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The ETH Zurich’s student association (VSETH) has selected Martin Willeke as a recipient of the “Golden Owl”. Each year, VSETH confers the owls to lecturers in appreciation of their excellence in teaching.

The mechanism of flow in glassy materials is of both fundamental interest and technological importance. To elucidate the mechanism by which glassy materials flow, researchers at the Soft Materials Laboratory in collaboration with a group in FORTH (Greece) have used superposition rheometry applied to model nearly hard sphere colloidal glasses during flow in combination with simulations. The main microscopic mechanism of flow can be identified as a convective cage release.

André Studart and his colleagues of the Complex Materials group added magnetic particles at different concentrations to resins of varying viscosities. Applying a low magnetic field during the 3D printing process allowed the team to control the orientation of the particles, and hence the texture, within the printed object.