phase transformation of Ni_2MnGa shape memory alloy from first principles: The pre-martensitic transition. PAW workshop 2007, Goslar, Germany (2007)
Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: First ab initio determination of the phase transformation of Ni_{2}MnGa: The pre-martensitic transition. e-MRS 2007 Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland (2007)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: From ab initio to materials properties: Accuracy and error bars of DFT thermodynamics. Euromat 2007, European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes, Nürnberg, Germany (2007)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Uijttewaal, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio prediction of structural and thermodynamic properties of magnetic shape memory alloys. Euromat 2007, European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes, Nürnberg, Germany (2007)
Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio investigation of temperature dependent effects in Ni_{2}MnGa: The pre-martensitic transition. Convention of the SPP 1239, Castle Eichholz in Wesseling, Germany (2007)
Hickel, T.: Research at the department of Computational Materials Design. Visit of the Steering Committee of IISI project “India 2020”, MPIE Duesseldorf, Germany (2007)
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials have developed a carbon-free, energy-saving method to extract nickel for batteries, magnets and stainless steel.
Max Planck scientists design a process that merges metal extraction, alloying and processing into one single, eco-friendly step. Their results are now published in the journal Nature.
Start of a collaborative research project on the sustainable production of manganese and its alloys being funded by European Union with 7 million euros