3rd Materials Chain International Conference – MCIC 2021: Materials Discovery and Processing for Energy

Providing our world with more efficient and sustainable energy poses one of the greatest challenges of our times. Novel materials play a key role for enabling new energy technologies. The fast and efficient discovery and development of novel materials therefore are critical for sustainable future energy.

Our third Materials Chain International Conference, MCIC 2021: Materials Discovery and Processing for Energy, took place online via Zoom on November 22nd, 2021.
 
Thank you to all speakers and participants who made MCIC 2021 a big success with their high-level talks and discussions!
 
With up to 106 guests in our Zoom room, we were happy to see both new and familiar faces being able to connect and exchange scientifically at least online in these unprecendented times. We look forward to seeing you all at upcoming Materials Chain meetings in 2022, hopefully in person!

The third Materials Chain International Conference, MCIC 2021: Materials Discovery and Processing for Energy, was held online via Zoom on November 22nd, 2021.

MCIC 2021 focussed on materials discovery and development, up-scaling, processing and manufacturing within these sessions:

  • Data-driven and combinatorial materials discovery
  • Materials for physical energy conversion, 2D and hybrid functional materials
  • Materials for chemical energy conversion
  • Magnetic materials for energy conversion
  • Metals and alloys
  • Production engineering and additive manufacturing

Download conference programme.

Download conference programme.

9:00 – 9:10 a.m. Welcome
Session 1 Materials for physical energy conversion, 2D and hybrid functional materials
9:10 – 9:40 a.m. Christoph Brabec (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany): “Accelerating perovskites: towards stable composites and solar cell devices”
9:40 – 10:10 a.m. Jonathan Finley (TU Munich, Germany): Hex-SiGe: A new direct bandgap semiconductor
10:10 – 10:30 p.m. Gerd Bacher (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): “(MO)CVD grown 2D materials for scalable optoelectronic devices“
Session 2 Materials for chemical energy conversion
10:30 – 10:50 a.m. Sven Reichenberger (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): “Laser-generated multinary high entropy alloy nanoparticles for catalytical applications”
10:50 – 11:20 a.m. Mehtap Oezaslan (TU Braunschweig, Germany): “Platinum-based alloy electrocatalysts for hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR)”
11:20 – 11:50 a.m. Marc Koper (Leiden U, The Netherlands): “New views on the electrochemistry of platinum”
11:50 – 12:30 p.m. Break
Session 3 Magnetic materials for energy conversion
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Oliver Gutfleisch (TU Darmstadt, Germany): “Hysteresis design of magnetic materials for efficient energy conversion”
1:00 – 1:20 p.m. Anna Grünebohm (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany): “Hysteresis design of ferroelectric materials”
1:20 – 1:40 p.m. Karin Everschor-Sitte (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): “Towards energy efficient magnetic in materio computing”
1:40 – 2:00 p.m. Anna Böhmer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany): “Caloric effects in correlated materials”
2:00 – 2:20 p.m. Break
Session 4 Metals and Alloys
2:20 – 2:50 p.m. Dierk Raabe (MPIE, Germany): “Reduction of iron oxides with hydrogen: pathways towards sustainable metallurgy”
2:50 – 3:20 p.m. Jannica Heinrichs (Uppsala U, Sweden): “Tool wear and surface modifications in metal machining”
3:20 – 3:40 p.m. Stefanie Hanke (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): “Microstructural damage mechanisms in metals exposed to cavitation”
3:40 – 4:00 p.m. Break
Session 5 Production engineering and additive manufacturing
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Stefanie Reese (RWTH Aachen, Germany): “Efficient multi-scale modeling by means of FE-FFT and model order reduction techniques”
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Katrin Wudy (TU Munich, Germany): “New process strategies for laser-based powder bed fusion of metals”
5:00 – 5:20 p.m. Ulf Apfel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany): “From catalysts to high performance electrodes: From fundamental to applied research in electrolysis”
Session 6 Data-driven and combinatorial materials discovery
5:20 – 5:50 p.m. Gus Hart (Brigham Young University, USA): “Building useful MLIPs”
5:50 – 6:20 p.m. John Gregoire (Caltech, USA): “High throughput discovery of solar fuels materials”
6:20 – 6:40 p.m. Markus Stricker (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany): “Machine learning for plasticity”
6:40 – 7:30 p.m. Final Discussion
7:30 p.m. End of Conference

 

Pia Aleithe
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Email: mc@uaruhr.de