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Nanoscale Multi-Metal 3D Printing for Voxel-by-Voxel Materials Design
Similar to salt in water or sugar in coffee, metals can be dissolved in liquid solvents. In contrast to dissolution of salt or sugar, dissolution of metals can be controlled using electric potentials. Researchers from three departments of ETH Zurich have now applied this approach to develop a new concept for nanoscale 3D printing of metals. Their work was recently described in Nature Communications.
Nicola Spaldin Selected as Lead Editor of Physical Review Research
The American Physical Society (APS) has appointed Nicola Spaldin, head of the Materials Theory group, as Lead Editor of Physical Review Research, the new fully open access, multidisciplinary APS journal launching later this year.
ISA Group at Zurich Marathon
A team from the Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces ran the Zurich marathon relay with the time of 3:54:00 (which actually was 3:42:00, but the professor was, ahem, 12 minutes late with the train picking up the baton).
Jan Vermant Has Been Awarded the European Society of Rheology Weissenberg Award
In commemoration of the scientific achievements of Karl Weissenberg, performed in several European countries, the European Society of Rheology (ESR) decided in 1997 to create a “Weissenberg Award” for outstanding, long-term achievements in the field of rheology. Eligible are rheologists whose centre of scientific activities lies in Europe. The award is bestowed biannually. The 2019 Weissenberg Award recipient is Jan Vermant, head of the Soft Materials Group at the Deparment of Materials.