The Germany chapter of the European Materials Day, organised by the German Materials Society (DGM), took place on 10th Nov. 2023, under the auspices of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS).
Markus Lorke, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), won one of the awards fo...
Prof. Dr. Erdmann Spiecker, holder of the Chair of Micro- and Nanostructure Research, ended his term as spokesman of the Department of Materials Science on September 30, 2023.
His successor is Prof. Dr. Mathias Göken, holder of the Chair of General Material Properties. Prof. Dr. Carolin Körner wi...
Dr. Irem Unalan, alumna (former PhD student) and currently post-doctoral researcher in the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), has won the Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2023 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM).
Irem earned her Dr.-Ing. degree in 2022 with a project that focused on the process...
Organic electronics can make a decisive contribution to decarbonization and at the same time help save rare and valuable raw materials. To achieve this, it is necessary not only to further develop the manufacturing processes, but also to plan technical solutions for recycling already in the laborato...
The new EU project “Antiviral, antibacterial & antifungal nanocoating platform” – NANOBLOC – with participation of the FAU Institute of Biomaterials (Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, WW7) has started in January 2023. The project, coordinated by Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, has received funding from the...
As of January 2023, Dr.-Ing. Pablo Jiménez Calvo from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has joined the Corrosion and Surface Science Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
He was awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship by the EU to conduct research at ...
On 17.1.2023 Prof. Dr. Olga Kasian gave her inaugural lecture at the WW Colloquium.
In front of a large audience, she spoke about her research topic, electrochemical energy conversion.
Dr. Kasian, who works as a research associate and head of the junior research group "Material Transformations...
Clean water through electricity instead of chlorine: In the future, water systems could be cleaned without the addition of chemicals. The research team of Dr. Stefan Rosiwal (Institute of Materials Science and Technology of Metals) is testing a cleaning method that works with new diamond ceramic ele...
