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The PhD defence of Mr. Peter Schweizer took place on 18. Sep. 2019. With his beautiful work of “Manipulation of individual defects in 2D and layered materials”, he has been awarded the title Dr.-Ing. with the top overall grade "summa cum laude" His PhD work has been focused on manipulation of def...

The biannual microscopy meeting, Microscopy Conference 2019, concluded with success last week in Berlin.  During this conference we have contributed to organize a symposium session (Materials Science 2: thin films, interfaces, coatings, composites, co-chaired by Prof. Erdmann Spiecker and Dr. Martin...

Triple award: in the poster session in the first day of M&M2019 in Portland(OR), USA, the poster "Structural Analysis of Liquid Metal Catalysis in Porous Silica Utilizing Nano-CT and Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy" presented by Janis won the second place in the analytical science se...

In the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2019 Meeting (M&M2019, organized by the microscopy society of America, MAS) held in Portland, USA, members of our institute have gathered two awards (out of 40 in total of the categories): Janis Wirth received the Student Scholar Award, and Benjamin Apeleo Z...

After a third place by a tough loss in the semifinals via penalties against the later champion WW5 in 2018, the team took the next step, reaching the finals for the first time in WW9 history. After winning the group stage ahead of WW soccer juggernauts like WW1, WW5 and WW2/3, the WW9 team defeated ...

In a recent paper published in ACS Nano, researchers from particle technology and theory have worked together with our "tomo-boys" to decrypt the free energy landscape of colloidal clusters in sphere confinement, using the model system of polystyrene (PS) particles. This work sheds light to understa...

The continuous efforts the teaching team made at the chair has paid off. The Lecture “Rasterelektronenmikroskopie in der Materialforschung” given by Peter Schweizer has received first place out of 63 in the teaching evaluation of the technical faculty (category VP5). The lecture deals with the worki...

Transition metal oxides, such as TiO2, ZnO or MoO2, and transition metal chalcogenides like WS2 or MoS2 represent two classes of functional materials, both hold great promise for applications in nanotechnology, ranging from energy storage to microelectronics. In a recent work "Transforming layered M...

A kick-off meeting between CENEM/IMN and OICE (Optical Imaging Center Erlangen) was held in a relaxed atmosphere in late afternoon 28 of May. Head of respective institute, Prof. Spiecker and Dr. Palmisano gave short introduction to each institute. While sharing the same floor in the new IZNF buildin...

The special symposium of “Correlative and in situ Microscopy in Materials Research”, held during 1-4.April as part of the DPG2019 (annual meeting of German Physical Society)  in Regensburg, was a great success. The four-day symposium was co-organized by Prof. Erdmann Spiecker and Dr. Johannes Wil...