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European Innovation Council funds Europe-wide project led by TU Darmstadt

European Innovation Council funds Europe-wide project led by TU Darmstadt

16 senior high school students research at the Institute of Materials Science at TU Darmstadt / Public presentation on 26 May

High-achieving students in exchange with scientists

TU Darmstadt opens the „Additive Manufacturing Center“

Materials Science degree programmes are being presented at the Darmstadt study and career fair “hobit”.

May 05, 2023, Lichtwiese Campus, TU Darmstadt

The Collaborative Research Center FLAIR, funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) as of January 2023, met on May 05 for the official Kick Off meeting in Darmstadt at the TU-Lichtwiese in order to discuss topics concerning research areas as well as objectives of the CRC and challenges for the upcoming period.

New address of the institute: Peter-Grünberg-Str. 2, 64287 Darmstadt

TU Student Survey 2023

In the current summer semester 2023, all TU Darmstadt students are invited to participate in an online survey on study-related topics.

Magnetocaloric effect for more efficient hydrogen liquefaction

Hydrogen will play a key role in the transformation towards a carbon-neutral society. By comparison with current usage, it is estimated that global hydrogen requirements will increase fivefold by 2050 to some 550 million tons. But in order to store hydrogen, enormous amounts of energy are needed. During liquefaction, approximately a third of the energy content of hydrogen is lost, which makes the process largely uneconomical. In the Horizon Europe project HyLICAL with a budget of about some five million euros, a team including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Darmstadt and the start-up MAGNOTHERM wants to significantly improve the technologies for storing liquid hydrogen. To this end, the team is building on magnetocaloric materials that change their temperature when they are exposed to a magnetic field.

March 3rd to March 10th 2023

The international Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science (GP-MS) has sent five PhD candidates to the Materials Science department of TU Darmstadt to evaluate a possible exchange of half a year during their PhD time.

Qube Hotel Bahnstadt, 12 – 16 March, Heidelberg, Germany

The workshop “Fermi Level Engineering of Antiferroelectrics and Beyond” is aiming at a discussion of the results and understanding achieved in the LOEWE project FLAME by synthesis, characterization and modelling of Pb-based and Pb-free antiferroelectrics.

Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna receives ERC Consolidator Grant

Podcast über die gesellschaftliche Relevanz von Materialwissenschaft

Honorary Doctorate for Prof. Robert Schlögl

Initiated by the departments Materials- and Geosciences, Chemistry and Mechanical Engineeering, the TU Darmstadt has awarded Professor Robert Schlögl an honorary doctorate. The renowned chemist is being honoured for his extraordinary achievements in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis and the energy transition.

Interview with the Ceramic Tech Chat

„Mach, wie du fühlst“, heißt es in diesem Jahr bei den Darmstädter Hochschul- und Berufsinformationstagen „hobit“. Erneut präsentiert sich das Informations-Angebot in zwei Teilen. Den Auftakt macht das digitale Format „hobit talks“ vom 24. bis 26. Januar

„Mach, wie du fühlst“, heißt es in diesem Jahr bei den Darmstädter Hochschul- und Berufsinformationstagen „hobit“. Erneut präsentiert sich das Informations-Angebot in zwei Teilen. Den Auftakt macht das digitale Format „hobit talks“ vom 24. bis 26. Januar 2023.

ERC Starting Grant for TU project MECERDIS by materials scientist Dr Xufei Fang

The MECERDIS research project at the Technical University of Darmstadt is awarded an ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council. Dr Xufei Fang's work is being funded with around 1.5 million euros. The TU materials scientist is researching improved ceramic materials that will enable new applications.