2018

In a collaboration between the Laboratory for Multifunctional Ferroic Materials (Manfred Fiebig, ETH Zurich) the Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems (Laura Heyderman, ETH Zurich, PSI) and the Condensed Matter Theory Group (Peter Derlet, PSI), an exotic new type of magnetic order has been designed and controlled.

Powerful guidelines for the design of lightweight composite materials inspired by the structure of strong and tough biological nacre are highlighted in a new paper from the Complex Materials Group.

Three researchers from the ETH Domain, including professor Nicola Spaldin, head of the Materials Theory group, and a scientist from Stockholm University have received an ERC Synergy Grant of EUR 13.9 million.

The ETH Zurich’s student association (VSETH) has selected Pietro Gambardella, head of Magnetism and Interface Physics, as a recipient of the "Goldene Eule".

Researchers from the Soft Materials group are developing a method with which they can coat the droplets with controlled interfacial composition and coverage on demand in an emulsion in order to stabilise them. In doing so they are fulfilling a long-held dream of researchers and industry.

Nicola Spaldin, head of the Materials Theory group, explained Multiferroika and why they are urgently needed in the computer age on 08.11.2018 at the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin.

The engineering of non-destructive, low footprint optical sensors has attracted significant interest in research in recent years. Such devices can enable real-time and spatiotemporal tracking of materials properties even in secluded applications, such as offshore wind turbines, or extreme environments, as found in thermal solar collectors.

The Department of Materials is happy to announce that the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has appointed André Studart (*1974), currently Accociate Professor, as Full Professor of Complex Materials.

Jacob Israelachvili, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Honorary Doctor of D-MATL, passed away at his home in California on 20th September 2018 after a lengthy illness.

In its role as a pioneering institution, the ETH Zurich aims to try new approaches, broaden horizons, develop new perspectives and thus play its part in ensuring that our country will be able to hold its own on the global stage – and not just in the short term. The Department of Materials is an active part of the future and has contributed or is part of three projects: SynMatLab: Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Synthesis, Materials for Robotics and RobotX: Center for intelligent Machines