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.

 

Latest News

Customized Plasmas for Next Generation Microelectronics

INTERNATIONALIZATION

Ruhr University Bochum, alongside leading institutions from Japan, Europe and the U.S., is pioneering atomic-scale semiconductor technology for chip manufacturing. At the 1st German-Japanese Plasma Processing Workshop a key initiative was launched to support the European and Japanese Chips Act. A 17-member Japanese delegation explored Bochum’s plasma research expertise, reinforcing global partnerships. Two-dimensional... read more

Investigating traces in metal

Science Communication

What causes a bike frame to break during a race—was it a structural defect or sabotage? This intriguing question is explored in a short film by PhD candidates Jan Schmidt and Ronak Shoghi from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) at Ruhr University Bochum. Jan and Ronak are diving deep into materials science, using machine learning to study the structures and... read more

Research Project on Next-Generation Superconductors Starts

MATERIALS SCIENCE

The Kavli Foundation, the Klaus Tschira Foundation and philanthropist Kevin Wells have launched a multi-million-dollar initiative to develop next-generation superconducting materials. An international team of scientists, including Prof. Dr. Miquel Marques from Ruhr University Bochum, will use AI to predict and refine materials with revolutionary superconducting properties based on quantum geometry.... read more


 

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