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.

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.

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.

ISMES School is back to ERICE !

The school will review critical materials issues for the renewable and sustainable production and storage of energy.

New Publication on Multi-scale Designed Co x Mn3– x O4 Spinels: Smart Pre-Catalysts towards High-Efficiency Pyrolysis-Catalysis Recycling of Waste Plastics