News and Events

Welcome to our News and Events section. The subcategories provide latest news, an overview of upcoming and past events and conferences, and articles published in the press about the Materials Chain network.

 

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Saving Energy with Intelligent Materials

New at UDE/UA Ruhr: Dennis Meier

Pursuing energy efficiency with cutting-edge technology: Prof. Dr. Dennis Meier is investigating the role of ferroic materials in this endeavor at the Research Center “Future Energy Materials and Systems” of the University Alliance Ruhr. As of July 1, 2025, he has assumed the professorship for Functional Ferroic Systems at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. An internationally... read more

New solutions with AI and graphs

Sparkasse Innovation Awards presented

Dr. Max Frei and Jannik Korte are the winners of this year's Engineering Innovation Awards of Sparkasse am Niederrhein. They impressed the jury with their dissertation and masters thesis on the automatic analysis of particle images and the improved current management of UVC LEDs. The prizes are awarded by the Association for the Promotion of Engineering Sciences and are endowed with 2,500 and 1,500... read more

Life on Titan?

A Groundbreaking Study

Extreme conditions prevail on Saturn's moon Titan. These have fascinated researchers for decades. A new study by Materials Chain member Prof. Dr. Christian Mayer (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Dr. Conor A. Nixon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) now describes a process by which cell-like structures—known as vesicles—can form on Titan. Such structures are considered the first step in the emergence... read more


 

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