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The formidable years ever since the pandemic has greatly affected the extent of academic exchange and driven us towards a new culture of online discussions. Despite many virtual events successfully held, few of them served as a platform for early career researchers and brought a broader community be...

The PhD defence of Ms. Lilian Vogl took place on 2. Dec. 2021, partly virtual (online) due to the current conditions. With her comprehensive work “Functional Nanowires Studied with Correlative in situ Light and Electron Microscopy", she has been awarded the title Dr.-Ing with distinction. Lil...

Our work entitled “Hydrogenated Anatase TiO2 Single Crystals: Defects Formation and Structural Changes as Microscopic Origin for Co-Catalyst Free Photocatalytic H2 Evolution Activity” was just published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A (DOI: 10.1039/D1TA04809K). The photocatalytic activity t...

Dorota Kubacka received a prestigious opportunity to deliver an extended oral presentation (30 min) during the Superalloy 2021 conference, the summit once every four years in the field of superalloys community. Her talk, "using rapid thermal annealing for studying early stages of high-temperature ox...

Dr. Peter Schweizer (now PostDoc at EMPA, Thun, Switzerland) have received a prestigious award of "DGE-Förderpreis" for his outstanding PhD thesis "Manipulation of Individual Defects in 2D and Layers Materials". The award ceremony took place during the (online) MC 2021 conference. Congratulations pe...

Ever since pandemic from 2020, it has been particularly difficult for early career researchers, particularly PhD students to effectively attend conferences and involving in academic exchanges, which has gradually developed into a new culture of online events. Despite these difficulties, IMN members ...

The paper ”Early stages of high-temperature oxidation of Ni- and Co-base model superalloys: A comparative study using rapid thermal annealing and advanced electron microscopy” by Dorota Kubacka, Martin Weisser and Erdmann Spiecker has recently been published in Corrosion Science. Congratulations! In...

The article “Effect of size and shape on the elastic modulus of metal nanowires” by Lilian Vogl, Peter Schweizer, Gunther Richter and Erdmann Spiecker has recently been published in MRS Advances. Congratulations, Lili and Peter! The IMN researchers make use of the resonance vibration of metal nanowi...

The annual excursion of students of Q11 biophysics courses at Christian-Ernst-Gymnasium Erlangen (CEG-ER) to the chair for micro and nanostructure research at FAU was not feasible under the given circumstances. "If the CEG can't come to us, I'll come to the CEG" wrote Prof. Dr. Erdmann Spiecker ...

The PhD defence of Mr. Malte Lenz took place on 15. July. 2021, partly virtual (online) due to the current conditions. With his beautiful work “A Microscopic Study on the Structural and Chemical Constitution of Defects and Phases in Co-base Superalloys”, he has been awarded the title Dr.-Ing. His...