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We just receive the great news from the DFG: all the three SFB (English: Collaborative Research Center, CRC) projects we participated are granted! Thank all who contributed in one way or another! Let's set sail for scientific exploration in in the years to come.  

A paper by Malte Lenz, Janis Wirth, and colleagues, entitled "Correlative Nano‐Computed Tomography and Focused Ion‐Beam Sectioning: A Case Study on a Co‐Base Superalloy Oxide Scale" was recently published in Advanced Engineering Materials. In this work, a correlative tomography approach combining...

The Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts (StMWK) annually awards five prizes for outstanding university degrees or doctorates to engineering students at Bavarian universities. The prizes are endowed with 2,000 euros each. The award honors the impressive achievements of female students in...

A collaborative "Highly Effective Propane Dehydrogenation Using Ga−Rh Supported Catalytically Active Liquid Metal Solutions" has been recently published in ACS Catalysis. This work was contributed by a team of scientist in Erlangen including Chemists, Experimental/Theoretical Physcists, Materials Sc...

The bi-annual event "Long Night of Science" in Nuremberg, Fuerth and Erlangen was again very success for IMN/CENEM. At the Electron Microscopy facilities alone we welcomed more several hundred people throughout the night. Visitors had the chance to see the Titan Themis3 and learn about research at t...

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 ...